[spectre] OUT NOW: Random + In My Computer # 1

[Domenico Quaranta]

Valentina Tanni, Random, LINK Editions, Brescia 2011.
Soft cover, 114 pages, Italian / English, € 12.00, ISBN:  
978-1-4477-1182-7

Miltos Manetas, In My Computer, LINK Editions, Brescia 2011.
Soft cover, 102 pages, English, € 12.00, ISBN: 978-1-4477-1939-7

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The LINK Center for the Arts of the Information Age is proud to  
announce the publication of two new books: Random, by Valentina Tanni,  
and In My Computer, by Miltos Manetas. Like the first book produced by  
LINK Editions (In Your Computer, by Domenico Quaranta), they have been  
published with the Print on Demand service Lulu.com, and they are  
available for free download in pdf format and for sale in paper  
format. With this approach, the LINK Center wants to translate into a  
massive, fast and accessible editorial activity the key elements of  
its peculiar vision: accessibility of tools, free circulation of  
information, international audience.

Random, by Valentina Tanni, wants to celebrate the ten years of an  
online magazine that became part of the history of contemporary art  
publishing in Italy. Born in 2001, Random Magazine evolved in the  
following years into the main information platform about art and new  
technologies available in Italy. The book collects a wide selection of  
news, together with a smaller selection of articles and reviews that  
document the pioneering critical activity developed by its author  
along the same years. As Valentina Tanni writes in the introduction:  
«This book came unexpected. It appeared suddenly, just like  
necessities do. More than a book, it’s a record, an historical  
document. It brings together a series of heterogeneous texts written  
during ten years of study, research and dissemination. If I had to  
pick up a definition, I would say it’s a fragmentary chronicle of the  
origins of my own passion for new media art.»

In My Computer, by artist Miltos Manetas, is a collection of essays,  
interviews, short tales, parables, e-mails and drafts by its author.  
Written between 1997 and 2011, some of these texts are widely known,  
many others are unpublished, and just came out of his computer. All of  
them contribute to portray a personality who had a strong influence on  
younger generations of artists, thanks to his impressive body of work  
- including paintings, videos, installations, prints, performances  
and, last but not least, websites - but also to his writings.
Manetas' book is the first of a series of artists' writings:  
“notebooks” sharing the same title (In My Computer) and the same  
concept, being collections of widely known and unpublished texts,  
spare fragments and private writings.

Valentina Tanni (www.valentinatanni.com) is an art critic, curator and  
lecturer. She is mainly interested in new media art and multimedia  
publishing. She is currently a member of Artribune’s editorial staff.
Miltos Manetas (www.manetas.com) is a Greek artist currently living  
and working in Rome, Italy. He is the founder of Neen, an art movement  
whose name has been commissioned to a branding company in order to  
describe the art of the information age.

The LINK Center for the Arts of the Information Age is a multi- 
functional center promoting artistic research with new technologies  
and critical reflections on the core issues of the information age: it  
organizes workshops, seminars, conferences and shows, publishes books,  
forges partnerships with private and institutional partners and  
networks with similar organizations worldwide. For more information: http://www.linkartcenter.eu/


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