New Media Art curator Domenico Quaranta
Como, October 7th - November 12th, 2006 /p>
Chiesa di San Francesco & other venues
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| Screening Circle time-lapse video by Andy Deck, 2006. |
Press Release
NET ART & NEW MEDIA @ MINIARTEXTIL 2006
Arte&Arte is pleased to announce in_rete (in_the_net), the XVI
edition of the International Exhibition of Contemporary Textile Art
Miniartextil. The exhibition will take place in various public and
private venues in Como (Italy), and will run from the 7th of
September through the 12th of November 2006. This year, the
exhibition will focus on the connections — both
metaphorical and literal — between two worlds
and two media: the fabric and the Net. In order to suggest these
connections, the main venue of the exhibition,
the fascinating church of San Francesco in Como,
will host five new media installations, from
both Italian and American artists: Relations (2004), a generative
software by Italian Alessandro Capozzo; Exuvia (2006), mixed media
innstallation by Alessandro Capozzo and Katia Noppes; Quixote (2004-2006), a moblog living performance by Italian
artists Gianni Corino and Lorenzo Verna; Screening Circle (2006),
the interactive installation of an online work by the American
artist Andy Deck, a 2006 commission of the Whitney Artport and the
Tate Online; Knitoscope Testimonies (2006) by Cat Mazza, a series
of videos produced with a software that translates digital video
into a knitted animation; and the Infome Imager Lite Workshop
(2005), an installation featuring a Web Visualization Software by
the American artist Lisa Jevbratt. As the New Media Art section
curator Domenico Quaranta wrote: "There are many
associations between digital media and the world of textiles,
dating right back to the advent of the computer and gradually
firming up over time. Such links can be observed not only in terms
of how computers work and the structure of binary code, but also in
a series of metaphors, concepts and forms: the net, the web,
weaving pixels, pattern, texture, etc. New Media Art, which works
with the social, political and cultural consequences of the media
it utilises, is well aware of these links, and this awareness
emerges both in its aesthetics, and in the operative techniques
implemented. In particular, all Net Art (namely art which comes
into being on the web and for the web, and uses the web as its tool
of choice, and also its main theme) is by definition a textile art,
as it plays a part in enriching the fabric of cyberspace and
creating networks, building and activating communities. In other
words, net art is the art of weaving the web, which grants it an
enormous potential, enabling it not only to comment on the media it
utilises but also to contribute to its life, its creation and its
history.â€
WORKS:
Alessandro Capozzo (IT), Relations, 2004,
http://www.abstract-codex.net/relations/index.html
Alessandro Capozzo & Katia Noppes (IT), Exuvia, 2006
http://www.abstractcodex. net/exuvia/index.html
Gianni Corino & Lorenzo Verna (IT) Quixote, 2004-2006, http://www.quixote.it/
Andy Deck (USA), Screening Circle, 2006,
http://artcontext.net/act/05/screeningCircle/
Cat Mazza (USA), Knitoscope Testimonies, 2006,
http://www.turbulence.org/Works/microRevolt/
Lisa Jevbratt (USA), Infome Imager, 2002 – 2005,
http://jevbratt.com/infome_imager/lite
HI-RES IMAGES & CATALOGUE TEXT:
http://www.domenicoquaranta.net/miniartextil.html
LINKS:
Miniartextil - http://www.miniartextil.it/
Domenico Quaranta - http://www.domenicoquaranta.net/
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