Legendary Connections, net art historical exhibition in Milan.

Legendary Connections

Inaugurated on October 20 at the Mediatheque Santa Teresa di Milano, Connections Legendary , net.art exhibition that the intention of the curator Luca Lampo tries to retrace the effervescent past ten years the phenomenon through a little more than twenty artists who now could define for most 'classical' part. The degree of cultural and aesthetic innovation that represented (in list [epidemiC], 0100101110101101.ORG, Adrian Ward, Alexander R. Galloway, Alexei Shulgin, Amy Alexander, Cornelia Sollfrank, Eldar Karhalev & Ivan Khimin, Electronic Disturbance Theater, etoy , Florian Cramer, Heath Bunting, I / O / D, Jaromil, Joan Leandre \ Retroyou, Jodi, Mark Napier, Mongrel Project, Natalie Bookchin, RTMark, JF Sebastian, Surveillance Camera Players, The Yes Men, Ubermorgen and Vuk Cosic) is remarkable and undoubtedly marked the passage from innocence to the collective consciousness of the network, ie its transition from social phenomenon in cultural instrument of action. Incastrandosi the current tendency to historicize the phenomena of digital culture, and in fact most of the selected works belong to the long history of this movement, Connections, Legendary is the last stage of a complex path of net art exhibitions, from controversial 'net_condition' of 1999 at the ZKM in Karlsruhe, have attempted to explain and contextualize public art that is also fully accessible from your computer.