Bring Your Serpent, Cagliari · 1987

On February 13 of 1987, in Cagliari, at Antonello Dessi’s art studio,
Gaetano Brundu, Franco Meloni, Carlo Antonio Borghi, Anna Saba,
Randi Hansen, Luigi Mazzarelli, Piernicola Cocco, Luciano Rombi,
Enrico Pau and Antonello Dessi staged Bring Your Serpent. It was
made intentionally outside the usual setting of art galleries, to
promote the coming there of the Serpent event, boarding the
Plexus art slaves’ boat in the follows summer. Bring Your Serpent
became the Plexus catchword for launching an open call invitation
for all artists to participate with their creative contributions, without
any art critics’ selection or discrimination. Then, after the event of
Fusion Arts in New York, n Sardinia, at the Physics department of
the University of Cagliari, Franco Meloni began his collaboration with
Bruce Breland of the Dax Group of Carnegie Mellon in the direction of
connecting the Plexus Serpent event from side to side the academic
computers network Bitnet, at that time Internet had not existed as we
use it yet.As a celebration for freedom in art communication, it was
wished-for dedicate the 1987 Plexus Serpent event at the 100 years
remembrance of the electromagnetic waves’ discovery by Heinrich
Hertz.To manage the organization in Sardinia of the Plexus event, in
Cagliari, the non profit cultural organization Il Serpente di Pietra was
established by Cicci Borghi, Gaetano Brundu, Franco Meloni, Anna Saba,
Antonello Dessi, Stefano Asili, Randi Hansen, with president Mariangela
Sedda.

by Plexus International 1987