Viral Names in a Shared Network. Tales from Vittore Baroni

Viral Names in a Shared Network. Tales from Vittore Baroni focuses on Mail Art and the use of multiple names and collective pseudonyms in the network,

hand in hand with one of the fathers of the Italian Mail Art network.

 

 

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 third of five interviews (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/