DOMENICO QUARANTA

The whole album here.

Jodi, Thumbing Youtube, 2009 – ongoing.

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 »

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

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).