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If Art Were to Disappear Tomorrow What Stories Would We Tell Our Kids?.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Fassone, Roberto, Author.
Manzotti, Giovanna, Author.
Contributor:
Library Stack, distributor.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Archives.
Art and the Internet.
Art criticism.
Art, Modern--21st century.
New media art.
Contemporary Art.
Net Art.
Genre:
Artists' books
Artists' books.
Physical Description:
1 online resource.
Place of Publication:
[Place of publication not identified], Link Editions, 2014.
Summary:
"If Art Were to Disappear Tomorrow What Stories Would We Tell Our Kids? is a project that aims to create an archive of tweet-structured texts capable of describing contemporary artworks. This project came about with the idea of ordering a huge amount of works that share the common feature of being very simple yet very meaningful. Italian artist Roberto Fassone and curator Giovanna Manzotti have tried to condense the shapeless mass of images and information of contemporary artworks present in their computers and on the web, into a simple, functional and structured system, in which the complexity of the art world is partially compressed into the brevity of one tweet. The result can be described as an uncanny collection of contemporary fairy tales. First developed as a Twitter-based performance comprising hundreds of tweets, the project has been now translated in book form, including 94 tweets organized into a single story."-- provided by distributor.
Notes:
Archived and cataloged by Library Stack
CC BY-NC-SA.
Description from resource landing page (Library Stack, viewed on 09/29/2025).
Access Restriction:
Unrestricted online access

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