EVENTS
HOLY FIRE: ART OF THE DIGITAL AGE
Exibition curated and catalogue edited by: Domenico Quaranta, Yves Bernard
Bruxelles, April 18 - 30, 2008
iMAL Center for Digital Cultures and Technologies
Press release and other materials
Official website
ArtBrussels 2008
Selected press:
El Païs (spanish)
we-make-money-not-art
Poptronics (french)
Knack (Vlaamse)
Rhizome
Report of the debate at Art Brussels, by Packed (Vlaamse)
Digimag 34, May 2008 (italian)
Nilo Casares, "El estado del collecionismo digital", in ABC, supplemento "ABCD las artes y las letras", Madrid, 10 maggio 2008 (spanish).
Images & video
Holy Fire on Flickr
Video of the iMAL opening (YouTube)
Holy Fire Remixed by artisopensource.net
THE GATE (or Hole in Space, Reloaded)
Installation connecting real life and Second Life
Yannick Antoine, Yves Bernard (BE)
With the collaboration of: Domenico Quaranta (IT), Sugar Seville (SL)
Opening Performance: Second Front
iMAL Center for Digital Cultures and Technology, Brussels; Odyssey Contemporary Art and Performance, Second Life (Odyssey 122/45/25)
04/10/07 - 07/10/07
More informations
EVA E FRANCO MATTES (0100101110101101.ORG): LOL
Show curated and catalogue edited by Domenico Quaranta
DATES: January 20 - March 3, 2007
OPENING: Saturday, January 20, 6 pm
LOCATION: fabioparisartgallery
Via Alessandro Monti, 13 - 25121 Brescia - Italy
tel. +39 030 3756139 - www.fabioparisartgallery.com - fabio@fabioparisartgallery.com
Press release, catalogue essay and interview with the artists
SECOND LIFE / REAL LIFE @ PEAM 2K6
Pescara Electronic Artists Meeting - The Diamond
6 - 10 December 2006
http://www.artificialia.com/peam2006/english.html
Press release
Italian critical text (here in .pdf format)
Second Life / Real Life
curated by Domenico Quaranta
Gazira Babeli - Born in Second Life on 31st March 2006, Gazira Babeli is an artist who turns the performativity of the code into performance itself. Weedy and flexuous in her long black dress which covers fashionably her polygonal haunches, Gazira radiates a strange charm that makes her somebody in between a Voodoo witch and an X-men heroine. Her charm that becomes even more evident during her masterful performances, in which she activates scripts as if they were spells, makes earthquakes happens, provokes natural fatalities and invasions of pop icons (in the place of the biblical locusts). Gazira Babeli is NOT the project of an artist who works in Second Life. She IS an artist, who makes, records and signs performances based on code. She is real, like you and me, even if her action platform is a world of bits. If you meet her down there, say her goodbye, but be careful: don't say stupid...
Damiano Colacito - Born in Atri (TE) in 1973, Damiano Colacito focuses his work on the basic elements of the contemporary media landscape and the complex relationship between the virtual and the real. In the last few years he devoted himself to the creation of wooden sculptures that portray objects coming from the FPS, such as med-kits, power-ups, weapons, and etc. The Scotchprint skins he puts on the sculptures allows the author to work on details so to obtain a pretty refined reproduction of the texture of those virtual objects, and the use of sound effects, every now and then, makes the realism of the reproduction even finer. As a Pino Pascali of the Doom generation, Colacito creates conceptual sculptures that result to be amazing for both the gamer and the people who don't play videogames: the former comes across familiar objects in the wrong context,while the second has to deal with unfamiliar objects seemingly coming from another world and culture. Somehow, Colacito orchestrates a kind of mental teletransport, and materializes the insubstantial nature of the electric energy.
GAMESCAPES
GameScapes. Videogame Landscapes and Cities in the Works of Five International Artists
curated by Rosanna Pavoni
scientific committee: Matteo Bittanti & Domenico Quaranta
artists: Cory Arcangel, Mauro Ceolin, Jonathan Haddock, Eddo Stern e Carlo Zanni.
Monza Civic Gallery
Monza, Italy, via Camperio 1
October 13 – 29, 2006. Free Entrance
From Tuesday to Sunday, 10.00 – 13.00 and 15.00 – 19.00.
Opening: Thursday October 12 from 6:30 PM
email: salecomunali@comune.monza.mi.it
Catalogue published by Johan & Levi
Critical texts (.pdf files):
City of Bits by Domenico Quaranta (catalogue text)
Art Gamers by Domenico Quaranta (panel)
IN_RETE - MINIARTEXTIL 2006
Como (Italy), various venues, October 7 - November 12, 2006
Organization: Arte&Arte
Curated by: Luciano Caramel
Net art section curated by Domenico Quaranta
Artists: Alessandro Capozzo & Katia Noppes (IT), Gianni Corino & Lorenzo Verna (IT), Andy Deck (USA), Cat Mazza (USA), Lisa Jevbratt (USA).
Press Release (.pdf file)
Catalogue text (.pdf file)
Images.
C.STEM. Art Electronic Systems and Software Art
Turin (Italy), 32 Dicembre / AB+ Club
June 1 – 2, 2006
web. http://www.cstem.it/
Catalogue essay and interviews
RADICAL SOFTWARE
Curated by Domenico Quaranta
PIEMONTE SHARE FESTIVAL 2006 - LIMITLESS
Turin (Italy), Accademia Albertina, March 8, 2006 - March 12, 2006
web. http://www.toshare.it/ - mail. info@toshare.it
Catalogue text
UBERMORGEN.COM: ART FID [F]originals - Authentizität als konsensuelle Halluzination
May 27 - July 16, 2006
Curated by Inke Arns
Hartware MedienKunstVerein - PHOENIX Halle, Dortmund (Germany)
Website
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UBERMORGEN.COM (Lizvlx/Hans Bernhard)
Lilly controls my Foriginals
February 25 - April 8, 2006
fabioparisartgallery
via Alessandro Monti 13 - 25121 Brescia (Italy)
www.fabioparisartgallery.com
Critical text by Domenico Quaranta (english below)
CONNESSIONI LEGGENDARIE - NET.ART 1995-2005
Curated by Luca Lampo
Scientific Board: 0100101110101101.ORG, Marco Deseriis, Domenico Quaranta
Organization and production: Gabriele Miccichè, Alessandro Mininno
Texts for the catalogue and for the exibition panels: Marco Deseriis and Domenico Quaranta
Mediateca di Santa Teresa - Via della Moscova 28, Milan, Italy
October 20 - November 10, 2005
Original website (www.connessionileggendarie.it) no more available
Press Release (.pdf file)
Catalogue (.pdf file, italian only, 8.5 MB)
IN & OUT. OPERA E AMBIENTE NELLA DIMENSIONE GLOCAL. Premio Michetti - 56a ed.
Curated by Luciano Caramel
New Media Art section curated by Domenico Quaranta
July 23 - August 31, 2005, Fondazione Michetti, Francavilla al mare (CH, Italy)
Images, catalogue text and more informations (Italian only)
GameScenes @ Piemonte Share Festival 2005
curated by Domenico Quaranta
as a section of Piemonte Share Festival 2005, Turin (Italy), Palazzo Cavour, February 24 febbraio - March 1, 2005.
Artists: Mauro Ceolin (ITA), Jeremiah Johnson aka nullsleep (USA),
John Klima (USA), Martin Le Chevallier (FRA), Gonzalo Frasca - Newsgaming (URY), Selectparks (AU), Antonio Riello (ITA), Josh On (USA), Carlo Zanni (ITA), Brody Condon (USA), JODI (NLD), Kinematic Collective (USA), RETROYOU (ESP), Eddo Stern (USA), Josephine Starrs & Leon Cmielewski (AUS), TWCDC (USA), 8bitpeople (nullsleep's selection); Micropupazzo (ITA - DE); Role Model (Johan Kotlinski, SWE); Tonylight (ITA); Oliver Wittchow (DE); Gameboyzz Orchestra (POL).
Piemonte Share Festival
Press release
Mauro Ceolin: Videogame Landscapes
November 13 - December 18, 2004
Brescia (Italy), Fabioparisartgallery
Fabioparisartgallery
Catalogue text by Domenico Quaranta.