Archive for the ‘turbulence.org’ tag
Let’s get loud ! INTERVIEW WITH HELEN THORINGTON
Let’s get loud ! INTERVIEW WITH HELEN THORINGTON, DIRECTOR OF TURBULENCE.ORG
Domenico Quaranta
Published in “Cluster. On Innovation”, n. 5, 2005, pp. 12 – 17, © Cluster 2005
They began with the radio, producing over 300 projects in 15 years. Then while it was still the dawn of a new genre, they started with net art. Today TURBULENCE.ORG has around eighty net projects running, many of these making history in net art. With an enthusiasm and energy that’s hard to compare, they continually enrich their collection, in which one of the most important and most visited blogs of those dedicated to the relationship between creativity and new technology can be accessed. It doesn’t have a physical space, but it doesn’t need one, considering it can boast to be one of the most interesting places on the web.
We asked the artist and co-director of Turbulence.org, HELEN THORINGTON, the projects backbone right from the start, to tell us the story, enlighten us on the structure and the problems it has had to face and to take a glimpse at what the future has in store.
