Dear friends,
Let me notice you REALITYFLOWHACKED, my solo show in Ljubljana at Aksioma | Project space - Slovenia.
From April 26 to May 20, 2011.
Info and selected pictures of the show:
http://www.aksioma.org/realityflowhacked
Texts by Bruce Sterling, Sculpting the Flow of Reality:
http://www.paolocirio.net/press/text_sterling_realityflowhacked.php
Art Crosses the Border:
http://www.paolocirio.net/press/text_sterling_xl.php
This
exhibition features some most recent projects of mine that are related
to the idea of Social Algorithms. They are conceptual hacks, which are
represented by the pieces Open Society Structures (2009), P2P Gift
Credit Cards - Gift Finance (2010) and Face to Facebook (coauthor:
Alessandro Ludovico, 2011)
Let me say more about the Social
Algorithms of the REALITYFLOWHACKED exhibition with little personal
statements. Below there are also links of recent interviews about the
recent projects and 7 downloadable diagrams of Social Algorithms.
Flow
of information is pure raw power; processing and managing data means
developing languages, knowledge and awareness of reality. Social
Algorithms literally design information flux, they program realities.
Through
Social Algorithms I sculpted information, an invisible material that
can be shaped for constructing new structures of data, which
demonstrated being able to influence the Social Reality. Just for
instance, in Face to Facebook the structuring of data in new forms has
affected a great number of people's behaviour and legal and media
spheres. These sculptures of data can be created by anyone, just by
following the diagrams of the Social Algorithms that I drew. These
diagrams explain the instructions for activating social change through
hacks of the present flow of reality.
They are not malicious hacks,
they are not sabotaging viruses, nor speculative esthetics, funny hoaxes
or simply slogans, instead, they want to bring about progress. They
propose new realities by pragmatical instructions that run step by step.
They are propositions of how to activate political evolutions, just by
following the flow charts of the diagrams. The reality flow must be
re-processed and re-organized, society always needs new and better
algorithms.
In the show REALITYFLOWHACKED the Social Algorithms are
materialized by active drawings, effective sculptures, and functional
performances that came out of them. Classic artistic practices such as
drawing, sculpting and performing can finally be able to influence
effectively social realities. However, this is not software art, nor net
art. There aren't genres, this is just what is our contemporary time.
Media and management of data, this is the global everyday reality.
The
diagrams of the Social Algorithms are blueprints for social software
that when launched in the operation system of our complex reality, start
to interact with the tasks of the applications that govern and organize
the construction of Social Reality. They are not just visionary
sketches, they can be implantable, some still are running now, they
really work! And their power to change reality is just a matter of the
scale of their implementation.
Here you can download the diagrams of the Social Algorithms. There are 7 blueprints in pdf:
http://www.paolocirio.net/work/all_cirio_diagrams.zip
The
seven diagrams of the Social Algorithms included the three of the
Hacking Monopoly Trilogy (Google Will Eat Itself, Amazon Noir and Face
to Facebook), one diagram of the Gift Finance and diagrams of the
triptych of Open Society Structures.
If you need printed copies of them, just ask me, I'll deliver them to your postal address.
Many thanks and hugs to all the friends who have supported me so far.
Paolo.
Recent Interviews:
- Digicult online magazine. Extensive Interview about major artworks, career and strategies
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=2039
- Artline online magazine
http://www.paolocirio.net/press/interview_f2f_artline.php
- CNN.com online portal
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/02/11/artists.facebook.project
- Artinfo online magazine
http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/36912/the-artist-whos-out-to-liberate-facebook-a-qa-with-profile-thief-paolo-cirio
- Czech TV major public TV channel 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYgV5avt3LY
- Tagesschau German public TV ARD channel 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzCh1XPWlMY
- NDR Zapp German TV show
http://www.ndr.de/fernsehen/sendungen/zapp/internet/facebook377.html
This month printed publications in the bookshops:
- Artnews magazine (U.S.) review
- Springering magazine (Austria) interview
- XL magazine magazine (Italy) review
- Politika magazine (Serbia) interview
- Wired magazine (Italy) review (upcoming)
Upcoming exhibitions and presentations:
- EMAFF 2011, Face to Facebok presentation, Osnabrück, Germany
- IMAC 2011, Re-New forum, Recombinant Fiction lecture, Copenhagen
- Visionary Trading Project, P2P Gift Credit Cards exhibition, London
- Memefest, workshop, Nijmegen, Netherlands
- Utopian Currencies, P2P Gift Credit Cards exhibition and lecture, Paris
- Checkpoints FLEF Festival, Face to Facebook exhibition, Finger Lakes, U.S.
- Genesis Project, workshop, New York
- Galerija Galzenica, Open Society Structures exhibition, Velika Goricam, Croazia