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Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana presents: <br>
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<b>Paolo Cirio</b> <br>
<i><b>REALITYFLOWHACKED</b></i> <br>
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<b>Aksioma | Project space</b> <br>
Komenskega 18, Ljubljana, Slovenia <br>
April 26 – May 20, 2011 <br>
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<b>Tuesday, April 26, 2011</b> <br>
<b>Artist talk: 6:00 pm</b> <br>
<b>Exhibition opening: 7:00 pm</b> <br>
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New publication: <i>Aksioma brochure #09</i>, Ljubljana 2011 <br>
<i><b>Bruce Sterling: Sculpting the Flow of Reality</b></i> <br>
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Stories, interventions, tactics and concepts of social realities
designed and perpetrated by the new media artist Paolo Cirio will be
displayed together for the first time in a solo exhibition at the
new <b>Aksioma | Project space</b>. <br>
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The core of this exhibition will be the opus of new media projects
realized by the artist in the last years, including <i><b>Face to
Facebook</b></i><i> (2011)</i>, <i><b>P2P Credit Cards – Gift
Finance</b></i><i> (2010)</i> and <i><b>Open
Society Structures</b></i> (2009). <br>
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All these art pieces are conceived and performed in our advanced
Information Era, in which media are hybridized, scattered, and
blurred with the real, they are networked though, and they work
through participation of the users. <br>
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Cirio's works spot this media context, revealing information as
ontological basis: specific devices, languages or techniques of
media do not really count anymore, it is the art of orchestrate and
structure information by networked media that emerges as major
matter. <br>
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Consequentially, these art works question how specific arrangements
and processes of information can vary the construction and
perception of cultural, political and economic realities. They
investigate on information as raw material and how to structures it
to depict and confront the power of media. In Cirio's works the
layers of the media complexity are organically composed, displaying
his sophisticated structures able to destabilize powerful firms or
design worthy realities. <br>
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Every work exhibited in the show is installed as offline mixed media
installations. These art installations render sophisticated media
hacks, fabrication of narratives and insightful paradigms in
objects, videos, pictures and illustrations, in which the audience
can enjoy concepts and actions which originated the art works. <br>
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More about the exhibited works below! <br>
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<b>About the author </b> <br>
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<b>Paolo Cirio</b> is a tactical media artist who actually living in
London and working internationally. He hacks and orchestrates media
through videos, coding, websites, social media, printed media,
interventions in public spaces, characters enacted by actors,
audience participation and accurate researches, in order to create
edifying narratives, controversial provocations and tacking social
issues. His primary inspiration is in corporate and state
interventionism through the use of information power, which is
depicted and interpreted in his radical and controversial art works.
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Paolo was part of [epidemiC] net-art collective (design of the virus
<i><b>Biennale.py</b></i>, 49th Venice <em>Biennale</em>, Slovene
Pavilion) and has collaborated with many other pivotal figures of
net-art and street-art scene, like Bruce Sterling, Ubermorgen.com,
RTMark, Alessandro Ludovico, among others. <br>
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He has been awarded with the <b>Transmediale award</b> (2008), the
<b>Stuttgarter Filmwinter award</b> (2007) the <b>Media Award St.
Gilgen school</b> (2006); <b>Comission Rhizome</b> (2005) and
received the honorary mentions at <b>Ars Electronica</b> (2005). <br>
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Production: Aksioma – Zavod za sodobne umetnosti, Ljubljana, 2011 <br>
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Artistic director: Janez Janša <br>
Executive producer: Marcela Okretič <br>
Public relations: Mojca Zupanič <br>
Technical support : Valter Udovičić <br>
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Thanks: Alessandro Ludovico, Geoff Cox, MGLC Ljubljana <br>
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<i><b>Supported by The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of
Slovenia and the City of Ljubljana - Department of Culture</b></i>
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<i>Sponsor: Datacenter d.o.o.</i> <br>
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<b>FUTURED WORKS</b> <br>
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The <i><b>Face to Facebook</b></i> is the media hack of
Facebook.com, where its data has been radically reprocessed to
construct new controversial structures. Like in the former Cirio's
projects <i>Amazon
Noir </i>(2006) and <i>Google will Eart Itself</i> (2005),
realized together with Alessandro Ludovico and Ubermorgen.com, the
development of smart software has given the possibility to criticize
and put in crisis the monopolistic use of data of the most powerful
internet companies. In the show these projects will be depicted by
objects that conceptually document the process of the actions and by
diagrams of the algorithms of the hack. <br>
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The <i><b>P2P Credit Cards - Gift Finance</b></i> project proposes
an alternative beneficial economy by issuing a visionary type of
credit cards. This action addresses critical issues about the recent
recession and finance regulations, especially related to the
virtualization of money due electronic payments and online trading.
This project looks at money as informational entities, which can be
manipulated to redefine economies and distribute wealth equally. The
art installation of this piece is composed by the credit cards and
the diagram which illustrates how the Gift Finance works. <br>
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The <i><b>Open Society Structures</b></i> piece outlines society
organization like software designs. It uses the paradigm of
information processing of the algorithms for social problem solving.
This resulted in three Plexiglas black boards in which the audience
can read sophisticated algorithms of taxonomies structured in order
to have a utopian society constitution. <br>
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<b>Contact:</b> <br>
Marcela Okretič, 041 250 830, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:aksioma4@siol.net">aksioma4@siol.net</a> <br>
<b>Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana</b> <br>
Neubergerjeva 25, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia <br>
tel.: + 386 – (0)590 - 54360 <br>
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