Face-to-facebook: Disrupting Monopolism. Reviewed by Elin Ahlberg
Elin Ahlberg reviews 'Face to facebook' by Italian artists Paolo Cirio and Alessandro Ludovico. It was the Final project of a series of three called 'Tha Hacking Monopolism Triology'. The 'Face to facebook' project was to steal 1 million facebook profiles and re-contextualize them on a custom made dating website (lovely-faces.com). http://www.furtherfield.org/features/reviews/face-facebook-disrupting-monopolism Paolo Cirio works as media artist in various fields: net-art, street-art, video-art, software-art and and experimental fiction. He has won prestigious art awards and his controversial works have been sustained by research grants, collaborations and residencies. He has exhibited in museums and art institutions worldwide. As public speaker he delivers lectures and workshops on media tactics. Alessandro Ludovico is a media critic and editor in chief of Neural magazine since 1993. He's one of the founders of the 'Mag.Net (Electronic Cultural Publishers organization). He also served as an advisor for the Documenta 12's Magazine Project. He has ben guest researcher at the Willem De Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. He teaches at the Academy of Art in Carrara. Furtherfield reviewer, Elin Ahlberg is studying Art and Visual culture at the University of the West of England in Bristol. She has been living in the UK, and Bristol, since her move from Sweden in 2006. As an artist, she works in a variety of mediums and produces work which aims to both amuse and provoke. Her practice and research is informed by quasi-anthropological observations and an interest in technology. "One year ago I gave up Facebook for lent. It was quite an interesting experiment and I realised how integrated my life was with the social networking website..." Ahlberg's essay 'Meanings constructed around Facebook 2011' can be found here - http://tinyurl.com/6a34xyv -----------------------> Other Info: A living - breathing - thriving networked neighbourhood - art, technology & social change - claiming it with others ;) http://identi.ca/furtherfield http://twitter.com/furtherfield Other reviews,articles,interviews http://www.furtherfield.org/features Furtherfield – online arts community, platforms for creating, viewing, discussing and learning about experimental practices at the intersections of art, technology and social change. http://www.furtherfield.org Furtherfield Gallery – physical media arts Gallery (London). http://www.furtherfield.org/programmes/exhibitions Netbehaviour - Networked Artists List Community. http://www.netbehaviour.org _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
