An Internet Pavilion for the 53rd International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia 2009.

The largest pavilion ever!

At the 53rd Venice Biennial (opening to the public on 7th June), a completely new pavilion will be presented - the Internet Pavilion, www.padiglioneinternet.com. With the theme for this year’s biennial, “Making Worlds”, it is only logical that the Internet is represented, for the first time, by a pavilion of its own.

The Internet is a new part of our world that has never been represented in Venice. It is a different territory from the existing pavilions. The Internet is not defined by physical or geographical borders, nationalities, or a specific language. The Internet is still new and is being developed with such speed that its legislation, as well as its impact on our lives, is under constant redefinition. The Internet is transforming our lives and senses; it is transforming the way we behave, communicate, share information and develop ideas. As this is what we often say art does, it is of special interest to present the Internet Pavilion at the Venice Biennial.

The pavilion will be represented by www.PadiglioneInternet.com which is the “castle” of the project. The website, like all the other buildings of the Biennale, will close its doors with the end of the exhibition in November and it may re-open for future editions. This year, Miltos Manetas (GR/UK) and Rafael Rozendaal (NE) are presenting a new Internet work which hosts/produces and even sponsors pieces of other Internet artists, feeding this way the chain of a new art-style. In addition, AIDS-3D (US) will hold during the opening days a special "Network of Love" performance. Invitations for this event will be send via Twitter and Facebook.

The Internet Pavilion is built in collaboration with British composers, Gnac (Mark Tranmer) and Howie B, Swiss architect Christian Wassmann. Design and propaganda objects are by M/M (Paris) and Web Design is by Marc Kremers and Thomas Eberwein of Digital Club, London. The exhibition "New Wave", a collateral online show with a physical component organized in the context of the Internet Pavilion, includes artists Petra Cortright (US), Harm Van den Dorpel (HOLLAND), Sinem Erkas (UK), Elna Frederick (US), Parker Ito (US), Oliver Laric (AU), Guthrie Lonergan (US), Pascual Sisto (US) and the WikepediaArt Embassy hosted by Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern which will release Wikipedia Art into Venice and into the wild, inviting the general public to continuously host, revive and remix Wikipedia Art and the systems of knowledge it addresses.
Another collateral to the InternetPavilion show with Chinese Internet artists is under construction.

 

Padiglione Internet is a project initiated by the Greek born, London based artist Miltos Manetas and curated by Jan Aman and produced by Art Production Fund in New York.

 

Press Events:

Venice, 3-4 June
To be announced via Biennale.net

Media Contact (Europe and U.S.A.):

For more information, please contact: Pelle Strandberg at
Strandberg & Haage or Chloé Nelkin at Exposure, London.
info@theinternetpavilion.com

 

Contact:
Jan Aman
Curator, Internet Pavilion
E: jan@padiglioneInternet.com