Network Cultures

Streamtime / Tigris Project

The Tigris is much more than just a streaming river: it is a cradle of civilisation, a stream of water for fishing, swimming, drinking, irrigation and dumping, hiding and shaving.
And it may be a vehicle for anybody's imagination.

Idiki / a Wiki of Ideas

Everyone can add an idea and the record will be kept, while it will be free to be improved and extended, developing an history and preserving its freedom.
Panta Rei on the fluid flow of information.
Idiki is the union of the word "idea" with "wiki", which is also a Basque word: it means to expose.

FARAH

FARAH is a net-art project employing internet's privileges to unveil a beauty usually hidden by war. All the materials consist in photos audio and texts collected by jaromil during a trip thru war zones in Palestine, alltough they never depict the war itself; everything is distributed freely under the creative commons license.

free downloadable audio and photos

Gallery Exhibitions

I LOVE YOU

In a society of communication and information the dealing with computer viruses belongs to every day digital life. I LOVE YOU explores computer virus history, its technical development, a visualisation of hidden processes and the aesthetic dimension of computer viruses.

Exhibited in the Museum of Applied Arts Frankfurt, Post & Tele Museum Copenhagen, Brown University - Watson Institute Providence (USA), Belef Cultural Center Beograd, Kuda New Media Center Novi Sad.
free downloadable texts from the catalogue inside

Connessioni Leggendarie

The first exhibition devoted to NET.ART history. Referring to a wide audience it reviews the years from 1995 to 2005; during this decade, artists separated by geographical and socio-political barriers shared ideas and artworks, using them as creative weapons over a new and unique continent: the Internet.
(website temporarily down, we are sorry for the inconvenience!)

free downloadable catalogue inside

Installation Art

The Ball In The Hole

"The ball in the hole" is a social installation/performance where the user becomes the actor of metamorphosis. The discovering of the self and the legendary mirror to other dimensions is experienced through a real-time tactile digital environment.
The Alter is someone else, and the deformation shown is a constant force that the user can apply to his virtual figure.

free downloadable video and images inside

sophisticated soiree

Awarded with the Intermedium prize
ZKM / Karlsruhe (2002)

arranged in:
Linz (A) for the Ars Electronica Festival (2001) at the ok-centrum
Graz (A) for MusikProtokoll - SteirischerHerbst festival (2001)
Berlin (D) for the MaerzMusik in the Berliner Festspiele Haus (2002)
Karlsruhe (D) in ZKM (2002)

Live Performance

the Mitocondri

a programming sourcecode written in C language defines iterations and logics flowing with a certain pattern; musical composition as well.
a different notation means a different execution (multiple, if considered that the code can be executed on a computer ...): thru the algorithms variable names inspire the modality of musicians execution, crossing the borders between codepoetry and musical scores - sourcescore

free downloadable audio and images inside

TUBOCATODICO

Audio and video theatrical performance about mediatic control - interferencing on the mainstream TUBE infofeed - don't let doctor Benaway exploit your mind, who's not yet a thanatoid needs to rebel :: exorcize your evil household appliance

free downloadable video, audio and images

Literature

A constructive look on the boundaries of intellectual property, as well as new and open forms of collaboration, not only situated in an academic and industrial context, but in musical and artistic spheres as well.
Includes the Roots cultures chapter explaining pretty well our approach to technology and our motivations.

Internet, hackers y software libre -

Argentinian collective Editora Fantasma writes about the history of free software and net culture, including interviews to hackers from around the world.

Networking -
The Net as an Artwork

The book represents a first tentative reconstruction of the history of artistic networking in Italy, through an analysis of the realities which during the past twenty years have given way to a creative, shared and aware use of technologies, from video to computers, contributing to the formation of Italian hacker communities.

NET.ART - L'arte della connessione -

An italian book overviewing the panorama of NET.ART worldwide. NET.ART is a form of art born between the inheritance of the avangardes and technological innovation, constituted of highly hibridated practices experimenting with code as well with comunication and diversity.

Craft

Handcraft computers made in wood

Are you tired about plastic shells ? Do you dream about a real wooden laptop, handmade using ancient woods, and all natural materials? What they have in common shamanism and technology?