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Dmitry Bulatov
Poet, lingvoartist and net operator. He
took part in more than a hundred multimedia projects and exhibitions in 23
countries. He is an author and initiator of series of international
publishing projects 'Experimental poetry. Selected articles'. (Kaliningrad-Malbork),
'A point of View. Visual Poetry: 90-s' (Kaliningrad-Olshtyn), 'Homo
Sonorus. Anthology of
the world-wide sound-poetry'.
Typological and genealogical aspects of the INC., International Network
Culture
Information of an artificial field, kind of a nourishing medium for a
total international experiment such as the International Network Culture
(INC) is to be considered one of key phenomena of the last twenty years
contemporary art development. As an art movement INC involves numerous art
branches including all actual art trends, and nowadays seems to be a
greater and more overwhelming phenomenon compared with the Fluxus and New
York Correspondence School of the 60s, the New Realism, conceptionalism of
the 70s and mail-art of the 80s. Poets and artists from about 30-40
countries united by INC share equal rights and terms in their parallel
participation in international network creative process. Thus,
decentralization of literary and art life is one of the most vital
achievements and an absolute reality of the current INC where developed
mass communication devices perform the medium role in transference and
expansion of new ideas in art. However, non-official networks do not
depend on concrete communication technologies while oral, snail-mail,
computer network zones, telephone, e-mail, fax, and similar data can do
for formation and support of parallel artistic networks. Their main
peculiarity is not the type or level of operating technology but the open
and horizontal structure.
New functionning
Among principal characteristics of the International Network Culture
dictating a particular ‘poetic’ extend of new functioning might be
underlined the following:
work at maximally saturated communicative (intermediate) regime;
collective thinking and orientation on collaborative creation;
extreme social functioning of creations;
basic position of a network operator;
complex work with various social contexts, processes and situations;
anomalization of market system of relations.
Institutional spaces
Terms of appearance and expansion of network art creations insists on the
new formulation of the notion of social institutions engaged in art.
There’s no more structural museum space clearly drawn in its physical
boarders. Developed communication have broken material barriers, their
channels do not coincide with the space structure as a necessary condition
of cultural realization. On par with the author’s presence
depersonalization, communications are forming an upgraded field unity and
omnipresence in a number of spaces that are often incompatible and
incommensurable.
Linguistic problem
INC presents the linguistic problem in comprehension of the end of close
connection between art, arts sciences and philosophy. This trinity typical
for the whole XX century was grounded on general preoccupation in language
problem and its appliance to the environment. Current position of the INC
with the whole set of its typical characteristics makes an author
(curator, etc.) change his(her) preoccupation in ‘lingua resources’
and interpretation practice for direct operating activity in which
physiology is directly connected with technique and network technology.
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