Tagged with media art

The artist today is no longer a simple producer of metaphors

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 and social problems around them. It is this sensitivity to work cooperatively, to be able to perceive and interact with the processes social and anthropological, as well as technological, keeping firmly in front of where the beacon of ethical values-oriented common good, instead of profit, this is the sensitivity and the priority that the school must be able to convey to their students. The keywords of the School are terms like report, cooperation, interdisciplinareità, interaction, intercreatività or communication.
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[it] L’artista oggi non è più un semplice produttore di metafore. La sua non è una mera funzione simbolica all’interno della società. È viceversa un partecipatore attivo che interviene “direttamente” nei processi produttivi e sociali che lo circondano. È questa sensibilità al lavoro cooperativo, al saper intuire ed interagire con i processi sociali ed antropologici, oltre che tecnologici, mantenendo ben saldo di fronte a se il faro dei valori etici orientati al bene comune, anziché al profitto individuale, è questa la sensibilità e la priorità che la Scuola deve saper trasmettere ai propri studenti. Le parole chiave della Scuola sono termini come relazione, cooperazione, interdisciplinareità, interazione, intercreatività, oppure comunicazione.

video: “Face Gear” by Giuseppe Ragazzini

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A Manifesto for street poetry

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 in Rome by xister on vimeo.com

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I’m a net artist

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 the art, it’s a honour”

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Blublu: video art

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

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Find your passion

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 nettime list and of the Mag.Net (Magazine Network of Electronic Cultural Publishers) organisation.

In the following brief interview, conducted via email between January and May 2008, Ludovico discusses topics ranging from Italian traditions of hacktivism, the apparent institutional marginalisation of media art and possibilities for conceptual aesthetic approaches to the digital culture.

1. Could you explain something of how you originally developed an interest in media art? We understand you had an early involvement with ‘mail art’ and fanzines, to what extent have these practices informed your thought around exploratory and aesthetic approaches to distributed communication networks?

Fanzines were an effective, cheap and archival medium for sharing ideas in freedom of expression soaked subcultures. Mail Art in my opinion was ‘the net before the net’. Its spontaneous network of artist supporting themselves and sharing ‘performative’ action through the postal network, connecting local exhibitions with interrelated social relationships was simply unique. Furthermore I developed an interest in computers and IT, especially in its internal mechanisms and aesthetic (as many young guys did during the 80′s). With the BBS phenomenon first and the early net practices later all these interests were short-circuited. I had a medium to express my approach (the magazine), a background in artistic networking (mail art), a technical knowledge to understand them and a rising avant garde that I was accidentally part of (after being invited in the first nettime meeting): the net art. Could I have asked for more?

video: Randy Pausch Inspires Graduates – carnegiemellonu on youtube.com

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