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synthesized space -NACRE-:
A project by Luca Bertini and Marco Antonini
October 26, 2007 - November 23, 2007
Artist(s): A project by Luca Bertini and Marco Antonini
Curated by: Luca Bertini and Marco Antonini
Opening Reception:
Friday, October 26, 6-8pm
The Pearl originates its beauty and singularity by reacting to external interferences. Organic materials, parasites and even mantle tissue of the oyster itself are considered a threat, and covered in nacre. Also known as "mother of pearl", nacre is composed of hexagonal platelets of a substance called aragonite.
Luca Bertini and Marco Antonini's NACRE is an ongoing project in which data inconsistencies retrieved from the net bloom into an ever changing sprawling 3d structure. A plentiful mass of interferences and anomalies (the multi-faceted constituents of networks that are no longer able to produce a linear, unequivocal reality) is therefore perceived as a threat to the purity and determinism of the "outer environment".
This chaotic structure is built from huddling hexagonal platelets designed over information collected by a spider (an automatic computer program which crawls the net in search of data).
NACRE exists to give shape to this underworld of deceptive, ambiguous data, in a way that is neither creative nor critical.
NACRE resembles a product, but its approach to the economy and ecology of networks is completely unique. Personal data treated by NACRE take a completely useless, anti-iconic form, ultimately by redefining the rationale of the environment, what they were originally from dramatically extending its possibilities.
Marco Antonini:
lives and works in New York.
He is an active writer, curator and graphic designer.
The recipient of a Connor Fellowship from the City College of New York (CUNY) for 2007/2008, his articles, essays and interviews have been featured on the pages of Contemporary, Flash Art, BMM, NY Arts Magazine, D, Arte&Critica.
Luca Bertini:
lives and works.
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