Archive for the ‘BOOKS’ Category
Gamescenes reviewed!
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).
Playlist – The catalogue
Domenico Quaranta (ed), Mediateca Expandida – Playlist, exhibition catalogue, Gijon (Asturias, Spain), LABoral Centro de Arte y Creaciòn Industrial, December 2009.
The second issue of “Mediateca Expandida”, the magazine published in conjunction with the exhibitions in LABoral’s mediateque, is out. It features texts by Matteo Bittanti, Ed Halter, Kevin Driscoll and Joshua Diaz and myself, plus about 30 artists and a music CD. You can download the full pdf from here.
Once Upon a Time in the West – Catalogue Essay
Tom Jennings, Alan Turing Made Flat, 2000
D. Quaranta, “Once Upon a Time in the West”, in Pixxelpoint – Once Upon a Time in the West, exhibition catalogue, Nova Gorica 2009.
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Although the term “new media” is one of today’s great buzzwords, in actual fact these media are anything but new. The Net is twenty years old, if we start counting from the advent of the Web, forty if we start from Arpanet. Spacewar!, the first videogame ever, is more or less the same age. Virtual worlds are the updated, more streamlined versions of technology acclaimed as “the future” when Second Life programmers were still in diapers; social networks are the bastard sons of Fidonet. As for the computer, it is younger than Lord Byron, but certainly not than his daughter Ada.
Once upon a time there was the electronic frontier, an abandonware myth which drew life from the continuous advance of the frontier itself. Like in space, in technological progress there’s no ocean at the end of the trip. But, unlike the space race, the race to the next technology is endless, and endlessness is boring.
Alice fa Yoga
Text written for the book Brice Coniglio (ed), Coniglioviola. Sono un pirata / Sono un signore, exhibition catalogue, Silvana Editoriale, October 2009. If you wish, you can buy the book (bilingual Italian / English) on the publisher’s website.
I’m Not Here – Opening and book presentation
Eva and Franco Mattes aka 0100101110101101.ORG – I’m Not Here
EXHIBITION OPENING – Saturday 3 October, 6 pm – midnight
3 October – 15 November 2009
Fabio Paris Art Gallery
Spazio Contemporanea, Corsetto Sant’Agata 22 – Brescia
The opening of the exhibition will also see the presentation of the first monograph on the artists, published by Charta, and including, among others, contributions by Domenico Quaranta, Fabio Cavallucci, RoseLee Goldberg, Bruce Sterling, Wu Ming and Maurizio Cattelan.
