Archive for the ‘TEXTS’ Category
Vernacular Video

The July issue of Flash Art (Italian Edition) features a short essay I wrote on how art is reacting to Youtube and other social platforms. Pdf scan here.
Below you can find some of the links that inspired the text.
Petra Cortright, Das Hell(e) Modell, 2009
Cory Arcangel, Drei Klavierstucke, Op. 11, 2009
Oliver Laric, 50 50, 2007
Oliver Laric, Touch My Body (Green Screen Version), 2008
Brody Condon, Without Sun, 2008
Alterazioni Video, I would prefer not to, 2009
Constant Dullaart, Youtube as a Sculpture, 2009
Jodi, Thumbing Youtube, 2009
Martin Kohout, Moonwalk, 2009
John Michael Boling, Guitar Solo Threeway, 2006
Curatingyoutube.net, 3 Hours in 1 Second, 2010
If you were role-playing Clement Greenberg in Second Life… Jeremy Owen Turner Interviews Domenico Quaranta

Jeremy Owen Turner is new media artist and curator based in Vancouver, Canada. He has been an online performance artist since 1996 and has performed in virtual worlds since 2001. Known as “Wirxli Flimflam” in Second Life, Turner has co-founded the group Second Front (est. 2006). He interviewed me for his MA thesis on avatar design.
The Art of the Netizens

The last issue of the Mexican magazine La Tempestad features a short overview of net art I wrote, titled “El arte de los ciberdanos” (on the cover, Vai Avanti by RafaĆ«l Rozendaal). You can read it online (Spanish, pp. 74 – 77) or buy the magazine.
Below you can find the original English version.
It Takes Strength to Be Gentle and Kind – on Flickr
My set on Flickr.
It Takes Strength to Be Gentle and Kind

On Friday, April 23 the Milan-based GLORIAMARIAgallery will open the first Italian solo show of Petra Cortright. Here is my text for the publication.





