txt: An Interview with Maurizio Cattelan – www.sculpture.org
Maurizio Cattelan: It feels strange to talk about sculptures. It’s not so much a question of means as of images. I never even use my hands to create my work, just my ear glued to the phone. More than anything else, I listen to the murmur of images, [...]
txt: SNACK CULTURE – www.circuitooff.com/
Snack Culture è la fruizione di contenuti culturali sempre più condensati: un assaggio di musica con il podcast, una sitcom di due minuti, un mms o sms. I ritmi di vita oggi sono accelerati, per poter guardare un video, ascoltare musica, leggere un libro e guardare un film il tempo dedicato [...]
txt: Manifesta 7 – Frieze Magazine
When Manifesta, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art, was first instituted in 1993, it was in the spirit of cultural exchange, globalization and European integration that followed the end of the Cold War. In being an itinerant entity, Manifesta had a double remit: first, to present a picture of [...]
via: neural.it – edited by Geert Lovink and Ned Rossiter – MyCreativity Reader
txt: The MyCreativity Reader – The Institute of Network Cultures
The MyCreativity Reader is a collection of critical research into the creative industries. The material develops out of the MyCreativity Convention on International Creative Industries Research held in Amsterdam, November 2006. This two-day [...]
txt: Biennale Cinema 65th Venice Film Festival – Introduction by the Director of the 65th Mostra, Marco Müller
If the cinema is no longer (or almost) the cinema, this may also bring to light aspects whose positive nature is not immediately discernible. The cinema has become a whole series of ideas, forces, properties, capacities, [...]
txt: L’arte di reti e relazioni, la net art e la condivisione (“Network art and relations, net art and sharing”) – Punto Informatico
[en] The artist today is no longer a simple producer of metaphors. His is not a mere symbolic function in society. It is vice versa an active partecipatore involved “directly” in production processes [...]
“Senza paura, poesia gettata all’onde.“
Ivan (www.i-v-a-n.net) presenta la mostra Scala Mercalli (www.scalamercalli.it) a Roma, lanciando migliaia di barchette di carta con le poesie nel Tevere.
“Without fear, poems thrown on the waves“
Ivan (www.i-v-a-n.net) presents the exhibition Mercalli Scale (www.scalamercalli.it) in Rome, launching thousands of boats of paper with poems on the river Tevere.
video: Ivan street performance [...]
youtube tag: net-art
txt + video: net-artist – a3sebastian on youtube.com
“I’m a net artist: It’s a cartoon video with the voice of a net-artist, looking for attention. He explains what net-art is, and the problems he has in order to arrive to people and to be considered as an art maker”
“now come to Venice, meet [...]
If you loved “Muto” have a look at the other videos by Blu, you’ll love them as well: always restless, always full of thoughts, simple and involving.
And go to www.blublu.org, his site deserves definitely a visit.
video: Child by blu on Vimeo.com
txt: Italian Hacktivism: Theory, Practice and History – blog.wired.com
Alessandro Ludovico has engaged in communication and media aesthetics as a practitioner, theorist and curator. Since 1993, he has been the editor-in-chief of Neural, an influential new media culture magazine published in both English and Italian www.neural.it. He is also one of the founding members of the [...]
