World in Hand. A Curatorial Statement

Abstract

For this issue of lo Squaderno, I have collected eighteen concrete examples of practices related to mobility and mobile communication – a mixture of artistic and non-artistic, more or less subjective, more or less visual. By navigating through the different associative levels provided by these materials, I attempt to use a form of transferring emerging information about change in communicative structures into an academic context that distinguishes itself by its discursive character. The majority of the images shown here comes from “worldwide” artistic practices – they are kindly provided by artists from Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands, Korea, India, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Brazil, Ghana and Nigeria. At a glance, some of these images may almost look too subtle, it may seem hard to find a point to translate into a language what they represent, but all of them have a certain precision different from scientific precision.

Keywords

• Connected and People
• lo Squaderno No. 13