This document discusses the history of pornography from ancient times to modern digital pornography. It touches on topics like erotic art in Pompeii, the development of porn films in Italy and the US in the 1960s-70s, censorship of sexual content, and the rise of internet pornography. It also describes the author's personal experiences with exploring sexuality through copying pornographic images as a kid, and their current art practice focusing on "dirty new media" which involves remixing and distributing pornographic content online.

2. DNM
ARTIST
from
NAPLES
BAY
PIRATE

3. FROM EARLY SCHOOL APPROACH TO DRAWING TO THE ART OF
COPYING...
THE BERLUSCOCENE AND THE SEXUALIZATION OF COMMERCIAL
TV PRODUCED FOR THE CONSUMER MALE GAZE IN ITALY AND
ITS EFFECTS ON THE MIND OF A KID DISCOVERING SEXUALITY,
THE USE OF PHOTOCOPYING FOR THE DISTRIBUTION OF ADULT
MATERIAL AT SCHOOL...
EROTIC/PORN ART FROM POMPEII, TO MAGAZINES, TO CINEMA
AND TO THE INTERNET IN ITALY AND WORLDWIDE...
RELIGIONS VS SEX, FROM ROMAN ORGIES TO ROMAN CHURCH...
FROM MYTHOLOGY TO CENSORSHIP AND CONTROL...
INSPIRATION REFERENCES AND EXPERIENCE IN PRACTICES IN
PORN CULTURE AND ART...
FROM EARLY PRACTICE OF PORN PIRACY TO DIRTY NEW MEDIA
DIGITAL PORN ART REMIXING PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION
ONLINE AND ON THE STREETS...
PORN/SEX VS HORROR/VIOLENCE, LOVE VS PARANOIA...

4. step1

5. TROU
BLED
KID
sc
ho
ol

6. I WAS VERY
BAD AT
DRAWING...

7. ... BUT I HAD
A VIVID
IMMAGINATION ...

8. MASTERING THE ART OF COPYING

9. FIRST HAND MADE CO PY
FROM A PHOTOCOPY OF AN IMAGE FROM A
BOOK
-PHOTOCOPYING
- TRACING

10. Common
bottle used in
italy to keep :
- FRUIT JUICE
- COFFEE
- HOLY WATER
FIRST
ATTEMPT IN
MAKING ART
WITH A
PHOTOCOPY
MACHINE

11. CAR
BON
PAP
ER

12. step2

13. TELEVISION

14. ITALIAN TV FROM THE 80’ S ONWARDS BECAME :
- VERY GROSS
- VERY TRIVIAL
- VERY SEXUALIZED

16. T3L3V!Z!0N3
https://vimeo.com/151679773

17. Mighty Kongbot
The Mighty Kongbot is a being with the
attitude of a gorilla and the intelligence of
a robot, made by humans and shaped by
media. Mighty Kongbot is kept alive by Luigi
Console & Domenico Barra.
http://www.mightykongbot.com/

18. Why Italian tv
became so frivolous
and sexualized???

19. FROM POMPEII TO THE BERLUSCOCENE...
A HISTORY OF EROTISM, MYTHOLOGY,
RELIGION, CENSORSHIP, CONTROL,
REBELLION, ART, MARKETING,
SEXUALIZATION AND OBJECTIFICATION

20. Priapus
Priapus was a minor rustic fertility god, protector of livestock,
fruit plants, gardens and male genitalia.

21. ROMAN EROTIC ART FROM THE CITY OF POMPEII
- A lot of porn art and sex gadgets from Ancient Pompeii
are now kept in Napoli in the
Secret Cabinet (Gabinetto Segreto) at the National
Archaeological Museum.
- This room became part of the museum during the
Spanish domination under the reign of the Borbornes
(1821).
- The Secret cabinet doorway was bricked in 1849.
- The frescos were locked behind metal cabinet and only
educated men could be entitled to view them.
- The Secret Room was finally opend to the public in the
year 2000.

22. Fellini Satyricon
(1969)
F. Fellini
Caligula (1979)
T. Brass
G. Lui
B. Guccione

24. In Italy for many years the Church
ordered the censorship of kisses
and other act considered as
offensive to the moral of a good
christian. In 1936 Pope Pius XI
established the Centro Cattolico
Cinematografico (C.C.C.)

25. The works of many film directors were
censored and many banned for many years,
including works by Federico Fellini and Pier Paolo Pasolini
Federico Fellini «La Dolce Vita» (1961)
In Italy, like in other countries around the world, obscenity and
pornography were considered as crimes and were regulated by
censorship laws.

26. PORNOGRAPHY WORLDWIDE

27. < censorship itself is obscene, and the suppression of
sexual desire by the political and religious establishment
over the centuries has only led to psychological
damage and frustration. >
Lasse Braun

28. LASSE BRAUN (1936/2015)
- BRAUN real name was Alberto Ferro.
- He was a pornographer, film director,
producer, screenwriter, novelist and
researcher.
- He came from an aristocratic family,
very wealthy and his dad was a
diplomat.
- He studied law and was supposed to
follow his father’ s footstep.
- Instead he ended becoming the king of
porn.
- His doctoral dissertation, <Judiciary
Censorship in the Western World>, which
was dismissed by the University of Milan
for being immoral, laid the foundation for
the legalisation of pornography in
Denmark on 4 June 1969.
- The main source of inspiration for Braun
consisted of the Priapistic rituals and
orgiastic festivals of the Dionysus cult
and Aphrodite (Porne).
« I believe pornography is at the
center of the biggest cultural
revolution of our century. »

29. LASSE BRAUN
- Started producing short
hardcore movies (10mins
circa) known by the name of
loops.
- He sold those movies to
Reuben Sturman who was
an American pornographer
and businessman from Ohio.
- Sturman distributed the
loops to 60,000 American
peep show booths.
- He withdrawn from the
world of pornography out of
disappointment with the
purely commercial approach
of American distributors and
the resulting inferiority of
video productions.

30. LOOPS*
- Loops were basically stag films that
had been given a facelift.
- They usually lasted no more than
- 7-10 minutes and were made for
peep-show** machines - 8mm
projectors closed in solid boxes in a
small booth with a screen and a door
that could be locked.
- The films were on constant rotation -
hence the term loops.
Le Coucher de la Mariée (Paris, 1896)
STAG FILM
- Stag film is a term used to describe a
type of pornographic film produced
clandestinely in the first two-thirds of the
20th Century.
* Porn gifs **browsers –smartphone - tablets

31. A peep show or peepshow is an exhibition of pictures, objects or
people viewed through a small hole or magnifying glass. Though
historically a peep show was a form of entertainment provided by
wandering showmen, nowadays it more commonly refers to a
presentation of a sex show or pornographic film which is viewed
through a viewing slot.

32. BODY LOVE (1977)
- Presented at Cannes film
festival.
this movie featured the soundtrack by
Klaus Schulze, an international famous
german electronic music composer
and musician

33. anthropology erotic
historical novels
(1999)
<Before you'll start getting
involved with my novel, I want
you to know that I wrote LADY
CALIGULA with the specific
purpose to offer my readers an
exciting account of a thrilling
period of history yet unaffected
by Christian morals. In Classical
Times Sex Was Not A Sin!>
Lasse Braun
Source:
http://lasse-braun.com/ladyc.html

34. Andy Warhol
(1969)
Michael Benveniste
Howard Ziehm
(1970)
Wakefield Poole
(1971)
In U.S.A. was the beginning of the GOLDEN AGE OF PORN...
the first adult erotic film
depicting explicit sex to
receive wide theatrical
release in the United States
the first pornographic film
depicting explicit sex to
receive wide theatrical
release in the United States
the first gay porn film to include
credits, to achieve crossover
success, and one of the earliest
porn films to gain mainstream
credibility.

35. DEEP THROAT (1972)
- The first pornographic films to feature a
plot, character development and relatively
high production values.
- Deep Throat earned mainstream attention
and launched the "porno chic" trend, even
though the film was banned in some
jurisdictions and the subject of obscenity
trials.
- It raised a lot of controversies the years
after its release due to the declarations in
her biography by the main actress Linda
Lovelace, stage name of Linda Boreman,
where she stated that many of the scenes
of the film were shot without her consent
and that she was forced by her husband,
Chuck Traynor, who was the production
manager of the movie.
- In the documentary <Inside Deep Throat>,
it is claimed that bruises are visible on
Boreman's body in the movie

36. - The first Italian porn movie
- Filmed by the director Joe D’ Amato.
- It was filmed abroad (In United States)
- In Italy it was only released in a softcore version.
Emanuelle in America (1976)

37. Italian porn magazines from the 70’ s && 80’ s

38. ITALIAN ADULT COMICS FROM THE 70’ S && 80’ S

39. SEXY COMMEDY ITALIAN STYLE
FROM 70’ S && 80’ S
Humorous erotic films with ample slapstick elements and follow more or less clichéd
storylines. Commedia sexy is characterized typically by abundant female nudity.
Very successful commercially but declined when pornographic films became more widely
available and when female nudity became common in Italian mainstream cinema,
magazines and television.

40. ITALY ENTERED THE BERLUSCOCENE

41. GUESS WHO???
Berlusconi managed to brainwash a whole country with his attitude, success and
tvs, subliminally turning Italian men into a copy of himself

42. - Sexualization of TVs (Hot female tv hosts, sexy dancing, bikini outfit, sex jokes...)
- The commercial TV for the male gaze (wives at home watching tv, husbands in bars...)
- The subjection to sexualization by other Mass Media (Magazines, commercials, music...)
- The phenomenon of the show biz (Tv agencies, talent scouts, beauty prizes...)
Born at the beginning of the Berluscocene

43. COLPO GROSSO
Colpo Grosso was an Italian erotic tv game show produced by Fininvest, a
financial holding company controlled by Silvio Berlusconi's family.
It was broadcasted on Italia 7, a channel tv owned by Fininvest..
It was set in a casinò and the contestants would play card games, girls would
do striptease every now and then during the game and contestants too.

44. DRIVE IN
Drive In is an Italian television variety show, broadcast by Italia 1 between 1983 and 1988. It
was referred as the most innovative and popular Italian television show of the 80s.
the show revolutioned Italian TV conventions and languages. It also proposed a new,
different image of the women, more sensual and transgressive. it has a key role in the
success of Silvio Berlusconi's Fininvest (now Mediaset).
BERLUSCONI JR. -->

45. In a patriarchal Italy, commercial tv was made for the male gaze, the manhood
and the Berlusconi inside all of us.
- Money & power
- Easy life
- Womanizer
The sexualization of commercial and state TVs for the male gaze

46. PRE - BERLUSCONI POST - BERLUSCONI
The subjection to sexualization by Mass Media

47. PORN PIRACY IN THE NAME OF
EXPLORING SEXUALITY WITH
- PHOTOCOPYING / PRINTING
- FLOPPY DISK
- CD-ROM
- IMAGES
- VIDEO
- MAGAZINE
- THE INTERNET

48. COPY MACHINE

49. MAGA
ZINE
COPIES
SCHOOL
DISTRIBU
TION

50. HOME COMPUTER

54. CLARENCE

55. BIG - BEAUTIFUL INTERNET GIRLS

57. INTERNET IS LIKE SEX...
...IF IT’ S NOT SAFE CAN BE INFECTIVE...

59. http://v1r0L0gy.tumblr.com SIDE PROJECT

60. ...I started making webpages as school projects
School was not just for porn...

61. Street art culture...
...WONDERWALL...
...RIQUALIFICATION OF DISMISSED
INDUSTRIAL AND URBAN AREAS!!!
http://wonderwallproject.tumblr.com/english

62. step3

63. English years...

64. 1)Poetry*
2)Music
3)Art
*BarCode Poetry (2016)
http://www.slideshare.net/DomBarra1/barcode-poetry

67. Stan Brakhage (1933/2003)
Brakhage created a large and diverse
body of work, exploring a variety of
formats, approaches and techniques
that included handheld camerawork,
painting directly onto celluloid, fast
cutting, in-camera editing, scratching on
film, collage film and the use of multiple
exposures.

74. step4

76. [appropriation] via "save as"+ screen-capturing /
[remixxxing] via databending >>> [producing]
&& [problemizing] distribution and consumption {of
porn} via dirty new media DIY practices focusing on
professional and amateur players in the realm of
cyber sex && pornography, the various
(sub)-realities canalized&connected&&defined by
communication toolz & peculiar languages influenced
by the ever growing and dynamic and and shape
shifting inter(net)worked
social/political//economical///technological
scenarios.

77. APPROACHING #DNM && GL!tchArt
- I don’ t have a formal art education
- Art for me was/is a field for exploration
- Exploring art I came across glitch art
"Continuing with this thought, we might picture
the glitch artist to be an explorer. "Exploration
is the act of searching or traveling a terrain
(including space) for the purpose of the
discovery of resources or information."* We
are referring here primarily to physical space.
"The term may also be used metaphorically,
for example persons may speak of exploring
the internet, sexuality, etc. In scientific
research, exploration is one of three purposes
of empirical research (the other two being
description and explanation). Exploration is the
attempt to develop an initial, rough
understanding of some phenomenon."* In all
these ways the glitch artist is like an explorer."
Nick Briz*

78. *<This art practice is our journey>.
Mighty K0ngb0t
https://vimeo.com/channels/lkcviews/133917236

79. First Gl!tchArt work
(2013)
Databending of a
.bmp file made with
Wordpad of a photo
of a work by
Leonardo Da Vinci

80. Porn and nude glitch art...
I believe that sex is the best expression of the human body and its power, energy and
emotions. I love the way it shows these qualities in a glitched picture/video/gif.

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83. http://dirtynewmedia.tumblr.com

84. I STARTED TO LOOK AT PORN & THE WAY IT IS...
- PRODUCED
- DISTRIBUTED
- CONSUMED ..............................................ONLINE
focusing on topics such as:
categories, ownership, copying, aesthetics,
privacy, marketing, virality, displaying, access,
reading...

85. Tools : Printer, Scanner, WordPad, Audacity, GoldWave, Note++,
Hex Editor XVI32
Subject: Internet Porn/Nude && Cyber Sex
Inspiration: Dirty New Media -> create porn loops like Lasse
Braun but for the web with an approach to gifs and image files
like Stan Brakhage did with films.
Creation: Online #DNM Peep Show to enjoy on computers,
tablets and smartphones
I wished to make porn loops accessible via URL (browser) and QR-
Code (stickers) for tablet and smartphone screens, the new peep
show digital mobile devices, approaching gifs as Stan Brakhage
approached films and approach porn as Lasse Braun did it
producing film loops but, this is not the golden age of porn, Red
Link District, as well as Pirate Porno Material 1&&2, are gif loops
from the dark age of porn.

86. dirty screen
red link district
pirate porno material1
pirate porno material2

87. #scanning #displaying #framing
#altering #deforming #freezing
Tools:
- Canon MG5150
- Computer Screen
- Photoscape
- Photoshop CS6
http://dirtyscreen.tumblr.com/ ---- http://www.slideshare.net/DomBarra1/drtyscr3en

94. Tools:
- Internet
- GifCam
- Photoscape
- Notepad++
- Tumblr
http://piratepornomaterial.tumblr.com/
http://piratepornomaterial2nd.tumblr.com/
#pirating #copying #remixing
#displaying #copyright #categories

99. R3D_L!Nk_D!$TR!ct - Porn loops from
the dark age of porn
Tools:
- Audacity 2.1.0
- GoldWave V5.70
- Photoshop Cs6
- Photoscape
- Canon MG5150
- HP Computer Screen
- MS Paint
- Gimp2
- Tumblr
http://redlinkdistrict.tumblr.com/
http://www.slideshare.net/DomBarra1/r3d-lnk-dtrct

109. society vs porn

110. pag.175 «Pirate Spaces» (The first wave of media
piracy) by Ishita Tiwary - The Pirate Book

111. sex vs violence

112. ...whereas our brain is used to absorb images of violence
Sex is obscene, shocking, undignified...

113. We have more fears...

114. War...

115. POLICE STATE & AND SECURITY

116. ...war became children games...

117. Religions, symbols of love,
are full of suffering...

118. We feel more stressed, anxious, paranoid

119. We are aggressive...

120. OBSESSIVE/POSSESSIVE

121. ...we even hurt the people we love...

122. ...even porn, the staging of sexual
fantasies, became more violent...

123. Whereas sex, even if just for pleasure...

124. ...is empathy...
an act of love, after all...

126. http://dombarra.tumblr.com
http://newhive.com/dombarra
http://vimeo.com/dombarra
http://slideshare.com/dombarra1

127. DOMENICO DOM BARRA IRL in CHICAGO for RE:MESH.WWWERK/s!
THURS APRIL 21
1 - 2:30 PM
The Leroy Neiman Center

128. THEEND