Neoism Now & Then. In Conversation with Florian Cramer introduces the reader to Neoism and its connections with Mail Art, Plagiarism and net.art, discussing in depth the practice of multiple names and offering an exceptionally rich insider view on these developments.
This publication is a spin-off of the book project Cloning Aura. Art in the Age of Copycats, by Chiara Moioli: an essay that explores the close relation between practices of appropriation an, going through Postmodernism, 70s-80s subcultural movements, net.art and the Surfing Club generation. This is the first of five interviews (with Florian Cramer, Tom Moody, Vittore Baroni, Vuk Ćosić and Cory Arcangel) in English and Italian, that will follow in the upcoming weeks. The book, in Italian, will be available on our shelves from mid March 2016.
Chiara Moioli is an artist and researcher. More info: http://imsoemptyilikememes.tumblr.com/