Hi christchurch ADA-ers, this is a great opportunity to meet + hear
from a significant figure in the interface between print and online
media, as an artist, writer and publisher. He became a friend of ADA
at ISEA this year, and will also be speaking in Wellington and
Auckland - more detail on those dates will follow.
hope to see some of you there.
Zita
THE (ONLINE) ECONOMY OF DESIRE
ALESSANDRO LUDOVICO ARTIST TALK: ON DIGITAL ART AND THE UNMASKING OF
SPAM, GOOGLE, AND AMAZON
SUNDAY 12 OCTOBER 2008, 3PM
THE PHYSICS ROOM
FREE
Internet users' retinae are endlessly tangled up by online marketing
visual and cultural agents. Abusing these instincts for selling goods
is essential in the high-speed online economy, and embodies the
economic 'raison d’être' of internet corporations. Analyzing Spam as a
communication phenomenon, examining Google’s funny dictatorship
(unveiled in Google Will Eat Itself), and the peep-show book selling
of Amazon (reverse engineered in Amazon Noir), Alessandro Ludovico
shows that digital art can be used to simultaneously unmask, and be
visionary about, mesmerizing and pervasive online marketing strategies.
Alessandro Ludovico is a media critic, editor in chief of Neural
magazine, and co-editor of the Mag.Net Reader series (2006–). He is
the author of: Virtual Reality Handbook (1992), Internet.Underground
Guide (1995), and Suoni Futuri Digitali (Future Digital Sounds, 2000).
Ludovico is one of the founding contributors of the Nettime community
and one of the founders of the Mag.Net Electronic Cultural Publishers
organization.
He recently served as an advisor for Documenta 12's Magazine Project
and teaches at the Academy of Art in Carrara.
For more information see: http://www.physicsroom.org.nz, http://neural.it
and http://magnet-ecp.org
THE PHYSICS ROOM contemporary art project space
2nd Floor 209 Tuam Street
PO Box 22 351, Christchurch, New Zealand
Tel +64 3 379 5583 Fax +64 3 379 6063
http://www.physicsroom.org.nz
The Physics Room receives annual funding from Creative New Zealand /
Toi Aotearoa
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Zita Joyce
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