The Human Culture and the diaspora of Life
Ideas
Ennio Bertrand: Under attack
Ennio Bertrand, artista torinese ma milanese d?adozione, ha fatto delle immagini dell'11/9 il contenuto della sua nuova opera, Under attack.
Lev Manovich: how to speak new media
We can talk about a painting using such terms as 'composition', 'flatness', 'colour scheme' and we can talk about a film using such terms as 'plot', 'cinematography', and 'editing.' With new media, the existing discourse focuses on 2 extremes: either purely industrial terms such as 'Flash animation' or 'JPEG image' (which all describe software used and don't tell you much about the work's poetics and the user's experience of it), or rather abstract theoretical terms created during the previous h...
Intervista a Gerry Hemingway
L'ambito multimediale è estremamente interessante e vedrà uno sviluppo crescente, perché in qualità di compositori abbiamo la responsabilità di indirizzare verso contenuti validi e dal livello d'interazione elevato.
N is for Nature
It is only when second nature develops that nature appears as a concept. Once the techniques are in place for making nature into a resource, for trapping or taming it, an appreciation arises for nature in its raw state, a state that only appears at the point where it is no longer a general condition. What cultures represent to themselves as nature is always a world we have lost. Nature, which appears as an origin, appears only retroactively, as it disappears. The lost world of nature exercises a...
Software Art
Since more than a decade, festivals, awards, exhibitions and publications exist for various forms of computer art: computer music, computer graphics, electronic literature, Net Art and computer-controlled interactive installations, to name only a few, each of them with its own institutions and discourse. Classifications like the above show that attention is usually being paid to how, i.e. in which medium, digital artworks present themselves to the audience, externally. They also show that digita...
Telepresence: Invocation and Evocation
What has changed with computer-based media forms, including advanced teleconferencing, robotic telepresence, and virtual reality games, is a tighter integration between invocational and evocational components. The methods that address things and call them in from out of view (the invocations), and those that give them form (the evocations), have converged. [...] But what is most unsettling about experiencing new systems of telepresence, at least until they are rendered natural by familiarity, is...
Net.art
Il fenomeno net.art, che comprende esperienze artistiche molto diverse tra loro, viene comunemente definito per contrasto. Ci si riferisce alla capacità del medium Internet di comunicazione interattiva per distinguere la net.art da altre forme di "art on the web" in cui l'opera è fruibile anche off-line.
Information cannot be free
Finally, the purpose of this essay is to dispell the popular "information should be free" rubric, to show that our reality is merely the interplay of these two forces: noise, and information (or as termed in previous essays communication and information). We cannot base social policies on this platform, and it is utterly futile to try to realize it (Freenet, ect. ). Often times, social inequality is blamed on the percieved obstruction to the access to information. Social inequality, I hypothesiz...
Ripercorrendo l’epopea Napster. Storia di un mito o ricordo per una meteora?
Tenteremo di comprendere come siano bastati poco più di due anni di iperattività a far tremare il regime oligarchico delle Big Five, le cinque grandi case discografiche mondiali (Vivendi Universal, Bmg, Emi, Aol Time Warner, Sony) e a far impazzire i giudici americani, dimostrando come il recentissimo Digital Millennium Copyright Act sia in realtà una legge tutt'altro che precisa e aggiornata. Un terremoto giudiziario e commerciale che continua a far discutere artisti, discografici, giuristi, ma...
PublixTheatreCaravan Interview
Our idea about the PTC was to create "theatre" as a lively work-in progress-project in political fields, which includes also streettheatre/performances.
Extensions, Boundaries & Double Crossings
For many years now it has been common to refer to technology as an "extension of man". [...] Although Marshall McLuhan is the most popular name connected with that theoretical concept, the concept is quite a lot older. It is dating from before the 19th century anthropology all the way to the ancient Greeks and Aristoteles. He already outlined technology as a substitute for biological defects and technical development and understood it as a cultural progression. And with or without Hollywood we s...
Formats. What Napster Really Needs
This article has taken me a combined 20 years of broadcast and computer experience to compile and I couldn't be more excited about the possibilities the Internet can bring now that we have witnessed the cultural change from the traditional broadcast models to the Peer to Peer networking model technologies such as Napster and Gnutella have shown us.
On the Links Between Open Source and Culture
Implicit in all this is that there are profound links between developments in culture and the rise of open source, that both are stimulating a new kind of sharing. Some would go further and claim that hackers in the virtuous sense are a new kind of lay monk. The lecture will explore these parallels between the sharing of culture and the sharing of open source and claim that there needs to be an open source approach to culture; that there are philosophical reasons why culture has traditionally be...
Sull’essere retro negli zeri
La retrospettiva sull'Internet art di Mark Amerika, "Avant-Pop. The Stories of Mark Amerika", ha aperto all'Agency for Cultural Affairs' Media Arts Plaza a Tokyo il 1 Luglio 2001. La mostra prosegue fino al 30 Settembre 2001
Society of the Instance
The entire virtual life of societies in which postcapitalist conditions of seduction prevail presents itself as an immense accumulation of software instances. Everything that was previously either venerated or rejected in the fixated mirror stage by the ideologically constituted ego as fetish system of commodities, structurally sustaining panoply of consumer objects, or imposing spectacle of images has dissolved away into an uncharted virtual reality of the real time instantiation of modeled and...
Art for a better life
Ci lasciamo contagiare dall'ottimismo consumistico di Urs Lüth (suo lo slogan del titolo) e diciamo che è bella, molto bella la 49a Biennale d'Arte di Venezia, allegramente invasa dalle tartarughe del Cracking Art Group.
When Were You Told That It Was Really Art?
Michael Daines is a 17 year old artist living in Calgary, Canada. But his precocious mastery of code and underhanded satire has earned him respect in his own right.
Excerpts from the 2001 Webby Award Arts Panel Discussion
An interesting email discussion developed among the judges for the 2001 Webby Award in the Arts category. We thought we'd make it available, in condensed form.
Seeing Cyberspace
Through architectural language, one can see the otherwise intangible Cyberspace materialized in the power, media, and technological systems of the Electrical Infrastructure. In so doing, pressing issues such as war, energy inefficiency, global warming, pollution, and economic instability can be structurally related to the seemingly separate experience online the Internet. Identifying this relationship can help to educate and organize citizens whom want to address common yet otherwise ignored nee...
Metti un Museo a casa mia
Il Museo Trans-Unto ? un archivio di opere d'arte multimediali di artisti italiani contemporanei, con la particolarit? di essere all'interno di un luogo realmente vissuto: il suo appartamento.
NEXT – Amazing science
La mostra presenta un viaggio nelle tre principali aree di interesse del centro: la nuova biologia, le tecnologie dell'informazione e le Macchine, dall'automobile alle sonde spaziali.
Suggestioni estetiche a d_i_n_a
Partecipare a "Digital_is_not_analog" è stata un'esperienza senza dubbio interessante, nonostante a tratti il gergo si facesse quasi incomprensibile.
L’arte come pratica reale dalle avanguardie agli hackmeeting
"Arte come pratica reale" significa passare da una concezione di Arte come originalità immodificabile ad una concezione di arte come pratica di vita, gestualità quotidiana, relazioni collettive orizzontali.
An interview with Mark Napier
In net art the artwork can move. It can change and evolve over time, which creates a whole other dimension to this art form that just doesn't exist in painting.
Data-Nudism
The user can utilize what he finds in our computer. Not only documents and software, but also the mechanisms that rule and maintain 01.ORG.
Quando il batterista scopre l’elettronica
Ha 25 anni e ha girato l'Europa e l'America in tour con Elisa, dedicandosi anche all'insegnamento: è Bruno Farinelli, il batterista che ha suonato nel secondo album dell'artista italiana.
Resoconto HACKER ART LAB
L'HACKER ART LAB va inteso come naturale conseguenza del dibattito sull'hacker art tenutosi nel giugno scorso presso l'hackmeeting del Forte Prenestino a Roma.