[aha] Fw: LX 2.0 launches new project by Carlos Katastrofsky
T_Bazz
t_bazz at ecn.org
Sun Nov 11 21:23:52 CET 2007
Oggetto: TODAY: LX 2.0 launches new project by Carlos Katastrofsky
Da: Luis Silva <silva.luis at netcabo.pt>
Data: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 10:26:15 +0000
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For immediate release:
Lisboa 20 Arte Contemporânea is launching on November 8th (next
Thursday) LX 2.0 Project's new comission, the project lastwishes by
Vienna-based media artist Carlos Katastrofsky (http://www.lisboa20.pt/lx20).
Carlos Katastrofsky (1975) has been creating net art pieces that
question both the notion of what an art work is and the notion of
ownership of these processual projects, not defined by physical
properties. Projects such as internet art for poor people (2006), free
interactive readymade (2005) or the original (2005) are just a few
examples of Katastrofsky's interest in exploring alternative ways of
distributing and owning net art, always within the institutional art
world logic and always through a critical, yet playful approach. His
projects are mostly conceptual, not defined by fancy visual effects or
sophisticated programming. There is no "beautiful" or "poetic" things to
be seen on the screen, just the critical use of massified online tools
that he masters in order to achieve his own agenda.
lastwishes, the project the artist created specially for LX 2.0, is a
great example of the lack of any visual aesthetics in his work. In a
simplistic (yet pretty accurate) way, there is nothing to be seen in his
new project. lastwishes deals solely with the principles of
communication. Mailing lists are popular tools for the exchange of
thoughts and opinions: they make multiple (written) dialogues possible
as well as the archiving for future references. In this work the
mailinglist-software "mailman" is modified to allow only one single
posting from a sender. The user is able to subscribe and to receive
messages endlessly but post only once and by this immediately get
unsubscribed. The idea of "exchange" is thereby turned into something
absurd: one can listen but only talk once. Sending a message thus
requires meaningful content, "chatting" becomes impossible.
The ephemeral quality of this sending-process reminds of zen-qualities:
be quiet and learn to listen but if you really have to say something
meaningful then talk. Above that, the question arises: how is
communication possible when there is a quiet, listening mass and no one
dares to stand up and speak? According to an Austrian proverb, "talking
is silver and being quiet is gold", but being quiet only makes sense
within the process of communication.
Luis Silva
LX 2.0 Project (http://www.lisboa20.pt/lx20)
Lisboa 20 Arte Contemporânea
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