Etere-Arte-Rete is an artistical operation which analyses
the relation between televisional pictures, creative-aesthetic
aspect of their manipulation, and circulation of the works present
in networks and art galleries. Etere-Arte-Rete consists in a
collective intervention on photographs of TV programs. The manipulation
is made either by conventional tools (temperas, pens, spray...)
on printed photographs, or by computer tools (various kinds of
software), on digitalized photographs. Then the results of this
first stage of the work are brought into the network to stimulate new
contributions. The artistic products circulate inside the net with
greater speed and ubiquity than in other canals, for example
reviews or art galleries. But the opposite operation is possible
too. It consists in taking material off the net, printing them and
intervening by manual methods. Then the work turns into a continuous
flux of reciprocity among all possible canals (an art-exhibition in
a gallery moves into cyberspace, a digital manipulation is published
in an art review and so on). Etere-Arte-Rete aims at penetrating the
mediological-aesthetical shapes concerning videosphere and cyberspace.
I/'95
Claudio Parrini