The viewer does not have a complete and static artwork before his eyes, he has a project and he has to view the whole thing from the first sign on the monitor to the very end. The seductive power of the artists’ clicking makes the viewer stay and discover brand new worlds entirely virtual. In such an environment, the viewer gets involved, moving the cursor from one folder to another, from one element of the artwork to the other, profaning its actual message” (From Transgression to Virtual Space or the End of Art)

Rareș Iordache is a project coordinator, software theory analyst, net-art and internet researcher. He is also interested in new media, social media and communications, VR, viral culture, computational culture, free software movement, cybercultures.

Rareș launched in 2010 Irregular F Journal (indexed in some internationals databases) and he started working to ifilosofie.ro project. He is editor-in-chief of Net-Art.2.II Journal since January 2012 and he is member  in Consultative Board of Europa Revue/ Novi Sad/ Serbia since 2011. For a short time, Rareș worked for Vox Philosophiae Revue and Nautilus Revue. With 4-5 years experience in journalism and new media journalism, Rareș has some skills: epublishing, text editing, CMS (Content Management System), photo editing, SEO (Searching Engine Optimization), promotion in social media and OS. From 2012 Rareș writes for Australian Science,  a science and technology magazine and blogging network.

He graduated in 2007 with B.A. in philosophy (his thesis: A general perspective on philosophy of fiction, coordinated by Gabriel Chindea). In fall 2008 Rareș enrolled in a Master of Culture and Communication, program which he gratuated in 2009 with a thesis about the paradigm of virtual.

Rareș is PhD candidate at Faculty of Philosophy, Babes-Bolyai University from Cluj-Napoca and explore the social impact of software and technology. He talks about this culture as a viral culture.

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About Ubuntu and my Net-Art experiments