Works Archive Paolo Cirio - Media Artist - Sculpting Information Flow

Selected old and prototype works :

inVeritas
inVeritas is a project to democratize the power of the Italian media. Everyone is invited to freely create the news story he or she wants to communicate. With inVeritas.net, newspaper headlines can be generated for twenty-one Italian papers in A3 format, ready to print-off in seconds. Citizens, either individually or in groups, can then disseminate the news story by posting the headlines near their local news-stands. inVeritas gives everyone the chance to speak and disseminate news directly through news-stands across Italy.

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2011. Digital prints

Time and Truth Don’t Unveil the Reason
This work is created from a digital copy of the painting "The Truth Unveiled by Time" by Baroque master Giambattista Tiepolo. It has been partly covered by stickers which alter the interpretation of its iconographic symbolism.
The painting has been used as the backdrop for press conferences given by Silvio Berlusconi’s Italian government. The Prime Minister altered the painting, hiding the nipple of the woman (allegorically the truth). "Time and Truth Don't Unveil the Reason" concerns censorship and political consent. It suggests that time and truth alone are not sufficient for finding illumination by the light of reason – a position ever obfuscated by control over people’s perception of reality.

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2009. Digital print PVC and vinyl stickers
prototype. 250x170cm

Tree Sex Girls Network
They are four fictional girls who like to have sex with trees.
Roxy Maya
http://www.myspace.com/roxyporn
Ellen Kennedy
http://www.myspace.com/forest_frottage
Selene Kerry
http://www.myspace.com/selenelovetrees
Alex Brum
www.myspace.com/alexlovetrees

coauthour: Stewart Home and Tatiana Bazzichelli.

2007. Mixed Media

Post Brands Era
This is a trilogy of three street-art pieces which played the role of protagonist for a poster campaign, which took place over two years around seven European cities, in several different formats and dimensions. Here their tribute, formally displayed, focuses the idea of the "Post Brand Era" in which logos seem to be a dictatorial sign of industries that dominate contemporary society.

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2004. Digital prints
21x19cm each