Work: Amazon Noir - Hacking Monopolism Trilogy   Artist: Cirio, Paolo Comment: "In this project Amazon.com's website was the vulnerable target. We eluded their copyright protections with a sophisticated hack of the "Search Inside" service. We stole complete digital volumes of...

Work: Face to Facebook - Hacking Monopolism Trilogy   Artist: Cirio, Paolo Comment: Face to Facebook texts from www.face ‐ to ‐ facebook.net by Paolo Cirio and Alessandro Ludovico. 2011 Logline: Stealing 1 million Facebook profiles, filtering them with face ‐ recognition software...

Work: Global Direct   Artist: Cirio, Paolo Comment: "Global Direct introduces the idea of direct participation in worldwide governance within the tradition of utopian artistic visions. The artwork is presented as a visionary political program that...

Work: Joan and her Persecutors   Artist: Ostrowski, Matthew Comment:

Work: Loophole for All   Artist: Cirio, Paolo Comment: "This artwork unveiled over 200000 Caymans Islands companies and combined with an aggressive business strategy, it reversed global finance machination for creative subversive agendas. The website...

Work: People Quote People - The Death of the Author 2.0   Artist: Cirio, Paolo Comment: "The quotations no longer refer to the correct authors. On the mock website, quotations are continually reordered randomly with different authors, spreading online misquotations as a form of...

Work: Persecuting US   Artist: Cirio, Paolo Comment: One million Americans are sorted by political affiliation and exposed to public persecution in the aftermath of the 2012 presidential election. The data was harvested from Twitter.com and...

Work: Seven Portraits for Maria Hernandez   Artist: Thiel, Tamiko Comment: Maria Hernandez was a Bushwick activist murdered for her fight to free the area of drug use. In 1989 Bushwick Park was renamed “Maria Hernandez Park” to commemorate her memory, but the artist could...

Work: Shades of Absence: Governing Bodies   Artist: Thiel, Tamiko Comment: “Shades of Absence: Governing Bodies" Addresses artists who have been censored by - or due to threats by - high members of the U.S. government. Premiered in 2013 at "Manifest:AR," curator Joseph...

Work: Street Ghosts   Artist: Cirio, Paolo Comment: 2012. Inkjet prints on coated paper, dimensions variable. Life-sized pictures of people found on Google's Street View were printed and posted without authorization at the same spot where they were...

Work: Surveillance Siddhi   Artist: Pearlman, Ellen Comment: