In Your Computer

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Domenico Quaranta In Your Computer Domenico Quaranta In Your Computer Publisher: LINK Editions, Brescia 2011 www.linkartcenter.eu This work is licensed under the Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA. Translation and editing: Anna Rosemary Carruthers Printed and distributed by: Lulu.com www.lulu.com ISBN 978-1-4467-6021-5
                       ! "#$%&&' Domenico Quaranta is an art critic and curator. His previous publications include Gamescenes. Art in the Age of Videogames (2006, co-edited with Matteo Bittanti) and Media, New Media, Postmedia (2010). He curated various shows, including Holy Fire. Art of the Digital Age (2008, with Yves Bernard) and Playlist. Playing Games, Music, Art (2009 - 2010). He is the founding Director of the MINI Museum of XXI Century Arts and a co-founder of the Link Center for the Arts of the Information Age. http://domenicoquaranta.com Contents Aknowledgments 1 Introduction 3 The Legend of net.art (2005) 9 0100101110101101.ORG (2009) 13 Generative Ars (2006) 17 LeWitt's Ideal Children (2005) 22 F For Fake. Or how I Learned to Manipulate the Media to Tell the Truth (2006) 29 Interview with UBERMORGEN.COM (2008) 34 Remediations. Art in Second Life (2007) 39 Gazira Babeli (2007) 47 Interview with Second Front (2007) 56 Holy Fire, Or My Last New Media Art Exhibition (2008) 63 Lost in Translation, Or Bringing Net Art to Another Place? Pardon, Context (2008) 71 Interview with Jon Ippolito (2005) 80 Don't Say New Media (2008) 85 Interview with Oron Catts (2005) 90 It isn't Immaterial Stupid! The Unbereable Materiality of the Digital (2009) 96 RE:akt! Reconstruction, Re-enactment, Re-reporting (2009) 100 Art and Videogames. Enclosures and border crossings (2009) 117 Cory Arcangel (2006) 124 Eddo Stern (2009) 131 Interview with Tale of Tales (2005) 136 Reality is Overrated. When Media Go Beyond Simulation (2010) 141 Interview with Joan Leandre (2008) 146 Is the Future What it Used to Be? (2010) 152 The Unbereable Aura of a Website (2010) 157 Petra Cortright (2010) 163 Interview with Oliver Laric (2010) 165 The Art of the Netizens (2010) 169 Domenico Quaranta – In Your Computer Acknowledgments
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