Paint From Nature by Caterina Davinio A net-art performance dedicated to the New York Twin Towers disaster
Texts (Italian / English) http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Lights/7323/paintfromnature.htm Pictures http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Lights/7323/paintfromnaturepic.htm "Paint From Nature" - the nature as media landscape and telematic passage, is inspired to the disaster of the New York towers, event which has had a great impact on the collective imaginary in the planet also for the mass-media dimension which accompanied it. The choral sound of the rhizomers voices in the "copy from nature", from the telematic "truth" - which actuates its existence in the continuous passage from the real to the virtual and back - comes from an every-place, or from a no-place, from a texture of contacts, which is also a "thing", space where enter, wander, look for, reality. This space, in the performance "Paint from nature", is going to be copied down, or, with a metaphor, photographed, after it was framed in the monitor, together with some questions about what a net-performance "really" is, what a "copy from nature" and the "nature" self, for an artist, in the net, in the media universe, is, how Internet brings in discussion the role of the artist, his identity, and these concepts (identity, reality, copy, nature, original, presence, performance, role, space-time) result disintegrated but also reconstructed. Caterina Davinio's work "Paint From Nature", made of interaction, action, e-mail art, creation of an object, copy realized with technologic instruments which are in hands of an artist today (digital, identical with the represented original, but that finally concretises itself in an unique not-reproducible experience this work, made of communic/action, and generating itself while the communication runs, do not falls under the categories that the art and the critic put at disposal. KARENINA.IT (poetry in "f�tica" function) A web project by Caterina Davinio [EMAIL PROTECTED] on line since 1998 - By Jakobson, 'f�tico' is the use of the language which has the finality to maintain open and operative the communication channel among the interlocutors. On the confine between art and critic, happening and net performance, Karenina.it is a virtual meeting place around the theme of the writing and the new technologies, in which experiences of international artists, curators, theoreticians converge, in a net that counts thousands of contacts in the world. -- karenina.IT Experimental Caterina Davinio Director Index: http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Lights/7323/kareninarivista.html Karenina.it for the 49th Venice Biennial http://www.geocities.com/biennale2001/ Davinio Art Electronics - Archives / Videotheque / Rome / Milan Art Electronics and Other Writings http://space.tin.it/arte/cprezi
