[spectre] Networking. The Net as Artwork (English Version)

[Tatiana Bazzichelli]

Dear all,

I would like to announce that my book "Networking. The Net as Artwork" 
is finally ready in English language. It is promoted by the DARC, 
Digital Aesthetics Research Center of Aarhus University.
http://darc.imv.au.dk/?p=62

You can download it from this link:
http://darc.imv.au.dk/wp-content/files/networking_bazzichelli.pdf

A reconstruction of the history of artistic networking in Italy and of 
the Italian hacker communitiy from the 1980s to date.
Preface by Derrick De Kerckhove. Epilogue by Simonetta Fadda. 
Translation: Helen Pringle and Maria Anna Calamia, revised by Grace 
Wright. Layout and front cover by Jonas Frankki.
Cover image: Giovanotti Mondani Meccanici by Antonio Glessi-Andrea 
Zingoni, published in "Frigidaire" issue 42, May 1984, Primo Carnera 
Edition.

Contents:
Networking means to create nets of relations, where the publisher and 
the reader, the artist and the audience, act on the same level. The book 
represents a first tentative reconstruction of the history of artistic 
networking in Italy, through an analysis of media and art projects which 
during the past twenty years have given way to a creative, shared and 
aware use of technologies, from video to computers, contributing to the 
creation of Italian hacker communities.
The Italian network proposes a form of critical information, diffused 
through independent and collective projects where the idea of freedom of 
expression is a central theme. In Italy, thanks to the alternative use 
of Internet, during the past twenty years a vast national network of 
people who share political, cultural and artistic views has been formed.

The book describes the evolution of the italian hacktivism and net 
culture from the Eighties till today. At the same time, it builds a 
reflection on the new role of the artist and author who become 
networker, operating in collective nets, reconnecting to Neoavant-garde 
practices of the 1960s (first and foremost Fluxus), but also Mail art, 
Neoism and Luther Blissett.
A path which began in BBS, alternative web platforms diffused in Italy 
through the 1980s even before Internet even existed, and then moved on 
to Hackmeetings, to Telestreet and networking art of different artists 
such as 0100101110101101.ORG, [epidemiC], Jaromil, Giacomo Verde, 
Giovanotti Mondani Meccanici, Correnti Magnetiche, Candida TV, Tommaso 
Tozzi, Federico Bucalossi, Massimo Contrasto, Mariano Equizzi, Pigreca, 
Molleindustria, Guerriglia Marketing, Sexyshock, Phag Off and many others.

Tatiana Bazzichelli (Rome, IT, 1974), is a communication sociologist and 
an expert in network culture, hacktivism and net art. She is a Ph.D. 
Scholar at Aarhus University.

Italian edition 2006, costlan editori s.r.l., Milan.
English edition 2008, Digital Aesthetics Research Center, Aarhus 
University, and the author.
The book is published under the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 
1.3, November 2008. You can download the Networking book from this link: 
http://darc.imv.au.dk/wp-content/files/networking_bazzichelli.pdf (PDF, 
3.10 Mb).
Language: English | Pages: 336.
More info at: www.networkingart.eu