Street Ghosts
2012 - 2017. Inkjet prints, dimensions variable.

» Website: StreetGhosts.net


Press material
- 2nd Press Release on 16th Sept. 2013
- 1st Press Release on 20th Sept. 2012

- Map and Photo Albums of all the ghosts
- Press pics of compositions in high-res
- Press pics of street art posters in high-res
- Press videos in high-res


- Interview on VICE Motherboad, 2013
- Interview on Libération (en) (fr), 2012

- Artist's statement and theoretical text
- Text "Anti-Social Sculptures"

Selected press coverage
TV
- Mashable, online news, U.S., 2012
- Canal Plus, French TV, interview, 2012
- DW TV, interview, Germany, 2012
- SWR-Fernsehen TV, Germany, 2013
- BTV, interview, Spain, 2013
- The Influencers, video doc, Spain, 2013
Printed
- ART News, interview, 2014, U.S.
- Frieze magazine, review, 2013, U.K.
- O Globo, interview, 2012, Brazil
- BILD, review, 2012, Germany
- NRC next, interview, 2012, Netherlands
- Libération, interview, 2012, France
- Le Nouvel Observateur, 2012, France
- Business Punk, review, 2012, German
Online main-stram:
- The Atlantic & Atlantic Cities - U.S.
- Huffington Post U.S. & UK & IT
- Daily Mail 2013, 2012 - UK
- iTVNetwork - UK
- VICE - U.S.
- Toronto Standard - Canada
- Russia Today - Russia
- Kompass - Indonesia
- Infobae - Argentina
- O Globo - Brazil
- 24 Horas - Mexico
- El Observador - Mexico
- Global Times - China
- Sing Pao - Hong Kong
- The Standard - Hong Kong
- BILD - Germany
- Hamburger Abendblatt - Germany
- der Standard - Austria
- NRC NL - Netherlands
- Diena - Lithuania
- R TV - Romania
- R TVI 24 - Portugal
- Libération - France
- Ecrans - France
- L'independant - France
- 20 Minutes - France
- 20 Minutos - Spain
- El Pais - Spain
- Sky News - Italy
- Il Corriere della Sera - Italy
Art magazines:
- Frieze, U.K.
- Creative Review - UK
- ARTINFO - Australia
- Art Practical - U.S.
- Fast Company - U.S.
- Beutiful Decay - U.S.
Photography:
- TIME Lightbox - U.S.
- Peta Pixel - U.S.
- PhotoBlog - Hong Kong
Architecture:
- Architizer - U.S.
- Here Is The City - U.S.
- Spacing Vancuver - Canada
- The Polis - U.S.

In this artwork, photos of people found on Google Street View were posted at the same physical locations from where they were taken. Life-size posters were printed in color, cut along the outlines, and then affixed to the walls of public buildings at the precise spot where they appear in Google Street View. This project revealed aesthetic, biopolitical, economic, and legal issues concerning privacy, copyright, and visual perception, which can be explored through the artist's theoretical considerations. The artwork re-contextualized ready-made informational material, and reenacted a social conflict: ghostly human bodies appear as casualties of the info-war in the city, a transitory record of collateral damage from the battle between corporations, governments, civilians, and algorithms over public and private information.

Selected pictures of the outdoor public space insterventions
Manhattan, Brooklyn, Denver, Buffalo, Hartford, Cincinnati, San Francisco, Montreal, London, Lincoln, Berlin, Stuttgart, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Brussels, Luxembourg, Paris, Namur, Toulouse, Lyon, Marseille, Barcelona, Bilbao, Zagreb, Ljubljana, Budapest, Turin, Haifa, Mexico City, Hong Kong, Sydney.
Selected pictures of the indoor galleries installations
Open Society Foundation, NYC; Apexart gallery, NYC; Cenart, Mexico City; Alhóndiga, Bilbao;
Nome Gallery, NYC; City Hall, Hong Kong; Museum für Fotografie, Berlin.

Video playlist


Selected shows and presentations
The Future Behind Us, exhibition at Villa Arson, 2022, Nice - France
Resonances, exhibition at Fundación MAPFRE, 2022, Barcelona - Spain
Monitoring Control, solo show at Fondazione Arti Visive, 2021, Modena - Italy
Tracked & Traced, exhibition at the MSU Museum, 2021, East Lansing - U.S.
Expocollective18, exhibition at Saint-Ex culture numérique, 2021, Reims - France
Extraordinaire, exhibition at Institut Pour la Photographie, 2019, Lille - France
Touch Me, exhibition at 1st Strasbourg Biennale, 2018, Strasbourg - France
DataMaze, exhibition at DOX Art Center, 2018, Prague - Czech Republic
Watching You, Watching Me, exhibition at BOZAR, 2018, Brussels - Belgium
Design Touch, exhibition and lecture at Midtown Tokyo, 2017, Tokyo - Japan
AnonymiX: the End of the Privacy Era, exhibition at Haifa Museum of Art, 2017, Haifa - Israel
Watching You, Watching Me, exhibition at Museum für Fotografie, 2017, Berlin - Germany
Nothing to Hide, exhibition and workshop at Real Art Ways, 2017, Hartford CT - U.S.
Street Ghosts, exhibition at International Kunstverein Luxembourg, 2016, Luxembourg
Be Water, exhibition at Hong Kong City Hall for Microwave festival, 2016, Hong Kong
The Peeled Eye, exhibition at Wave Pool gallery for FotoFocus Biennial, 2016, Cincinnati - U.S.
Private, solo show at NOME gallery at 208 Bowery, 2016, NYC - U.S.
Public and Private, solo show at NOME for ContempraryTurin, 2016, Turin - Italy
Extra Fantôme, exhibition at La Gaîté Lyrique, 2016, Paris - France
TransitioMX, exhibition at CENART, 2015, Mexico City - Mexico
Surveilling Surveillers, workshop at Het Nieuwe Instituut, 2015, Rotterdam - Netherlands
Profiled: Surveillance of a Sharing Society, exhibition at Apexart gallery, 2015, NYC - U.S.
Watching You, Watching Me, exhibition at Open Society Archives, 2015, Budapest - Hungary
After Transparency, Solo Show at Centre Culturel Bellegard, 2015, Toulouse - France
Out of Control, exhibition at Ars Electronica Center, 2015, Linz - Austria
Watching You, Watching Me, exhibition at Open Society Foundations, 2014, NYC - U.S.
Eternal September, exhibition for Aksioma Institute at Škuc Gallery, 2014, Ljubljana - Slovenia
Beyond Photography, lecture at VII MasterClass, 2014, Milan - Italy
Photography, Expanded, lecture at Aperture Gallery for Magnum Foundation, 2014, NYC - U.S.
BORROWORROB, Currencies as Spaces, exhibition at HDLU, 2014, Zagrab - Croatia
Trace Recordings, exhibition at UTS Gallery, 2013, Sydney - Australia
IDFA DocLab, exhibition and lacture, 2013, Amsterdam - Netherlands
KIKK festival, exhibition and lecture, 2013, Namur - Belgium
ISEA 2013, exhibition, 2013, Sydney - Australia
The Influencers festival, exhibition, 2013, Barcellona - Spain
Lincoln Digital Culture Festival, exhibition, 2013, Lincoln - UK
Artists as Catalysts, exhibition at Alhóndiga, 2013, Bilbao - Spain
26. Stuttgarter Filmwinter, exhibition, 2013, Stuttgart - Germany
Eastern Bloc festival, exhibition, 2013, Montreal - Canada
MediaCities festival, exhibition, 2013, Buffalo - U.S.
Drones / Birds: Princes of Ubiquity at The Digital now, exhibition, 2013, Brussels - Belgium
The Big Picture, exhibition at Museum of Contemporary Art of Denver, 2013, Colorado - U.S.
Public Private, exhibition at Kellen Gallery of The New School, 2013, NYC - U.S.
ShowCase 2013, exhibition at Eyebeam, 2013, NYC - U.S.



Selected bibliography
Cartografie Radicali, Attivismo, esplorazioni artistiche, Book, Meltemi, Italy, 2023, ISBN 9788855197830
L'œil numérique, Sociétés & Représentations, Journal, La Sorbonne, France, 2023, N.55, ISBN 12622966
Monitoring Control, Book, NERO Editions, Italy, 2022, ISBN 9788880561569
Crisis Vision, Book, Duke University, U.S., 2022, ISBN 9781478018759
Reseonancias, Catalog, Fundación Mapfre, Spain, 2022, ISBN 9788498448092
Artificial Intelligence, Slanted, Magazine, Review, Slanted, Germany, 2021, Issue #37
Costruire il futuro , Civiltà Delle Macchine, Magazine, Italy, 2021, 26124416
antiDATA, Book, Les Presses du réel, France, 2020, ISBN 9782378961855
Mind the Gap, Book, Postmedia Books, Italy, 2020, ISBN 9788874902897
Error, Ambiguity, and Creativity, Catalog, Palgrave Macmillan, UK, 2020, ISBN 9783030397548
Vita da art-hacker, Left, Magazine, Review, Italy, July 31 2020, N. 31
Es wird ein bisschen unrentabel, Springerin, Magazine, Interview, Germany, 2020, N. 01
Making Another World Possible, Book, Routledge, U.S., 2019, ISBN 9781138603547
Zwischen Street Art und Medienkunst, Book, Review, GRIN Verlag, Germany, 2017, ISBN 3668490902
Street Art und neue Medien, Book, Review, Verlag, Germany, 2017, ISBN 9783837635355
From meme to mainstream, Book, MU, Netherlands, 2017, ISBN 9789079423101
Public Image, Kunstforum, Magazine, Germany, 2017, 246, ISBN 11160
The War of Appearances, Book, V2, Netherland, 2016, ISBN 9789080179387
The Cyborg Subject, Book, Review, Springer, U.S., 2016, ISBN 1137584491
Streaming Egos, Book, Goethe-Institut, France, 2016, ISBN 9783945048207
WATCHED! Surveillance, Art and Photography, Catalog, Buchhandlung Walther König, Sweden, 2016
Extra Fantômes, Catalog, France, 2016, ISBN 9782359061659
Participation in Art and Architecture, Book, Bloomsbury, UK, 2015, ISBN 9780857727879
Repensar lo público, Estudios Globales y Arte, Journal, Review, Uni de Barcelona, Spain, 2015, Vol. 3
The Messenger, Foam, Magazine, Netherland, 2015, Issue 41, ISBN 8710966455234
British Journal of Photography, Magazine, U.K., 2015, ISBN 977000711912812
MediaCities, Catalog, Buffalo University, U.S., 2014, ISBN 9780991254408
Eternal September, Catalog, Lulu, Slovenia, 2014, ISBN 9781291980608
Frieze international, Magazine, UK, 2014, Issue 160
Kunstbulletin, Magazine, Switzerland, 2014, Issue 1/3
When Does Surveillance Art Cross the Line? , ARTnews, Magazine, Review, U.S., 2014, Issue september
Google, Brand Documentary, Magazine, Review, Suyong Joh, South Korea, 2014, Issue N.28
Street Art, Art Spezial, Magazine, Review, Germany, November 2014
Å bade i bilder, Book, Norway, 2013, ISBN 9788249215430
Mind the Map, Book, Kunstlicht, Germany, 2013, volume 34, ISBN 9789081777674
CREATICITY, Book, LEMO, Spain, 2013, ISBN 9788494115417
Photography Beyond Representation, Book, London South bank University, UK, 2013
Protocol and contemporary photography, Book, publications de Université de Saint-Etienne, France, 2013
Berliner Type und Corporate Design Preis Jahrbüche, Book, TELLUS GMBH, Germany, 2013, 9783942071147
New Street Art, Book, Vivays Publishing, UK, 2013, ISBN 9781908126511
European Youth Trend Report, Book, Belgium, 2013, ISBN 9789082014709
Vie privée: en danger sur le Net?, Le Nouvel Observateur, Magazine, France, 2012, Issue 2506
Google Graffiti, ION Magazine, Magazine, Canada, 2012, April
Revenge Street View Zombie, Business Punk, Magazine, Review, Germany, 2012, Issue April
Os Fantasmas Do Google Street View, O Globo, Newspaper, Brazil, Oct. 12th 2012
De straatspoken van Street View, NRC Next, Newspaper, Netherlands, Oct. 9th 2012
Captures fantomes, Liberation, Newspaper, France, 2012, July 1st
Aus Google Street View, Bild, Newspaper, Germany, 2012

Selected pictures of galleries installations

Selected pictures on the streets of London, NYC, and Berlin

Ebor Street, London - Link Street View from 2008


80 East Houston Street, New York - Link Street View from 2011


12 Cheshire Street, London - Link Street View from 2012


214 Lafayette Street, New York - Link Street View from 2009


Dircksenstraße / Rochstraße, Berlin - Link Street View from 2008

Slideshow of all the pictures published:


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