Your browser does not support the video tag.
Your browser does not support the video tag.
Marco Cadioli - The Whirlpool
  • © ARSHAKE | ISSN 2283-3676
  • CONTACT
  • Login
Arshake
  • ABOUT US
    • ABOUT US
    • PROJECT
    • MEDIA/PARTNERSHIPS
    • CONTACT US
  • FOCUS
    • All
    • focus
    • From the Past
    • Interview
    Call for submissions> MUSAE OPEN CALL FOR ARTISTS S+T+ARTS Residency

    Call for submissions> MUSAE OPEN CALL FOR ARTISTS S+T+ARTS Residency

    Anna Hulačová at Z2o Sara Zanin Gallery

    Anna Hulačová at Z2o Sara Zanin Gallery

    Re:humanism: Sparks and Frictions

    Re:humanism: Sparks and Frictions

    Miguel Chevalier. Fractal Flowers and Digital Beauty

    Miguel Chevalier. Fractal Flowers and Digital Beauty

    Interview | Elham Puriya Mehr

    Interview | Elham Puriya Mehr

    Ars Electronica 2023

    Ars Electronica 2023

  • FRAME
    FRAME > KAGAMI

    FRAME > KAGAMI

    FRAME > Peter Kogler

    FRAME > Peter Kogler

    FRAME  > ALT*MED – TAPE

    FRAME > ALT*MED – TAPE

    FRAME > Destroy Me Once, Destroy Me Twice

    FRAME > Destroy Me Once, Destroy Me Twice

    FRAME > Ai Weiwei: Making Sense

    FRAME > Ai Weiwei: Making Sense

    FRAME > La Pensée Férale

    FRAME > La Pensée Férale

    FRAME > Searching for the Sky (While Maintaining Equilibrium)

    FRAME > Searching for the Sky (While Maintaining Equilibrium)

    FRAME > Nenuphar de Molitor

    FRAME > Nenuphar de Molitor

    FRAME > Mondi sommersi

    FRAME > Mondi sommersi

  • VIDEO POST
    VIDEO POST > tacit.perform

    VIDEO POST > tacit.perform

    VIDEO POST > Modern Guru and the Path to Artificial Happiness

    VIDEO POST > Modern Guru and the Path to Artificial Happiness

    VIDEO POST > Money Is The One True God

    VIDEO POST > Money Is The One True God

    VIDEO POST > APES

    VIDEO POST > APES

    VIDEO POST > the abacus

    VIDEO POST > the abacus

    VIDEO POST > Navigating Noise

    VIDEO POST > Navigating Noise

    VIDEO POST > Fractured

    VIDEO POST > Fractured

    VIDEO POST > Hi! I Got Hacked!

    VIDEO POST > Hi! I Got Hacked!

    VIDEO POST > Spambots

    VIDEO POST > Spambots

  • SPECIAL PROJECT
    • CRITICAL GROUNDS
    • YOUNG ITALIAN ARTISTS
  • RESOURCES
  • ARSHAKE’S BANNER
  • GAME OVER
  • EXTERNAL PROJECTS
  • GAME OVER • LOADING
  • BACKSTAGE | ONSTAGE
  • PERCORSI • 6 years of the Terna Prize
  • TEMPO IMPERFETTO
  • CALLS
  • ARCHIVE
  • ONLINE RESOUCES
  • it IT
  • en English
No Result
View All Result
  • ABOUT US
    • ABOUT US
    • PROJECT
    • MEDIA/PARTNERSHIPS
    • CONTACT US
  • FOCUS
    • All
    • focus
    • From the Past
    • Interview
    Call for submissions> MUSAE OPEN CALL FOR ARTISTS S+T+ARTS Residency

    Call for submissions> MUSAE OPEN CALL FOR ARTISTS S+T+ARTS Residency

    Anna Hulačová at Z2o Sara Zanin Gallery

    Anna Hulačová at Z2o Sara Zanin Gallery

    Re:humanism: Sparks and Frictions

    Re:humanism: Sparks and Frictions

    Miguel Chevalier. Fractal Flowers and Digital Beauty

    Miguel Chevalier. Fractal Flowers and Digital Beauty

    Interview | Elham Puriya Mehr

    Interview | Elham Puriya Mehr

    Ars Electronica 2023

    Ars Electronica 2023

  • FRAME
    FRAME > KAGAMI

    FRAME > KAGAMI

    FRAME > Peter Kogler

    FRAME > Peter Kogler

    FRAME  > ALT*MED – TAPE

    FRAME > ALT*MED – TAPE

    FRAME > Destroy Me Once, Destroy Me Twice

    FRAME > Destroy Me Once, Destroy Me Twice

    FRAME > Ai Weiwei: Making Sense

    FRAME > Ai Weiwei: Making Sense

    FRAME > La Pensée Férale

    FRAME > La Pensée Férale

    FRAME > Searching for the Sky (While Maintaining Equilibrium)

    FRAME > Searching for the Sky (While Maintaining Equilibrium)

    FRAME > Nenuphar de Molitor

    FRAME > Nenuphar de Molitor

    FRAME > Mondi sommersi

    FRAME > Mondi sommersi

  • VIDEO POST
    VIDEO POST > tacit.perform

    VIDEO POST > tacit.perform

    VIDEO POST > Modern Guru and the Path to Artificial Happiness

    VIDEO POST > Modern Guru and the Path to Artificial Happiness

    VIDEO POST > Money Is The One True God

    VIDEO POST > Money Is The One True God

    VIDEO POST > APES

    VIDEO POST > APES

    VIDEO POST > the abacus

    VIDEO POST > the abacus

    VIDEO POST > Navigating Noise

    VIDEO POST > Navigating Noise

    VIDEO POST > Fractured

    VIDEO POST > Fractured

    VIDEO POST > Hi! I Got Hacked!

    VIDEO POST > Hi! I Got Hacked!

    VIDEO POST > Spambots

    VIDEO POST > Spambots

  • SPECIAL PROJECT
    • CRITICAL GROUNDS
    • YOUNG ITALIAN ARTISTS
  • RESOURCES
  • ARSHAKE’S BANNER
  • GAME OVER
  • EXTERNAL PROJECTS
  • GAME OVER • LOADING
  • BACKSTAGE | ONSTAGE
  • PERCORSI • 6 years of the Terna Prize
  • TEMPO IMPERFETTO
  • CALLS
  • ARCHIVE
  • ONLINE RESOUCES
No Result
View All Result
Arshake
No Result
View All Result
Home News focus

Lost in the Net Dream

Elena Giulia Rossi by Elena Giulia Rossi
08/05/2018
in focus
Lost in the Net Dream

There was a time when several artists turned to the Internet to create artworks and interventions that would deconstruct the medium and its power of persuasion. This happened with particular force at the beginning of the 1990s when browsers made accessing the internet easier and technologies started to be more accessible to a wider public. With institutions showing interest towards this kind of art form, the aesthetic dimensions of the work mediated through institutional aura has (inevitably) diluted the subversive power of the Internet, de-energising its subversive charisma.

There is now an urgent call to recover an awareness of the power of the machine over man. The exhibition «Lost in the Net Dream», curated by Yu Chuan Tseng – responds to this urgent call by addressing, through 12 works by 7 artists, questions linked to the expansion of technology and the consequent reordering of our individual and social life. “Accordingly – as the curator explains in the press release – the key question that this exhibition seeks to address is that whether we can keep ourselves sober in the digital environment by comprehending the meanings of media and reflecting on the environment in which messages and their symbolic meanings are broadcasted, instead of being overwhelmed by the surging flood of information and indulging ourselves in the pseudo-contexts woven with delightfully entertaining messages“.

In Email Trek, Aaajiao compares an automated programme to the USS Enterprise from Star Trek, given the task of finding invalid email addresses to prove the existence of past lives. The repetition of movements and habit are at the centre of the work How We Act Together by McDonald and Lauren McCarthy.

When we access the Internet, we are now used to being guided by browsers (and the companies that manage them), directed towards navigating only the surface of the dark web, where information circulates freely (and dangerously) and of which only a tiny fraction is known, and that sometimes only by hearsay.

We are bombarded daily by the contracts sent to us by software companies, which we accept without question in order to carry on navigating. This is the case of YouTube’s Terms of Service that are at the centre of Iterating My Way into Oblivion, a film by Carlo Zanni, who has depicted the Internet landscape in all its aspects and through a variety of media. The voice reading out the contract, from start to finish, pushes the film’s central character to insanity and is also heard by viewers. This captures viewers’ attention for a moment and focuses it on the blind obedience that distinguishes our relationship with the digital world.

In Resist in the Pocket the Chinese artist He-Lin Luo turns his attention to censorship, the need to encrypt and decrypt messages and images together with questions raised by translating from one language to another and between different formats.

Both Runaway News Report, Collaged News Report: Truth of Imagination? and Collective Context by Yi-Ching Huang continue in this direction, returning to where information takes shape, packaged for the public according to specific political messages.

«Lost in the Net Dream» is an exhibition that makes strong political statements, while in the choice of works it is also motivated by a refined aesthetic taste in the way these ideas are expressed.

All the projects are very recent and, in line with the curator’s intention, trace a moment of transition in Internet culture, when the age of text is giving way to narrative, currently identified as the ‘show business’ age, a term coined by Neil Postman and a source of inspiration for this exhibition.


 «Lost in the Net Dream, curated by Yu Chuan Tseng, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan
Artists: aaajiao (China), Gregory CHATONSKY (France), HUANG Yi-Ching (Taiwan), LUO He-Lin (Taiwan), Kyle MCDONALD & Lauren MCCARTHY (United States), Akihiko TANIGUCHI (Japan), Carlo ZANNI (Italy)

images: (cover 1) «Lost in the Net Dream», Taiwan National Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan, poster of exhibition (2) Akihiko Taniguchi, «The Big Browser 3D», 2016, Internet, interactive installation, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist. (3) Aaajiao, «Email Trek», 2016, video installation, website, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist. (4) Lauren McCarthy & Kyle McDonald, «How We Act Together», 2016, Internet, interactive installation, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist. (5) Carlo Zanni, «Iterating My Way into Oblivion», 2016, video, 9’25”. Courtesy of the artist. (6) Luo He-Lin, «Resist in the Pocket», 2016, document, video installation, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist. (7) Huang Yi-Ching, «Collaged News Report: Truth or Imagination?» , 2017, Internet, interactive installation, document, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist. (8) «Lost in the Net Dream», Taiwan National Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan, exhibition view

Share5TweetShareSend
Previous Post

Guido Laudani. La città andando

Next Post

Call for submissions > LIVE PERFORMERS MEETING

Next Post
Call for submissions > LIVE PERFORMERS MEETING

Call for submissions > LIVE PERFORMERS MEETING

CALLS

Call for submissions> MUSAE OPEN CALL FOR ARTISTS S+T+ARTS Residency
Calls

Call for submissions> MUSAE OPEN CALL FOR ARTISTS S+T+ARTS Residency

29/05/2023
Driving Energy Terna Award 2023
Calls

Driving Energy Terna Award 2023

22/02/2023
S+T+ARTS Prize 2023
Calls

S+T+ARTS Prize 2023

04/02/2023
RE:HUMANISM Art Prize: SPARKS AND FRICTIONS
Calls

RE:HUMANISM Art Prize: SPARKS AND FRICTIONS

01/02/2023

CRITICAL GROUNDS

Critical Gounds #13 – Massimo Maiorino, The Artist as Archaeologist.
Critical Grounds

Critical Gounds #13 – Massimo Maiorino, The Artist as Archaeologist.

08/07/2020
Critical Gounds #12 – Filiberto Menna «PROGETTARE» IL FUTURO
Critical Grounds

Critical Gounds #12 – Filiberto Menna «PROGETTARE» IL FUTURO

26/11/2019
Facebook Twitter Instagram

Arshake is a collaborative artistic project, blurring the borders between art, science and technology, information and production.

  • Focus
  • Video post
  • Frame
  • Special Project
  • Interview
  • Calls
  • Exhibitions

One more step - Check your email and click the confirmation link

© 2012-2022 – ARSHAKE

No Result
View All Result
  • ABOUT US
    • ABOUT US
    • PROJECT
    • MEDIA/PARTNERSHIPS
    • CONTACT US
  • FOCUS
  • FRAME
  • VIDEO POST
  • SPECIAL PROJECT
    • CRITICAL GROUNDS
    • YOUNG ITALIAN ARTISTS
  • RESOURCES

© 2012-2022 – ARSHAKE

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In
This website uses cookies. By continuing to use this website you are giving consent to cookies being used. Visit our Privacy and Cookie Policy.