<nettime-ann> NET ART & NEW MEDIA @ MINIARTEXTIL 2006

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International Exhibition of Contemporary Textile Art

"IN_RETE" Miniartextil 2006

Chief Curator
Luciano Caramel

New Media Art Curator
Domenico Quaranta

Como, October 7th - November 12th, 2006
Chiesa di San Francesco & other venues


*Press Release*

*NET ART & NEW MEDIA @ MINIARTEXTIL 2006*
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Arte&Arte is pleased to announce in_rete (in_the_net), the XVI edition 
of the International Exhibition of Contemporary Textile Art 
Miniartextil. The exhibition will take place in various public and 
private venues in Como (Italy), and will run from the 7th of September 
through the 12th of November 2006.

This year, the exhibition will focus on the connections â both 
metaphorical and literal â between two worlds and two media: the fabric 
and the Net. In order to suggest these connections, the main venue of 
the exhibition â the fascinating church of San Francesco in Como â will 
host five new media installations, from both Italian and American 
artists: Relations (2004), a generative software by Italian Alessandro 
Capozzo; Exuvia (2006), mixed media innstallation by Alessandro Capozzo 
and Katia Noppes; Quixote (2004 â 2006), a moblog living performance by 
Italian artists Gianni Corino and Lorenzo Verna; Screening Circle 
(2006), the interactive installation of an online work by the American 
artist Andy Deck, a 2006 commission of the Whitney Artport and the Tate 
Online; Knitoscope Testimonies (2006) by Cat Mazza, a series of videos 
produced with a software that translates digital video into a knitted 
animation; and the Infome Imager Lite Workshop (2005), an installation 
featuring a Web Visualization Software by the American artist Lisa 
Jevbratt.

As the New Media Art section curator Domenico Quaranta wrote: âThere are 
many associations between digital media and the world of textiles, 
dating right back to the advent of the computer and gradually firming up 
over time. Such links can be observed not only in terms of how computers 
work and the structure of binary code, but also in a series of 
metaphors, concepts and forms: the net, the web, weaving pixels, 
pattern, texture, etc.
New Media Art, which works with the social, political and cultural 
consequences of the media it utilises, is well aware of these links, and 
this awareness emerges both in its aesthetics, and in the operative 
techniques implemented. In particular, all Net Art (namely art which 
comes into being on the web and for the web, and uses the web as its 
tool of choice, and also its main theme) is by definition a textile art, 
as it plays a part in enriching the fabric of cyberspace and creating 
networks, building and activating communities. In other words, net art 
is the art of weaving the web, which grants it an enormous potential, 
enabling it not only to comment on the media it utilises but also to 
contribute to its life, its creation and its history.â


WORKS:

Alessandro Capozzo (IT), Relations, 2004, 
http://www.abstract-codex.net/relations/index.html
Alessandro Capozzo & Katia Noppes (IT), Exuvia, 2006, 
http://www.abstract-codex.net/exuvia/index.html
Gianni Corino & Lorenzo Verna (IT), Quixote, 2004 â 2006, 
http://www.quixote.it/
Andy Deck (USA), Screening Circle, 2006, 
http://artcontext.net/act/05/screeningCircle/
Cat Mazza (USA), Knitoscope Testimonies, 2006, 
http://www.turbulence.org/Works/microRevolt/
Lisa Jevbratt (USA), Infome Imager, 2002 â 2005, 
http://jevbratt.com/infome_imager/lite


HI-RES IMAGES & CATALOGUE TEXT:

http://www.domenicoquaranta.net/miniartextil.html


LINKS:

Miniartextil - http://www.miniartextil.it/
Domenico Quaranta - http://www.domenicoquaranta.net/


ORGANIZATION:

ARTE&ARTE Associazione Culturale
Via Pannilani 23 - 22100 Como
Tel & Fax 031.305621
Email artearte@miniartextil.it

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Domenico Quaranta

mob. +39 340 2392478
email. qrndnc@yahoo.it
home. vicolo San Giorgio 18 - 25122 brescia (BS)
web. http://www.domenicoquaranta.net/

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