ARENAE is a photo reportage from the battlegrounds of the net. These are war photos, they look dramatically like real war photos, like real war photos looks like videogames. ARENAE extends Internet Landscape explorations to Mmorpg (massive multiplayer online role playing game), Virtual Online Worlds, persistent universes that recreates real environments, in wich you can live as your own avatar. They just seems to be games, but they are designating the first collective environments that are getting populated, they are an experimental lab of online social relationships. full text en / full text it

Marco Cadioli