Friday 6 August 2010 / Extra Extra / 2222 Sepviva St. / Philadelphia PA
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Review by Josephine Bosma, first posted Friday 06 August 2010
After travelling all the way to Philadelphia to see the collaborative exhibition of the artists Artie Vierkant and Constant Dullaart it was a shock to find an empty space. The show, called ‘Less Less’, a pun on the name of the gallery ‘Extra Extra’, at first glance only consists of a room with a freshly poured concrete floor. As it turns out, the artists have created an invisible network of cables and computers underneath (or rather: in) the floor. Josephine Bosma is a writer and critic on net art based in Amsterdam. From an art background, she is a journalist and author in the fields of art, new media and media theory, focusing on art, sound and performance on the internet, as well as cyberfeminism and media politics. Since 1996, she has regularly publishes texts and interviews on- and offline (nettime, Telepolis, Mute, Metropolis M, UHK, Switch). Her offline-publications include Net Art: Building Something out of Nothing in the V2_ publication aRt&D from 2005, the Ars Electronica '97 catalogue, the book cyberfeminizam edited by Igor Markovich and the book netzkunst edited by Verena Kuni. She has given lectures about net art in the Künstlerhaus Bethanien and Stedelijk Bureau and State Academy of Visual Arts Stuttgart, and she has lectured about net.radio and sound art at Recycling the Future, Netradiodays or Futuresonic. In 2001 Josephine Bosma initiated the newsletter for net art criticism Cream: http://laudanum.net/cream/ Her archive can be found on http://laudanum.net/bosma |