Net Art

How To Talk to Images

For How to Talk to Images at London's HTTP Gallery, Richard Wright has compiled a database of 50,000 random Internet images as the raw content for two artworks, which explore new conceptions of the image, called for by the sheer quantity of visual information now available via the Internet.... READ MORE...

Marc Garret & Ruth Catlow: Net Visions

Let's talk again about Marc Garret and Ruth Catlow, two people that don't need to be introduced in the context of networking and mailing list about new international media art. Marc Garret and Ruth Catlow promoted many on-line debates, through not only their channel, NetBehaviour, many art networking projects, and they've been working for ten years on their project Furtherfield.org. They already wrote an important text of reflections and theories about art, that was published on Digimag 33 - April 2008. And they promised us to be interviewed; let's see what they answered... READ MORE...

Manray Replica

Marco Manray Cadioli, who's been exploring the evolution of virtual worlds through photography for several years, introduces his first personal exhibition, "REPLICA", for the opening of Overfoto Gallery a real life gallery who will open an exhibit space in Second Life.... READ MORE...

Furtherfield.org: Coding Cultures – Part 1

L'idea di un articolo su Furtherfield.org mi stuzzicava da tempo, ma come scriverlo in maniera completa senza riuscire a fare due chiacchiere con Marc (Garret) e Ruth (Catlow), suoi principali rappresentanti e promotori? Confrontandomi proprio con loro  nata quindi l'idea di questo speciale: due puntate, questa prima in cui Marc e Ruth pubblicano un loro testo ideologico che mi sono preoccupato di tradurre e interpretare al meglio, e una successiva seconda in cui risponderanno alla mia lunga intervista.... READ MORE...

Gazira Babeli Exhibition

Gazira Babeli is an artist who lives and works in the virtual world of Second Life, where she was born on 31 March 2006. Like all inhabitants of virtual worlds she is an identity construction known as an avatar, but unlike them, she does not acknowledge the presence of a "human" controlling her.... READ MORE...

Geert Lovink: Free Cooperations In P2p Networks

During the latest Video Vortex meeting organized by the Institute for Network Culture in Amsterdam at Club 11, the large networker's community met to analyze how video and other materials are shared through the net. In substance the questions that were addressed were how video and audiovisual information is used and shared through the net, how platforms like Vlog and podcast are developing and what tomorrow's television will look like in terms of clustering of information and free construction of programs with independent content.... READ MORE...

Cleotronica 08

Cleotronica 08 is the inaugural version of Cleotronica a context responsive festival for media, art, and socio-culture organized by Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum (ACAF) an alternative initiative for art and culture based in Egypt 's second largest city.... READ MORE...

Giuseppe La Spada: The Aesthetics Of A Digital World

I knew Giuseppe La Spada by chance, at the wonderful performance of Ryuichi Sakamoto last year during the third edition of Festival delle Arti Contemporanee in Rovereto. In that occasion the Sicilian artist was a guest of his friend composer, with whom he carried out a net art project called 'Mo No Aware'few people have heard about, which supports a green cause, aiming at drawing people's and media's attention to radioactive contamination Japan is experiencing in the village of Rokkasho.... READ MORE...

The Influencers

The 4th edition of The Influencers, festival of media action and radical entertainment, explores controversial forms of art and communication guerrilla, presenting independent projects that play with global popular culture, infiltrate the mass media, and transform fashions, consumption and technological fetishism.... READ MORE...

The Status Project

Trampoline, the East Midlands’ platform event for new media art, celebrates its tenth anniversary with an exhibition of mapped data by internationally renowned artist Heath Bunting, at Nottingham’s Broadway from 29 November until 5 December 2007... READ MORE...