How can artists create small disturbances in the social landscape in order to question technology and its limits? The book CTRL + ART + DEL is ready to reflect on critical actions in art and technology.
It is certain that you are being observed right now in some way. Look around you. There are surveillance cameras, satellites, cell phones, supermarket loyalty cards, identification chips, social networking sites and even Wikipedia ready to take a look at you. Invasion? Just part of a market logic? Contemporaneity seems more and more like a cyberpunk prologue, in which the individual is increasingly insignificant. It is then that an artistic production emerges, which uses these new means to introduce small disturbances in the social landscape, whose challenge is to question technology and its limits, as well as to demonstrate the superficiality of social relations and to identify hegemonic thinking. Among reflections and analyzes of web art works, interactive installations and other art and technology projects, Fábio Oliveira Nunes (Fabio FON) seeks in this essay, which Perspectiva publishes in its Big Bang collection, to reassess the present guidelines. Opening this new world by a shortcut: do CTRL + ART + DEL.
In this book authored by Fabio FON, released in 2010, several works of web art, net art, media art, communication art, performance, among other situations, in view of Brazilian and international production, were addressed. Some of the referenced artists are: Fred Forest, Steve Mann, Lucas Bambozzi, Critical Art Ensemble, Egdar Franco, Perry Hoberman, Giselle Beiguelman, Minerva Cuevas, Suzete Venturelli and Mario Maciel, among others. The reflections also come from the artist’s own production, in works such as Freakpedia, Post-human Glimpses (both developed jointly with the artist Edgar Franco) in addition to previous artworks such as ONOS .
The book has Portuguese version only, with the title ‘CTRL + DEL + ART: Distúrbios em Arte e Tecnologia’ (Ed. Perspectiva).
SUMMARY
Presentation – Gilbertto Prado 11
Introduction 15
- The Context Inserted in Art 29
Dadá 33
Conceptualisms 37
Postal Art 40
Beuys: Art as Social Sculpture 44
Situationism 47
Sociological Art 52
Communication Aesthetics 58
Fred Forest 65
Media and Art 69
Relational Aesthetics 73
Technorelational Stances 81 - Network Relations and Mediation 89
Internet Network Censorship 95
Web 2.0 99
Wikipedia 110
Web Art Production 119
Freakpedia: Concepts 125
Freakpedia: Technique and Content 132
Action and Mediation 141
Web 3.0 148 - Hegemony Cyborg 155
Cyberpunks 156
Cyborgs 166
Control Society 169
Market and Technoscience 175
Flows and Decelerations 188
Emergency 195
The Post-Human Aurora by Edgar Franco 202
Post-Human Glimpses Project 208 - Technology and its Disorders 219
Relational Forms 223
Disturbances and Deviations 228
Coexistence Actions 234
Monitoring Actions 241
Intrinsic Actions 258
Actions with Social Models 271
Roaming and Clamping: Intrinsic and Social 280
Other Actions 289
Final Considerations 295
Bibliography 303
Automatic translation of the original page in Portuguese.
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