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Coming from a background as a major label recording artist, in 1997 Minnesota based artist Ana Clara Voog (a.k.a. Rachael Olson), started the second continuous 24/7 webcam (after Jennicam), and was the first 24/7 webcam oriented towards performance art, as well as featuring traditional and new medium artworks. Her webcam was the first to last a decade, and her “anacam” project has been included in the New York Museum of Modern Art, the Weisman Art Museum, and the Walker Art Center; with television appearances on E!, A & E, Hard Copy, and Vibe; and print coverage in such periodicals as USA Today, Newsweek, The Boston Globe, The New York Post, and Playboy.

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	Coming from a background as a major label recording artist, in 1997 Minnesota based artist Ana Clara Voog (a.k.a. Rachael Olson), started the second continuous 24/7 webcam (after Jennicam), and was the first 24/7 webcam oriented towards performance art, as well as featuring traditional and new medium artworks. Her webcam was the first to last a decade, and her “anacam” project has been included in the New York Museum of Modern Art, the Weisman Art Museum, and the Walker Art Center; with television appearances on E!, A & E, Hard Copy, and Vibe; and print coverage in such periodicals as USA Today, Newsweek, The Boston Globe, The New York Post, and Playboy.
In many ways, Ana Voog has had the “huevos” to shatter the super-egoistic glass ceiling of many social mores-- all without becoming a homicidal maniac. To the contrary, and to be sure, with her post-modern blurred and reestablished boundaries between art and life, from meandering deconstructive crocheting and caustic self-sexploitation to photographing mundane everydayness and years of sleeping on a stage (reminiscent of Sophie Calle’s 1979 work, “The Sleepers”)-- Ana has transcended narcissistic image making and breaking, in what could be called “post-egoism”: the self-as-product myth exploded across the internet, as Ana has reached out from her home and head seducing the universe to look in on the Anaverse-- to look in on the highs, lows, and many in-betweens-- as her brilliant fire has emerged and matured in an ever refined journey of the self-discovery and expression of a genuine, if not an angelic nor an ordinary, human being.
		The book “Ana Voog – Dreaming on Stage” was edited and designed, in coordination with Ana Voog, by schizophrenic artist J.D. Casten, who was drawn to Ana’s 24/7 webcam project in part due to his own experience with (delusional) 24/7 thought-broadcasting, and also due to the relevance he found between Ana’s art and his interest in deconstructive philosophy.
Ana Voog – Dreaming on Stage is an edited collection of Ana Voog’s stellar photography, art and writings with a brief introduction to situate Mr. Casten’s self-effacing minimalist approach to curating the work—the book itself really has no author, but rather a subject with a unique voice (the work of Ana Voog) and an editor with an eye for quality. The book is arranged chronologically, to better illustrate the development of Ana's art, with many images arranged in series, and often thematically tied with the text. Click here for 98 page Flip Book Preview The 7" x 10" 250 page softbound “standard edition” includes art and writings by Rachael Olson prior to 1997 and her 24/7 webcam project as “Ana Clara Voog,” as well as a large selection of writings, photography, and artworks from the 1997-2009 Ana Voog webcam “period.” The selection of writings delves into personal aspects of her life, and contains intimate photography, and has over 800 color images (on 125+ pages, 40+ images taking up a full page, with one two-page spread), and 70 pages of text with over 42,000 words. Standard softbound version specifications: 250 pages, 7" x 10", perfect binding, white interior paper, full-color interior ink, white exterior paper, full-color exterior ink – $31 @ Amazon.com. If you have any questions, feel free to ask: info@voogbooks.com www.PostEgoism.net (Click here to return to front page)