From: "ART ELECTRONICS" <clprezi-AT-tin.it> Subject: "Paint From Nature" dedicated to the twin towers disaster Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 20:31:42 -0000 Dedicated to the Twin Towers disaster "Paint From Nature" a net-art performance by CATERINA DAVINIO Giubbe Rosse - Florence - Italy February 4th 2001 6:00 PM The net-performance "Paint From Nature", by Caterina Davinio, will take place February 4th 2001 at the Giubbe Rosse, historical literary café of the avant-garde, in Florence, Italy, in co-operation with Massimo Mori, Elisabeth H. Todal, Tiziano Pecchioli, Fiorenzo Smalzi, during the opening of the visual poetry exhibition "Tribute to Marinetti". "Paint From Nature" - the nature as media landscape and telematic passage, communication movement - is inspired to the disaster of the New York towers, event which has had a great impact on the collective imaginary in the planet also for the mass-media dimension which accompanied it. >From September 11 until 14 arrived at Karenina.it e-mail address threehundred messages, from all over the world, from mailing lists (mainly from Rhizome, but also from others), from artists, cultural associations, citizens, navigators, speaking about what happened; from the e-mails arrived at first, fill of dismay for the sudden interruption of communication with artistic situations and persons who were in New York in those hours, to the messages which tried to find information, to bring help, to intervention which tried a political interpretation of what was happening. In the copy "from nature" the text of 70 e-mails arrived in Karenina.it e-mail box September 11 and 12 will be mailed to the Giubbe Rosse and collocated in an installation during the performance. A wider selection of the 300 arrived e-mails will be in a web page on the site karenina.it (poetry in fatica function), after the performance, a web page which is a continuation of the same performance, with photos of the action. The action is going to be documented in a book. The choral sound of the rhizomers voices in the "copy from nature", from the telematic "truth" - which actuates its existence in the continuous passage from the real to the virtual and back - comes from an every-place, or from a no-place, from a texture of contacts, which is also a "thing", space where enter, wander, look for, reality. This space, in the performance "Paint from nature", is going to be copied down, or, with a metaphor, photographed, after it was framed in the monitor, together with some questions about what a net-performance "really" is, what a "copy from nature" and the "nature" self, for an artist, in the net, in the media universe, is, how Internet brings in discussion the role of the artist, his identity, and these concepts (identity, reality, copy, nature, original, presence, performance, role, space-time) result disintegrated but also reconstructed. Caterina Davinio's work "Paint From Nature", made of interaction, action, e-mail art, creation of an object, copy realized with technologic instruments which are in hands of an artist today (digital, identical with the represented original, but that finally concretises itself in an unique not-reproducible experience at the Giubbe Rosse space, this work, made of communic/action, and generating itself while the communication runs, do not falls under the categories that the art and the critic put at disposal. To be continued very soon in Karenina.it web site KARENINA.IT (poetry in "fątica" function) A web project by Caterina Davinio davinio-AT-tin.it on line since 1998 - By Jakobson, 'fątico' is the use of the language which has the finality to maintain open and operative the communication channel among the interlocutors. On the confine between art and critic, happening and net performance, Karenina.it is a virtual meeting place around the theme of the writing and the new technologies, in which experiences of international artists, curators, theoreticians converge, in a net that counts thousands of contacts in the world. --- from list avant-garde-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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