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 List of Meetings19 April - Screening Conference by Derrick De Kerchkove 26 April - Presentation and discussion of work by Antonio Scarponi (http://www.a-d-d.org) and the group AMAE (http://www.amae01.org) 03 May - Presentation of the initiative http://www.normale.net; http://www.alsoavailable.net curated by Luca Rua, and of the work of Paolo Danese (http://www.paolodanese.it) 12 May - Marco Baravalle "Arte Contemporanea e Attivismo Politico: la rete come modello organizzativo di produzione" http://www.16beavergroup.org/ 17 May - Alessandra Ghirardelli http://www.alegi.net/ "L'oggetto digitale" 24 May - Matteo Peterlini "Un incontro discreto" http://www.matteopeterlini.it 30 May - Mauro Arrighi and Davide Tiso "Arte interattiva e performer digitali" http://www.dreamingwww.com Download Press Release Program Palazzetto Tito: the program for Tuesdays Slides of the confernce held by De Kerckhove on 12 April Slides of the conference held by Vuk Cosic Links Bruce Sterling's book "Tomorrow Now" Brief profile of the speakers Vuk Cosic is a Slovenian artist living in Ljubljana. He is known as one of the founders of net.art. He has helped found on-line projects such as Nettime, Syndicate and 7-11 which grew to form the European "net culture". Some of his most recognized works include: ASCII History of images in motion (1996); History of art through airport sign systems (1997); Documenta: Done (1997); ASCII History of art for the blind (1999). He was a participant in the 49th Venice Biennale of Visual Arts in 2001. Reference site: http://www.ljudmila.org/%7Evuk/ Derrick De Kerckhove is an internationally renown Canadian scholar. He is the Director of the McLuhan Program of culture and technology and is Professor at the French Department at the University of Toronto (Canada). The McLuhan Program, as well as the work of McLuhan himself, is aimed at understanding how technology influences society now and in the future. It promotes a new form of artistic expression which unites the arts, engineering and new telecommunication technologies. His work in the fields of media, internet and connective intelligence has made him one of the most authoritative theorists on communication today. Reference site: http://www.mcluhan.utoronto.ca/ Lev Manovich was born in Moscow and moved to New York in 1981. He studied history of art, architecture, animation, and programming before beginning his work in the field of computer media in 1984. Since 1990 his projects have been presented in some of the most important exhibitions and festivals dedicated to new media. Manovich is Associate Professor at the Department of Visual Arts of the University of California where he teaches art and theory of new media. He is author of the book "The Language of New Media", MIT Press 2001 and "Tekstura: Russian Essays on Visual Culture", Chicago University Press 1993. His many articles have been published and translated in over 28 countries. Reference site: http://www.manovich.net/ 2004 Project on the web Padiglione Favelas curator - Gaston Feltrin Martinez Interview with the artists of Manifesta 5 curator - Silvia Sartori |