Eternal September. The Rise of Amateur Culture

Eternal September. The Rise of Amateur Culture is a group exhibition that explores the relationship between professional art making and the rising of amateur cultural movements through the web, an historical event that is triggering a big and fascinating shift in every field of culture, especially visual culture. This catalogue features a curatorial text by Valentina Tanni, together with an interview with artist Matthias Fritsch, the man beyond the Teknoviking meme, an essay by artist group Smetnjak on practicing critical theory in the form of internet memes, and visual documentation of Tanni's ongoing curatorial project The Great Wall of Memes. Featured artists: Mauro Ceolin, Paolo Cirio, Electroboutique, Paul Destieu, Matthias Fritsch, Colin Guillemet, David Horvitz, Maskull Lasserre, Aled Lewis, Dennis Logan (Spatula007), Valeria Mancinelli and Roberto Fassone, Mark McEvoy, Casey Pugh, Steve Roggenbuck, Helmut Smits, Pawel Sysiak & Tymek Borowski, TheGamePro, Phil Thompson, Wendy Vainity.

Author: Domenico Quaranta,Valentina Tanni,Smetnjak
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 09/15/2014
Pages: 84
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.37lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.22d
ISBN: 9781291980608

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