Bruno Capatti
DWWNCongress '12 Ponte Nossa
DECENTRALIZED WORLD-WIDE NETWORKER CONGRESS 2012
ON NOVEMBER 3, 2012 IN PONTE NOSSA (PROVINCE BERGAMO, ITALY) IN THE LOCAL ART-STUDIO MORANDI WAS HELD DISCUSSION ON THE ISSUES AND PROBLEMS OF THE DECENTRALIZED NETWORKER CONGRESS 2012 WHICH SUMMARIZED THE FINDINGS:
(1) RENEWAL AND DEVELOPMENT. Participants Decentralized World-Wide Networker Congress 2012 believe that the mail art network can and should be updated periodically to reflect the sensitivity of his age, especially in relation with the continuous renewal of the media. The slowness and cost of postal communication on the one hand, and the dizzying acceleration of economic, social and political changes on the other, accompanied by increasingly complex interactions on a global scale, the need arise, even in relationships and exchanges between mail artists of intensive use, although not exclusive, the Internet in the variety of tools available, launching projects via the Internet or at least to double entry: by mail and via the Internet. The utility of the use of the internet we had a test in joyful meetings and conversations via Skype, and the rain of images and messages on social networks in the period of the Congress.
We hope that will be realized in the near future new projects networker congress, but not centralized on a few sites and promoters of the collection, but really widespread and decentralized, according to the unforgettable experience of the meetings in 1992. To achieve this goal will require a programmatic work of preparation which will be attended throughout the network, in view of the implementation period of the program at least one year.
(2) EFFECTIVE GLOBALISATION Of MAILART. The intensive use of the Internet will make possible an effective and concrete globalization of mailart, closer relations between mail artists based on direct knowledge of the economic, political cultural contexts, projects adapted to the situation, the resumption of mailartistic campaigns for peace, against hunger, torture, sexual and racial prejudice, the revival of a modern artistic creativity based on the "conscience of the world", even more necessary after the return to order of the avant-garde, fluxus and visual poetry included .
Of course, the intensive use of computers and the internet does not mean the mail art transformation into something new, like digital art or net art, not only because the mail will continue to exist alongside the communication via the Internet, but also because mail art has always refused as an art form of marking particular, leaving the flexibility to mail artists to use all possible techniques of expression , as long as share ideal principles that have made glorious in its first fifty years.
(3) THE PROBLEM OF PERSONAL ARCHIVES. Some participants raised the issue of the allocation of personal archives that are already beginning to overflow. As a "personal", archives have a value above all emotional: they belong, it is true, the history of mailart, but most of our history. Create museums mailart in competition with art museums, or establish, within art museums, a section mailart, solutions are alien to the tradition and spirit of mailart, which could pave the way for confusion and competition in the same community mailartistic, and essentially the surrender of mailart to the art system with its strict laws. In the futuristic looks rather interesting proposal Honoria Starbuck a network of digital archives that would be like a huge garden in the ether, where each of us was its location, and glorification, where it would be possible to listen to the voice of every mailartist dead, see his animated figure, read his writings, see the projects.
(4) “MAIL ART ENTERS INTO LIFE!” (Creativa 2011). While the nations of the world sink into the abyss of their economies devastated by corrupt political elites and foolish speculations, that you want to charge as usual to the poorest classes and young people left without prospects for the future, mailart continues to pose in his small, as a society "other" than large society, a "different" than the art system, a factor of resistance and civil development. Exist as long as mail art, exist for us a reference point to turn to, in reality, not utopia. In this sense we can say that the mail art is a wealth and power, to be protect and administered with care.
(by Gianni Broi)
ARTISTS AT THE CONGRESS 2.3.4 November 2012 PONTE NOSSA ( BERGAMO )
ADRIANO BONARI, ATTILIO FORTINI, ROBERT SWIERKIEWICZ, EVA NOVACZKI, FULGOR SILVI, GIANNI BROI, MARIANO BELLAROSA, CLAUDIO GAVINA, MARIO RONDI, BRUNO CAPATTI, PAOLO G. CONTI, EZIO BIANCHI, DINO SILEONI, LUCIA FORNARINI, MAURIZIA CARANTANI, GIANCARLO PUCCI, ROSSELLA PUCCI, SILVANA FORTINI, ASIA ROTA, FRANCA MORANDI, EMILIO MORANDI.
DWWNCongress '12 Ponte Nossa
DECENTRALIZED WORLD-WIDE NETWORKER CONGRESS 2012
ON NOVEMBER 3, 2012 IN PONTE NOSSA (PROVINCE BERGAMO, ITALY) IN THE LOCAL ART-STUDIO MORANDI WAS HELD DISCUSSION ON THE ISSUES AND PROBLEMS OF THE DECENTRALIZED NETWORKER CONGRESS 2012 WHICH SUMMARIZED THE FINDINGS:
(1) RENEWAL AND DEVELOPMENT. Participants Decentralized World-Wide Networker Congress 2012 believe that the mail art network can and should be updated periodically to reflect the sensitivity of his age, especially in relation with the continuous renewal of the media. The slowness and cost of postal communication on the one hand, and the dizzying acceleration of economic, social and political changes on the other, accompanied by increasingly complex interactions on a global scale, the need arise, even in relationships and exchanges between mail artists of intensive use, although not exclusive, the Internet in the variety of tools available, launching projects via the Internet or at least to double entry: by mail and via the Internet. The utility of the use of the internet we had a test in joyful meetings and conversations via Skype, and the rain of images and messages on social networks in the period of the Congress.
We hope that will be realized in the near future new projects networker congress, but not centralized on a few sites and promoters of the collection, but really widespread and decentralized, according to the unforgettable experience of the meetings in 1992. To achieve this goal will require a programmatic work of preparation which will be attended throughout the network, in view of the implementation period of the program at least one year.
(2) EFFECTIVE GLOBALISATION Of MAILART. The intensive use of the Internet will make possible an effective and concrete globalization of mailart, closer relations between mail artists based on direct knowledge of the economic, political cultural contexts, projects adapted to the situation, the resumption of mailartistic campaigns for peace, against hunger, torture, sexual and racial prejudice, the revival of a modern artistic creativity based on the "conscience of the world", even more necessary after the return to order of the avant-garde, fluxus and visual poetry included .
Of course, the intensive use of computers and the internet does not mean the mail art transformation into something new, like digital art or net art, not only because the mail will continue to exist alongside the communication via the Internet, but also because mail art has always refused as an art form of marking particular, leaving the flexibility to mail artists to use all possible techniques of expression , as long as share ideal principles that have made glorious in its first fifty years.
(3) THE PROBLEM OF PERSONAL ARCHIVES. Some participants raised the issue of the allocation of personal archives that are already beginning to overflow. As a "personal", archives have a value above all emotional: they belong, it is true, the history of mailart, but most of our history. Create museums mailart in competition with art museums, or establish, within art museums, a section mailart, solutions are alien to the tradition and spirit of mailart, which could pave the way for confusion and competition in the same community mailartistic, and essentially the surrender of mailart to the art system with its strict laws. In the futuristic looks rather interesting proposal Honoria Starbuck a network of digital archives that would be like a huge garden in the ether, where each of us was its location, and glorification, where it would be possible to listen to the voice of every mailartist dead, see his animated figure, read his writings, see the projects.
(4) “MAIL ART ENTERS INTO LIFE!” (Creativa 2011). While the nations of the world sink into the abyss of their economies devastated by corrupt political elites and foolish speculations, that you want to charge as usual to the poorest classes and young people left without prospects for the future, mailart continues to pose in his small, as a society "other" than large society, a "different" than the art system, a factor of resistance and civil development. Exist as long as mail art, exist for us a reference point to turn to, in reality, not utopia. In this sense we can say that the mail art is a wealth and power, to be protect and administered with care.
(by Gianni Broi)
ARTISTS AT THE CONGRESS 2.3.4 November 2012 PONTE NOSSA ( BERGAMO )
ADRIANO BONARI, ATTILIO FORTINI, ROBERT SWIERKIEWICZ, EVA NOVACZKI, FULGOR SILVI, GIANNI BROI, MARIANO BELLAROSA, CLAUDIO GAVINA, MARIO RONDI, BRUNO CAPATTI, PAOLO G. CONTI, EZIO BIANCHI, DINO SILEONI, LUCIA FORNARINI, MAURIZIA CARANTANI, GIANCARLO PUCCI, ROSSELLA PUCCI, SILVANA FORTINI, ASIA ROTA, FRANCA MORANDI, EMILIO MORANDI.