1 - If a communication
act in the mass Media System
is an a-nergetic and an entropic event, an act that change, turn upside
down, delate, cancel or deny it, is essentially antientropic.
Se un atto di comunicazione nel sistema dei mass-media è un fatto a-nergetico ed entropico, un atto che lo alteri, capovolga, cancelli, annulli o neghi è fondamentalmente antientropico.
2 - The negation of a
mass communnication act is an antientropic act.
The "aesthetic" negation of a mass communication act is an antientropic
artistic act.
La Negazione di un atto di comunicazione di massa è un atto antientropico. La negazione "estetica" di un atto di comunicazione di massa è un atto artistico antientropico.
3 - The antientropic art
con be realized by changing, distorting or denying
elements drawn from the mass communication, in order to obtain a product
essentially different from the original both in its form and in its sense.
L'arte antientropica può concretizzarsi nell'alterazione, nello stravolgimento o nella negazione di elementi tratti dalla comunicazione di massa, nell'obiettivo di ottenere un prodotto sostanzialmente diverso dall'originale sia formalmente che nel suo significato.
Antientropical League was founded in 1987 by Giuseppe Iannicelli (JJ&Co.) and Andrea Ovcinnicoff (Offstudio), soon joined by Luigi Spennati (JDM) and Alberto Prato.
The League was concerned about art in a wide sense, taking care of the relations with mass-communication and media.
During the following year the League issued a series of documents in Italian (some individual, others collective), all collected in 1988 in a limited edition hand-made booklet under the title "Un primo rudimentale assemblaggio dei testi teorici antientropici".
The League Members used to realize works following the Antietropical Principles (see above). The League was very active in the Mail-Art world (a pre-internet network based on snailmail, where there was an huge circulation of handmade works, mainly in the shape of postcards, but not only).
The most active members of the league have been Giuseppe Iannicelli, who used to work on TV advertisements and TV programs in general, and Andrea Ovcinnicoff, who worked mainly on newspapers' and magazines' advertisements.
Antientropical League has also some"fiction" members: Doctor Getneon Trinitrohn (created by Giuseppe Iannicelli) and Professor Wick Entropick (created by Andrea Ovcinnicoff). They are both characters in the short novel "Gesta ed Opinioni del dottor Trinitrohn, antientropico" by Giuseppe Iannicelli. The novel was not written using the antientropical principles but mainly to support and explain them.
The novel was Enthusiasticly welcomed by some very important persons in the Italian Art world, as Vincenzo Accame and Enrico Baj (members of an Academy inspired to Jarry's "pataphysics").
Giuseppe Iannicelli is STILL working on the antientropical track, for example on the video "Valge Daam", that is now ready and will be diffused in June 1998.
