[spectre] Collect the WWWorld at the House of Electronic Arts Basel

[Domenico Quaranta]

The Link Center for the Arts of the Information Age is proud to  
announce that Collect the WWWorld. The Artist as Archivist in the  
Internet Age, the show we produced and first presented Spazio  
Contemporanea, Brescia (Italy) from September 24 to October 15, 2011,  
will be presented in an adapted, updated version at the House of  
Electronic Arts Basel.

The last decade has witnessed an incredible growth in the production  
and distribution of images. The availability of inexpensive production  
tools has seen an exponential rise in amateur creativity, while the  
Internet provides a new distribution platform for this kind of  
production, which previously remained private. Collect the WWWorld.  
The Artist as Archivist in the Internet Age investigates the impact of  
this process on art practices and the artist.

The exhibition sets out to demonstrate how the Internet generation is  
implementing and developing a practice started in the Sixties by  
Conceptual Art, and further developed in subsequent decades in the  
forms of Appropriation Art and postproduction: the practice of  
exploring, collecting, archiving, manipulating and reusing huge  
amounts of visual material produced by popular culture and  
advertising. Collect the WWWorld is an attempt to show how art  
responds to the information society.



March 9, 2012 - May 20, 2012

Opening: March 8, 2012, 6.30 PM

(A guided tour with the curator is scheduled for 7.30 PM)



Curated by:

Domenico Quaranta



Co-produced by:

the LINK Center for the Arts of the Information Age and the House of  
Electronic Arts Basel



Artists:

Alterazioni Video (I), Kari Altmann (USA), Kevin Bewersdorf (USA),  
Luca Bolognesi (I), Adam Cruces (CH), Aleksandra Domanovic (D), Harm  
van den Dorpel (NL), Constant Dullaart (NL), Hans-Peter Feldmann (D),  
Elisa Giardina Papa (I), Travis Hallenbeck (USA), Admir Jahic &  
Comenius Röthlisberger (CH), Jodi (NL), Olia Lialina & Dragan  
Espenschied (D), Guthrie Lonergan (USA), Eva and Franco Mattes (I),  
Alexandra Navratil (CH), Seth Price (USA), Jon Rafman (USA), Claudia  
Rossini (I), Evan Roth (USA), Travess Smalley (USA), Ryan Trecartin  
(USA)



The research work around the exhibition can be followed on the blog: http://collectheworld.tumblr.com 
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Supported by:

LINK Center for the Arts of the Information Age

Innovery



For further informations:

Doris Gassert: +41 61 331 58 40 – doris.gassert at haus-ek.org



House of Electronic Arts Basel

Exhibition space: Oslostrasse 10 – 4023 Basel / Münchenstein

Office: +41 61 331 5840

Exhibition space: +41 61 283 6050

info at haus-ek.org - www.haus-ek.org PR: presse at haus-ek.org



Press material available at:

http://www.linkartcenter.eu/press-2?lang=en


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