VIRTUAL HUMANITIES
ÍCONE GALLERY, COIMBRA
1- 29 MAY 2010

The virtual is generally identified with the reproduction of the real world through digital media, Imaging a world shared by thousands of beings connected through electronic networks, which share the same state: the digital connectivity. While browsing the Internet, we find ourselves at any time of day or night, with many solitary beings who are doing the same, with whom we interact.
Humanity is scattered in virtual social networks spread over the internet (Facebook, Second Life, etc.) and on the borders of digital art projects that extend through electronic networks.

Fonlad #06_2010, in partnership with the Porto Santo’s Biennial, present "Virtual Humanities"; photographies and digital paintings from18 artists at the Ícon Gallery, in Coimbra. Alfonso Caputo (Italy), António Azenha (Portugal), Benvinda Araújo (Portugal), Boskizzi (Italy), Carola Blanco (Venezuela), Cecilia Urioste (Brazil), Dennys San Jorge (Cuba), Elizabeth Machado (France),  Fernando Graça / Penousal Machado (Portugal),
Jeroen Holthius (Netherlands), Laura Castanedo (Mexico), Maro (Chile), Moskal (Poland), Oscar Poliotto (Argentina), Patrick Millard (USA), Paulo Corte Real (Portugal), Tatiana Santos (Portugal).

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