DOMENICO QUARANTA

The (art) world we actually have does not meet my standards

ARCO Madrid 2010 – Expanded Box (catalogue text)

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Back in 1997, Arthur C. Danto wrote After the End of Art, asserting that, after the Seventies, art entered a “post historical” condition, leaving behind the usual art historical narrative – based on a linear idea of progress – of which Modernism was the swansong; and opening a new era in which “everything can be art”.

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February 8th, 2010 at 8:48 am

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Will Gompertz and Net Art

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I just posted the comment below on Gomp /arts, Will Gompertz’s blog on the BBC website. Three days ago Mr. Gompertz, currently the BBC arts editor, posted an article where he claims that he “can’t find any net-based art of note”. No surprise that this article produced a lot of rumor on new media art magazines and mailing lists…

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February 5th, 2010 at 3:31 pm

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Playlist Reviewed!

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Out of the amount of press the exhibition Playlist. Playing Games, Music, Art (LABoral, Gijon, 18.12.09 – 17.05.10) is generating, I’d like to point to a few nice articles:

Marie Lechner, «Playlist» secoue les puces, in Liberation, 04.02.10, available online at the URL http://www.liberation.fr/culture/0101617292-playlist-secoue-les-puces.

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February 5th, 2010 at 10:26 am

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Gamescenes reviewed!

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A late, but nice, review of Gamescenes. Art in the Age of Videogames, the book I edited in 2006 together with Matteo Bittanti. On Nextgame.it, by Lorenzo Antonelli (via Gamescenes.org).

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February 4th, 2010 at 9:32 pm

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The Matter of Electronics

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Ed Halter’s contribution for Playlist’s catalogue (full pdf here) has been featured on the web magazine Vague Terrain.

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February 4th, 2010 at 3:33 pm

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