![]() ![]() ![]() The show will demonstrate that the retrogaming phenomenon in visual arts can be considered an outfit of a pretty musical phenomenon, that in a bunch of years spread out all over the world through festivals and clubs, occasionally influencing mainstream musicians and that visual and musical research progressed on parallel paths, in the quest for lo-res sounds and aesthetics, synthetic colors and notes. The core of PLAYLIST will be the exploration of the “8bit movement”, spread out from the manipulation of obsolete game technologies in order to create new instruments to play music. It’s our feeling, on the one hand, that electronic music culture has been of great importance for the development of low-tech, home-based media art and, on the other hand, that – such as for the early Video Art – the manipulation of the digital stream is mainly grounded in musical research. PLAYLIST is an exhibition that wants to explore the role played by music in the adoption and manipulation, since the mid Nineties, of obsolete, digital as well as analogue, technologies: vinyls, old computers, game platforms and alikes. And at the very beginning of Video Art lies the manipulation of the electronic signal, first experimented by Nam June Paik in music. It was thinking to music that Umberto Eco first introduced the concept of “opera aperta”. Furthermore, Fluxus adopted music notation for its peculiar “scores”. The very first performance (the Untitled Event at Black Mountain College in 1952) was a musical event, such as many Fluxus events during the Sixties. John Cage was a musician working with artists and engineers. Without forgetting the role played by music in the development of abstract art, it was mainly during the Sixties that music provided a fertile ground for new approaches, new theories, new art forms, new aesthetics. ![]() Along the Twentieth Century, music has often been the driving force behind crucial innovations in visual arts, and the starting point for many artists. ![]()
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