“With more and more media readily available through this unruly archive, the task becomes one of packaging, producing, reframing, and distributing; a mode of production analogous not to the creation of material goods, but to the production of social contexts, using existing material. What a time you chose to be born!”—Seth Price wrote [...]
Domenico Quaranta is an art critic and independent curator based in Brescia, Italy, who has focused his research on the impact of the current techno-social developments on the arts. Along with Matteo Bittanti he is co-editor of GameScenes. Art in the Age of Videogames (Johan & Levi 2006) as well as the author [...]
Last September, an artwork was sent into eternity. The artwork is an ultra-archival disc, micro-etched with 100 photographs and encased in a gold-plated shell; eternity was reached thanks to the communications satellite EchoStar XVI, launched from Kazakhstan into geostationary orbit with the disc mounted to its anti-earth deck. EchoStar XVI will broadcast more [...]
Domenico Quaranta, In Your Computer, LINK Editions, Brescia 2011.
Soft cover, 180 pp, English, € 12.00, ISBN: 978-1-4467-6021-5
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The LINK Center for the Arts of the Information Age is proud to announce the publication of the book In Your Computer, by Domenico Quaranta.
The book is a collection of texts written [...]
In the past few months, when people have asked me to suggest something inspiring to read, I’ve always replied: “Go to oliverlaric.com and select Versions.” True, Oliver Laric is not a writer but an artist, and Versions is not an essay but a video-or, better, an ongoing art project involving two videos, “a series of [...]
