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<p> : : : Presenting the 90s art works by Maurizio Bolognini, Mario Costa, a professor of aesthetics at the : : Naples University, writes: : : "The new technologies reintroduce with force the terms of research carried out by the avant-garde and : : make the renunciation of control, the irruption of randomness, the reduction of the subject's role to a : : residual possibility of choice... the absolute and unavoidable conditions of every project. : : Bolognini uses the randomness of out-of-tune television signals (Interference works), makes computers : : run on stochastic programs (Randomizing machines), provokes an interactive randomness by using : : communication networks (Interactive self-portraits)... In this lack of expressive intentionality, this : : renunciation of intervention with a by now exhausted imagination and in this full acceptance of the : : subject's weakness the signs are recognizable of the technological sublime, which we are led to by the : : actual techno-cosmos and which I have elsewhere attempted to grasp and penetrate..." : : The relationship between new technologies and the changing role of the subject seems to be crucial to this discussion. : : An brief introduction to the theory of professor Costa's "tecnological sublime" can be found at: : : http://www.spidernet.it/sisin/NS/bolog.html : : http://www.spidernet.it/sisin/NS/bolog1.html : : Anna Riva