Born Digital
<p><em>Born Digital</em> is a benefit auction and an online exhibition made to support the activities of the Link Art Center on the online auction platform Paddle8. The event—the first with this focus taking place in Europe on this scale—includes more than 50 works kindly provided by 33 artists. For two weeks long, from April 15 to April 30, 2014, people and collectors are invited to visit the works and eventually to bid to support the artists and the organizers. The Link Art Center is the first Italian organization to collaborate with Paddle8, an online auction house that partners with non-profit organizations to present their benefit auctions online.</p> <p>All the featured artists are either based or born in Europe. The selection includes different generations of artists working with the digital medium and within the digital environment, from early pioneers to younger artists still in their twenties. The selected works display a wide range of formats, and respond in different ways—sometimes traditionally, sometimes more radically—to the issue of collecting the digital. Some of them display generative images, some others deal with desktop aesthetics; some refer to online habits, cultures and places, others are strictly related to the living and working conditions introduced by the digital shift. They all inhabit networked spaces; they are <em>Born Digital</em>.</p>
Curator: Fabio Paris, Domenico Quaranta
Contributors: Alterazioni Video, Anthony Antonellis, Aram Bartholl, Erik Berglin, Enrico Boccioletti, Heath Bunting, Marco Cadioli, Martin John Callanan, Gregory Chatonsky, Adam Cruces, Caroline Delieutraz, Harm Van Den Dorpel, Constant Dullaart, Electroboutique, Herbert W. Franke, Elisa Giardina Papa, Matteo Giordano, Emilio Gomariz, IOCOSE, JODI, Joan Leandre, Jan Robert Leegte, Jonas Lund, 0100101110101101.ORG, Eva Mattes, Franco Mattes, Rosa Menkman, Filippo Minelli, Vera Molnar, Jaakko Pallasvuo, Angelo Plessas, Evan Roth, Alexei Shulgin, Clement Valla, Carlo Zanni, Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Janez Janša
Producer: Chiara Pariani, Lucio Chiappa
Content Manager: Domenico Quaranta, Susanna Scott
Designer: Fabio Paris
Part of: Link Editions