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projects, which make use of the platform’s new means 17. As well as being an artist,
of communication, such as e-mail, mobile phones or Oliveira is a co-founder of
CADA. This artist collective
chat platforms. As in other parts of the world, the first has regularly developed
projects and curated cycles
decade of net art in Portugal existed in parallel with the focusing on technological,
traditional art system, and this was perhaps its most computational and new media
transformations.
transgressive expression. 18. Participants in this
exhibition included Patrícia
Gouveia, Miguel Carvalhais and
Lia, João Simões, Joana Linda,
OTHER ARTISTIC AND CULTURAL ACTIVITIES André Sier, Filipe Pais,
Marius Watz, Vitor Silva,
RELATED TO NET ART IN PORTUGAL AND Sérgio Garcez, Pedro M. Rocha,
ABROAD Fernando José Pereira, Miguel
Leal and Luís Sarmento.
19. The cycle featured
According to Luís Silva, 1997 is a landmark year for presentations by Patrícia
Gouveia and Nuno Correia,
net art in Portugal because it marks the creation of the André Sier, Susana Mendes
Silva, Manuel Lima, André
Virose platform, a pioneer in critical reflection on the Gonçalves, Adriana Sá,
digital age, and the creation of the above-mentioned Margarida Garcia, Ana Carvalho
and Brendan Byrne, CADA,
work by Miguel Leal. In 2005, Silva and Sofia Oliveira Santiago Ortiz, Keja Ho
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Kramer, Sofia Oliveira,
organised an exhibition of net art by Portuguese among others.
artists who use the Internet, occasionally or regularly . 20. During this period Silva
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Between 2007 and 2009, the LX 2.0 project also ran also developed the online
collective curatorial project
at Galeria Lisboa 20 Arte Contemporânea, curated “I tag you tag me”, which he
presented at the International
by Luís Silva and gallery owner Miguel Nabinho. This Symposium on Electronic Art
gallery also hosted the international network meeting (ISEA) in 2008, the year he
joined the Rhizome team.
programme Upgrade! between 2006 and 2008, also 21. Held from 25/01 to
promoted by the curator . These activities represent 29/03/1997, curated by the
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artnetweb collective, URL:
curatorial incursions into artistic projects using digital https://artnetweb.com/port/
https://artnetweb.com/port/
index.html
technology by a commercial gallery in Portugal . index.html
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1997 was also an important year internationally. 22. Opened on 22/04/1998,
It was the year of the publication of Pierre Lévy’s curated by Steve Dietz, URL:
http://gallery9.walkerart.org/
http://gallery9.walkerart.org/
Cyberculture, the online exhibition organised by midevent.html?id=2
midevent.html?id=2
Documenta in Kassel, net.room, and of the creation 23. Held from 23/09/1999
to 27/02/2000, curated
of Gallery 9 at the Walker Art Center in Minnesota, by a team led by Peter
https://zkm.
USA. By then, works, collectives and platforms Weibel, URL: https://zkm.
de/en/exhibition/1999/09/
de/en/exhibition/1999/09/
such as Äda’web, Turbulence, Nettime, netcondition
netcondition.
Irational or Rhizome were already having an
international impact. They emerged from collectives of non-conformist
artists protesting the art system, fuelled by the Internet’s autonomous
dimension at the time. The first net art exhibitions, such as Port:
Navigating Digital Culture at the MIT List Visual Arts
Center , Beyond Interface: net art and Art on the
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Net at the Walker Art Center , or Net_Condition at the ZKM in
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Karlsruhe take also place, exploring different formats of presentation,
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both in physical space and online.
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