Archive for the ‘TEXTS’ Category
ARCO Madrid 2010 – Expanded Box (catalogue text)
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”.
Will Gompertz and Net Art
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…
Playlist. A Reader
“Playlist. A Reader”, my catalogue text for the exhibition Playlist. Playing Games, Music, Art has been featured in Vagueterrain.
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.
A Vision of the World – Interview with Nicola Verlato
On the last issue of Artpulse, a brand new art US-based contemporary art magazine, you can read an interview I had with Nicola Verlato about his interest in videogames and the way they are, or aren’t, influencing his work as a painter. You can read it online here.
