Biography / profile :

1979, actually lives in Turin in Italy.
(complete biography in pdf)

Briefly:
Paolo Cirio is researching into media, communication, politics and cultural anthropology. Radically and ironically, he controversially plays with semiotic vectors in order to involve the audience in thinking about the meaning of representations of reality.
He has worked as media artist in various fields: net-art, street-art, video-art, public-art, marketing-art, software-art and interaction-design. [..complete resume..]


Awards


2009
Nominated for Cairo Prize, Milan
EMARE Grant, Halle/Salle
ARCO Beep Prize, Madrid

2008
Second Prize, Transmediale Award, Berlin

2007
IBM Award, Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgarter
Nominated for Transmediale Award, Berlin
Honorary Mention, Share Festival, Turin

2006
Honorary Mention, ibizagrafica, Ibiza,
Media Award, St. Gilgen International School, Graz
Stipendium, Edith-Ruß-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg
Nominated, Transmediale Award, Berlin

2005
Honorary Mention, Prix Ars Electronica, net Vision category, Linz
Nominated, VIPER Award, Basel
Comission, Rhizome, NewYork



Selected Exhibitions, Festivals


2009
4th Contemporary Art Festival TINA B, Prague - Czech Republic
Cairo Prize, Milan - Italy
EMARE residency, final exhibition, Halle - Germany
Re-New Festival, Copenhagen - Denmark
ENTER, 4th international festival, Prague - Czech Republic
FAD Festival, Belo Horizonte - Brazil
Tag ties and affective spies
, online exhibition, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athen - Greece

2008
Anna Kournikova Deleted By Memeright Trusted System, HMKV, Dortmunt - Germany
Territories and Resources, CinemaCity, Novi Sad - Serbia
The Enterprise of Art, PAN, Naples - Italy
Revolutions – Forms That Turn, Biennale of Sydney Online Exhibition, Australia
MIR Festival, Athen - Greece
Economy 0, Paris - France
Transmediale Festival, Berlin - Germany

2007
xxxxx, Pikesel Festival, Bergen - Norway
Plugin Festival, Basel - Switzerland
Zone V2, Museum Of Contemporary Art, Tapei - Taiwan
STRP, Eindhoven - Netherlands
My Own Private Reality, Edith-Ruß-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg - Germany
EMAF International Festival, Maribor - Slovenia
DEAF Festival, Rotterdam - Netherlands
LABcyberspaces, Laboral Art Center, Gijon - Spain
Share Festival, Turin - Italy
Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg - Germany
Israeli Center for digital Art, Holon - Israel

2006
Connected, Art Center Nabi, Seul - Korea
chico.art.net, Chico - California
Canarias Mediafest, Gran Canaria - Spain
D.I.Y. Do or Die, Oklahoma - USA
NTT ICC Museum, Tokyo - Japan
Peam Festival, Pescara - Italy
New Museum Online Exhibition, New York - USA
Theatre Paris-Villette, Connecting Worlds, Paris - France
Derivatives, new art financial visions, La Casa Encendida, Madrid - Spain
Struttura, Livorno - Italy
Share Festival, Turin - Italy
Viper Festival, Basel - Switzerland
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney - Australia
No-Parachute, artandgallery, Milan - Italy
Transmediale Festival, Berlin - Germany

2005
Hybrid, Ars Elctronica, Linz - Austria
Share Festival, Turin – Italy

2004
Quadriennale di Roma, Turin - Italy 
EyeJam Festival, Turin - Italy
Banaram Festival, Ancona  - Italy

2002
I love You - Digital Craft, Mak, Frankfurt - Germany
Dina Festival, Campobasso - Italy



Bibliography


2009
Next Exit, "Young Blood 2008", Catalogue, Rome, Iron Editore, ISBN 9788890378607
M.Gioni, L.Cornell and L.Hoptman, "Younger Than Jesus: Artist Directory", New York, ISBN 9780714849812

D. Dragona, “Tag Ties and Affective Spies“, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, ISBN 9789608349360

2008
Mirko Tobias Schäfer, “Bastard Culture”, Utrecht, ISBN 9789039349731
I. Arns, F. Hunger, "Anna Kournikova Deleted By Memeright Trusted System" Catalogue, Dortmunt, ISBN 9783941100268
I. M. Lalic, “CinemaCity Festival -Territory & Resources” Catalogue, Novi Sad, ISBN 9788686877109
C. Christov-Bakargiev, "Biennale of Sydney, Revolutions - Forms That Turn" Catalogue, Sydney, ISBN 9780500976845
J. Draganovic, “The Enterprise of Art” Catalogue, Naples, ISBN 9788851005313
A. Cecchi, “NMD New media design”, Mantova, ISBN 9788874952748
Luca Barbeni, "Share Festival" Catalogue, Turin
S. Kovats, T. Munz, "Conspire - Tansmediale Festival" Catalogue, Berlin, ISBN 9783865884619

2007
Richard Colson, "The Fundamentals of Digital Art", Lusanna, ISBN 2940373582
Shiba, Oguchi, Yano, "InnerCommunication N°59" Magazine, Tokyo
Alex Adriaansens, "Zone V2" Catalogue, Tapei, ISBN 9789868321120
V2 Unstable Media, "DEAF" Catalogue, Rotterdam, ISBN 9789056625771
Alex Adriaansens , "Lab_Cyberspaces" Catalogue, Gijon, ISBN 9788461158805

2006
Suhjung Hur, Art Center Nabi "Connected" Catalogue, Seul, ISBN 804140638
Yukiko Shikata, ICC "Connecting Worlds" Catalogue, Tokyo, ISBN 757170335
Various Authors, "Struttura", Florence, ISBN 9788859601777
Andreas Broeckmann, "Transmediale - Reality Addicts” Catalogue, Berlin
Domenico Quaranta, "Share Festival" Catalogue, Turin
Chris Sauve, Andreas Ullrich, “Iternatial Sticker Award“ Catalogue, Berlin, ISBN 389955151

2005
Gerfried Stocker, Ars Electronica “Hybrid - Living in Paradox” Catalogue, Linz, ISBN 775716572
Luca Lampo, "Connessioni Leggendarie" Catalogue, Milan, ISBN 9385851904372

2004
L.Barreca, F.Guida, M.Tonelli, "XIV Esposizione Quadriennale d’Arte" Catalogue, Rome, ISBN 8880165704

2003
The Eisenhower Istitute, "Space Security" Research, Toronto, ISBN 920231365
Andreas Broeckmann, "Transmediale - Play Global” Catalogue, Berlin

2002
F.Nori, "I Love You" Catalogue, Frankfurt



Conferences, workshops


2009
Moves09 Forum, Manchester
SocialEast Seminar on Art and Espionage, London
Inkelektro, Bari
Transmediale Festival, Berlin


2008
Territories and Resources, Novi Sad
Share Festival, Turin
Transmediale Festival, Berlin

2007
Track My Poem, NABA, Milan
xxxxx, Pikesel Festival, Bergen

2006
Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg
Peam, Pescara
Struttura, Livorno
Share Festival, Turin
Transmediale Festival, Berlin

2004
Banaram, Ancona



Interviews



2009
Springerin Magazine, Austria
Velevet Magazine, Athens

2008
Radio eins RBB, Berlin
Artè TV, France
HTV, Croatia
Transmediale Archive, Berlin
Tagr.Tv, Austria
Voices of Resistance from London, UK

2006
Furtherfield.org, UK
NTT ICC Magazine, Tokyo
Springerin, Austria
DE:BUG, Germany
Digicult, Italy

2005
Tecknemedia, Italy
Cosmopolitan , Italy

2004
Radio Flash, Indaco, Italy
Il Punto, Italy
Belorusskaya Gazeta, Belarus


Selected Press


2009
Arte, Italy
Liberation, France
Wired.com, USA
Calist, Israel
Velevet Magazine, Greece
Telepolis, Spain


2008
Il Sole 24 Ore, Italy
Frankfurter Allemagne, Germany
ExtrArt, Italy
UndoNet, Italy
E-Flux, online
ArtFact, online

2007
XL Repubblica, Italy
Blick,Swissinfo, Switzerland
Tages-Anzeiger, OE24, Switzerland
Der Standard, Limmatonline, Switzerland
ORF.at, Austria
Springerin, Austria
ElPais, Spain

2006
Die Zeit, Germany
Liberation Ecrans, France
Spiegel , Germany
Sueddeutsche  Zeitung, Germany
The Guardian Art, UK
L'Unità, Italy
MAzine,  UK
Artforum News, week 28
Arte-Tv, France
Flash Art, Italy
Heise.de, Germany
De:Bug, Germany
Neural  Magazine, Italy

2005
New York Art, USA
El Pais, Spain
Exibart, Italy
Liberation, Francia
Village Voice, USA

2004
Belorusskaya Gazeta, Belarus
La Stampa, Italy
Il Punto, Italy
drumnbass.it, Italy
Undo.net, Italy
Exibart, Italy
Basebog, Italy

2003
Space Security, Toronto
Flash Art, Italy
Liberation, France

2002
Il sole 24 Ore, Italy
Boiler, Italy
Spiegel online, Germany
Liberation, France
Wired, USA
Flash Art, Italy
Espresso online, Italy
La Stampa Web, Italy
Clarin, Spain
Cnn De, Germany
PragueNews, USA
NetSecurity, Japan
Daily Brief Number DOB02-071, Department of National Defence of Canada
IDEFENSE Intelligence Operations, Department of National Defence of USA





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