Keyword Index
Selected keyword: Digital Activism
Work: (W)orld Currency
Artist: Cirio, Paolo
Comment: "This artwork illustrates a global currency through the creative formulation of an equation and a trading algorithm for the currency exchange market. The visionary creation of algorithmic...
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: Anti-NATO Day - Participatory Cyber Attacks - STOPtheNATO.org
Artist: Cirio, Paolo
Comment: "This project unfolded around an anti-NATO militarism web portal that was founded in August 2001 and ran until late 2006. The website gained international popularity over the years through covering...
Work: Check Check Reality
Artist: Cirio, Paolo
Comment: "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....
Work: did you read the east
Artist: Beiguelman, Giselle
Comment: did you read the east? was a teleintervention conceived the 4th Arte/Cidade edition_ Artecidadezonaleste_ that linked an electronic billboard of São Paulo with any computer connected to the Web....
Work: Drowning NYC
Artist: Cirio, Paolo
Comment: This fiction informs the audience about rising sea levels due to global warming and how urban populations will cope with it. This experimental form of tactical transmedia fiction was told by actors...
Work: egoscope
Artist: Beiguelman, Giselle
Comment: egoscopio engaged new subjectivity formats, reception amidst processes of entropy and acceleration, and transformation of the interface into the message, exploring the context of confusion between...
Work: egoscopio 2.0
Artist: Beiguelman, Giselle
Comment: egoscopio 2.0 is a multi-user platform which allows simultaneous submissions of texts, images and flash animations by SMS, MMS and the Web to a big electronic display.
The content generated by...
Work: Face to Facebook - Hacking Monopolism Trilogy
Artist: Cirio, Paolo
Comment: Face to Facebook texts from www.face
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to
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facebook.net
by Paolo Cirio and Alessandro Ludovico. 2011
Logline: Stealing 1 million Facebook profiles, filtering them with face
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recognition software...
Work: Fort van Sjakoo
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: Inflatable tubing burst through a wall of brick-printed plastic that covered the shop window. This tubing was then taken into the street and used to signal the boundaries of controversial urban...
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: Google Adwords Happenings
Artist: Bruno, Christophe
Comment: The Google Adwords Happening: how a global happening on Google unveiled the Generalized Semantic Capitalism.
“At the beginning of April, a debate took place on rhizome.org mailing list, about how...
Work: Google Will Eat Itself (GWEI) - Hacking Monopolism Trilogy
Artist: Cirio, Paolo
Comment: "In this project we wanted to buy Google via its own money. We generated revenues by serving Google text advertisements on a network of hidden websites clicked by bots. With this money we...
Work: GWEI Google Will Eat Itself
Artist: Ubermorgen
Comment: GWEI - Google Will Eat Itself
by UBERMORGEN.COM feat. Alessandro Ludovico vs. Paolo Cirio
Net.Art, digital Actionism / Media Hacking, mixed Media, 2005
We generate money by serving Google...
Work: http://ugi-heal.me/
Artist: Ubermorgen
Comment: Find your own Universal Health
We are the only major pharma corporation to have emerged in the 21st century. We are corporate futurists. Our capabilities are unlimited. We are good. We and you and...
Work: http://www.superenhanced.com/
Artist: Ubermorgen
Comment: Typically, the cells have no windows. Lights are controlled by guards who may leave them on night and day. For exercise there is usually only a room with high concrete walls and a chin-up bar....
Work: iSee
Artist: Hirsch, Tad
Comment: iSee is an application for web-browsers and PDAs that charts the locations of closed-circuit television (CCTV) surveillance cameras in urban environments. With iSee, users can find routes that avoid...
Work: Kriegsspiel
Artist: Galloway, Alexander R.
Comment: videogame based on Guy Debord's board game with the same title. in collaboration with the RSG.
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: Marchtowar
Artist: Hirsch, Tad
Comment: Online gambling meets political protest. Launched in the February 2003, Marchtowar.com allowed users to place $5 bets on the time and date when the US invasion of Iraq would begin. The winner was...
Work: n0time
Artist: Vesna, Victoria
Comment: Computer technology promised to save us time and provide a renewed sense of community. Instead we are collectively suffering from information overflow and lack of time, and we have to reconsider the...
Work: Open Society Structures - Algorithms Triptych
Artist: Cirio, Paolo
Comment: "This artwork explores the use of algorithm design applied to social structures.
These diagrams propose the idea of planning societal organization like building algorithmic software, which can be...
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: ReVisioning the Virtual Wall
Artist: Thiel, Tamiko
Comment: The digital collages (3 shown here by Tamiko Thiel, and 3 others by Teresa Reuter/Sabe Wunsch) show scenographies of the Berlin Wall that are conceived as associative spaces of memories - by mixing...
Work: Shades of Absence: Public Voids
Artist: Thiel, Tamiko
Comment: This augmented reality installation creates "pavilions of absence" in which images of contemporary artists, whose works in public space have been censored, are reduced to gold silhouettes and placed...
Work: Solar
Artist: FLIGHT404
Comment: As I mentioned in a previous entry, I am working on an application to be presented at the V&A Decode exhibition opening in December. I was asked to rework the Solar piece so that it could be audio...
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: The Big Plot
Artist: Cirio, Paolo
Comment: "This is a romantic-spy story rendered into the genre of Recombinant Fiction. Four characters told a fiction using dialogues shown on several media channels. The cloned identity of a real spy was...
Work: [V]ote-Auction
Artist: Ubermorgen
Comment: Voteauction* was a Website which offered US citizens to sell their presidential vote to the highest bidder during the Presidential Elections 2000, Al Gore vs. G.W. Bush.
Several US States...