Before SecondLife was forgotten even in Italy, it had been a “hype”, with a lot of fuss, famous net artists converted to it etc.
But before it even became a hype, we organised an informal conference about it!
Book with 6 critical essays by Carlo Giordano about net artist Carlo Zanni. Published by I.C.A. (Institute of Contemporary Arts), London. Distributed by Cornerhouse. In English, Italian, Chinese.
Inspired by the graphics of Leisure-Suit-Larry (1987), AVERAGE SHOVELER is an online game challenging the boundaries between photo, paintings, game and short movie.
It’s snowing, and you have to keep your way cleaned. Each flake of snow contains an image taken live from news/politics/sport/ web channels: you have to shovel pumping news from your head saving your life from a news overload.
Ebay Landscape is a online environment built using a data flux coming in real time from Internet. Mountains are generated dinamically grabbing eBay.com stock markets charts, images filling the bamboo trees are “stolen” from CNN.com home page, while the number of stars and the color of the sky depends on the number and IP address of the users connected to the work in that moment.
