DOMENICO QUARANTA

Arduino: The Documentary, upcoming 2010. Commissioned by LABoral Centro de Arte, Gijon, Spain. Trailer on Vimeo.

The Creators Project is an amazing series of video interviews done with visionaries and researchers from all the world, and committed to “identify and celebrate the work of visionary artists wherever they are”. My personal playlist includes, by now, Mark Essen, Spike Jonze, Takeshi Murata, and Paul B. Davis, but I’m looking forward to see the interviews with Julius Von Bismarck and MOS Architects as well. A personal note: Paul B. Davis’ interview was partially shot during the set-up of the exhibition Playlist that i curated at LABoral in December.

Yesterday Rhizome.org started publishing a series of beautiful posts on the demoscene, a widespread and long-time phenomenon still little known out of the underground niche that contributed to it. I wrote shortly about it in my text for the catalogue of Playlist. Playing Games, Music, Art, the show I curated for LABoral (Gijon) some months ago and that closed on May 15. Now I’m happy to announce that the show will travel  to the iMAL Center for digital cultures and technology in Bruxelles, where it will open on June 3 with some fresh new works. More will come soon. By now, here you can find the website iMAL designed for Playlist, featuring texts, short explanations of the works and links to most of them.

Above you can see one of the new works on show: the video Come Together, coded by Erik Nilsson on a C64 BBS, with music by Goto80. Enjoy!

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

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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