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NET ART IN THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE 21. Selected works from the
one hundred included in the
online exhibition Net Art
Similar to The Art Happens Here: Net Anthology, organised in
Art’s Archival Poetics, held at the New 2016 by Rhizome, which served
as a basis for outlining
Museum in New York in 2019, this exhibition follows a “model” for net art.
a chronological narrative . Net Arte no 22. In addition to being
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featured in this publication,
Triângulo das Bermudas considers the this chronology can be
accessed interactively at
concept of a motherboard, through which components caaa-net.art. It was also made
and external peripherals connect to channel informa- available in a printed version
in the exhibition space.
tion within a computing system, as illustrated in
Figure 4. Both the artworks and the collected documentation are
structured into two main chronological sections: the 1997-2007
section and the 2008 to the present section. All these elements are
integrated in the speculative Chronology – A Panorama
of Net Art in Portugal, created by Sofia Ponte and Luis D.
Rivero-Moreno . This mapping provides concrete data to support
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theorisation and a deeper understanding of the events it brings
together. The exhibition’s website offers open access to this chrono-
logy under a Creative Commons license, allowing anyone to use,
print, modify, distribute, and/or copy the work, provided the authors
and the source are credited, and any derivative works are licensed
under the same or a similar license.
The projects presented at CAAA were made available in the exhibition
space under varying conditions, though these did not replace their
original Internet-based experience. Four projects were presented in
documentary form, specifically the works of Susana Mendes Silva,
the collective Pizz Buin, Daniel Pinheiro & Annie Abrahams, and
Alice dos Reis. The work of the collective @c & Lia was also included
in a documentary format and led to an audiovisual performance by
@c & Rodrigo Carvalho. Additionally, documentation related to the
performance of Joana Chicau, presented live in Portugal for the first
time, was included. Excerpts from texts about her work – written by
the artist herself and by Daniel Temkin – were exhibited, along with
photographs of previous performances. Musician Luís Fernandes
created a live performance based on the unique and
ephemeral nature of electronic improvisation in real
time and space. The three performances featured in the
exhibition – by Joana Chicau, @c & Rodrigo Carvalho,
and Luís Fernandes – were held in CAAA’s Black Box
and streamed online, where they remain accessible
on the institution’s YouTube channel. Only two of
the featured projects exist online today: those by Rui Fig. 4 Study by Maria Luís Neiva for the
design of the exhibition Net Arte no
Torres, and the collective wr3ad1ng d1g1t5. Triângulo das Bermudas.
See page 16.
See page 16.

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