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Daphne Dragona, Domenico Quaranta (Eds), The PostScriptUM Anthology (2010–2023). Essays on Art, Technology, Society and the Environment, Aksioma Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana 2024. 418 pp., ISBN 9789617173512, English. Buy / Download preview
What can an anthology on art, technology, society and the environment tell us about the future? In a period of a prolonged generalised crisis, to what extent can critical texts and culture at large offer tools for thinking and acting? Overwhelmed with the feeling that we have no agency to affect what happens in the world nowadays, the only way to step forward might be to look back without losing our desire and urge to affect the present and shape the future.
Domenico Quaranta, Net Art. Scritti sull’arte nell’era dell’informazione, Postmedia Books, Milano 2023. ISBN 978-8874903603
Questo libro è un’antologia di testi scritti nell’arco di più di vent’anni (2002-2023), e propone una cronaca in progress di una materia fluida e mutevole, soggetta a cicli continui di morte, obsolescenza e rinascita, seguendone gli sviluppi con l’onestà del tempo presente e le inevitabili distorsioni ottiche familiari a chi si occupa di argomenti troppo vicini – tanto più se condizionati da una narrazione ingombrante come quella che caratterizza le “nuove tecnologie”. I saggi qui raccolti parlano di net art e hacktivism, videogame e media hacking, metaversi e archeologia dei media, lavoro digitale e collezionismo, NFT e memi di internet, blockchain e post internet, strategie espositive e realtà virtuali, arte generativa e intelligenza artificiale, software culturale e altro ancora: una complessità che l’espressione “net art” riassume sia riconoscendo al movimento omonimo un ruolo di svolta nell’uso artistico delle tecnologie digitali, sia consentendo di allargare lo sguardo ai modi in cui internet ha plasmato e continua a plasmare la condizione di esistenza dell’arte – di tutta l’arte – nell’era dell’informazione.
Domenico Quaranta, Surfing with Satoshi. Art, Blockchain & NFTs, Postmedia Books, Milan 2022. Buy it on AMAZON.COM
Domenico Quaranta, Surfing with Satoshi. Art, Blockchain & NFTs, Aksioma Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubliana 2022. 1st English edition, SOLD OUT!
Domenico Quaranta, Surfing con Satoshi. Arte, blockchain e NFT, Postmedia Books, Milan 2021. Compra su AMAZON.IT
“Quaranta’s account... sets a high bar for others that will follow. Surfing with Satoshi is the only book of its kind: an attempt by a single author to weave a motley array of histories - of art movements, markets, technologies, and critiques - into a coherent narrative.” Brian Droitcour in “History in the Present Progressive”, Outland, July 19, 2022
“Surfing with Satoshi offers a detailed, insightful, and extremely well-researched primer on NFT art. Quaranta demystifies the hype and paranoia around NFTs by outlining how they relate to the underlying blockchain technology, how they compare to precedents for generating value in the art market, and how they emerge from the lineage of conceptual and digital art.” Kaitlin Forcier in “Can Art Save Crypto? Domenico Quaranta’s Surfing with Satoshi: Art, Blockchain and NFTs”, Media-N Journal of the New Media Caucus, Vol. 19 No. 1 (2023), pp. 139-145
Domenico Quaranta, Janez Janša (Eds), Hyperemployment – Post-work, Online Labour and Automation, NERO - Aksioma Institute for Contemporary Art, Rome 2021. OUT OF STOCK - a few copies still available here
Valentino Catricalà e Domenico Quaranta (a cura di), SOPRAVVIVENZA PROGRAMMATA. Etiche e pratiche di conservazione, dall’arte cinetica alla Net Art, Edizioni Kappabit, Roma 2020
Domenico Quaranta, Media, new media, postmedia, Postmedia Books, Milano 2010 (2018). Paperback - e-book (Italian)
Domenico Quaranta, Beyond New Media Art, Link Editions, Brescia 2013 (English)
Domenico Quaranta, Onkraj novomedijske umetnosti, Aksioma Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana 2014 (Slovenian)
Domenico Quaranta, 뉴미디어 아트, 매체를 넘어서, Hwangkumal: Seoul, 2018 (Korean)
Domenico Quaranta, AFK. Texts on Artists 2011 - 2016. Link Editions, Brescia 2016. BUY / DOWNLOAD
Domenico Quaranta, In Your Computer. Link Editions, Brescia 2011. BUY / DOWNLOAD
Domenico Quaranta, Net Art 1995 – 2005. La vicenda di äda’web, Vita e Pensiero, Milan 2004
Copyshamelessly, Domenico Quaranta 2020 to ∞
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