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A Few Considerations on Crowdsourcing Art

By Marco Deseriis | December 17, 2009

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

By Marco Deseriis | December 6, 2009

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

By Marco Deseriis | December 1, 2009

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.
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No End In Sight

By Marco Deseriis | October 10, 2009

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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Concerning Art and Social Change

By Marco Deseriis | February 18, 2009

By Marco Deseriis and Brian Holmes
(Originally published by Mute Magazine)
The 2007 reader Art and Social Change offers a genealogy of today’s radical cultures. Here, Brian Holmes and Marco Deseriis glean insights from the book into today’s dilemma of producing critical culture within recuperative ‘ semiocapitalism’
Among the groundswell of books investigating the link between aesthetics and [...]

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Art/and or Revolution

By Marco Deseriis | October 27, 2008

(Originally published in Mute Magazine.)

What’s the difference between a commissar’s propaganda and a Constructivist’s poetics of production? Marco Deseriis reviews Gerald Raunig’s ‘Art and Revolution’ and ponders some of the gaps in his aesthetic-political theory.
There are books which are imbued with an anachronistic aura from their very release. Books whose untimely publication makes you wonder [...]

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Agnese Trocchi intervista Marco Deseriis

By Marco Deseriis | September 20, 2008

Data: 02.09.2008
da Teknemedia.it
Intervista con Marco Deseriis, giornalista, ricercatore al Dipartimento di Media, Cultura e Comunicazione della New York University di New York e autore con Giuseppe Marano del libro “Net.Art, l’arte della connessione”, uscito nel 2003 per la Shake Edizioni ed arrivato oggi alla sua prima ristampa. Con una nuova introduzione ed alcuni aggiornamenti.

A.T: Dopo [...]

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