The Link Center for the Arts of the Information Age is proud to
announce that Collect the WWWorld. The Artist as Archivist in the
Internet Age, the show we produced and first presented Spazio
Contemporanea, Brescia (Italy) from September 24 to October 15, 2011,
will be presented in an adapted, updated version at the House of
Electronic Arts Basel.
The last decade has witnessed an incredible growth in the production
and distribution of images. The availability of inexpensive production
tools has seen an exponential rise in amateur creativity, while the
Internet provides a new distribution platform for this kind of
production, which previously remained private. Collect the WWWorld.
The Artist as Archivist in the Internet Age investigates the impact of
this process on art practices and the artist.
The exhibition sets out to demonstrate how the Internet generation is
implementing and developing a practice started in the Sixties by
Conceptual Art, and further developed in subsequent decades in the
forms of Appropriation Art and postproduction: the practice of
exploring, collecting, archiving, manipulating and reusing huge
amounts of visual material produced by popular culture and
advertising. Collect the WWWorld is an attempt to show how art
responds to the information society.
March 9, 2012 - May 20, 2012
Opening: March 8, 2012, 6.30 PM
(A guided tour with the curator is scheduled for 7.30 PM)
Curated by:
Domenico Quaranta
Co-produced by:
the LINK Center for the Arts of the Information Age and the House of
Electronic Arts Basel
Artists:
Alterazioni Video (I), Kari Altmann (USA), Kevin Bewersdorf (USA),
Luca Bolognesi (I), Adam Cruces (CH), Aleksandra Domanovic (D), Harm
van den Dorpel (NL), Constant Dullaart (NL), Hans-Peter Feldmann (D),
Elisa Giardina Papa (I), Travis Hallenbeck (USA), Admir Jahic &
Comenius Röthlisberger (CH), Jodi (NL), Olia Lialina & Dragan
Espenschied (D), Guthrie Lonergan (USA), Eva and Franco Mattes (I),
Alexandra Navratil (CH), Seth Price (USA), Jon Rafman (USA), Claudia
Rossini (I), Evan Roth (USA), Travess Smalley (USA), Ryan Trecartin
(USA)
The research work around the exhibition can be followed on the blog: http://collectheworld.tumblr.com
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Supported by:
LINK Center for the Arts of the Information Age
Innovery
For further informations:
Doris Gassert: +41 61 331 58 40 – doris.gass...@haus-ek.org
House of Electronic Arts Basel
Exhibition space: Oslostrasse 10 – 4023 Basel / Münchenstein
Office: +41 61 331 5840
Exhibition space: +41 61 283 6050
i...@haus-ek.org - www.haus-ek.org PR: pre...@haus-ek.org
Press material available at:
http://www.linkartcenter.eu/press-2?lang=en
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Domenico Quaranta
web. http://domenicoquaranta.com/
email. i...@domenicoquaranta.com
mob. +39 340 2392478
skype. dom_40
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