DOMENICO QUARANTA

LABoral just uploaded on Youtube a short video interview with me about Playlist. Playing Games, Music, Art.

This is my Flickr set for the Expanded Box selection at ARCO Madrid 2010. As a photographer, I was lamer than usual, but I hope you’ll enjoy it as well.

This is Marius Watz’s Flickr set.

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The Perpetual Storytelling Apparatus, by the German artists Julius von Bismarck & Benjamin Maus, is the winning entry for the Arco BEEP Award 2010. The work has been presented in the Expanded Box by the Berlin based gallery Art Claims Impulse. The artwork will become part of the BEEP – Datalogic corporate collection.

«The Perpetual Storytelling Apparatus is a drawing machine illustrating a never-ending story by the use of patent drawings. The machine translates words of a text into patent drawings. Seven million patents — linked by over 22 million references — form the vocabulary. By using references to earlier patents, it is possible to find paths between arbitrary patents. They form a kind of subtext. New visual connections and narrative layers emerge through the interweaving of the story with the depiction of technical developments.»

A video demonstration of the work is available on Youtube.

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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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 (fr).

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