Viralnet Launch

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Viralnet.net is now online.

Viralnet is a productive nexus: critique, archive, art space and journal. It intends to raise questions and provoke assumptions about culture, media, politics and the arts.

Working with international social critics, media theorists, writers,
curators and artists, it is an online space that will grow and mutate as it delivers material for these post-digital, post-democratic times. As human experience becomes more mediated, we will highlight alternative pathways into future thought and art making.

Produced by the Center for Integrated Media and the MFA Writing Program at CalArts, Viralnet offers a series of commissioned online projects, essays and interviews with a view toward articulating new concepts and working strategies developed by contemporary intermedia artists, writers and theorists. Tom Leeser, Director of the Center for Integrated Media, says Viralnet is set up to look at digital media in relation to culture, politics and the arts. The computer and the Internet have expanded far beyond the boundaries of an exclusive digital domain, allowing a transformation from novelty to the familiar," he says. "As with radio at the beginning of the 20th century, digital technology has entered a state of flux, going from an object of privilege to a common and everyday ubiquitous appliance. This will have creative, social and political ramifications that we are only beginning to experience and understand."

Some of the contributors to this release of Viralnet include; social
critic and author, Norman Klein, new media theorist and author, Lisa
Nakamura, Kitchen curator and author, Christina Yang, artists, Perry
Hoberman and Sara Roberts.


You can find Viralnet at http://viralnet.net


For information regarding Viralnet and the Center for Integrated Media at CalArts please contact:

Tom Leeser
Director, Center for Integrated Media
California Institute of the Arts
661 291 3004
[email protected]