DOMENICO QUARANTA

The (art) world we actually have does not meet my standards

Kutiman mixes Youtube

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The whole album here.

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March 3rd, 2010 at 11:06 am

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Thumbing Youtube

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Jodi, Thumbing Youtube, 2009 – ongoing.

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March 1st, 2010 at 3:11 pm

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Patrick Lichty: The Cartoonist Manifesto

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The Cartoonist Manifesto: Performance Art for the Fin de Millennium.

For the past three or four years, there have been a number of artists, interveners, performers, (or whatever you want to call them), who are performing in virtual worlds. Second Life, World of Warcraft, Active Worlds, OpenSim – all these places are merely meaningless names that stand for the fact that there is a portion of the world that is embracing a “New Flesh” of pixels and nothingness. There are communities of “bodies without organs” writhing in a Tron-like fog of shapes and colors in imaginary spaces. But still, here we are – revisiting performance art, Happenings, interventions and the like, dragging the shadows of Dada, the Surrealists, Fluxus, the Situationists, Abramovic, Anderson, Barney, Burden, Export, Gilbert and George, Wiebel, and all the rest into the Virtual on our backs. It is again, like the seminal scene of Tron, where the hacker Flynn’s flesh is ripped apart by the laser of virtualization and pulled into the computer world, upgraded with new, luminous bodies. Read the rest of this entry »

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March 1st, 2010 at 9:05 am

Domenico Quaranta sobre Playlist

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

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February 27th, 2010 at 5:36 pm

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Daniel Zeller

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I discovered Daniel Zeller’s amazing drawings in Arco, in the booth of the Michel Soskine Gallery. As it often happens, looking for him on the web brought me to a couple of other interesting discoveries, the magazine Beautiful Decay (which I subscribed immediately) and the Pierogi Gallery, New York (also representing Mark Lombardi).

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February 27th, 2010 at 3:47 pm

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