ART EXHIBITION: TLG 2.0 Печать veb-tlg Modern Museum 25.08 -- 09.09 Curator: Susanna Crispino /Italy/ Artists: Bruno Di Lecce, Giuseppina Esposito, Giulia Giannola, Giuseppe Manigrasso, Vito Pace, Mauro Rescigno, Angelo Ricciardi, Roxy in-the-Box, Nello Teodori, Angelo Volpe. As a reference to the Biennale concept, TLG 2.0 -- Through the looking glass 2.0 idea arises from the multiple functions of the "screen": on the one hand, it "divides" two realities (specifically the real world from its projection), on the other hand it allows -- as a monitor -- a double-quick transmission of information through television and, above all, through the web. As a consequence, every event loses its uniqueness and significance becoming a drop in a sea of other events, in a perpetual synchronization that reduces and flattens everything in an eternal present causing a loss of perspective, history, importance. In the meantime, the speed of communication itself and the related independence of the sources (anyone can post photos, videos and accounts on the web, in honour of the citizen journalism) let be anyone who wishes to up-to-date on any event in every corner of the world or nearly so. As a result, the so-called "international public opinion" is heavily influenced, in a way that would have been unthinkable a few decades ago and may not be considered free from manipulation. In other words, while we all are virtually well-informed (an "all" that means those who have access to satellite TV and a fast web connection), on the other hand, the large amount of information makes it difficult to distinguish between the truth and the mystification, the information and the deformation and, ultimately, no one can be sure that reality is as it appears on the screen. The title of the project takes a leaf from Lewis Carroll novel "Through the looking glass and what Alice found there" the classic novel of English literature where Alice goes through the mirror in her house and finds a world that looks like her own world, but it is very different. This could be comparable to our experience with the screen or the monitor: we see something that looks like familiar, but -be it a film, or web news or photos- it can be very different. We all are Alice, sometimes scared of the images, sometimes fascinated, but never neutral. We do confront the images on the screen, but sometimes -especially when images come from a reality far away from our ordinary world- we can understand them only partially. Actually, the East and the West could find a relation between their reality, but they will never understand the images in the same way. The abbreviation TLG concerns to the web habit to put everything in acronym, that is a brand new way to communicate, but sometimes it makes us loose the real sense, the essence or the meaning of the word. The attribute 2.0 is the conventional way to describe a particular web codification, that it is based on the sharing of everything, from information to images, and so on. TLG 2.0 looks like the name of a program release or patch; it seems familiar but it is not. It's like a criticism to the impoverishment of the language that often runs into ridiculousness. The subtitle "Through the Looking-Glass" has the task of clarify or reveal the joke and makes us meditate upon the ambiguity of the language and the images we watch on the screen. Susanna Crispino Back 2013: Screen 2013: Projects of Biennale MINISTRY OF CULTURE OF RUSSIAN FEDERATION VOLGA REGION BRANCH OF NATIONAL CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS SAMARA REGIONAL PUBLIC CHARITABLE FUND «CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART» NCCA ROBF_CSI THE PROJECT IS SUPPORTED BY THE MINISTRY OF CULTURE OF THE SAMARA REGION Art Institution -- partners of biennale: SAMARA REGIONAL ART MUSEUM VICTORIA GALLERY ART-CENTER GALLERY MUSEUM OF MODERN NEW SPACE GALLERY STUTTGARTER KUNSTVEREIN E.V. International partners of Biennale: EMBASSY OF AUSTRIA IN MOSCOW AUSTRIAN CULTURAL FORUM AUSTRIAN FEDERAL MINISTRY FOR EDUCATION, THE ARTS AND CULTURE EMBASSY OF SWEDEN IN MOSCOW SWEDISH ARTS GRANTS COMMITTEE IASPIS SWEDISH VISUAL ARTS FUND'S INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME EMBASSY OF FRANCE IN MOSCOW INSTITUT FRANCAISE ALLIANCE FRANCAISE SAMARA GOETHE INSTITUT CITY ADMINISTRATION OF STUTTGART ESTONIAN FUND FOR CULTURE Partners of Biennale: THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE CITY OF ZHIGULEVSK COMPANY "SAMARA - CENTER" RUSS OUTDOOR SAMARA, LTD. "APR - CITY / TVD" HOTEL "BRISTOL-ZHIGULY" EVANGELICAL - LUTHERAN COMMUNITY OF ST. GEORGE IN SAMARA Partners of project "EST MEMORIALE": BAD bunker art division GALLERIA STUDIO LEGALE GALLERIA PRIMO PIANO TEKLA Di.St.Urb. (distretto di studi e relazioni urbane) Partner for philosophical seminar: THE CREATIVE LABORATORY "TERRITORY OF DIALOGUE" OF SAMARA STATE AEROSPACE UNIVERSITY VIDEO: BRUNO AYMONE CHANNEL MONTAGGIO: FATIMA ESTRELLA OTTIMIZZAZIONE:LUCREZIA VERBENA POSTPRODUZIONE: BAYPRESSAGENCY REGIA: BRUNO AYMONE

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