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What is "The Asian Tower"?
Un manufatto, un romanzo, un luogo di incontro, o piuttosto, come forse è più giusto, un catalizzatore di energie creative, che sconfinano dal web al mondo reale, dalle lands di Second Life alle pagine dei blog e delle riviste cartacee, alle città del mondo, dall’architettura e dal desing alla scrittura, alla musica, all’arte visiva. Un progetto multimediale e plurilinguistico, dunque, che si è lasciato scoprire e interrogare nel suo farsi, sui blog dedicati e in occasione di diverse presentazioni e mostre, a Bologna, Firenze, Roma, Milano, Potenza. “La Torre di Asian” come manufatto virtuale, nasce dalla sperimentazione dell’idea dello spazio virtuale come racconto del suo costruttore, Asian Lednev aka Fabio Fornasari, owner in Second Life, architetto e desing bolognese nella vita reale; “La Torre di Asian” come romanzo collettivo, nasce dalla sperimentazione della narrativa, come restituzione letteraria della babele linguistica ed esperienziale contemporanea, da parte della scrittrice potentina, Lorenza Colicigno, in Second Life Azzurra Collas.
Patricia Tomaszek - 12.01.2011 - 16:28
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Multimodal Metaphor and Intersubjective Experiences: The Importance of Eye-Contact in Davidson’s Graphic Novel The Spiral Cage and in Annie Abrahams Net-Project On Collaboration
Multimodal Metaphor and Intersubjective Experiences: The Importance of Eye-Contact in Davidson’s Graphic Novel The Spiral Cage and in Annie Abrahams Net-Project On Collaboration
Patricia Tomaszek - 12.01.2011 - 16:32
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WIKIARTPEDIA
WIKIARTPEDIA
Patricia Tomaszek - 12.01.2011 - 16:37
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Digital Arts and Literature – Is it Just a Game?
“Games are not serious; digital art and literature are playful; therefore they are not serious”. Formulations such as these are sometimes used when discussing the playfulness of digital art and literature. The origin of this argument is based on the traditional opposition between “serious” and “playful”. Because of their interactive nature, digital art and literature have often been considered as particularly close to play - and to “mass culture”. Depending on the approaches, this proximity is interpreted as an opportunity, or as a risk, as I will show in this article.
On the one hand, art and play are so closely related that it has become commonplace to assert: “art is play”, “play is art”. On the other hand, it seems equally impossible to deny the existence of playfulness in art and literature. Indeed, is it not one of their fundamental privileges to allow free, unselfish play with the materials, codes and conventions, while science, craft industry, and industrial design are "condemned" to produce and capitalise?
Patricia Tomaszek - 12.01.2011 - 16:44
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Digital Literary Text as a Play and a Ride
Digital Literary Text as a Play and a Ride
Patricia Tomaszek - 12.01.2011 - 16:45
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From Oral Poetry to Tridimensional Poetry
Memory defines human existence both individually and collectively: it is necessary for the evolution of the person and society. The loss of memory leads to the physical and intellectual death of identity. In order to avoid and exorcise existential oblivion, mankind has developed systems to pass on memory and preserve it. One of the oldest of these is poetry that, thanks to its rhythm and rhyme, makes the precise memorizing of a text easier. Thus it effectively communicates the deeds of heroes as well as the prayers, ideals and sentiments that characterize human beings and their culture. Society, thanks also to the heritage of knowledge that has been passed down, continues to evolve and change rapidly: the new technologies transform art, modifying the codes of language and above all the inclusion and typology of the data that constitutes the collective memory. In the era of motion pictures poetry loses some of its evocative effect and its function for transmission. The visual memory is predominant because the brain assimilates information without making the effort of concentrating and decoding input, for example from the sound to the word or from the sign to the word.
Patricia Tomaszek - 12.01.2011 - 16:47
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Video Ergo Sum: Video as Symbolic Form
From cinema to TV, from PC to iPhone, from videogames to the displays disseminated across the urban space, today everything is video. It form a whirl of images flowing in a single visual stream, an unstoppable and fluid visual continuum. Therefore, by explicitly hinting at Erwin Panofsky’s essay of 1927, in this text I try to understand if it is possible to develop a discourse on the situation of contemporary visual culture that echoes the one proposed by the German art historian. The following arguments try to prove that it is indeed possible by referring to the relations currently binding art, aesthetics and the new media, and in particular to the series of interdisciplinary studies developed by North-American cultural studies.
Patricia Tomaszek - 12.01.2011 - 16:50
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New Media ArtPoetry: A Reflection on Practice
New Media ArtPoetry: A Reflection on Practice
Patricia Tomaszek - 12.01.2011 - 16:52
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Art, Activism and Web. Notes and Hypothesis for a Historical Overview
Art, Activism and Web. Notes and Hypothesis for a Historical Overview
Patricia Tomaszek - 12.01.2011 - 16:53
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A Short History of Electronic Poetry
“Una Piccola Storia della Poesia Elettronica” presents a brief history of digital poetry, from the perspective of the Electronic Poetry Center (EPC), Buffalo, and the international E-Poetry Festivals of digital literature, art, and performance (E-Poetry). The paper engages the discipline from various perspectives, considering its relation to historic contextualizing movements and institutional mechanisms. Typifying the E-Poetry festivals, it is argued, are its exuberant origins: (1) the U.S. small press movements of the later twentieth century; (2) the activities and philosophies of the Electronic Poetry Center; (3) its self-definition as more broadly-conceived than that of hypertext; (4) the pre-existing literary ground of Language Poetry practices; (5) the vibrancy of the as-then-constituted Poetics Program at Buffalo, and; (6) a "symposium of the whole", the continued emerging importance of enthnopoetic localizations to an eventual realization of contemporary poetics.
Patricia Tomaszek - 12.01.2011 - 16:57
