Printing Out The Internet
26 Jul - 26 Aug 2013
PRINTING OUT THE INTERNET
26 July - 26 August 2013
On May 22, 2013, Kenneth Goldsmith launched a call to print the entire internet. The result is Printing Out The Internet, a collaborative art piece that became a platform for discussion with passionate reactions, both in favor and against the homage to Aaron Swartz that with this action the poet sought to make.
The apparent impossibility of the project is just an excuse for Goldsmith, who proposes in this exhibition ‘an imaginary solution to an imaginary problem’, as well as a commentary about the free flow of information, an issue he has developed in his writing and an urgent topic for discussion in contemporary culture that is reiterated by Swartz’s suicide.
Printing Out The Internet is a detonator, an open stage that welcomes dispute, contradiction and poetry, a space that will house discussions, workshops, screenings and the marathon reading of the internet for a month.
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During the first week of Printing Out The Internet the exhibition ALL of the films of People Like Us, a solo show of Vicki Bennett’s work curated by Kenneth Goldsmith will be held at the Centro de Cultura Digital on July 27th and 28th.
Kenneth Goldsmith (1961) is an American poet, founder and editor of UbuWeb. He is the author of Soliloquy (2001), Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing (2011), Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in a Digital Age (2011) and more recently Seven American Deaths and Disasters (2013), among others. In 2013 he became the first poet laureate of the MoMA in New York.
26 July - 26 August 2013
On May 22, 2013, Kenneth Goldsmith launched a call to print the entire internet. The result is Printing Out The Internet, a collaborative art piece that became a platform for discussion with passionate reactions, both in favor and against the homage to Aaron Swartz that with this action the poet sought to make.
The apparent impossibility of the project is just an excuse for Goldsmith, who proposes in this exhibition ‘an imaginary solution to an imaginary problem’, as well as a commentary about the free flow of information, an issue he has developed in his writing and an urgent topic for discussion in contemporary culture that is reiterated by Swartz’s suicide.
Printing Out The Internet is a detonator, an open stage that welcomes dispute, contradiction and poetry, a space that will house discussions, workshops, screenings and the marathon reading of the internet for a month.
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During the first week of Printing Out The Internet the exhibition ALL of the films of People Like Us, a solo show of Vicki Bennett’s work curated by Kenneth Goldsmith will be held at the Centro de Cultura Digital on July 27th and 28th.
Kenneth Goldsmith (1961) is an American poet, founder and editor of UbuWeb. He is the author of Soliloquy (2001), Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing (2011), Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in a Digital Age (2011) and more recently Seven American Deaths and Disasters (2013), among others. In 2013 he became the first poet laureate of the MoMA in New York.