Selected Works :
| Face to Facebook - Hacking Monopolism Trilogy |
Mixed Media. 2011 |
This project was a Media Hack Performance through a social experiment: stealing 1 million Facebook profiles, filtering them with face-recognition software and then posting them on a custom-made dating website, sorted by their facial expression characteristics. Our mission was to give all these virtual identities a new shared place to expose themselves freely, breaking Facebook's constraints and boring social rules. We established a new website (lovely-faces.com) giving them justice and granting them the possibility of soon being face to face with anybody who is attracted by their facial expression and related data. |
| P2P Gift Credit Card - Gift Finance |
Digital print, plastic card embossed. 2010 |
This project proposes an alternative financial model based on Peer-to-Peer architecture for a more equal sharing of wealth in society. By issuing a visionary counterfeited type of VISA credit card, the project introduces the Gift Finance system based on People-to-People free credit shared across digital networks for a democratic creation of money. |
| Drowning NYC - Recombinant Fiction |
Mixed media. 2010 |
This is a transmedia storytelling; the story informs about rising sea levels in NYC due to global warming and how urban population will cope with it.
The story has been told by infiltrations into reality of few selected NYC neighborhoods by actors and narrative devices staged over the internet and in public spaces. This project helped to define the transmedia genre Recombinant Fiction.
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| The Big Plot - Recombinant Fiction |
Mixed media. 2009 |
This is a transmedia storytelling, a romantic-spy story rendered into the genre of Recombinant Fiction. Four characters told a story using dialogues shown on several social media channels. The cloned identity of a real spy was used to portray a story about political and sentimental weakness of our era characterised by a dysfunctional sociality being created by social media communications. |
| Open Society Structures - Algorithms Triptych |
Serigraph (digital) print on Plexiglass. 2009 |
This is an artwork that explores algorithm design for outlining direct, participative and consensual democracy. It includes a basic taxonomy of cultural, economic and political concepts relevant to the creation of a ideal society, showing the direction of dependencies, feedback interactions, and the relative significance of qualities and activities. |
| Check Check Reality |
Mixed Media. 2007 |
This project focused on airport security regulations, seeing them as a worst-case scenario of playing on people's fears. It looked at how security is installed as a focal point in our daily lives. The online platform was set up in order to de-program people from the PsyOps of the Security Theatre, and to solve ambivalent attitudes towards reality through providing an opportunity for self psycho-analyzation in the airport environment. |
| People Quote People - The Death of the Author 2.0 |
Engraved white marble. 2006 |
This artwork is a radical approach to the concept of the author as social degeneracy. The quotes no longer refer to the correct authors. In the mock website quotes are continually reordered randomly with different authors, spreading online misquotation mistakes as a form of liberation from the authorship fixation. |
| Amazon Noir - Hacking Monopolism Trilogy |
Mixed media. 2006 |
This project was a Media Hack Performance. Amazon e-commerce websites were vulnerable targets. We eluded the copyright protection with software robots that used the front door of the “Search Inside” service. We stole complete digital volumes of books, reassembled them into .pdf format and redistributed them for free. |
| Google Will Eat Itself (GWEI) - Hacking Monopolism Trilogy |
Mixed media. 2005 |
This project was a Media Hack Performance. We generated money by serving Google text advertisements on a network of hidden websites. With this money we automatically bought Google shares. We wanted to buy Google via their own advertisements. After this process we handed over the common ownership of "our" Google Shares to the GTTP Ltd. which distributed them back to the public. |
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