NETIZENS
The pieces included in the show are all signed by web-born personalities but demonstrate very different approches, not always tied to the Net as a specific medium. World Wide Web can be a tool, a platform, a distribution and interaction channel, an inspiration source. The gallery space -one of the first in Europe to give space to the net art world- will host computers, projections, videogames, installations and oil paintings. The goal of this event is to show the aestethic possibilities of the Web also to the non-netizens (cyberspace citizens). Artists become our guides in the "city of bits".
>Artists: CORY ARCANGEL feat. BEIGE (www.beigerecords.com/cory) is a young artist based in Manhattan. His work is concerned with technology’s relationship to culture and the creative process. It is often constructed using obsolete computers found at thrift stores and garage sales. I shot Andy Warhol is a modified version of the interactive light gun game "Hogan’s Alley" in which the graphics have been changed. In the game a player is asked to shoot various 8-bit versions of Andy Warhol, while being careful to avoid other characters [the Pope, Flavor Flav, and Col. Sanders].
ELOUT DE KOK (www.xs4all.nl/~elout) is a ducht artist. He is the author of the web site Pixel Lab: an on-line laboratory that contains all his experiments with generative and interactive graphics. He calls that "my digital playground" and updates it very often. For Netizens exhibition De Kok has created a new work called qqs, an executable file that shows a grey city where things moves at different velocities. The user can interact with the work making it produce millions of different screen compositions.
JODI.ORG (www.jodi.org) is the name of the most famous Net Art site. The duo behind it is working on the Web since 1995 and is currently based in Spain. They are considered to be the pioneers of the Net Art scene and their works are often concerned with computer errors and code deconstruction. untitled-game is a package of 12 modified videogames, all born out from Quake source code.
LIMITEAZERO (www.limiteazero.com) is a duo based in Milan, Italy. Their experimental activity is about the exploration of alternative relations between man and machine. It tries to establish an emotional approach using interface systems, instead of a logical/deductive one. Active Metaphore is an application of the "Carnivore" engine, a software wich listens to all internet traffic on a specific local network written by computer artists’ ensemble RSG (Radical Software Group). This work use the data to work out visual compositions and a sound feedback.
CARLO ZANNI [a.k.a beta] (www.zanni.org) works with the most ancient artistic way, the painting, combined with the most recent that is to say Internet. His research runs on two twin lines, doing a comparison between the tradition and contemporary life. His paintings (oil on canvas) are precise and impersonal reproductions of desktop’s icons, software’s logos and other images taken from the contemporary landscape: the computer’s screen.
LOCATION_ Rome (Italy), Sala 1 Gallery – Piazza di Porta San Giovanni 10 (Scala Santa)
CONFERENCE_ tuesday 3 december_15 .30_at MACRO (Contemporary Art Museum of Rome) _Via Reggio Emilia 54
EXHIBITION OPENING_ wednesday 4 december_18.30_at Sala 1 – live set by s.talker inc_20.30
DURATION_ until 22 december 2002 – tue_sat 16.30_19.00
CURATED BY_ Valentina Tanni
IDEATION_ Antonella Pisilli
ARTISTS_ Cory Arcangel/BEIGE_ Elout De Kok_ Jodi.org_ Limiteazero _Carlo Zanni
INFO_ tel/fax +39.06.7008691 – sala_uno@tin.it – www.netizensonline.it
