DOMENICO QUARANTA

Tonight (at 8 PM) I will have a conversation with Slovenian curator Dunja Kukovec in the frame of the following event:

Tactics and Practice: New Media Drivers

A pilot seminar in new media arts

Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture, 1-5 June, 2010, Ljubljana, Slovenia

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On Friday, April 30 I will have a presentation with artist Janez Janša at the Università Cattolica di Brescia. We will introduce the project NAME Readymade (2007 – ongoing), by Janez Janša, Janez Janša and Janez Janša. Below the italian press release.

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EXPANDING THE FIELD. Or, 8 good reasons to talk about new media (in an art fair)

Director: Domenico Quaranta

Lecturers: UBERMORGEN.COM, Marius Watz, Trevor Paglen, Oron Catts, Auriea Harvey & Michael Samyn, Paul D. Miller / DJ Spooky

ARCO Art Fair, Forum Auditorium 2, Hall 6.

February 18, 2010, from 12.30 to 2.30 p.m. and from 4 to 8 p.m.

Download the complete program.

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Below you can find some links (reviews, documentation, etc.) regarding the show Gazira Babeli – Acting as Aliens (Kapelica Gallery, Ljubljana) and the related seminar.

About the seminar:

- Images by Frieda Korda, Roxelo Babenco, Helfe Ihnen on Flickr.

- An ongoing discussion on the Odyssey Ning.

- A video by Helfe Ihnen on Youtube.

About the show:

- Gazira Babeli‘s archive page

- A video interview on VEST.SI (Italian, sub Slovenian)

- A TV feature on TVSLO.SI (Slovenian, starting from min. 47.06)

- The opening performance on TVSLO.SI (Slovenian, starting from min. 04.45)

- “Gazira Babeli: Acting as Aliens”. A review by Flaminio Gualdoni.

- “Aliena e maga l’artista di oggi“. A review by Agnese Trocchi in Stile.it, 27.10.09.

- “Umetnost v virtualnosti“. A review by Ida Hiršenfelder, published in Dnevnik, 04.11.09.

- My set on Flickr.

- Some pics of the performance from the natives’ point of view on the Second Front blog.

- And some raw footage by me on my Youtube account:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Gazira Babeli: ACTING AS ALIENS

Exhibition curated by Domenico Quaranta
Galerija Kapelica, Ljubljana, Slovenia
November 3 – 15, 2009
Opening and performance: November 3, 9.00 PM (CET)

Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art and Kapelica gallery are proud to announce “Gazira Babeli: Acting as Aliens”, the first solo exhibition of the avatar artist Gazira Babeli in Slovenia. Internationally renowned for her activity in the digital reality of Second Life, Gazira Babeli is born there in spring 2006. She is a character in the Matrix, something in between the Oracle and Neo. What she does has been either dubbed as bug, virus, performance or art; what we can say about it is that it subverts the traditional notions of space, time, body, identity and behavior we inherited from our daily experience.
The show borrows its name from the opening performance, in which Gazira and the audience will share the same space and will play through material means, in an unprecedented overlap between digital reality and physical reality. The remains of the performance will be put on show after the event. Read the rest of this entry »