<nettime-ann> The Net as an Artwork @ Transmediale
Via: Tatiana Bazzichelli
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Presentation of the book: Networking | The Net as an Artwork
@ Transmediale, Sunday 4/2, 16:00, Salon
Akademie der Kuenste, Berlin, D
http://www.transmediale.de/site/salon+M5aa228131cd.html
moderated by: Diana McCarty [de]
with Tatiana Bazzichelli [it/de], Jaromil [it/nl], Gaia Novati [it/de]
Networking | The Net as an Artwork
Written by Tatiana Bazzichelli, with the preface of Derrick De Kerckhove
and the epilogue of the Italian videoartist Simonetta Fadda.
http://www.networkingart.eu
The book represents a first tentative to write a comprehensive history
of both analog and digital subcultural networked art in Italy, through
an analysis of the realities which during the past twenty years have
given way to a creative, shared and aware use of technologies - such as
Mail Art, Neoism, the Luther Blissett project, BBS culture, Telestreets,
and many other subcultural movements and networks.
The Italian network proposes a form of critical information, diffused
through independent and collective projects. Active in underground
environments, they use diverse media (computers, video, television,
radio and magazines) and deal with technological experimentation, or
hacktivism, depending on the terminology used in Italy, where the
political component is a central theme.
The book describes how in Italian subculture there was never a divide
between artistic and political activism, covering the evolution of the
Italian net culture from the Eighties till today. The book shelds light
onto the affinity of 1980s Mail Art manifesto to post-1990s Internet
culture, up to its terminology of artists as "network operators" and art
as a "network-web", the political redefinition of the term "Cyberpunk"
in early 1990s in Italy, the mutation of Cyberfeminism into Netporn
activism, and presents the works of many artists and activists, such as
0100101110101101.ORG, [epidemiC], Jaromil, Giacomo Verde, Giovanotti
Mondani Meccanici, Correnti Magnetiche, Candida TV, Tommaso Tozzi,
Federico Bucalossi, Massimo Contrasto, Mariano Equizzi, Pigreca,
Molleindustria, Guerriglia Marketing, Sexyshock, Phag Off and many others.
Networking | The Net as an Artwork, is printed on paper (Costa & Nolan
publisher, Milan, Novembrer 2006, pag. 336), but it is also available
online under:
http://www.networkingart.eu (Creative Commons License)
ENG: http://www.networkingart.eu/download_eng.html
.
Presentation of the book: Networking | The Net as an Artwork
@ Transmediale, Sunday 4/2, 16:00, Salon
Akademie der Kuenste, Berlin, D
http://www.transmediale.de/site/salon+M5aa228131cd.html
moderated by: Diana McCarty [de]
with Tatiana Bazzichelli [it/de], Jaromil [it/nl], Gaia Novati [it/de]
Networking | The Net as an Artwork
Written by Tatiana Bazzichelli, with the preface of Derrick De Kerckhove
and the epilogue of the Italian videoartist Simonetta Fadda.
http://www.networkingart.eu
The book represents a first tentative to write a comprehensive history
of both analog and digital subcultural networked art in Italy, through
an analysis of the realities which during the past twenty years have
given way to a creative, shared and aware use of technologies - such as
Mail Art, Neoism, the Luther Blissett project, BBS culture, Telestreets,
and many other subcultural movements and networks.
The Italian network proposes a form of critical information, diffused
through independent and collective projects. Active in underground
environments, they use diverse media (computers, video, television,
radio and magazines) and deal with technological experimentation, or
hacktivism, depending on the terminology used in Italy, where the
political component is a central theme.
The book describes how in Italian subculture there was never a divide
between artistic and political activism, covering the evolution of the
Italian net culture from the Eighties till today. The book shelds light
onto the affinity of 1980s Mail Art manifesto to post-1990s Internet
culture, up to its terminology of artists as "network operators" and art
as a "network-web", the political redefinition of the term "Cyberpunk"
in early 1990s in Italy, the mutation of Cyberfeminism into Netporn
activism, and presents the works of many artists and activists, such as
0100101110101101.ORG, [epidemiC], Jaromil, Giacomo Verde, Giovanotti
Mondani Meccanici, Correnti Magnetiche, Candida TV, Tommaso Tozzi,
Federico Bucalossi, Massimo Contrasto, Mariano Equizzi, Pigreca,
Molleindustria, Guerriglia Marketing, Sexyshock, Phag Off and many others.
Networking | The Net as an Artwork, is printed on paper (Costa & Nolan
publisher, Milan, Novembrer 2006, pag. 336), but it is also available
online under:
http://www.networkingart.eu (Creative Commons License)
ENG: http://www.networkingart.eu/download_eng.html
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