EDICE PAF: #KG #MM NET ART_critical performative review

The first coherent Czech anthology devoted to internet art was released within PAF Edition in November. The publication #mm net art – Internet art in the virtual and physical space of its presentation, will be introduced in the form of a critical performative review by the curator, graphic designer, occasional coder and head of the Department of Digitalisation and New Media, the Slovak National Museum, Katarína Gatialová. The introduction takes place within the 14th PAF--Festival of Film Animation and Contemporary Art, Olomouc, Czech Republic ---------------------------- Editor: Marie Meixnerová Authors of the texts: Natalie Bookchin, Piotr Czerski, Dieter Daniels, Jennifer Chan, Gene McHugh, Marie Meixnerová, Lumír Nykl, Domenico Quaranta, Gunther Reisinger, Katarína Rusnáková, Matěj Strnad, Alexej Šulgin, Brad Troemel, Ben Vickers, Artie Vierkant paperback, 16,5 x 23,5 cm, 232 pages, Czech/English ---------------------------- Net art is nowadays perceived as a significant field of contemporary visual art which is being researched by experts. In the course of its more than 25-year long history, it was, however, considerably changed. Forms of theoretical, critical and authorial comprehension of Net art were also developed. The publication #mm net art – Internet art in the virtual and physical space of its presentation, may serve as the first introduction to this specific area of the artistic world in the 20th and 21st centuries. However, the selection of texts is intended for experienced readers. Those readers will find information that has not been published before as well as special viewpoints on the net art phenomenon. It includes and puts into context, period texts, manifestos and both theoretical and historical articles in which net art is traced from its technological as well as ideological origins to the contemporary moment of syncretic connection of virtual and physical worlds and the steps of so-called post-internet art into gallery premises. The anthology is divided in five thematic areas that are derived from significant moments in internet art genealogy: Web 1.0 (Katarína Rusnáková, Dieter Daniels, Marie Meixnerová); Net.art (net-dot-art) (Domenico Quaranta, Natalie Bookchin, Alexej Šulgin); Web 2.0 (Domenico Quaranta, Piotr Czerski, Brad Troemel, Artie Vierkant, Ben Vickers, Marie Meixnerová) and Postinternet (Jennifer Chan, Gene McHugh). The fifth chapter is simply called Archiving and is dedicated to the archiving and preservation of internet art (Dieter Daniels, Gunther Reisinger, Matěj Strnad). The author of the epilogue is Lumír Nykl, a Czech theorist of post-internet and a curator. The editor of the publication and author of several texts is the curator and theorist Marie Meixnerová, who has been systematically dealing with internet art since 2011. AT PAF the book will be introduced in the form of a critical performative review by the curator, graphic designer, occasional coder and head of the Department of Digitalisation and New Media, the Slovak National Museum, Katarína Gatialová. more: http://www.pifpaf.cz/en/mm-net-art