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Martine Jacobs · 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Artist: Martine Jacobs Medium: Early website capture via Internet Archive Theme: Digital authorship, pastel and new media, poetic identity This still from August 2000, preserved by the Wayback Machine, is more than a webpage — it’s a digital relic of Martine Jacobs’ artistic voice at the dawn of the millennium. The spidering of martinejacobs.com began in 1999, placing her among the earliest artists to treat the internet as a curatorial space — a living archive for pastel works, hybrid media, and poetic testimony. The page is simple, textured, and sincere. A photograph of Martine — red curls, black attire, quiet intensity — anchors the layout. The text introduces her as a “Pastel and new media artist,” a phrase that quietly defies the boundaries of medium and era. In a time when most artists were still navigating analog exhibitions, Martine was already weaving her presence into the digital fabric. This snapshot, captured by the Wayback Machine, stands as proof of her commitment to authorship, visibility, and cultural memory. It’s a moment of stillness in the vast web — a declaration of identity, a seed of the digital museum she continues to build.