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COMPUTER GARDEN

“The world want to watch and be watched at the same time” said the Italian writer Italo Calvino in his novel, Palomar.

In the last 10 years, we have moved from simple passive use of static hypertext documents, to a very easy way of managing contents, typical of online applications such as blogs, youtube, facebook, myspace, twitter, which have given to everyone the possibility of communicate to the whole world, adding data in real time, almost without space limitations.

The global communication’s revolution has reshaped space-time, individual, collective and socio-political geographies.

Computer Garden is a never realized project of Abbiatici_Levy that is re-reading of the idea of ‘collection’ after internet. The project’s title has been inspired from Nam June Paik’s installation ‘TV Garden’ (1974). Paik’s installation was composed of thirty televisions, which were displaced between live plants, creating a weird fusion of natural and technological elements. In a similar way, Abbiatici_Levy’s project is going to reconstruct a greenhouse in which to display about a hundred computers with a web connection.  On each computer, visitors will be able to see a video or a net-based installation by a selection of worldwide artists, while trying to reply to the question made by artist Liu Wei: “Can our memory resists this indifferent world?”