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Venerdì 20 Aprile, ore 19.00: evento di mixed-realities tra GridGallery e NOTGallery!

L’esperimento, che unisce in un ideale spazio dilatato gli ambienti virtuali della nostra galleria con quelli reali della giovane e attivissima realtà partenopea della NOTgallery, avrà luogo attraverso un happening e indagherà le potenzialità del gioco come medium di comunicazione. L’artista Sofia Scarano promuoverà un incontro inconsueto tra partecipanti reali e avatar, reso possibile dallo streaming simultaneo nei due ambienti altrimenti separati.

I partecipanti nelle due realtà sperimenteranno nuove regole di gioco, inedite modalità di interazione e molteplici linguaggi di comunicazione. Agli avatar che possono mutare il proprio aspetto repentinamente, risponderanno i visitatori reali immersi nella scenografia ludica della mostra dei TATIANATOI.
La partecipazione è libera in entrambi i contesti:
Se volete prenderne parte visitate:

in SecondLife:
GridGallery,
alle coordinate di SecondLife: ( IDEARIUM, 70,151,27 )
(tel. 338 8778793)

a Napoli:
NOTgallery, (www.notgallery.com),
Piazza Trieste e Trento 48 - 80132, Napoli
(tel. 338 8778793)

INVITO (Sofia Scarano) (PDF)

COMUNICATO STAMPA - PRESS RELEASE (GridGallery) (PDF)

Due gioielli da Slaughter-house-five. Sul linguaggio, sul tempo, sulla vita e sulla morte.

“There are no telegrams on Tralfamadore. But you’re right; each clump of symbols is a brief, urgent message-describing a situation, a scene. We Tralfamadorians read them all at once, not one after the other. There isn’t any particular relationship between all the messages, except that the author has chosen them carefully, so that, when seen all at once, they produce an image of life that is beautiful and surprising and deep. There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspence, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.”

“The most important thing I learned from Tralfarmadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist. The Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just the way we can look at a stretch of the rocky Mountains, for instance. They can see how permanent all the mountains are, and they can look at any moment that interests them. It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever.

When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in bad condition in that particular moment, but that the same person is just fine in plenty of other moments. Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorian say about dead people, which is ‘So it goes.’”

And so on.