Neterotopia

A project by: NICC and Love Difference, in collaboration with: Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto
Curated by: Daniele Balit

Locations:
Palais de Tokyo - site de création contemporaine  Paris.
NICC, Antwerp.
Careof, Milan.

Artists: 0100101110101101.ORG, Christophe Bruno, Ghazel, Susan Hefuna, Nathalie Hunter, Yuji Oshima, Peter Lemmens and Eva Cardon, Adam Vackar, Stephen Vitiello, Luca Vitone, Version (Gabriela Vanga, Ciprian Muresan and Mircea Cantor).

Internet Sites: http://www.arman.fm, http://www.corriere.it, http://www.film.it, google ad words, http://www.inrockuptibles.com, http://www.liberation.fr, http://movies.tenuae.com, http://www.sortiraparis.com, http://www.viamichelin.it, http://www.villagevoice.com, http://www.wunderground.com
 

Neterotopia is an event that takes place from 16th to 31st March in various spaces on the Net. Eleven artists from different countries have been invited to choose an Internet site and use the spaces usually reserved for advertising: Christophe Bruno, Ghazel, http://www.sortiraparis.com, Susan Hefuna , Nathalie Hunter http://www.google.com, Yuji Oshima http://www.arman.fm, Peter Lemmens and Eva Cardon, Adam Vackar , Stephen Vitiello, Luca Vitone , Version (Gabriela Vanga, Ciprian Muresan and Mircea Cantor), 0100101110101101.ORG.

These spaces are thus transformed into exhibition surfaces and
points of access to a pathway branching through the public and virtual space of the Internet, the major node of which is the http://www.neterotopia.net website.

Through the stations installed in physical space, the public can see the artworks on-line, and experiment with digit@al, a special device by artist Pierre Mertens that puts a new slant on the rules of chatting.

Neterotopia traces the confines of a hybrid space, with a changeable and heterogeneous geography, drawing on Michel Foucault旧 concept of Heterotopia. As opposed to the non-places of Utopia, Heterotopias (literally: places of difference), are defined by Foucalt as other spaces capable of accepting difference and possibility, while not detaching from the real world. Neterotopias are therefore inserted into the Network system of communication, observing its rules and limits, while giving a new value to these advertising spaces.