Domenico Quaranta (http://domenicoquaranta.com) is an art critic, curator and teacher interested in the ways in which the ongoing technological changes affect contemporary artistic practices. His texts have appeared in numerous magazines, newspapers, books and catalogs. He is the author, among other things, of Beyond New Media Art (2013) and Surfing con Satoshi. Arte, blockchain e NFT (Postmedia Books, Milan 2021); and editor of several volumes, including GameScenes. Art in the Age of Videogames (2006, with M. Bittanti). Since 2005 he has curated several exhibitions, including Collect the WWWorld. The Artist as Archivist in the Internet Age (Brescia 2011; Basel and New York 2012); Cyphoria (Quadriennale 2016, Rome); Hyperemployment (MGLC, Ljubljana 2019 – 2020) and A Leap into the Void. Art Beyond Matter (GAMeC, Bergamo 2023, with L. Giusti). He is a Professor of Net Art at Accademia di Brera, Milan, and a co-founder of the Link Art Center (2011 – 2019).
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Selected exhibitions portfolio
Elsewhere on the web: Beyond New Media Art - Surfing with Satoshi - Hyperemployment - Link Art Center - Collect the WWWorld - Share Your Sorrow - The MINI Museum - Spawn of the Surreal - Re:Akt: Re-construction, Re-enactment, Re-reporting - Playlist. Playing Games, Music, Art - Holy Fire. Art of the Digital Age - Flash Art
2006 – 2009: PhD in “Art, Theatre and Multimedia Technologies”, Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy.
2003 – 2004: Master of Curatorial Studies in Fine Arts, Università degli Studi di Torino – Museo Castello di Rivoli, Italy.
1997 – 2002: MA (2nd Laurea Degree Course in Humanities), Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Brescia, Italy.
2022 - ongoing: Professor, “Net Art”, Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan (I)
2015 - ongoing: Lecturer, “Storia e forme della comunicazione visuale”, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Brescia (I)
2014 - 2022: Professor, “Interactive Systems”, Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara (I)
2014 - 2018: Lecturer, “Lineamenti di storia dell'arte contemporanea”, Università Carlo Bo, Urbino
2005 - 2015: Lecturer, “Net Art”, Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera
2006 - 2014: Lecturer, “Culture digitali”, “Net Art”, “Organizzazione e produzione dell'arte mediale”, Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara
2006 - 2015: Lecturer, “Culture digitali”, Accademia di Belle Arti Santa Giulia, Brescia
2011 – 2013: Lecturer, “Produzione delle attività culturali”, IULM – Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione di Milano
Selected list of lectures, conferences and round tables (links to presentations or video documentation)
[2024] “Informational Ghosts. Arte e (im)materialità dell’informazione”, February 27, mudaC, Carrara (I); “Laudatory Speech for Rebecca Allen, winner of the DAM Digital Art Award 2023/2024”, September 14, DAM, Berlin (DE);
[2023] “Vecchie nuove forme di autorialità”, March 6, MEET, Milano (I); “Sublimazioni alchemiche. Dalla Merda d’artista agli NFT”, March 10-11, Università degli Studi di Verona (I);
[2022] “Code is Law? (Video) Arte, Blockchain e NFT”, April 29, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Roma (I); “Arte, Blockchain e NFT”, Treccani Futura (webinar); “New Digital Economies? Blockchains and their (uncertain) futures”, September 6, Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma (I); “If you don’t want something stolen, don’t put it on the Net”. Appropriation Art from early net art to NFTs, September 13, The City Law School, London (UK); “Surfing with Satoshi. Art, Blockchain and NFTs”, September 17, Ibrida Festival, Forlì (I); “Browsing Bottom-Up Alternatives for art on Web3”, October 22, round table, Venice Biennale (Uzbekistan Pavilion); “After the Bubble: NFTs as a long-term artistic medium?”, November 12, panel, part of the symposium “From Commons to NFTs”, Kino Šiška, Ljubljana (SI) “Scarsità digitale verificabile: Blockchain e archivi di immagini”, November 18, AitArt, Milano (I); “Reality vs Imagination”, panel discussion, TFOL 2022, 2–3 December, Bozar Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels (BE).
[2021] “Arte e nuove tecnologie. Un’introduzione”, May 10-11, Università degli studi di Verona (I); “Il futuro (dell'arte) sarà criptato?”, October 30, MAXXI, Roma (I); “Diritto d'autore e Blockchain: presente e futuro degli NFT nell'arte contemporanea”, October 22, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venezia (I); “Surfing con Satoshi. Arte, blockchain e NFT”, December 3, School of Arts SDUFE, Roma (I).
[2020] “Automate all the Things” Symposium, 14-15 January 2020, The Academy of Fine Arts and Design of the University of Ljubljana & Moderna galerija, Ljubljana (SI); “L’arte nell’era post digitale”, May 20, 2020, GAMeC, Bergamo (I); “From Context to Content: On the Preservation of Net-based Art”, Royal Society of Chemistry, London (UK).
[2019] Round Table, “Data Art”, Università Roma Tre; Lectio Magistralis, “L’arte contemporanea tra cicli dell’hype e shock del presente”, Macro, Roma; “Arte e social network”, Università Cà Foscari, Venezia; Keynote speech, “Between hype cycles and the present shock”, xCoAx 2019, Viafarini, Milano.
[2018] Symposium “What’s in a Name”, MSUM – Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana; “Ways Beyond the Post-internet”, round table, Art Brussels, Bruxelles; panel discussion "20 Years of Game Art: Reflections, Transformations, and New Directions", Digra 2018, University of Turin, Turin; lecture “Deep Dreams. Navigating the Digital Unconscious” at PAF, Olomouc (CZ).
[2017] Fondazione Golinelli, Bologna; Casa Cavazzini, Udine; Interface Cultures, Linz; Università degli Studi, Genova; GEM Summer Institute, Salemi; Museum Twenty-One: Museums at The 'Post-Digital' Turn, OGR, Turin; Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris.
[2016] Fondazione Ragghianti, Lucca; Maxxi Museum, Roma; Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich; Palazzo Pretorio, Cittadella.
[2015] Renewable Futures Conference, Riga; Forum dell’arte contemporanea italiana, Prato; Showroom MAMA, Rotterdam; Art For Tomorrow Conference, International New York Times, Doha, Qatar; Filodrammatica, Rijeka.
[2014] Generazione critica, Metronom, Modena; Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Roma; Kennedy Center, Firenze; MIA Art Fair, Milano; Kino Siska, Ljubljana; MSUM / Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana.
[2013] IUAV University, Venice; Università degli Studi, Udine; Art Basel Salon, Basel; Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia; Italian Cultural Institute, Ljubljana.
[2012] RISD Digital + Media Department, Providence; Possible Futures Symposium, FAU – USP, Sao Paolo; Fondazione Ratti, Como; Triennale, Milano; University of Basel, Basel; Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano.
[2011] iMAL, Brussels; New York University, New York; Brown University, Providence; Ca’ Foscari - IUAV, Venezia; GOGBOT, Enschede; CCCS La Strozzina, Firenze; ENSAD, Ecole Nationale Superieure Des Arts Decoratifs, Paris; Palazzo Ducale, Genova.
[2010] Mediateca Santa Teresa, Milano; Ca’ Foscari, Venezia; Università degli Studi, Torino; Domus Academy, Milano; Kino Šiška, Ljubljana; Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Brescia.
[2009] ISEA 2009, Belfast; Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere e Arti, Venezia; Museo d’arte contemporanea di Villa Croce, Genova; Loop Art Fair, Barcelona; NABA, Milano; Università degli Studi, Genova; Musei di Santa Giulia, Brescia; Centro per la Cultura, Merano; Accademia di Belle Arti, Carrara.
[2008] Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venezia; Università degli studi, Genova; Fundacion Mirò, Mallorca; Università degli Studi, Genova; Festival della Creatività, Firenze; MART, Rovereto
[2007] Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato; ARTISSIMA 14, Torino; Venice Biennale, Venezia; Mediateca Santa Teresa, Milano.
[2006] Università degli Studi di Udine, Gorizia; Università degli Studi, Torino; Milano, NABA.
[2005] Mediateca Santa Teresa, Milano.
[2004] Università degli Studi, Torino.
Curated by: Domenico Quaranta
For: Fondazione Spazio Vitale
Location: Via San Vitale 5 – Verona
From October 7 to November 16, 2024
Artists: Ivana Bašić, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Oliver Laric, Sahei Rahal
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PER SPECULUM. INTELLIGENCE AND ITS DOUBLE
Curated by: Domenico Quaranta
For: Fondazione Spazio Vitale
Location: Via San Vitale 5 – Verona
From May 26 to June 29, 2024
Artists: Émilie Brout & Maxime Marion; Silvia Dal Dosso; Caroline Delieutraz; Daniel Felstead & Jenn Leung; Sanela Jahić; Kamilia Kard; Lorem; Jonas Lund; Jon Rafman; Anna Ridler
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Curated by: Domenico Quaranta, Salvatore Vitale with Samuele Piazza
In collaboration with: OGR Torino
For: EXPOSED Torino Foto Festival
Location: OGR Torino, Binario 2
From May 2 to June 2, 2024
Artists: James Bridle (UK); Laura Cinti (UK); Mario Giacomelli (IT); Mishka Henner (BE / UK); Hiwa K (IRAQ / DE); Tabita Rezaire (FR / GUYANA); Evan Roth (US / DE); Susan Schuppli (UK); Tomas Van Houtryve (FR).
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Curated by: Domenico Quaranta
For: EXPOSED Torino Foto Festival
In collaboration with: Artissima
Location: Biblioteca Civica Alberto Geisser, Torino (I)
From October 27 to November 5, 2023
Artists and galleries: Matthew Attard (Michela Rizzo, Venezia); Bernadette Corporation (Meyer*Kainer, Vienna); Mariella Bettineschi (z2o Sara Zanin gallery, Roma); James Bridle (NOME, Berlino); Claude Cahun (Galleria Alberta Pane, Parigi / Venezia); Federica di Pietrantonio (The Gallery Apart, Roma); Linda Fregni Nagler (Monica De Cardenas, Milano); Francesco Gennari (ZERO..., Milano); Oscar Giaconia (Monitor, Roma / Pereto); Teresa Giannico (Viasaterna, Milano); Matthias Herrmann (silvia steinek galerie, Vienna); Thomas Hirschhorn (Galleria Alfonso Artiaco, Napoli); David Horvitz (ChertLüdde, Berlino); Voluspa Jarpa (NOME, Berlino); Simon Lehner (KOW, Berlino); Eva & Franco Mattes (APALAZZOGALLERY, Brescia); Boris Mikhailov (Guido Costa Projects, Torino; Sprovieri, Londra); Rebecca Moccia (Mazzoleni, Torino); Anna Ridler (Nagel Draxler, Berlino); Thomas Ruff (Galleria Lia Rumma, Milano / Napoli); Joachim Schmid (P420, Bologna); Lucie Stahl (Meyer*Kainer, Vienna); Marco Strappato (The Gallery Apart, Roma); Leslie Thornton (Rodeo, Londra / Piraeus); Franco Vaccari (P420, Bologna); Sharon Ya’ari (Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv / Zurigo)
Exhibition brochure, PDF, Italian / English
Curated by: Domenico Quaranta
For: Fondazione Spazio Vitale, Verona
From October 13 to November 11, 2023
Featured Artists: Theo Triantafyllidis
Curated by: Lorenzo Giusti, Domenico Quaranta
For: GAMeC, Bergamo
From February 3 to May 28, 2023
Featured Artists: Josef Albers, Agostino Bonalumi, Regina Cassolo Bracchi, Enrico Castellani, Dadamaino, Jean Degottex, Aleksandra Domanović, Ann Veronica Janssens, Yayoi Kusama, Francesco Lo Savio, Scott Lyall, Fabio Mauri, Aiko Miyawaki, Andrés Ramírez Gaviria, Antoine Schmitt, Gerhard von Graevenitz (VOID); Carla Accardi, Cory Arcangel, Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni, Maurizio Bolognini, Paolo Cirio, John F. Simon Jr., Channa Horwitz, Ryoji Ikeda, Vladan Joler, František Kupka, Sol LeWitt, Mark Lombardi, Agnes Martin, Eva and Franco Mattes, Vera Molnar, Roman Opałka, Trevor Paglen, Pablo Picasso, Casey Reas, Evan Roth, Lillian F. Schwartz, Hito Steyerl, Addie Wagenknecht. Programmed Art 1962: Gruppo T [Giovanni Anceschi, Davide Boriani, Gianni Colombo, Gabriele Devecchi, Grazia Varisco] Gruppo N [Alberto Biasi, Ennio Chiggio, Toni Costa, Edoardo Landi, Manfredo Massironi], Getulio Alviani, Enzo Mari, Bruno Munari. Fluxus [Nanni Balestrini, John Cage, Robert Filliou, Alison Knowles, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Mieko Shiomi] (FLOW); Rebecca Allen, Gazira Babeli, Petra Cortright, Constant Dullaart, Richard Estes, John Gerrard, Elisa Giardina Papa, Duane Hanson, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Agnieszka Kurant, JODI, René Magritte, MSHR, Katja Novitskova, Seth Price, Jon Rafman, Rachel Rossin, Manuel Rossner, Jeffrey Shaw, Timur Si-Qin, Ai Weiwei (SIMULATION).
Curated by: Domenico Quaranta
For: Art Verona 2022
From October 14 to 16, 2022
Participating galleries and artists: The Gallery Apart, Rome: Marco Strappato; Virginia Bianchi Gallery, Bologna: Léa Porré, Xenoangel (Marija Avramović e Sam Twidale); Gallleriapiù, Bologna: Emilio Vavarella; Galleria Michela Rizzo + Marignana Arte, Venice: Quayola, Matthew Attard; MLZ Art Dep, Trieste: Camilla Alberti, Vincenzo Marsiglia, The Cool Couple; Cortesi Gallery, Milan: ippsketch, Julien Gachadoat.
Curated by: Domenico Quaranta
For: Distant.gallery
Production: Aksioma Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana
Venue: distant.gallery
From July 7, 2022 to ∞
Featured Artists: Anna Ridler, Ben Grosser, Constant Dullaart, DIS, FaceOrFactory, Kyle McDonald, LaTurbo Avedon, Moxie Marlinspike, Nascent, Rhea Myers, Sarah Friend, Sarah Meyohas, Simon Denny, Guile Twardowski, Cosmographia, Sterling Crispin, The Miha Artnak
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Curated by: Domenico Quaranta
For: Feral File
Venue: feralfile.com
From December 16, 2021 to ∞
Featured Artists: Morehshin Allahyari, Sara Bezovšek, Émilie Brout & Maxime Marion, Anna Carreras, Petra Cortright, Francoise Gamma, Theodoros Giannakis, Kamilia Kard, Jonas Lund, Lev Manovich, Petros Moris, Katja Novitskova, Jon Rafman
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Curated by: Domenico Quaranta
For: Apulia Center for Art and Technology
Venue: Fondazione Museo Pino Pascali, Polignano a Mare (BA)
From September 3 to 30, 2021
Participating Artists: Morehshin Allahyari (US), Kamilia Kard (IT), Oliver Laric (DE), Petros Moris (GR)
Online exhibition
Curated by: Domenico Quaranta
Venue: Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève - 5th Floor
From February 25 to April 1, 2021
Participating artists: James Bridle, Petra Cortright, Aria Dean, Oliver Laric, Eva & Franco Mattes and Lu Yang
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Curated by: Domenico Quaranta
Venue: MGLC - International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana (Slovenia)
From November 7, 2019 to January 19, 2020
Featured artists: Danilo Correale, Elisa Giardina Papa, Sanela Jahić, Silvio Lorusso, Jonas Lund, Michael Mandiberg, Sebastian Schmieg, Guido Segni.
Curated by: Domenico Quaranta, Raffaël Dörig and Fabio Paris
Venue: Espace Multimédia Gantner, Bourogne (France)
From October 13, 2018 to January 19, 2019
Featured artists: Zach Blas & Jemima Wyman, James Bridle, F.A.T. Lab († 2015), Elisa Giardina Papa, Félicien Goguey, Benjamin Grosser, Hackteria, JODI, Christoph Wachter & Mathias Jud, Olia Lialina, Silvio Lorusso & Sebastian Schmieg, DISNOVATION.ORG, Joana Moll & Cédric Parizot, Trevor Paglen, Tabita Rezaire, RYBN, Gordan Savičić & Bengt Sjölén, Lasse Scherffig, Erica Scourti, Yinan Song, Peter Sunde, Maddy Varner, Amy Suo Wu.
Curated by: Domenico Quaranta
Venue: +MSUM – Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova
Maistrova 3, Ljubljana
October 19, 2017 - February 18, 2018
An anthological exhibition of the work of Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Janez Janša.
Curated by: Raffael Dörig, Domenico Quaranta, Fabio Paris
Venue: Kunsthaus Langenthal, Switzerland
From August 31 to November 12, 2017
Featured artists: Aram Bartholl, Zach Blas & Jemima Wyman, James Bridle, Harm van den Dorpel, F.A.T. Lab († 2015), Olga Fedorova, Cao Fei, Elisa Giardina Papa, Félicien Goguey, Benjamin Grosser, Hackteria, Adam Harvey, JODI, Christoph Wachter & Mathias Jud, Olia Lialina, Silvio Lorusso & Sebastian Schmieg, DISNOVATION.ORG, Joana Moll & Cédric Parizot, The Mycological Twist – Leslie Kulesh / Eloïse Bonneviot / Anne de Boer, Julian Oliver, Trevor Paglen, Tabita Rezaire, RYBN, Gordan Savičić & Bengt Sjölén, Lasse Scherffig, Erica Scourti, Yinan Song, Peter Sunde, Maddy Varner, Angela Washko, Amy Suo Wu.
Curated by: Domenico Quaranta
For: 16a Quadriennale d’Arte di Roma – Altri tempi, altri miti
Location: Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Roma
October 13, 2016 – January 8, 2017
Artists: Alterazioni Video, Enrico Boccioletti, Mara Oscar Cassiani, Paolo Cirio, Roberto Fassone, Giovanni Fredi, Elisa Giardina Papa, Kamilia Kard, Eva e Franco Mattes, Simone Monsi, Quayola, Federico Solmi, Marco Strappato, Natália Trejbalová.
Curated by: Domenico Quaranta
Venue: Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna
5 November 2015 – 6 February 2016
As part of the series: CCC#4 (COLLECTORS CURATORS COLLABORATIONS)
Featuring works from the collections of Alain Servais, Hampus Lindwall, Robert Bielecki and Li Zhen
Artists: AIDS-3D, Juliette Bonneviot, Christophe Bruno, Tianzhou Chen, Ian Cheng, Petra Cortright, John Gerrard, Taylor Holland, JODI, Ligorano/Reese, Jean-Baptiste Michel, Manfred Mohr, Jon Rafman, Evan Roth, Rafael Rozendaal, UBERMORGEN
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Curated by: Fabio Paris, Domenico Quaranta
Venue: Castello di Brescia, Italy and all over Europe
July 22, 2015
Participants: Alan Bogana for Kunsthaus Langenthal (CH), Alberto Frigo, Valle delle Cascate (IT), Alice Bachmann, Milan (IT), amaCollective & David Price, London (UK), Ana Alenso, Ilaria Biotti, Marisa Benjamim, IOCOSE, Rubén D’éhrs, Valentina Jager at João Cocteau, Berlin (DE), AND Festival at Somerset House, London (UK), Annabelle Arlie & Pierre Clement at Glassbox, Paris (FR), Annie Abrahams & Martina Ruhsam at OUDEIS, Le Vigan (FR), AplusB, Brescia (IT), Aram Bartholl, Berlin (DE), Arcadia Missa, London (UK), Arthur Cravan Foundation, Milan (IT), Barbara and Ale, Saronno (IT), Bernardo Villar, Madrid (ES), Bruno Muzzolini, Brescia (IT), Carloalberto Treccani, Brescia (IT), Casa Museo Asger Jorn – Albissola Marina, Savona (IT), Christina Androulidaki at Can Gallery, Athens (GR), Constant Dullaart, Berlin (DE), Cristina Garrido at L21 Gallery, Palma de Mallorca (ES), CYM at Wd8 Art Center Walkersdorf (AT), Dafna Ganani (UK) from Washington DC, DAM Gallery, Berlin (DE), Davide Bevilacqua, Glorenza (IT), dispari&dispari project, Reggio nell’Emilia (IT), Dr. Annette Huennekens and Mario Gasser at Austrian Culture Club and MOJA (AT), Dustin Cauchi, Paris (FR), Elisa Giardina Papa, Alicudi (IT), Emil Kozole, Ljubljana (SI), Enrico Boccioletti & Elena Radice, Milan (IT), Ephemeral Transfer Station (ETS) Art Gallery, Budapest (HU), Epic Unidragon Gallery, Gothenburg (SE), Evan Roth and Benjamin Gaulon, Paris (FR), Eventi-Arte-Venezia, Mestre, Venezia (IT), Five Years, London (UK), Florian Freier, Munich (DE), Fondazione Francesco Fabbri, Pieve di Soligo (IT), Fondazione Mondo Digitale, Roma (IT), Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Roma (IT), Fritz Laszlo Weber, Athens (GR), Galerie Charlot, Paris (FR), Giovanni Fredi (IT) from Shanghai, Guido Segni at Studio Fitz, Carrara (IT), HeK, Basel (CH), Igor Eskinja with Drugo More, Rijeka (HR), Inti Romero, Barcelona (ES), Iva Kontic, Belgrade (CS), Jacques Bonhomme, Milan (IT), Jan Robert Leegte, Radovan Misovic, Rosa Menkman, Rad0 and Vera Hoveling at Cafe Budapest, Amsterdam (NL), Jernej Čuček Gerbec and Luka Komat, Cela nad Vardo, 45.510062, 13.864698 (SI), jesusonecstasy and IZLAND, Izola (SI), Kilometre of Sculpture, Võru (EE), KORUNK Studio Gallery, Cluj Napoca (RO), Kurzor_kolektiv, Prague (CZ), Label201, Roma (IT), LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón (ES), Link Art Center, Brescia (IT), Localedue, Bologna (IT), Luca Panaro at TRA, Treviso (IT), Lucia Cristiani, Guido Sbattella, Marco Secondin and Nicolò Tedeschi, Milan (IT), Maciej Blazejewski at London Metropolitan University, London (UK), Maja Smrekar at Aksioma Project Space, Ljubljana (SI), MAMA, Rotterdam (NL), Mara Oscar Cassiani at Centrale Fies, Dro (IT), Marco Cadioli, Alessandro Capozzo, Matteo Cremonesi, Kamilia Kard, Marco Mendeni and Flavio Scutti at WeMake, Milan (IT), Margot Bowman, Huntingdon (UK), Martine Neddam (Mouchette), Amsterdam (NL), Mauro Ceolin, Milan (IT), Max Dovey for All Together Now, Rotterdam (NL), Max Serradifalco, Palermo (IT), Mengi, Reykjavik (IS), Mert Keskin a.k.a HAYDIROKET, Istanbul (TR), Metronom, Modena (IT), Miltos Manetas (IT) from Bogota, Mixer, Istanbul (TR), Monia Amoeba, Kaamanen (FI), Museo Civico Castelbuono (IT), Myriam Solar, Madrid (ES), NeMe Arts Centre, Cyprus (CY), Nicola Evangelisti, Brescia (IT), Nik Barte and Antonio Comini at Sabrina Raffaghello, Milano (IT), Oliwia Blawat, Bydgoszcz (PL), Peter Luining, Amsterdam (NL), Pier Giorgio De Pinto, Bellinzona (CH), Postinterface at University of Teramo, Teramo (IT), RES, London (UK), Robertina Sebjanic, Ljubljana (SI), Roberto Fassone and Valeria Mancinelli, Asti (IT), Rory Laycock, Langholm, Scotland (UK), S.a.L.E. Docks, Venice (IT), Sachiko Hayashi, Fridensberg (SE), Simone Monsi, Frederique Pisuisse, Andrea Williamson at Area 51, London (UK), SPAZIENNE N_SET, Garbagnate Milanese (IT), Spazio ULTRA, Udine (IT), Station Rose at Kunsthaus, Wien (AT), Stéphane Mroczkowski at Art Center Apollonia, European Art Exchanges, Strasbourg (FR), Tea Andreoletti, Gromo (IT), Tereza Darmovzalová at PAF Festival, Jeseníky (CZ), The Cool Couple & Alessandro Sambini, Milan (IT), THE LOST SOUL AND STRANGER SERVICE STATION, London (UK), The Museum of Contemporary Commodities (MoCC) at Furtherfield, London (UK), Tonylight, Brescia (IT), Tymek Borowski, Warsaw (PL), UBERMORGEN.COM, Vienna (AT), Valentina Fois, London (UK), Vasily Zaitsev, Stalingrad (RU), Vincent Broquaire at XPO Gallery, Paris (FR), Vincenzo Marsiglia at Spazio ICAS, Crema (IT), Violette Bule and Miyö Van Stenis, Paris (FR), X and Beyond, Copenhagen (DK)
Curated by: Domenico Quaranta
Venue: Spazio ULTRA, Udine (Italy)
May 16 – June 20, 2015
Curatorial for Hypersalon
Venue: South Beach, Miami (US)
December 1 – 7, 2014
Artists: Alterazioni Video, Cécile B. Evans, Francoise Gamma, Faith Holland, Kamilia Kard, Claudia Maté, Eva and Franco Mattes, Rosa Menkman and Lorna Mills
Curated by: Domenico Quaranta
Venue: Carroll / Fletcher Project Space, London
31 October – 22 November, 2014
Private View: 30 October, performance of JEG ER ENORME JæVLER by Roberto Fassone at 7:30pm
Artists: Kim Asendorf, Enrico Boccioletti, Emilie Brout & Maxime Marion, Caroline Delieutraz, Roberto Fassone, Emilie Gervais & Felix Magal, Yung Jake, Sara Ludy, Jonas Lund, Lorna Mills, Ryder Ripps, Evan Roth, Krystal South, Harm Van Den Dorpel
Curated by: Fabio Paris, Domenico Quaranta
Produced by: Link Art Center
Venue: Paddle8
April 15 – 30, 2014
Artists: Alterazioni Video, Anthony Antonellis, Aram Bartholl, Erik Berglin, Enrico Boccioletti, Heath Bunting, Marco Cadioli, Martin John Callanan, Gregory Chatonsky, Adam Cruces, Caroline Delieutraz, Harm Van Den Dorpel, Constant Dullaart, Electroboutique, Herbert W. Franke, Elisa Giardina Papa, Matteo Giordano, Emilio Gomariz, IOCOSE, Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Janez Janša, JODI, Joan Leandre, Jan Robert Leegte, Jonas Lund, Rosa Menkman, Filippo Minelli, Vera Molnar, Jaakko Pallasvuo, Angelo Plessas, Evan Roth, Alexei Shulgin, Clement Valla, Carlo Zanni
Curated by: Valentina Tanni, Domenico Quaranta
Produced by: Istituto Svizzero di Roma, Milano
Supported by: Link Center for the Arts of the Information Age
Istituto Svizzero di Roma, Milano
May 30 – July 12, 2013
Artists: Enrico Boccioletti, Adam Cruces. The show also included: Valentina Tanni’s gallery of art-related memes, Valentina Tanni’s playlist Don’t Watch if You Dislike, and Compiler 04 – Replay, a DVD compilation of artist videos curated by Raffael Doerig.
Curated by: Domenico Quaranta
Co-produced by: the LINK Center for the Arts of the Information Age and 319 Scholes, New York
319 Scholes, Brooklyn, New York
October 16 – November 4, 2012
Opening: October 16, 7.30 PM
Artists: Alterazioni Video (I), Kari Altmann (US), Gazira Babeli (I), Kevin Bewersdorf (US), Aleksandra Domanovic (D), Constant Dullaart (NL), Elisa Giardina Papa (I), Travis Hallenbeck (US), Jason Huff (US), Jodi (NL), Olia Lialina & Dragan Espenschied (D), Eva and Franco Mattes (I), Oliver Laric (D) Jon Rafman (US), Ryder Ripps (US), Evan Roth (US), Ryan Trecartin (US), Brad Troemel (US), Penelope Umbrico (US), Clement Valla (US).
Curated by: Domenico Quaranta
Produced by: LINK Center for the Arts of the Information Age
Museo Pecci Milano
Ripa di Porta Ticinese 113
Thursday, April 12th, 2012, 8 PM -11 PM
Artists: Alterazioni Video, Andreas Angelidakis, Ivano Atzori, Fabrizio Bellomo, Enrico Boccioletti, Paolo Branca (VjVISUALOOP), Martin Butler, Marco Cadioli, Diego Caglioni, Claudia Campus, Sarah Ciracì, Adam Cruces, Sabine Delafon, Carlo dell’Acqua, Matteo Erenbourg, Francesco Fonassi, Helga Franza, Silvia Hell, Iocose, KK,S, Luca Leggero, Les Liens Invisibles, Miltos Manetas, Kenji Matsushita, Marco Mendeni, Filippo Minelli, Molta Gente, Bruno Muzzolini, Otolab, Laurina Paperina, Angelo Plessas, Anja Puntari, Sara Rossi, Claudia Rossini, Rafaël Rozendaal, Santa Ragione, Lorenzo Sarti, Filippo Solibello, Priscilla Tea, Maurizio Temporin, Tonylight, Carloalberto Treccani, Carlo Zanni.
Photo Documentation; Video Documentation; More info
Curated by: Domenico Quaranta
Co-produced by: the LINK Center for the Arts of the Information Age and the House for Electronic Arts Basel
House for Electronic Arts (HeK), Basel
March 9 – May 20, 2012
Opening: March 8, 2012, 6.30 PM
Artists: Alterazioni Video (I), Kari Altmann (USA), Kevin Bewersdorf (USA), Luca Bolognesi (I), Adam Cruces (CH), Aleksandra Domanovic (D), Harm van den Dorpel (NL), Constant Dullaart (NL), Hans-Peter Feldmann (D), Elisa Giardina Papa (I), Travis Hallenbeck (USA), Admir Jahic & Comenius Röthlisberger (CH), Jodi (NL), Olia Lialina & Dragan Espenschied (D), Guthrie Lonergan (USA), Eva and Franco Mattes (I), Alexandra Navratil (CH), Seth Price (USA), Jon Rafman (USA), Claudia Rossini (I), Evan Roth (USA), Travess Smalley (USA), Ryan Trecartin (USA)
Curated by: Domenico Quaranta
Produced by: LINK Center for the Arts of the Information Age
Spazio Contemporanea, Brescia
September 24 – October 15, 2011, 3.00 – 7.00 PM
Preview: September 23, 2011, 3.30 PM
Opening: September 24, 2011, 6.30 PM
Artists: Alterazioni Video (IT), Kari Altmann (US), Cory Arcangel (US), Gazira Babeli (IT), Kevin Bewersdorf (US), Luca Bolognesi (IT), Natalie Bookchin (US), Petra Cortright (US), Aleksandra Domanovic (DE), Harm van den Dorpel (NL), Constant Dullaart (NL), Hans Peter Feldmann (DE), Elisa Giardina Papa (IT), Travis Hallenbeck (US), Jodi (NL), Oliver Laric (DE), Olia Lialina & Dragan Espenschied (DE), Guthrie Lonergan (US), Eva and Franco Mattes (IT), Seth Price (US), Jon Rafman (US), Claudia Rossini (IT), Evan Roth (US), Travess Smalley (US), Ryan Trecartin (US).
Video documentation (Youtube)
Curated by: Domenico Quaranta, Matteo Bittanti
For: Neoludica. Art Is A Game 2011 – 1966
As part of: 54. Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte – la Biennale di Venezia, Eventi collaterali
Location: Sala Dei Laneri, Santa Croce 131, Venezia
Dates: June 1 – November 27, 2011
Artists: Matteo Bittanti + IOCOSE, Marco Cadioli, Mauro Ceolin, Damiano Colacito, Les Liens Invisibles, Miltos Manetas, Eva & Franco Mattes aka 0100101110101101.ORG, Molleindustria, Antonio Riello, Santa Ragione, Federico Solmi, Stefano Spera, Tonylight, Vjvisualoop, Carlo Zanni.
Photo documentation (Google)
Catalogue essay: Italian | English
Curated by: Rafael Rozendaal for Padiglione Internet 2011
Curatorial advisors: Margherita Balzerani, Gloria Maria Cappelletti, Caroline Corbetta, Silvia Ferri De Lazara, Marina Fokidis, Elena Giulia Rossi, Valentina Tanni, Mara Sartore, Yvonne Force Villareal, Doreen Reemen and Jan Aman, Manuel Frara, David Quiles Guilló, Miltos Manetas, Lev Manovich, Angelo Plessas, Domenico Quaranta, Francesco Urbano and Francesco Ragazzi.
Location: Accademia di Belle Arti, Isola di San Servolo, Venice
Dates: June 2, 2011
Artists: Agnes Bolt, Alterazioni Video, Andreas Angelidakis, Angelo Plessas, Anna Franceschini, Billy Rennekamp, Britta Thie, Claudia Rossini, Cristian Bugatti, Eilis McDonald, Elisa Giardina Papa, Giallo Concialdi, Hayley Silverman, Interno3, Iocose, Jaime Martinez, Jeremy Bailey, KUNSTKAMMER, Les liens invisibles, LG Williams / Estate Of LG Williams, Luca Bolognesi, LuckyPDF, Marc Kremers, Marco Cadioli, Marisa Olson, Marlous Borm, Martin Cole, Matteo Erenbourg, Mai Ueda, Mike Ruiz, Miltos Manetas, Nazareno Crea, Nikola Tosic, Parker Ito, Pegy Zali, Petros Moris, Priscilla Tea, Protey Temen, Rafaël Rozendaal, Rene Abythe, Riley Harmon, Sarah Ciraci, Sarah Hartnett, Theodoros Giannakis, UBERMORGEN.COM, Valery Grancer, Wojciech Kosma, Yuri Pattison, Constant Dullaart, Daniel Swan, Duncan Malashock, Jodi, Panos Tsagaris, Travess Smalley, Jerstin Crosby, James Robert Southard, Jamie Walters.
Curated by: Domenico Quaranta for the DEberlusconiZER
Location: online
Dates: April 26 – June 15, 2011
Artists: Claudia Rossini (IT), Alterazionivideo (IT), Aram Bartholl (DE), Paolo Cirio (IT), Filippo Minelli (IT), UBERMORGEN.COM (AT), Maddalena Fragnito (IT), Les Liens Invisibles (IT), Jon Cohrs (US), Luca Bolognesi (IT), Salvatore Iaconesi (IT).
Curated by: Domenico Quaranta for The Influencers 2011
Location: Bornet Cyber Café, Barcelona, Spain
Dates: Saturday, April 16, 2011
Artists: Ryder Ripps, Scott Ostler, Tim Baker & Stefan Moore (US), Jon Rafman (CA), Parker Ito (US), Micah Schippa (US), Tabor Robak (CA) & John Transue (US), Iocose (IT), Ryan Trecartin & David Karp (US), Anonymous, Oliver Laric (DE), Aaron Meyers (US), Aaron Koblin (US) & Daniel Massey (ME), Spirit Surfers (US), Johnatan Vingiano & Brad Troemel (US).
Curatorial statement (pdf)
Photo documentation (Google)
Video documentation (Vimeo)
Curated by: Domenico Quaranta
Location: Paci Artecontemporanea, Brescia (Italy)
Dates: December 18, 2010 – February 8, 2011
Artists: Miguel Chevalier (FR), Alessandro Capozzo (IT) and Alex Dragulescu (USA)
Catalogue essay: Italian / English
Photo documentation (Google)
Curated by: Domenico Quaranta
Location: Maribor Art Gallery in Maribor, Slovenia
21 October – 19 November 2010
Artists: Lucas Bambozzi, Vaginal Davis, IOCOSE, Irwin, Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Eva and Franco Mattes (aka 0100101110101101.ORG), OHO group, SilentCell Network (Mare Bulc, Janez Janša, Bojana Kunst, Igor Štromajer)
Catalogue (preview on Google Books)
Photo documentation (Google)
Curated by: Domenico Quaranta
For: iMAL, Center for Digital Cultures and Technologies, Bruxelles
June 4 – August 21, 2010
Artists: 2 Player Productions (US), Alex Bond / Enso (US), Boogerlab (NZ), The C-Men (NL), Paul B. Davis (UK), James Dingle (US), Jeff Donaldson / noteNdo (US), Julien Ducourthial (FR), Entter (SP), Dragan Espenschied (DE), Gino Esposto / Micromusic.net (CH), Gijs Gieskes (NL), André Gonçalves (PT), Chantal Goret (BE), Goto80 (SE), Jodi (BE / NL), Mike Johnston / Mike in Mono (UK), Joey Mariano / Animal Style (US), Rosa Menkman (NL), Raquel Meyers (SP), Mikro Orchestra (PL), Don Miller / NO CARRIER (US), Erik Nilsson (SE), Nullsleep (US), Tristan Perich (US), Rabato (SP), Gebhard Sengmuller (AT), Alexei Shulgin (RU), Paul Slocum (US), Tonylight (IT), VjVISUALOOP (IT).
Photo documentation: My photo set (Google); Rosa Menkman’s photo set; Yannick Antoine’s photo set; Marc Wathieu’s photo set
Video documentation: Video documentation (featuring Yves Bernard); Tonylight & Notendo live at Playlist; Goto80 at Playlist (Rosa Menkman)
Press: “Les technos à gogo, l’expo rétro”, in Ygaw!, August 15, 2010
Curated by: Domenico Quaranta
For: Madrid, Arco Art Fair, February 17 – 21, 2010
Galleries and artists: [DAM]Berlin, Berlin / BOREDOMRESEARCH; Alma Gallery, Riga / GINTS GABRANS; Art Claims Impulse, Berlin / JULIUS VON BISMARCK AND BENJAMIN MAUS; Arthobler, Porto / JAKUB NEPRAS; DNA Galerie, Berlin / MARIANA VASSILEVA; Fabio Paris Art Gallery, Brescia / EVA AND FRANCO MATTES AKA 0100101110101101.ORG; Gentili Apri, Berlin / JODI; Haunch of Venison, London / RAPHAEL LOZANO-HEMMER.
Press release (English)
Photo documentation:
My photo set (Google); Marius Watz’s photo set
Video selection for the series “Playlist”, Neoncampobase, Bologna (Italy)
Opening: January 27, 2010
Curated by: Domenico Quaranta
Artists: AIDS-3D (Daniel Keller & Nik Kosmas, US/DE), Cory Arcangel (US), Brody Condon (US), Petra Cortright (US), Paul B. Davis (UK/US), Constant Dullaart (NL), Martijn Hendriks (NL), Jodi (BE/NL), Martin Kohout (CZ/DE), Oliver Laric (DE), Les Liens Invisibles (IT), Miltos Manetas (GR/UK), Pascual Sisto (US), Paul Slocum (US), Harm Van den Dorpel (NL), Damon Zucconi (US).
Curatorial statement (Italian | English)
Curated by: Domenico Quaranta
For: LABoral Centro de Arte y Creacion Industrial, Gijon
Los Prados, 121, 33394 Gijón
December 18, 2009 – May 17, 2010
Artists: Paul B. Davis (UK), Jeff Donaldson / NoteNdo (DE), Dragan Espenschied (DE), Gino Esposto / Micromusic.net (CH), Gijs Gieskes (NL), André Gonçalves (PT), Mike Johnston / Mike in Mono (UK), Joey Mariano / Animal Style (US), Raquel Meyers (SP), Mikro Orchestra (PL), Don Miller / No-carrier (US), Jeremiah Johnson / Nullsleep (US), Tristan Perich (US), Rabato (SP), Gebhard Sengmüller (AT), Alexei Shulgin (RU), Paul Slocum (USA), Tonylight (IT), VjVISUALOOP (IT).
Photo documentation:
My photo set (Google); Regine Debatty’s photo set; Valentina Tanni’s photo set
Video documentation:
Video by Paolo Branca; Video interview with the curator; Performance by Goto80 and Raquel Meyers; Paul B. Davis for The Creators Project
Press:
Marie Lechner, “Playlist» secoue les puces”, in Liberation, 04.02.10 (fr).
Yessica Alonso, “Reciclaje tecnologico como arma creativa”, in I Like Magazine, Issue 4, February 2010.
Arnau Horta, “Super Mario es el mensaje”, in La Vanguardia, 5 mayo 2010.
Valentina Tanni, “Old new media asturiani”, in Exibart, February 9, 2010 (ita).
Greg J. Smith, “8-bit Rockers”, in Serial Consign, 04.02.10 (eng).
Regine Debatty, “Playlist. Playing Games, Music, Art”, in we-make-money-not-art, 10.01.10 (eng).
Regine Debatty, “Playlist, it’s not (just) about nostalgia”, in we-make-money-not-art, 15.01.10 (eng).
Regine Debatty, “Playlist: the physical dimension”, in we-make-money-not-art, 18.01.10.
Anders Carlsson, “Playlist Exhibition: Materialism vs Symbolics, Music vs Visuals”, in Chipflip, December 22, 2009 (eng).
Yves Bernard, “PlayList at Laboral: 8-bit / chiptune”, in ArtNumeur, January 2010 (fr).
Marco Rossari, “Se non sai cos’è, è net art”, in Wired, issue 11, January 2010, p. 103.
Downloadable Catalogue (.pdf)
Curated by: Domenico Quaranta
For: Pixxelpoint Festival, Nova Gorica
Kulturni Dom Nova Gorica, Nova Gorica (Slovenia)
December 4 – 11, 2009
Artists: AIDS-3D (Germany), Mats Andren & Anders Carlsson (Sweden), Michael Bell Smith (USA), David Blackmore (UK), Ian Bogost (USA), BridA / Tom Kerševan, Sendi Mango, Jurij Pavlica (Slovenia), Wayne Clements (UK), Vuk Ćosić (Slovenia), Chris Coy (USA), Florian Cramer (The Netherlands), Olle Essvik (Sweden), Vladimir Frelih (Croatia), Darko Fritz (Croatia), James Houston (UK), IOcose (Italy), Tom Jennings (USA), Oliver Larić (Germany), Les Liens Invisibles (Italy), Olia Lialina (Germany), Paul Matosic (UK), Eilis McDonald (Ireland), Rosa Menkman (The Netherlands), Rafael Rozendaal (The Netherlands), Thatisaworkaround (Greece), Thisgasthing (Italy), Eugenio Tisselli (Spain), Tonylight (Italy), UBERMORGEN.COM (Austria), Harm Van Den Dorpel (The Netherlands), Windows Media Players (UK), Math Wrath.
Press release (English)
Downloadable Catalogue (.pdf)
Photo documentation (Google)
Curated by: Domenico Quaranta
For: Kapelica Gallery, Ljubljana
November 3 – 15, 2009
Opening and performance: November 3, 9.00 PM (CET)
Production: Aksioma
Press (Selected):
– “Gazira Babeli: Acting as Aliens”. A review by Flaminio Gualdoni.
– “Aliena e maga l’artista di oggi”. A review by Agnese Trocchi in Stile.it, 27.10.09.
– “Umetnost v virtualnosti”. A review by Ida Hiršenfelder, published in Dnevnik, 04.11.09.
– Video interview on Vest.si
Curated by: Domenico Quaranta
For: Prague Biennale 4
Karlin Hall, Praga 8
May 14 – July 26, 2009
Directors and General Curators: Helena Kontova and Giancarlo Politi
General Editor / Curatorial Advisor: Nicola Trezzi
Artists: Alterazioni Video; Gazira Babeli; Shane Hope; Miltos Manetas; Gerhard Mantz; Eva and Franco Mattes; UBERMORGEN.COM; Damon Zucconi.
Catalogue text (pdf)
Photo documentation (Google)
Curated by: Yves Bernard (Belgium) and Domenico Quaranta (Italy)
For: STRP Festival, Eindhoven
2 – 13 April 2009
Clokgebouw, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Artists: Boredomresearch (UK), Jim Campbell (USA), Alessandro Capozzo and Katja Noppes (IT/USA), Driessens & Verstappen (NL), LAb[au] (BE), Golan Levin (USA), Olia Lialina & Dragan Espenschied (RU+DE), Manfred Mohr (DE), Mark Napier (USA), Bjön Schülke (DE), Yacine Sebti (BE), Sakurako Shimizu (USA), Alexei Shulgin & Aristarkh Chernyshev (RU), Tonylight (Antonio Cavadini, IT), Siebren Versteeg (USA), Peter Vogel (DE), Marius Watz (NO)
Press release (eng)
Photo & video documentation:
Google (photo Alessandro Capozzo); Yves Bernard’s Flickr; Video documentation
MNAC – National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest
January 22 – March 13, 2009
Artists: Lucas Bambozzi, Vaginal Davis, Quentin Drouet, IRWIN, Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Eva and Franco Mattes (aka 0100101110101101.ORG), SilentCell Network.
Ljubljana, Slovenia
March 25 – April 17, 2009
Opening: March 25, 2009, at 20:00
Artists: Lucas Bambozzi, Vaginal Davis, Quentin Drouet, IRWIN, Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Eva and Franco Mattes (aka 0100101110101101.ORG), SilentCell Network
MMSU – Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Rijeka
Rijeka, Croatia
28 May – 21 June 2009
Exhibition curator: Domenico Quaranta
Platform conceived by: Janez Janša
Artists: Lucas Bambozzi, Vaginal Davis, Quentin Drouet, Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Irwin, Eva and Franco Mattes (aka 0100101110101101.ORG), OHO group, SilentCell Network (Mare Bulc, Janez Janša, Bojana Kunst, Igor Štromajer).
Photo documentation:
Photo documentation (Google)
Video Documentation:
Video by Janez Jansa (Vimeo); Video by veioza arte (Vimeo); Video essay – Domenico Quaranta (Vimeo); Video essay – Antonio Caronia (Vimeo)
Catalogue (preview on Google Books)
Madrid, Arco Art Fair, February 11 – 16, 2009
Curators: Domenico Quaranta (stands); Carolina Grau (cinema)
Galleries and artists (stands): Arc Projects, Sofia / THOMSON & CRAIGHEAD; Ernst Hilger, Vienna / JOHN GERRARD; Fabio Paris Art Gallery, Brescia / UBERMORGEN.COM; Fortlaan 17, Gent / LAWRENCE MALSTAF; MS Galeria, Madrid / ESTHER MANAS & ARASH MOORI; One and J Gallery, Seoul / KIM JONGKU; Project Gentili, Prato / JOAN LEANDRE; Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi / PORS AND RAO.
Curatorial statement (pdf)
Press (selected):
– Roberta Bosco, “‘Software’ y pan en la cara”, in El Pais, February 7, 2009, p. 11. Download pdf.
– Roberta Bosco, Stefano Caldana, “El arte digital entra en casa…”, in El Pais, February 19, 2009, p. 8. Download pdf.
– Regine Debatty, “ARCO Beep New Media Award”, in we-make-money-not-art, February 13, 2009.
– Regine Debatty, “ARCO. Expanded Box”, in we-make-money-not-art, February 27, 2009.
– Marco Mancuso, “EXPANDED ART, EXPANDED BOX”, in Digimag 42, March 2009.
– Jon Ippolito & Joline Blais, “Out of the Hothouse and into the World”, in ThoughtMesh, March 2009.
– Geert Lovink, “Discussing the Crisis in New Media Art @ ARCO Madrid”, in net critique, February 16, 2009.
Photo documentation (Google)
Curated by Domenico Quaranta
For: Pixxelpoint 2008
Nova Gorica (Slovenia), Mestna Galerija Nova Gorica
December 5 – 12, 2008
Artists: Alterazioni Video, Gazira Babeli & Patrick Lichty, BridA / Jurij Pavlica, Tom Kerševan, Sendi Mango, Martin Butler, Martin Conrads & Ingo Gerken, Briant Dameron, Etoy, Ute Hörner & Mathias Antlfinger, IOCOSE, Janez Janša, Jaša, Markus Kison, Clemens Kogler & Karo Szmit, Oliver Laric, Les Liens Invisibles, Kevin Logan, Manu Luksch, Molleindustria, Petros Moris, Negativland, OtherehtO , Pash, Cristiano Poian & Paolo Tonon, Second Front, Dana Sederowsky, Guli Silberstein, Alan Sondheim, Eddo Stern
Press release (English)
Press & Media (selected):
VEST.SI (video interview with Mateja Poljšak-Furlan, Mestna Galerija Nova Gorica)
Photo documentation (Google)
Catalogue (downloadable from Google Books)
Exhibition curated and catalogue edited by: Domenico Quaranta, Yves Bernard
Bruxelles, April 18 – 30, 2008
iMAL Center for Digital Cultures and Technologies
Artists: Cory Arcangel (USA), Gazira Babeli (SL), Boredomresearch (UK), Christophe Bruno (FR), Grégory Chatonsky (FR), Miguel Chevalier (FR), Vuk Cosic (SLO), Shane Hope (USA), Jodi (BE/NL), Lab[au] (BE), Joan Leandre (SP), Olia Lialina & Dragan Espenschied (RU/DE), Golan Levin (USA), Eva and Franco Mattes aka 0100101110101101.ORG (IT), Alison Mealey (UK), Mark Napier (USA), Casey Reas (USA), Charles Sandison (UK/FI), Antoine Schmitt (FR), Yacine Sebti (BE), Alexei Shulgin & Aristarkh Chernyshev (RU), John F. Simon, Jr. (USA), Paul Slocum (USA), Wolfgang Staehle (USA), Eddo Stern (USA), Ubermorgen.com (AT), Carlo Zanni (IT).
Press release (Italian / English)
Selected press:
El Païs (spanish); we-make-money-not-art; Poptronics (french); Knack (Vlaamse); Rhizome; Report of the debate at Art Brussels, by Packed (Vlaamse); Digimag 34, May 2008 (italian); Nilo Casares, “El estado del collecionismo digital”, in ABC, supplemento “ABCD las artes y las letras”, Madrid, 10 maggio 2008 (spanish).
Photo and video documentation:
Holy Fire on Flickr - Video of the iMAL opening (YouTube) - Holy Fire Remixed by artisopensource.net - My photo documentation (Google)
Catalogue (buy and free download)
Installation connecting real life and Second Life
Authors: Yannick Antoine, Yves Bernard (BE)
Curatorial Assistance: Domenico Quaranta (IT), Sugar Seville (SL)
Opening Performance: Second Front
iMAL Center for Digital Cultures and Technology, Brussels; Odyssey Contemporary Art and Performance, Second Life (Odyssey 122/45/25)
04/10/07 – 07/10/07
Photo documentation:
Photos by Yannick Antoine; My documentation (Google)
Video documentation:
Reviews and texts:
Osprey, “Second Front at The Gate”, in Second Life Art News, October 5, 2007.
Marshall Sponder, “The Gate – merging Second Life with Real Life”, in WebMetricsGuru, September 30, 2007.
Sascha Pohflepp, “iMAL opening”, in we-make-money-not-art, October 8, 2007.
Astrid Girardeau, “iMAL, du numérique au coeur de Bruxelles”, in écrans, October 4, 2007.
D. Quaranta, “Open considerations on The Gate. Part 1”, in Digimag 29, November 07.
D. Quaranta, “Open considerations on The Gate. Part 2”, in Digimag 30, December 07.
Curated by Domenico Quaranta
Artists: Gazira Babeli, Damiano Colacito
Pescara Electronic Artists Meeting – The Diamond
6 – 10 December 2006
Official Website: http://www.artificialia.com/peam2006/english.html
Press:
– Claudio Gervasoni, “La realtà virtuale diventa materiale, al Peam 2006”, in Mytech, December 7, 2006
– Regine Debatty, “The Second Life code performer” , in We-make-money-not-art, November 27, 2006
– Claudio Gervasoni, “La realtà virtuale diventa materiale, al Peam 2006” , in Mytech, December 7, 2006
Photo documentation (Google)
Curated by Rosanna Pavoni
Scientific committee: Matteo Bittanti & Domenico Quaranta
Monza Civic Gallery
Monza, Italy, via Camperio 1
October 13 – 29, 2006. Free Entrance
Catalogue published by Johan & Levi
Catalogue text (English)
Artists: Cory Arcangel, Mauro Ceolin, Jonathan Haddock, Eddo Stern e Carlo Zanni.
Press (selected):
Alice Spadacini, Teknemedia 19.10.2006
Ivan Fulco, La Stampa, 16/20/2006
Paolo Branca, Digicult, March 2007
MyTech, Panorama, 16/10/2006
Rosa Roccardo, Corriere della Sera, 12/10/2006
Photo documentation (Google)
Video documentation (by Paolo Branca)
Como (Italy), various venues, October 7 – November 12, 2006
Organization: Arte&Arte
Curated by: Luciano Caramel
Net art section curated by Domenico Quaranta
Artists: Alessandro Capozzo & Katia Noppes (IT), Gianni Corino & Lorenzo Verna (IT), Andy Deck (USA), Cat Mazza (USA), Lisa Jevbratt (USA).
Photo documentation (Google)
Catalogue text (English)
Turin (Italy), 32 Dicembre / AB+ Club
June 1 – 2, 2006
web. http://www.cstem.it/
Organization: 32 Dicembre
Coordination: Fabio Franchino
Curated by: Domenico Quaranta
Artists: Marius Watz (Norvegia), Limiteazero (Italia), Alessandro Capozzo (Italia), Fabio Franchino (Italia).
Photo documentation:
– Abusedmedia’s Flickr Set. Photos courtesy Andrea Macchia; Marius Watz’s Flickr Set
Press:
– Regine Debatty, “C.STEM conference”, in we make money not art: Part 1 (June 3, 2006) and Part 2 (June 6, 2006).
Catalogue:
Generative Ars (essay) – republished in In Your Computer, 2010 (buy or download)
Generative (Inter)Views (interviews with the artists) – download
Curated by Domenico Quaranta
PIEMONTE SHARE FESTIVAL 2006 – LIMITLESS
Turin (Italy), Accademia Albertina, March 8, 2006 – March 12, 2006
Artists: ][MEZ][, [EPIDEMIC], AMY ALEXANDER, CORY ARCANGEL (BEIGE) + PAPERRAD, MARKETA BANKOVA, WAYNE CLEMENTS, GUERRIGLIAMARKETING.IT + MOLLEINDUSTRIA.IT, PETER LUINING, K-HELLO, MOLLEINDUSTRIA.IT, ROVEBOTICS, UBERMORGEN.COM featuring ALESSANDRO LUDOVICO & PAOLO CIRIO.
Catalogue text (English)
Photo documentation (Google)
Curated by Luca Lampo
Scientific Board: 0100101110101101.ORG, Marco Deseriis, Domenico Quaranta
Organization and production: Gabriele Miccichè, Alessandro Mininno
Texts for the catalogue and for the exibition panels: Marco Deseriis and Domenico Quaranta
Mediateca di Santa Teresa – Via della Moscova 28, Milan, Italy
October 20 – November 10, 2005
Artists: Ubermorgen (Austria), The Yes Men (U.S.A.), Surveillance Camera Players (U.S.A.), Sebastian J. F. (Austria), RTMARK (U.S.A.), Joan Leandre \ retroYou (Spain), Mark Napier (U.S.A.), Natalie Bookchin (U.S.A.), Jodi (Holland), 0100101110101101.ORG (Italia), Jaromil (Italy/Austria), I/O/D (U.K.), Heath Bunting (U.K.), Florian Cramer (Germany), Electronic Disturbance Theater (U.S.A.), Cornelia Sollfrank (Germany), Alexei Shulgin (Russia), Alexander R. Galloway (U.S.A.), Adrian Ward (U.K.), [epidemiC] (Italy), Amy Alexander (U.S.A.), Mongrel Project (U.K.), Eldar Karhalev & Ivan Khimin (Russia), etoy (U.S.A./Holland/Germany/Austria), Vuk Cosic (Slovenia)
Press Release (downloadable pdf)
Downloadable Catalogue (Italian only)
The Legend of net.art (English) – published in In Your Computer, 2010 (buy or download)
Photo documentation (Google)
Press (selected):
– Marco Mancuso, “Connessioni Leggendarie. Interview to net.art”, in Digimag09, November 2005.
– “Connessioni Leggendarie, mostra storica di net art a Milano”, in Neural.it, October 19, 2005.
– Marco Enrico Giacomelli, “Connessioni Leggendarie”, in Exibart, November 1, 2005.
More:
– “Digital Actionism and Media Hacking”. Lecture by UBERMORGEN.COM, Mediateca Santa Teresa, November 4, 2005.
– Domenico Quaranta, “Lost in Translation. Or, bringing Net Art to another Place – pardon, Context.”, in Vague Terrain, September 2008.
– Original website at Archive.org
Curated by Luciano Caramel
New Media Art section curated by Domenico Quaranta
For: Premio Michetti – 56a edizione
July 23 – August 31, 2005, Fondazione Michetti, Francavilla al mare (CH, Italy)
Artists: Marco Cadioli, Davide Grassi and Igor Stromajer, Olia Lialina, Limiteazero, 0100101110101101.ORG, Josh On, Carlo Zanni and Yucef Merhi.
Catalogue text (Italian)
Photo documentation (Google)
Curated by Domenico Quaranta
as a section of Piemonte Share Festival 2005, Turin (Italy), Palazzo Cavour, February 24 febbraio – March 1, 2005.
Artists: Mauro Ceolin (ITA), Jeremiah Johnson aka nullsleep (USA), John Klima (USA), Martin Le Chevallier (FRA), Gonzalo Frasca – Newsgaming (URY), Selectparks (AU), Antonio Riello (ITA), Josh On (USA), Carlo Zanni (ITA), Brody Condon (USA), JODI (NLD), Kinematic Collective (USA), RETROYOU (ESP), Eddo Stern (USA), Josephine Starrs & Leon Cmielewski (AUS), TWCDC (USA), 8bitpeople (nullsleep’s selection); Micropupazzo (ITA – DE); Role Model (Johan Kotlinski, SWE); Tonylight (ITA); Oliver Wittchow (DE); Gameboyzz Orchestra (POL).
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Curated by Valentina Tanni and Domenico Quaranta
Online exhibition organized as part of the event epi-démia: tre giorni di arte contemporanea a Palazzo Nuovo. Torino, Palazzo Nuovo, October 11 – 13, 2004.
Artists: Han Hoogerbrugge, Olia Lialina & Dragan Espenschied, Mongrel, k-Hello, 0100101110101101.org, Jodi.org, EpidemiC, Luca Bertini, Carlo Zanni, Davide Grassi and Igor Stromajer, Etoy, Josh On.
Postmedia Books, Milano 2023. ISBN 978-8874903603. Italian. Publisher’s website
Questo libro è un’antologia di testi scritti nell’arco di più di vent’anni (2002-2023), e propone una cronaca in progress di una materia fluida e mutevole, soggetta a cicli continui di morte, obsolescenza e rinascita, seguendone gli sviluppi con l’onestà del tempo presente e le inevitabili distorsioni ottiche familiari a chi si occupa di argomenti troppo vicini – tanto più se condizionati da una narrazione ingombrante come quella che caratterizza le “nuove tecnologie”. I saggi qui raccolti parlano di net art e hacktivism, videogame e media hacking, metaversi e archeologia dei media, lavoro digitale e collezionismo, NFT e memi di internet, blockchain e post internet, strategie espositive e realtà virtuali, arte generativa e intelligenza artificiale, software culturale e altro ancora: una complessità che l’espressione “net art” riassume sia riconoscendo al movimento omonimo un ruolo di svolta nell’uso artistico delle tecnologie digitali, sia consentendo di allargare lo sguardo ai modi in cui internet ha plasmato e continua a plasmare la condizione di esistenza dell’arte – di tutta l’arte – nell’era dell’informazione.
Postmedia Books, Milan 2021. 250 pp., isbn 9788874903030. Italian. Publisher’s website
Postmedia Books, Milan 2022. 250 pp., isbn 9788874903436. Italian. Publisher’s website
At the beginning of 2021, the booming NFT (Non Fungible Token) market opened up in the art world the debate on the blockchain, the decentralized public ledger on which tokens coexist with cryptocurrencies, promising “verifiable digital scarcity.” In reality the blockchain, born out of the 2008 financial crisis and seen by many as the foundation of a new, more private and secure Web 3.0, has already changed the world economy and is reshaping the digital environment in which art is increasingly created, distributed and exchanged.
Written in the turmoil of a technological hype and a speculative bubble, this volume places the promises of the NFT market in a historical perspective that deepens and analyzes the developments of the technologies on which it is based, the role of certificates and contracts in contemporary art, and the evolution of the media art market over the last thirty years. Riding the wave of an ongoing debate, Surfing con Satoshi faces a series of still open questions, such as: what does art have to do with the blockchain? Does it make sense to talk about “Crypto Art”? What defines it, apart from the way it is traded? What is there in this world, besides speculation? How is it possible to attribute the character of uniqueness to an infinitely reproducible digital file? Will the promise of disintermediation of the blockchain destroy the world of art as we know it? How is the art world reacting? Are NFTs an opportunity for artists or a scam against artists? Who are the collectors willing to pay millions for a certificate of authenticity, and why do they do it? Why do the visual arts seem to have acquired such a central role in the cryptocurrency economy?
Surfing con Satoshi borrows its title from the “turbofilm” shot by Alterazioni Video in 2013. In this sort of bizarre mockumentary, the traces of Satoshi Nakamoto, the blockchain’s legendary inventor, are lost in a cave in Puerto Rico, where apparently he was planning “the next revolution” with the complicity of hackers and artists. Is that conspiracy coming true? What role does art play in the future of the blockchain?
Link Editions, December 2016. Black and white paperback, 180 pages, English, ISBN 9781326892920. Buy and free download
AFK - an acronym for “away of keyboard” widely used online - is an anthology of texts written for catalogues and exhibition brochures along the last five years, featuring twelve texts about eleven artists and an artist duo: Rosa Menkman, Jon Rafman, Gazira Babeli, Martin Kohout, Maurizio Cattelan, Enrico Boccioletti, Constant Dullaart, Jill Magid, Aram Bartholl, Emilie Brout & Maxime Marion, Evan Roth and Addie Wagenknecht. In different ways, these artists experienced the impact of digital means of production and dissemination, they experimented with them, they thought about them, and all this is reflected in their work. As Peter Sunde, the co-founder of the Pirate Bay, they think the internet is real, and they spend a lot of time in this real space of life, communication, love, hate, surveillance, sharing, and copying. Most of the works discussed here are made to be experienced in a brick and mortar space, away of keyboard; but reflect the current way of living, communicating, loving, hating, spying, sharing, copying, on and away of keyboard.
Link Editions, Brescia 2013. Soft cover, 290 pp., ISBN 9781291376975. Buy and Free Download
Beyond New Media Art is the revised, updated version of a book first published in Italian with the title Media, New Media, Postmedia (Postmedia Books, Milan 2010). Through the circulation of excerpts, reviews and interviews, the book produced some debate outside of Italy, which persuaded the author to release, three years later, this English translation.
Beyond New Media Art is an attempt to analyze the current positioning of so-called New Media Art in the wider field of contemporary arts, and to explore the historical, sociological and conceptual reasons for its marginal position and under-recognition in recent art history. On the other hand, this book is also an attempt to suggest new critical and curatorial strategies to turn this marginalization into a thing of the past, and to stress the topicality of art addressing the media and the issues of the information age.
From the book’s preface: “So what is New Media Art? What does this term really describe? And what has occasioned the schism between this term and the art scene it is supposed to describe? And lastly, what accounts for the limited presence in critical debate of an artistic practice that appears to have all the credentials for representing an era in which digital media are powerfully reshaping the political, economic, social and cultural organization of the world we live in?”
LINK Editions, Brescia 2011. Soft cover, 180 pp, English, € 12.00, ISBN: 978-1-4467-6021-5. Buy and free download
A collection of texts written by Domenico Quaranta between 2005 and 2010 for exhibition catalogues, printed magazines and online reviews: a pocket version of what the author would save from the universal flood, in a world without computers. It documents most of the fields of research he has focused on critically: from Net Art to Software Art and videogames, from biotechnologies to the debate around curating and the positioning of New Media Art in the contemporary landscape, and back to Net Art again.
This itinerary is traced through a selection of essays, monographic texts and interviews with artists and curators, in no particular order: from Eva and Franco Mattes to Casey Reas, from UBERMORGEN.COM to Oliver Laric, from Cory Arcangel to Tale of Tales, from Jon Ippolito to Gazira Babeli.
Postmediabooks, Milano 2010. 192 pages, 122 images, ISBN: 9788874900558, € 19.00, Italian only. Buy it on: Postmediabooks.it - Preview on Google Books
Media, New Media, Postmedia (2010) is an attempt to explain the current positioning of so-called new media art in the cultural field. In order to reach the goal, the book starts discussing the current definition of New Media Art, making its weakness clear and suggesting a new definition that makes it possible to reconsider New Media Art’s historical development on a new basis; it goes trough the history of New Media Art, showing how the practice developed into a new “art world” and how this art world turned recently into a limitation for many of the artists working in it; and attempts to set a new basis for a better positioning of the art formerly known as new media art in the contemporary art field.
Reviews and comments:
Paddy Johnson, “Is New Media Accepted in the Art World? Domenico Quaranta’s Media, New Media, PostMedia”, in Art Fag City, August 30, 2011.
Régine Debatty, “Book review – Media, New Media, Postmedia”, in We Make Money Not Art, August 27, 2011.
Edward Shanken, 17 January 2011
Vita e Pensiero, Milan 2004. 192 pages, 14,00 €, ISBN: 8834319710. Italian only
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[ENG] Daphne Dragona, Domenico Quaranta (Eds), The PostScriptUM Anthology (2010–2023). Essays on Art, Technology, Society and the Environment, Aksioma Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana 2024. 418 pp., ISBN 9789617173512, English. Buy / Download preview
[ENG] Domenico Quaranta and Janez Janša (Eds.), Hyperemployment. Post-work, Online Labour and Automation. NERO, Rome and Aksioma, Ljubljana 2020. 160 pages, English, with texts by: !Mediengruppe Bitnik (Carmen Weisskopf and Domagoj Smoljo) and Felix Stalder, Silvio Lorusso, Luciana Parisi, and Domenico Quaranta. More info and buy
[ITA] Valentino Catricalà, Domenico Quaranta (a cura di), Sopravvivenza programmata. Etiche e pratiche di conservazione, dall'arte cinetica alla Net Art, Kappabit Edizioni, Roma 2020, ISBN 978-88-943618-0-3. Contributi di: Laura Barreca, Laura Calvi, Valentino Catricalà, Alice Devecchi, Roberto Dipasquale, Ben Fino-Radin, Marialaura Ghidini, Oliver Grau, Jon Ippolito, Laura Leuzzi, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Alessandro Ludovico, Dorcas Müller, Stephen Partridge, Domenico Quaranta, Iolanda Ratti, Cosetta G. Saba, Domenico Scudero, Azalea Seratoni, Elaine Shemilt, Gaby Wijers. More info and buy / download
[ENG] Matteo Bittanti, Domenico Quaranta, Eddo Stern, How to Play Eddo Stern, Link Editions + HEK, Basel 2017. Paperback, color, 224 pages, ISBN 978-0-244-30739-4. More info and buy / download
[ENG] Domenico Quaranta (Ed.), Troika, Link Editions, Brescia 2014. Soft cover, English, color, 80 pages, ISBN 9781291665468. Design by Luka Umek. Co-published with Aksioma. Slovenian version available. More info and buy / download
[ENG] Domenico Quaranta, Geraldine Juárez (eds.), THE F.A.T. MANUAL, Link Editions, Brescia 2013. 224 pages, color, English, ISBN 9781291577914. Design by Fabio Paris, with essays by: Régine Debatty, Evan Roth, Domenico Quaranta, Geraldine Juárez and Randy Sarafan. More info and buy / download
[ENG] Domenico Quaranta (ed.), Aram Bartholl. The Speed Book, Gestalten, Berlin 2012. 21,6 x 28 cm, 268 pages, full color, hardcover, English, ISBN: 978-3-89955-393-2. Design by Manuel Burger, with essays by: Josephine Bosma, Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Jon Cates, Lindsay Howard, Alessandro Ludovico, Evan Roth, Bruce Sterling, Brad Troemel. More info and buy
[ENG] Domenico Quaranta (ed.), Gazira Babeli, FPEditions, Brescia 2008; LINK Editions, Brescia 2011. Soft cover, 92 pp, inglese, € 28.00, ISBN 978-1-4709-0843-0. With texts by Domenico Quaranta, Patrick Lichty, Alan Sondheim and Mario Gerosa. Buy or download for free
[ENG] Domenico Quaranta (ed.), UBERMORGEN.COM, Link Editions, September 2015. Color, English, 96 pp, ISBN 9781326406974. First published by FPEditions in 2009, with texts by Inke Arns and Jodi.org. Buy or download
[ENG/ITA] Domenico Quaranta (ed.), Todd Deutsch: Gamers, FPEditions, Brescia 2008. ISBN: 9788890330803 [Italian]; 9788890330810 [English]. With texts by Domenico Quaranta and George Slade. Buy it on IBS - Preview on Google Books
[ENG/ITA] Matteo Bittanti, Domenico Quaranta (eds.), GameScenes. Art in the Age of Videogames, Johan & Levi, Milan 2006. ISBN: 8860100100. Italian / English, hardcover, 454 pages, 20 x 17 cm, 32,00 €. Buy it on Amazon.com, iBS.it or many other bookstores! More info
Excerpts: Table of contents - Matteo Bittanti: This is not a Manifesto - Domenico Quaranta: Game Aesthetics - Valentina Tanni: Shooter.
Reviews (selected): Review by Regine Debatty, We Make Money Not Art (English); Review by Angela Vettese, Il Sole 24 Ore (Italian); Review by Marco Belpoliti, La Stampa (Italian); Review by Matteo Bordone, Rolling Stone (Italian); Review by Videogiochi (Italian); Review by Arte (Italian); Review by GQ (Italian); Interview by Paolo Branca, Digicult (Italian); Review by Claudia Costa Peterson on RCCS (Resource Center for Cybercultural Studies), with my Author’s response.