Press :

From his works emerge utopias and dystopias that reflect contemporary complexity.
His poetic aims to educate, inform, organize, influence, incite to action - hence his work always tries to be critical, radical and investigative.


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- Donwload complete CV in PDF with list exhibitions, awards and professional practices.


Selected Interviews :

- AdBuster magazine (Canada) about Google. Privacy, Advertising, Monopoly of meaning.  2009  (en)
- Final Interview, Web Literature book (Italy) about The Big Plot. 2010. (en)
- Springerin magazine (Austria) about The Big Plot. Recombinat Fiction, Participative Post Movie.  2009  (en)  (de)
- Velvet magazine (Greece) about The Big Plot. Recombinat Fiction, Political use of Social Networks.  2009  (en)

- VORL magazine (UK) about Check Check Reality. Hyper-Reality, Hysteria Airports Security, Privacy.  2007  (en)

- CONT3XT/furtherfield online (UK) about Amazon-Noir. Copyright, P2P, Copyleft, Gift Economy.  2006  (en)
- Digicult online (Italy) about GWEI. Google, Click Economy, Hacktivism.  2005  (en)
  (it)
- IlPunto newspaper (Italy) about Illegal Art Show. Street Art Happenings.  2004  (it)
- BelGazeta newspaper (Belarus) about Militarism and new role of NATO.  2004  (en)


Selected texts :
- About  "Recombinant Fiction" Theory. New forms of Immersive Fiction and Spectacles.  2008  (en)
- Text lecture "Manufactering Consent". Post ideological Propaganda, Semio-Capitalism.  2008  (en)  (it) 
- My Amazon-Noir Diary. Failure of a great story, Script Performance.  2006  (en)
- Google Will Eat Itself agitprop text. Google Monopoly guerrilla Fight.  2006 (it)
- Illegal Art Show, London. Reclaiming Public Space, Spontaneous Street Art.  2005  (en)
- Illegal Art Show Manifesto. Reclaiming Public Space, Art System.  2004  (it)
- Netstrike against military conference. International Action Call.  2004  (en)

- Media analysis on the first war in Iraq. Desert Storm InfoWar, audience perception research.  2003  (it)
- Global Anti NATO DAY. International call, Global Event, Agit Prop.  2002  (en)
- Stop NATO website Manifesto. Militarism and new role of NATO.  2001  (en)

Available Workshops :
- Workshop on Tactical Guerrilla Communication.  (en)
- Workshop on Partecipatory Cross-Media StoryTelling. (en)
- Workshop on Web Hacking techniques. (en)
- Workshop on Web Design. (it)


Selected Printed Press Coverage :

- Adbuster, Interview, Canada
- Springerin, Interview, Austria
- Cairo Prize, Catalogue, Italy
- Il Sole 24 Ore, 11/2009, Italy
- Velvet, Interview, Greece
- New York Triennal artists directory, Catalogue
- Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Press, Germany
- El Commercio, Press, Spain
- DEAF, Catalogue, Rotterdam
- XL Repubblica, Press, Italy
- Il Sole 24 Ore, 08/2008, Italy
- Space Security, Press, Canada
- Occupied London, Interview, UK



Raw Web Press Coverage:

Time and Truth Don’t Unveil the Reason :

http://siliconia.info/post/138333388/paolo-cirio-time-and-truth-dont-unveil-the
http://deeliaartista.posterous.com/paolo-cirio-tactical-media-artist
http://ffffound.com/image/947adfda25f19c04188682747e8eaffec01d48cf?c=3432223

Open Society Structures - Algorithms Triptych :

http://blog.groundswellcollective.com/2009/07/16/diagramming-utopia-paolo-cirios-open-society-structures-algorithms-tryptic/
http://www.cairoeditore.it/Premio-Cairo-2009-Paolo-Cirio.html
http://thegreatgeekmanual.com/blog/geek-quote-of-the-day-571
http://spacecollective.org/notthisbody/5458/Open-Society-Structures-Algorithm-tryptic

The Big Plot

http://www.springerin.at/dyn/heft.php?id=60&pos=1&textid=2230&lang=en

http://ludicpyjamas.net/wp/?p=37

http://datapanik.wordpress.com/2009/01/31/the-big-plot/
http://www.spikenlilli.com/Spikenlilli/NaT_Schedule.html
http://narrativeandtechnology.pbworks.com/The-Big-Plot%27s-plot
http://transition.turbulence.org/blog/2009/01/16/the-big-plot/
http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2009/01/paolo-cirios-bi/
http://www.calcalist.co.il/home/0,7340,L-3369,00.html
http://www.mediateletipos.net/archives/8693
http://www.argn.com/2009/01/game_preview_the_big_plot/
http://www.ecopolis.org/explanation-the-big-plot-project/
http://datapanik.wordpress.com/2009/01/31/the-big-plot/
http://turbulence.org/blog/tags/public-private-space/page/2/
http://eljapolak.nl/2009/01/26/the-big-plot-stap-in-de-rabbithole-en-speel-mee/
http://www.blogpiloten.de/2009/01/26/film-30-%E2%80%93-alternate-reality-games/

The death of the Author 2.0:

http://www.springerin.at/dyn/heft_text.php?textid=1990&lang=en
http://blog.wired.com/sterling/2007/09/death-of-the-au.html
http://nettime-l.blogspot.com/2007/09/re-death-of-author-20.html
http://nettime-l.blogspot.com/2007/09/re-death-of-author-20_27.html
http://nettime-l.blogspot.com/2007/09/re-death-of-author-20_28.html
http://www.neural.it/art/2007/08/peoplequotepeople_software_aga.phtml
http://www.p2pfoundation.net/Death_of_Author_2.0
http://www.letiziajaccheri.splinder.com/post/14020870/la+morte+dell%27Autore+con+la+A+


Check - Check :

http://www.konstperspektiv.nu/blogg/?p=96
http://tidskrift.nu/artikel.php?Id=5721
http://occupiedlondon.org/checkcheck
http://culturejamming.blogger.de/stories/940083
http://pgzlog.wordpress.com/category/luchthavens
http://www.ecopolis.org/i-killed-a-girl-called-reality

Amazon-Noir :

http://www.bielertagblatt.ch/News/Schweiz/94658
http://www.w-und-o.ch/News/News/SDANews.aspx?id=5889
http://www.blick.ch/news/sda?newsid=20071026brd086
http://www.oe24.at/zeitung/kultur/article149737.ece
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id=208
http://zuender.zeit.de/2006/42/netz-kunst-amazon-noir-ubermorgen
http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzkultur/0,1518,435195,00.html

http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/76240
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/008920.php
http://www.turbulence.org/blog/archives/002947.html
http://cont3xt.twoday.net/stories/2640513/
http://www.random-magazine.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=1104
http://termin.esel.at/4010.php?event_id=83351827424&id=8335
http://www.plattform-kunst.com/index.php?option=com_exhibition&task=view&id=24http://txtnws.twoday.net/stories/2639664

GWEI :

http://www.unita.it/view.asp?IDcontent=60064
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1925591,00.html
http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzkultur/0,1518,435195,00.html
http://www.stgilgen-international-school.at/media-award06/awards2006.htm
http://diepresse.com/Artikel.aspx?channel=k&ressort=k&id=569850
http://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/artikel/756/79677/
http://ascii24.com/news/i/topi/article/2006/09/27/664830-000.html?geta
http://www.ntticc.or.jp/Exhibition/2006/ConnectingWorld/Work/GWEI.html
http://www.villagevoice.com/screens/0526,dibbell,65142,28.html
http://www.derivart.info/index.php?s=derivados_bernhard&lang=en
http://rhizome.org/commissions/2005/gwei.rbw

http://www.springerin.at/dyn/heft.php?id=47&pos=1&textid=1756&lang=en
http://fromatod.blogosfere.it/2006/01/gwei_google_wil.html
http://www.de-bug.de/texte/4246.html
http://www.transmediale.de/page/detail/detail.0.persons.575.3.html
http://www.teknemedia.net/magazine/speciali_medialounge/dettail.html?mId=758
http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/upd-discuss/2005q4/001542.html
http://www.regioartline.org/ral/index.php?&id=4&backPID=53&tt_news=1341
http://www.regioartline.org/ral/index.php?&id=4&backPID=53&tt_news=1381&L=1
http://www.teknemedia.net/magazine/speciali_medialounge/dettail.html?mId=953
http://www.arte-tv.com/fr/art-musique/cultures-electroniques/cette-semaine/1120392.html
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=311
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=292
http://www.artandgallery.it/Archivio/noparachudepink.asp
http://www.noemalab.org/sections/wandp.php?page=3
http://www.flashartonline.it/Archivio/riv_257/news7.htm
http://www.qbicweb.net/categoria/google/
http://www.artforum.com/news/week=200628
http://www.fondazionesegno.it/files/archive-3.html
http://www.domenicoquaranta.net/radical_software.html
http://www.toshare.it/toshare06/calendario.php?lang=it
http://www.runme.org/categories/+political_and_activist_software/+software_resistance/
http://nyartsmagazine.com/pages/nyam_document.php?nid=1279&did=3154
http://www.exibart.com/notizia.asp?IDNotizia=14393&IDCategoria=69
http://www.turbulence.org/blog/archives/001818.html
http://www.betacity.de/mailingliste/698.html
http://www.springerin.at/dyn/heft_text.php?textid=1756&lang=en
http://www.aec.at/index.asp?Redirect=True&kickback=%2Fde%2Farchives%2Fprix%5Farchive%2Fprix%5Fprojekt%2Easp%3FiProjectID%3D13403
http://www.kultura-extra.de/compuart/veranstaltung/transmediale_berlin_2006.php
http://www.bazarweb.info/showevent.php?id=4072

Others:

http://hm.indymedia.org/newswire/display/7972/index.php
nato DDoS_nato_28_may JP .htm
nato DDoS_nato_28_may_uk .htm
http://www.spacesecurity.org/SSI2003.pdf
http://www.work-out.org/woE3/magazine/woE3_magazine_chiamata.html




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