“History of the Internet” is an animated documentary explaining the inventions from time-sharing to filesharing, from Arpanet to Internet. The history is told using the PICOL icons on picol.org , which are available for download soon. On blog.picol.org you can get news about this project.
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#contemporary #change #future @Venice area (Italy)
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Internet as a Venice Carnival: the illusion of becoming similar?
[txt] Origins of Carnival – www.comune.venezia.it
The [Venice] Carnival has its roots in many traditions, from the Latin feast of Saturnalia to the Greek feast of Dionysian cults celebrating the start of spring, when masks were used for symbolic representation. It signalled a time in which everything was permitted in an apparent incarnation of the world turned on its head. In fact, the Carnival was a means of rigidly controlling the impulses. The tendency to excess was merely a benevolent concession for a prescribed period of time.
In the strictly hierarchical Venetian society, it was deemed necessary to give the most humble classes the illusion of becoming similar to the more powerful classes, albeit wearing a mask: the aim was to diminish social tensions and maintain consensus.
[img] Carnevale a Venezia – Renata e Guilherme on flickr.com
Geert Lovink: Zero Comments
[txt] Zero Comments: Blogging and Critical Internet Culture – amazon.com
In Zero Comments, internationally renowned media theorist and net critic Geert Lovink upgrades worn out concepts about the Internet and interrogates the latest hype surrounding blogs and social network sites. In this third volume of his studies into critical Internet culture, following the influential Dark Fiber: Tracking Critical Internet Culture and My First Recession: Critical Internet Culture in Transition , Lovink develops a ‘general theory of blogging.’ Unlike most critiques of blogging, Lovink is not focusing here on the dynamics between bloggers and the mainstream news media, but rather unpacking the ways that blogs exhibit a ‘nihilist impulse’ to empty out established meaning structures. Blogs, Lovink argues, are bringing about the decay of traditional broadcast media, and they are driven by an in-crowd dynamic in which social ranking is a primary concern. The lowest rung of the new Internet hierarchy are those blogs and sites that receive no user feedback or ‘zero comments’.
Lovink explores other important changes to Internet culture, as well, including the silent globalization of the Net in which the West is no longer the main influence behind new media culture, as countries like India, China and Brazil expand their influence. Zero Comments also looks forward to speculate on the Net impact of organized networks, free cooperation and distributed aesthetics.
Attention-deficient Internet culture?
via: The Decline And Fall Of Western Civilization – Art To Go by Regina Hackett
txt: comments on “I Am Making Art” by John Baldessari on Youtube.com
JakeJohnsonExperienc (2 weeks ago)
no you are pretty much just standing there moving your arms around and sounding like a broken record. but i’m glad you’re having a good time anyways.
sphit8 (2 months ago)
What a dick. Maybe this guy is retarded, then its adorable what he is doing; really inspirational.
tommasfoolery (1 month ago)
yeah, i’d like to see this no talent ass clown paint me a picture of … jesus, ANYTHING. this is something i would do if i wanted to be an artist and had no talent.
Doonser (5 months ago)
Not to distract from the personal attacks, and not to sound like a philistine, but jeez, “my six year old could make that.” One note is right. Solipsistic.
skysparcz (8 months ago)
There’s not an audience because, honestly, while it may be groundbreaking, it is not something people want to see ever again. It’s got one note.
bwhahrhr (8 months ago)
stop posting blunt comments below such a wonderfull pice of art!
