1. June 2001 - PARALLEL ACTION - BUNKER (49th Venice Biennial, general director Harald Szeemann, virtual happening by Caterina Davinio for the Bunker Poetico, Marco N. Rotelli Curator) http://www.geocities.com/kareninarivista/; Year: June 7, 2001, technology and materials: e-mailed poems and digital/digitalized visual poetry, web site, html, gif, jpg, e-mail and web communication. In the context of the Poetry Bunker 60 poets and artists connected with Karenina.it web site, sent their contribution by e-mail, which were published in real time during a real happening at the Orsogrill delle Artiglierie (A Net Of Voices).
2. February 2002 - PAINT FROM NATURE / COPIA DAL VERO ("Nature" as media landscape and telemathic passage) http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Lights/7323/paintfromnature.htm; Year: February 4 2002 (Florence) and June 8 2002 (Eglise Anglicane, Ajaccio, F), technology and materials: 78 e-mail, 77 arrived September 11-15 2001, remote action and installation in collaboration with other artists, e-mail and web communication, html, gif, jpg files.
"Paint From Nature" is made of e-mails arrived at the artist's studio on September 11 - 15. In a non-iconic way this net-art work describes the tragedy of the Twin Towers as it appeared in the telemathic flux. Sound and voices from the rhizome in the "copy from nature", from the telemathic "truth" - which actuates its "reality" in the continuous passage from real to virtual and back - comes from an every-place, or from a no-place, from a texture of contacts, which is a "thing", space where to enter, to wander, to look for. This space, in the performance "Paint from nature", is 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 is in the net, in the media universe, 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. (Selected for the Rhizome Net-Art Database NY. Linked in BlogWork Project of ASAC - The 50th Venice Biennial, featured in the essay Techno-Poetry and Virtual Realities, Mantova, Italia, 2002)
3. March 2002 - GLOBAL POETRY NET-ACTION (virtual&real) Texts & Pictures (various languages) http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/kareninazoom/; Year: March 2002, technology and materials: digital experimental poetry and images by 122 artists, web site, html, gif, jpg, e-mail and web communication, installations in real time contemporaneously in new New York, Los Angeles, Lecco, Milan, Rome, Cologne, Saint Petersburg, Montevideo and other cities in California, Brazil, Russia, Italy. Collaborative creation which runs in the net as communication, art made of communication; the involved artists played on the semiotic limit between real and virtual, by realizing this collaborative event in network also as concrete, "real" thing out of the net, contemporaneously in remote places of the planet, as installation, performance, exhibition, and in the Internet, as web site. The virtual action took place on March 21 2002, the real performances happened contemporaneously on 21-23 March 2002, still on line. (Selected for the Rhizome Net-Art Database NY. Linked in BlogWork Project of the 50th Venice Biennial, featured in the essay Techno-Poetry and Virtual Realities, Mantova, Italia, 2002).
4. 1998 - in course - KARENINA.IT (Poetry in Phatic Function) http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Lights/7323/kareninarivista.html; Year: the web project began in 1998, is still active; technology and materials: web site, html, gif, jpg, e-mail and web communication; international meeting point for debate around new media poetry and avant-garde, concrete, video, visual, sonore poetry and experimental arts. By Jakobson, phatic is the use of the language which has the finality to maintain open and operative the communication channel among the interlocutors. On the limit between art and critic, happening and net performance, Karenina.it is a virtual meeting place around the theme of writing and new technologies, in which experiences of international artists, curators, theoreticians converge, in a net that counts more than 10.000 contacts in the world. Net -art e Fluxus XCommunicAction Perspectives on Modern Web Literary Avant-Garde --- Karenina.it seen by Enrico Gianfranchi
5. GATES - Beyond Net.Art / Real Things Across the Cyberspace
Featured in BolgWork project of ASAC - The 50th Biennale di Venezia
By Caterina Davinio - Gates is dedicated to Pierre Restany
Part 1: July 4 - September 30, 2003
Part 2: October 1 - December 31, 2003
http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/davinio/GATES/gatesindex.htm
Collaborative planetary network event. Contributions (performance, poetry, art, video-art) from: Belgium, Lebanon, Chile, Amazzonia, USA, Greece, UK, Brazil, Germany, Spain, and from other countries. Gates is a total new collaborative art experiment; one participated not by sending video or digital work on the topic, but creating a circulation of action-communication, between real and cyberspace, between visual and word, related to the symbolic icon of the Gate, with its metaphoric, symbolic, of computer science, and telematic, implications, gates as ways of transit, as dimension of open, of passages in every direction, at every level. Creating a new form of art that uses as matter e-communication, relationship among persons, art debate, real/virtual body, voice, gesture. The call was directed to experimental artists, poets, critics, theoreticians, "e-post-Fluxus casseurs", "e-post-post-duchamp-ists (?)". Polemic with net-art only as a game of new - and soon obsolete - software, net art is here taken as a network communic-action work, by reducing the electronic element. Gates has been dedicated to Pierre Restany, who had joined the project and tried to find a node in Paris for it.
Caterina Davinio's Home Page
http://space.tin.it/arte/cprezi/caterinadav.html
