Nilo Casares: Del Net.Art al Web-Art 2.0 (2009) [Spanish]
Filed under book | Tags: · internet art, net art, web 2.0, web art
Nilo Casares, escritor, comisario crítico de arte y promotor de arte digital y arte público. “Lo que sigue recoge una conferencia dictada en varias ocasiones sobre el arte digital (sin pretender alcanzar la altura del “Walking” de Henry David Thoureau, incluso la he dictado en modo ‘abducción digital’ bajo un ambiente construido por el artista Francis Naranjo para mi tortura y desaparición en escena) que espero seguir paseando por ahí.
A ella siguen artículos publicados en distintos periódicos, desde que la prensa habitual recoge las cosas que pasan con el net.art (algo sobre cuya existencia mi torpeza sólo consigue llamar su atención en el tardío 1999). A través de los artículos se pueden seguir los intereses que aparecen entre los net.artistas de hoy y cómo sus obras se encaminan hacia dos lugares. Primero, el reencuentro con la físicidad, en una reversión de la sentencia que alumbró la Web 1.0, recogida por el lema de los átomos a los bits de Nicholas Negroponte, y que hoy es una mezcla de átomos y bits que refleja mejor la realidad de las cosas. Después, los resultados facilitados por la actual Red Social para imbricar las obras en un contexto más amplío que el estrecho club del net.art de los noventa.
A veces los enlaces apuntados están muertos o alguna obra ya no existe, lo que resalta la elevadísima mortandad del arte digital destacada en la conferencia que inicia este libra Sin otro ánimo que el no aburrir, sálveme el lector de cualquier pretensión de originalidad, que lo dicho por mí seguro ya fue enunciado por otros.
Publisher Institució Alfons el Magnànim, Valencia, Año 2009
ISBN:978-84-7822-549-1
158 páginas
MIT Comparative Media Studies student theses (2001-2008)
Filed under thesis | Tags: · cartography, curating, data visualisation, internet art, media culture, net art, politics
AMANDA FINKELBERG
Space, Place, and Database: Digital Cartography in the Network Age (2007)
This paper addresses the changes in cartography since digitization and widespread popular dissemination. Cybercartography, an emergent system of maps, mapmaking tools, and mapmakers, forces a rethinking of spatial representations. The implicit distinction in digital media enables a new type of map user or neo-geographer that creates layers of expressions based on subjective experience. This paper argues that the neogeographer signifies a new cartographic behavior that affords a complex subjectivity. This behavior is further exhibited in the practice of navigable maps and virtual globes which lead the way to a paradigmatic change in the way we represent and interact with space. It is divided into three parts: Part I addresses the role of digitization in maps and lays out framework and vocabulary. Part II examines layers of spatial representations in historical context. Part III opens room for future study in the quickly developing inhabitable cartographic spaces of virtual globes and virtual worlds.
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KAREN VERSCHOOREN
.art: situating internet art in the modern museum (2007)
This thesis provides a critical analysis of the relation between Internet art and the traditional institution for contemporary art in the North American and West-European regions. Thirteen years after its inception as an art form, the Internet art world finds itself in a developmental stage and its relation to the traditional institution for contemporary art is accordingly. Through an elaborate discussion of the key players, institutions and discourses on aesthetics, economics and exhibition methodologies, this sociological analysis of the past and current situation hopes to offer a solid ground for extrapolation and predictions for Internet art’s future as an art world in its relation to the traditional art institutions.
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STEPHANIE DAVENPORT
Experiments in Corporate Collaboration: The Case of the Ars Electronica FutureLab (2003)
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SOPHIE ORMEROD
The Medium Still Isn’t the Message: Revisiting the Link Between Communication Technologies and Political Liberalization (2002)
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Tatiana Bazzichelli: Networking: The Net as Artwork (2006/2008) [IT, EN]
Filed under book | Tags: · cyberfeminism, hacktivism, internet, internet art, italy, net art, net culture, network art
“A reconstruction of the history of artistic networking in Italy and of the Italian hacker communitiy from the 1980s to date.
Networking means to create nets of relations, where the publisher and the reader, the artist and the audience, act on the same level. The book represents a first tentative reconstruction of the history of artistic networking in Italy, through an analysis of media and art projects which during the past twenty years have given way to a creative, shared and aware use of technologies, from video to computers, contributing to the creation of Italian hacker communities.
The Italian network proposes a form of critical information, diffused through independent and collective projects where the idea of freedom of expression is a central theme. In Italy, thanks to the alternative use of Internet, during the past twenty years a vast national network of people who share political, cultural and artistic views has been formed.
The book describes the evolution of the italian hacktivism and net culture from the Eighties till today. At the same time, it builds a reflection on the new role of the artist and author who become networker, operating in collective nets, reconnecting to Neoavant-garde practices of the 1960s (first and foremost Fluxus), but also Mail art, Neoism and Luther Blissett.
A path which began in BBS, alternative web platforms diffused in Italy through the 1980s even before Internet even existed, and then moved on to Hackmeetings, to Telestreet and networking art of different artists such as 0100101110101101.ORG, [epidemiC], Jaromil, Giacomo Verde, Giovanotti Mondani Meccanici, Correnti Magnetiche, Candida TV, Tommaso Tozzi, Federico Bucalossi, Massimo Contrasto, Mariano Equizzi, Pigreca, Molleindustria, Guerriglia Marketing, Sexyshock, Phag Off and many others.”
Preface by Derrick de Kerckhove,
Publisher Costa & Nolan, Milan, 2006
Creative Commons Attribuzione-Noncommerciale-Condividi allo stesso modo 2.5 Italia
ISBN 8874370474, 9788874370474
333 pages
English edition
Preface by Derrick De Kerckhove
Epilogue by Simonetta Fadda.
Publisher DARC, Digital Aesthetics Research Center of Aarhus University, 2008
GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3, November 2008
336 pages
Networking. La rete come arte (Italian, 2006, 4 MB, added on 2016-2-19)
Networking. The Net as Artwork (English, 2008, PDF, 3 MB)