[spectre] Making art on the web, Biella (Italy)

[Alessandro Ludovico]

Making art on the web

Saturday 9 November at Cittadellarte, Fondazione Pistoletto in 
Biella, the Open Meeting: Fare arte in rete - MAKING ART ON THE WEB, 
organized by UnDo.Net.
An encounter aimed at providing an overview of online art practices, 
while calling attention to the problematic relationships between the 
artistic languages utilized in the web and more 'traditional' forms 
of expression.
The dialectical confrontation of viewpoints and positions of the 
invited speakers will offer the possibility of understanding the 
present state of making art on the web, launching a discussion that 
is necessary in the context of Italian contemporary art.
The European partners in the project will explain their viewpoints on 
making art on the web in their own countries (France, Austria, 
Sweden), utilizing selected web art projects to illustrate their 
positions and to widen the debate.

The 'talk show' will include the participation of Tatiana 
Bazzichelli, an expert in antagonistic artistic practices like 
Activism, Hacking, Artivism; Pier Luigi Capucci, professor of Mass 
Communications at the University of Bologna, director of Noema and 
expert on art and new media; Maria Cristina Cremaschi, expert on art 
and technology, involved in the development of the 'Pizart' project, 
which organizes one-day study sessions and events; Alessandro 
Ludovico, director of Neural, new media culture review. Moderators: 
Francesco Galluzzi, professor of aesthetics at the Fine Arts Academy 
of Carrara, with years of experience in the study of the relationship 
between art and new technologies; Claudio Parrini, an artist who 
together with the groups UnDo.Net, Quinta Parete and XS2WEB creates 
Internet projects and workshops, and has written books on this 
subject.

The idea is to proceed through a phenomenological, historical and 
economic study of online art projects, identifying the various 
styles, poetics and connections to the art market.


Making Art on the Web is the Italian section of the European project 
'Transimages Europeennes'.
The project focuses on present issues connected with the status of 
the image in the era of globalization. Today the image has become the 
main means of representation and communcation, both in the 
technological sphere and in that of human relations; the 
possibilities of duplication, transformation and diffusion on an 
industrial scale influence our relationship with reality and 
destabilize our traditional modes of identification. Thus the need 
for reflection on the loss of stability of meaning of 'image' and 
'reality'.
'Transimages Europeennes' is a project proposed by Synesthesie 
(France), in the context of Culture 2000, together with Temporary Art 
(Sweden); Springerin (Austria) and UnDo.Net (Italy).
The four associations have independently organized exhibitions and 
conferences in their respective countries, with the shared objective 
of encouraging interchange among the protagonists of the world of art 
(artists and theorists) and comparing today's processes of artistic 
creation with the images linked to the entertainment and media 
industries.


Since 1995 UnDo.Net is the network of contemporary culture, a 
collective art project, a device connecting and combining opinion 
leaders and culture professionals. UnDo.Net is a creative workshop of 
contemporary artists, designers and web experts, designing innovative 
development of exhibitions, events and cultural initiatives, fully 
experimenting with the new possibilities offered by the Internet for 
the creation and enjoyment of contemporary art.


OPEN MEETING: MAKING ART ON THE WEB
9 November 2002
Cittadellarte, Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella


PROGRAM

Starting at 10.00

Encounter with:
- UnDo.Net, network of contemporary culture (Italy)
- Synesthesie, portal of artistic theories and practices (France)
- Springerin, review of aesthetics and contemporary culture (Austria)
- Temporary Art, artists' collective (Sweden)


Starting at 15.30

Encounter with:
Tatiana Bazzichelli
Pier Luigi Capucci
Maria Cristina Cremaschi
Alessandro Ludovico

Moderators:
Francesco Galluzzi
Claudio Parrini



Free of charge


For information: UnDo.Net
tel 026684254 mailto:staff@undo.net
http://undo.net/cgi-bin/press.pl?id=1036090757

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