Is this book going to be available in english? It sounds amazing. I'm
personally very interested in these topics of the merging of the
political and artistic acts, the transition from cyberfeminism to
netporn, autonomous technology and hacktivism.
It seems that the reception to these topics in the US is much less
enthusiasic than in Europe. Do you find that to be true? As an MFA
student, I find it to be a struggle to do political work in the US.
You can see some of my work here:
http://deletetheborder.org/lotu5
http://deletetheborder.org/node/1737
http://deletetheborder.org/oaxaca-delegation-2006
http://deletetheborder.org/node/1894
http://deletetheborder.org/node/1737
and
http://deletetheborder.org/node/1877
Tatiana Bazzichelli wrote:
> It is not only about Netporn, but hope it can interest...
> Tatiana
>
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> Presentation of the book: Networking | The Net as an Artwork
> @ Transmediale, Sunday 4/2, 16:00, Salon
> Akademie der Kuenste, Berlin, D
> http://www.transmediale.de/site/salon+M5aa228131cd.html
>
> moderated by: Diana McCarty [de]
> with Tatiana Bazzichelli [it/de], Jaromil [it/nl], Gaia Novati [it/de]
>
> Networking | The Net as an Artwork
> Written by Tatiana Bazzichelli, with the preface of Derrick De Kerckhove
> and the epilogue of the Italian videoartist Simonetta Fadda.
> http://www.networkingart.eu
>
> The book represents a first tentative to write a comprehensive history
> of both analog and digital subcultural networked art in Italy, through
> an analysis of the realities which during the past twenty years have
> given way to a creative, shared and aware use of technologies - such as
> Mail Art, Neoism, the Luther Blissett project, BBS culture, Telestreets,
> and many other subcultural movements and networks.
>
> The Italian network proposes a form of critical information, diffused
> through independent and collective projects. Active in underground
> environments, they use diverse media (computers, video, television,
> radio and magazines) and deal with technological experimentation, or
> hacktivism, depending on the terminology used in Italy, where the
> political component is a central theme.
>
> The book describes how in Italian subculture there was never a divide
> between artistic and political activism, covering the evolution of the
> Italian net culture from the Eighties till today. The book shelds light
> onto the affinity of 1980s Mail Art manifesto to post-1990s Internet
> culture, up to its terminology of artists as "network operators" and art
> as a "network-web", the political redefinition of the term "Cyberpunk"
> in early 1990s in Italy, the mutation of Cyberfeminism into Netporn
> activism, and presents the works of many artists and activists, 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.
>
> Networking | The Net as an Artwork, is printed on paper (Costa & Nolan
> publisher, Milan, Novembrer 2006, pag. 336), but it is also available
> online under:
> http://www.networkingart.eu (Creative Commons License)
> ENG: http://www.networkingart.eu/download_eng.html
>
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>
> Diana McCarty [de]
> moderates: "The Net as an Artwork"
> Diana McCarty lives and works in Berlin. She is a co-founder of bootlab
> and co-initiated the open source radio project, reboot.fm. She is an
> active member of the Free Cultural Radio Network, Radia.FM. Together
> with Valie Djordjevic, Kathy Rae Huffman and Ushi Reiter, she runs the
> Faces mailing list for women in media. As part of the International
> Women's University server development team, she worked with Seda Gürses,
> Barbara Schelkle, Prof. Heidi Schelhowe, and Heiki Pisch - and also
> worked to develop feminist pedagogical approaches to computing. In the
> mid-nineties, McCarty co-founded the Nettime Mailing list and as part of
> the Media Research Foundation, she co-organized the MetaForum Conference
> Series in Budapest. Her main interests are exploiting social and
> technological systems for cultural use; i.e. piracy and open source
> software development for real life.
> www.bootlab.org
> www.faces-l.net
> www.mrf.hu
> www.radia.fm
>
> Tatiana Bazzichelli [it/de]
> Tatiana Bazzichelli a.k.a. T_Bazz (Rome, 1974), is a Communication
> Sociologist and an expert in Media Art, Hacktivism and Net Culture. She
> gave a dissertation on Italian interactive digital art at the University
> la Sapienza in Rome (1999). Towards the end of the 1990's she organized
> events and conventions, such as Cum2Cut (Berlin, 2006), Hack.it.art
> (Berlin 2005), Art on the Net in Italy (Berlin 2005), MediaDemocracy and
> Telestreet
