Public art and site specific projects by Chiara Passa

For the series Digital art in public space: “Street Net-Art”, 2007.

“Street Net-Art” action aims to rename all the principal streets (or just an area of the city) with the most explicative Net-Art web address (in an easy way: with printed sheets of paper to glue on the street plate), joining the real world with the “www” into a double psycho-geographic experience.
It’d be better to cover the streets (maybe, comfortably by the taxi) with a pc equipped of wireless device to watch the websites.
Anyway, you’d also walk on the streets watching at the Net-Art web address and subsequently to see the relative websites.

“Sit-in into a super place”; site specific installation, 2006.

There is no theory nor process for this action... nobody knows why they are sitting into this “atmosphere”

“Art Calling Digital Art stories” from Monuments, 2006.

“Monuments telling stories of digital art”, involves the antiques statues telling the contemporary electronic art practices to the public. It’s really simple to realize, it needs to put an hidden dvd reader with a speaker close to the statue. Imagine the Bernini’s baroque fountain (“Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi”) in Piazza Navona speaking on software-art…

“Art Calling Digital Art stories” into a Museum.

Digital Art without artworks, this is a conceptual exhibition. In fact the museum where the spectators are moving in is completely empty. Listening at the Audio-Guides while closing at the walls, people can switch, select and listen many stories about digital art.

“Art Calling Digital Art stories” on I-Pod.

Art Calling... it also developed as audio files mp3 to download and pod-cast elserywhere. http://www.chiarapassa.it/artcallingonipod.html

“Art calling digital art stories”, pubilc art project, 2005.

The object of the project is to bring people closer to digital art in four easy ways. “Art Calling-Digital Stories” born as public art project that proposes people to listen to stories about digital art through phone booths used as a communicative medium. People using “Art Calling-Digital Stories” must only dial a telephone number (listed on sticker on the booth) that is linked to a switchboard with various vocal options and also various audio files. The stories tell about the most interesting artists, artworks and events about interactive art, software art, modified video games, demo scene, hacking tools, digital animation, video installation, sound art, WIFI and mobile art phone, new media performance, hyper design, interactive architecture, artificial life, blogging, from the beginning to present day, selected and written by me.
The “Art Calling-Digital Stories” audio files, also contain additional materials such as bibliography, webliography, info. about artists, specific projects, festivals, mailing lists, forums, and additional various resources, etc.

http://www.chiarapassa.it/artcalling.html

“El paseo virtual”, site specific installation, 2004.

With this art work it is just the notion of space or better of ‘place’ that I’d like to probe, searching new possibilities and ‘dimensions’,Everyone that will go across “El Paseo Virtual” will move on the 3-D virtual coordinates ( generated by a software ). Crossing “El Paseo”, the space will be the pure shape of intuition.

To watch the whole projects as .pdf file, please contact the artist at chiarapassa@gmail.com

Art Calling