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For Ana Voog, the camera never blinks. While training her creative eye on the world, the Minneapolis-based singer/songwriter/musician/performance artist has similarly trained the eye of a video camera on herself. Her website, entitled Anacam (), is accessible 24-hours a day to internet users worldwide. Invasion of her own privacy? Not to Ana, who proclaims, "Privacy is in the mind."
"I'm just so damn arty, somebody slap me!," laughs Ana, curled up on a sofa in her Twin Cities anabode. It's a gallery of esoterica: mannequins, owls, glass grapes, Hello Kitty paraphernalia, antique dolls, vintage lingerie, dry cleaning tags, egg beaters, books about the sex industry, assorted stuff from Yoko Ono and Annie Sprinkle, fetish gear, candles, cobalt blue glass, and 78 r.p.m. records. Life for her is a constantly evolving art project, and, like all true creative spirits, she was born, not made, an artist.
The ice and snow of Minnesota may have kept her indoors a lot while growing up, but nothing could cage her rebellious nature. She was a gifted painter and from an early age, and a career as a fine artist was hers for the taking. But fate - and Adam & The Ants - intervened. "I saw them on TV one night," she remembers. "It was a total epiphany for me. I knew I wanted to create music."
Among her many musical influences past and present, Ana cites Pink Floyd, Kate Bush, David Bowie, Stereolab, the Orb, Bjork, Tori Amos, PJ Harvey, Ultravox, the Pretty Things, Roxy Music, the Soft Boys, Kraftwerk, and Yoko Ono among her most important. By age seventeen, she plucked up the nerve to start a band of her own, The Blue Up?.
The Blue Up? released their last album, Spool Forka Dish, on Columbia Records. Although the band had a strong regional following, they chose to disband in 1995, and from then on Ana devoted herself to her own solo music career and her growing fascination with the internet as an art form.
Now, Ana's site, anacam.com draws millions of hits every month, making it one of the most popular avant-garde sites on the web. "It's a window into my house, into my life, with a picture updated every few minutes showing what I'm doing right now. I'm a weird girl, so be prepared for weird and strange things to happen all of a sudden out of nowhere."snavid's station
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