[aha] REALITYFLOWHACKED through Social Algorithms, Paolo Cirio's solo show. Press Release.

[Paolo Cirio]

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 Galženica, Open Society Structures exhibition, Velika  
Goricam, Croazia

Some honors that I got so far:
Virtual Residency at Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, 2010; European Media  
Artists residence and grant, 2009; Transmediale award, 2008;  
Stuttgarter Filmwinter, 2007; Media Award St. Gilgen school, 2006;  
Comission Rhizome, 2005; Nominations for 10th Cairo Prize, 2009; VIPER  
Award, 2005; and Honorary Mentions at Share Festival, 2007;  
Ibizagrafica, 2006 and Prix Ars Electronica, 2005.

Some accomplished missions in the last 10 years:
I stole one million profiles from Facebook.com and republished some of  
them on dating website.
I issued and distributed thousands of credit cards, counterfeiting  
virtual money.
I branded a firm that exploits sea level rise in NYC and a counter  
movement for climate change justice.
I cloned the identity of a Russian spy on social media for doing a  
interactive movie.
I investigated anti terrorism measures in international airports.
I spread thousands of misquotations by the most famous historic human  
figures.
I stole digital books from Amazon.com and redistributed them for free.
I created phony networks with robots to fraud Google.com AD Sense  
service.
I occupied streets and asked to artists to vandalise the public spaces  
with pieces of art.
I edited a web portal about eastward expansion of NATO.
I was investigated by the Department of National Defense of both the  
USA and Canada.

More about my bio here:
http://www.paolocirio.net/cv.php

Credits solo show:
Produced by Aksioma –Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, 2011
www.aksioma.org
Supported by The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and  
the Municipality of Ljubljana





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