Author Archives: Marco Deseriis

Upgrade! NY: Improperly Named

Event Type: Conference
Time: May 10, 2010 (7:00-9:00PM)
Venue: Eyebeam
540 West 21st Street
New York, NY 10011
Panelists:
Marco Deseriis (Doctoral candidate, New York University)
Leonidas Martin Saura (Artist and professor, [...]

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Book Launch: Critical Strategies in Art & Media

When: April 15, 6:30-8:30pm
Where: New School University
Vera List Center (Wollman Hall)
65 West 11th Street
New York, NY
Brief introductory remarks by Steve Kurtz (Critical Art Ensemble) Marco Deseriis, (New York University), Beka Economopulous (Not An Alternative), McKenzie Wark (New School), Andy Bichlbaum (The Yes Men), Gabriella Coleman (New York University), Konrad Becker (World-Information Institute).
Moderators: Ted Byfield (New [...]

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Radars & Fences III: Borders, Affect, Space

Event Time
Friday, March 12, 2010
10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Location
Institute for Public Knowledge
20, Cooper Square – 5th Floor
New York, NY 10003
RSVP at http://www.nyu.edu/media.culture/events/event.html?e_id=2324
Web site: http://blogs.nyu.edu/blogs/md1445/rf/
Description
A symposium with Ricardo Dominguez & Amy Carroll, Teddy Cruz, Helga Tawil Souri, Laila el Haddad & Mushon Zer-Aviv.
Radars and Fences 2010 explores the production of the Israel/Palestine and Mexico/US borders, examining [...]

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A Few Considerations on Crowdsourcing Art

I have recently published an article on Repubblica.it (in Italian) on the work of Aaron Koblin, a young, brilliant Californian artist who has been crowdsourcing his art projects through Amazon’s Mechanical Turk.
By collecting the contributions of thousands of MTurk’s providers Koblin realized a version of Daisy Bell sung by two thousand voices, a $100 [...]

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Eva and Franco Mattes’ Book

Eva and Franco Mattes aka 0100101110101101.org have just released a book (Charta, 2009) about their precocious art career.
The book recapitulates the couple’s memorable exploits, including their participation in the multiple-use nameLuther Blissett, the fake Nikeground campaign in Vienna, the poster ad for United We Stand, a fictitious film on the power dreams of [...]

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‘We Get More Ambitious:’ An Interview with Wu Ming

The last day Roberto Bui aka Wu Ming 1 was touring New York City’s colleges and bookstores to present the English translation of Manituana (Verso, 2009), Ashley Dawson, Gabriella Coleman, and I came together to interview him in Biella’s office on the 7th floor of the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU.
Roberto [...]

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Wu Ming Presents Manituana

This Friday I will be introducing Wu Ming @ BlueStockings!
Date:
Friday, November 20, 2009
7:00pm
Location:
BlueStockings
172 Allen St
New York, NY
Wu Ming is a pseudonym for a group of Italian authors, “a band of guerrilla novelists” whom have collaboratively written several novels, including 54 (2002), Manituana (2009), and, under the pseudonym of Luther Blissett, Q (1999).

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FCF’s Charter for Innovation, Creativity and Access to Knowledge

The Free Culture Forum which met in Barcelona on Oct 29-Nov 1, 2009 has elaborated a Charter for Innovation, Creativity and Access to Knowledge which is worth reading, circulating, and discussing.

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Stephanie Rothenberg on Invisible Threads

The Internet as Playground and Factory – Stephanie Rothenberg from Voices from The Internet as Play on Vimeo.
Co-created by Stephanie Rothenberg and Jeff Crouse, “Invisible Threads – Double Happiness Jeans” is a mixed reality performance-installation, which explores the growing intersection between labor, emerging virtual economies and real life commodities through the creation of a designer [...]

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No End In Sight

I have recently published a chapter of Networked: A (networked book) about (networked art), “an open book designed to be written, edited and read in a networked environment.”
The project has been commissioned by Turbulence.org, and implemented in collaboration with the Institute for the Future of the Book in 2008. After an international committee selected [...]

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