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SHORT:
Carlo Zanni (La Spezia, Italy, 1975)
Carlo Zanni's practice involves the use of live Internet data feedback
to create time based social consciousness experiences under the form of
games, photos, films and installations investigating topical issues of
our life. This data can be eBay.com stock market charts like in "eBay
Landscape” 2004, or a set of images gathered from daily top news
like in "Average Shoveler” 2005 (Rhizome.org commission winner),
or World Bank Indicators and other political data for the latest “The
5th Day”, 2009. This use of live data, screening our society, lets
the viewer be part of the piece even if he physically doesn't interact
with it. His work has been shown worldwide in galleries and museums including:
MACRO Museum, Rome (2010); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2009); Galleria
Lorcan O'Neill, Rome (2009); MAXXI Museum, Rome (2007, 2006); New Museum,
New York (2005); Gavin Brown's Enterprise at Passerby, New York (2005);
Chelsea Art Museum New York (2009,2004) P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center,
New York (2001). He participated in the last edition of PERFORMA 09, new
performance art biennial held in New York in the fall 2009.
ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts in London held his first retrospective
in October 2005 and published the book "Vitalogy". In October
2006, "8-bit" a documentary by artist and director Marcin Ramocki
featuring an interview with
Carlo Zanni premiered at MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York. With the
upcoming "Iterating My Way Into Oblivion" (2010-11) Carlo Zanni
keeps investigating what he calls DATA CINEMA: a new way to approach filmmaking
and narrative forms at large based on the use of live data feedback gathered
from the Net, to create ever changing cinematic live environments.
http://www.zanni.org
LONG:
Carlo Zanni (La Spezia, IT - 1975)
Carlo Zanni's practice involves the use of live Internet data feedback
to create time based social consciousness experiences under the form of
games, photos, films and installations investigating topical issues of
our life.
This data can be eBay.com stock market charts like in "eBay Landscape”
2004, or a set of images gathered from daily top news like in "Average
Shoveler” 2005 (Rhizome.org commission winner), or World Bank Indicators
and other political data for the latest “The 5th Day”, 2009.
This use of live data, screening our society, lets the viewer be part
of the piece even if he physically doesn't interact with it.
Ideally Carlo Zanni's practice finds its roots in Sol Lewitt's work and
above all in the sentence: "The Idea Becomes A Machine That Makes
The Art" updated to a more contemporary "The idea becomes the
code that renders the art". The artist creates his own real time
digital worlds, lets the "sacred fire" (Internet feedback) lead
through them and stores the live process, available at the website, in
digital archives (weeks, months, years). Paintings, drawings and prints
help investigating and representing these ever changing live environments.
His work has been shown worldwide in galleries and museums
including: MACRO Museum, Rome (2010); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2009);
Galleria Lorcan O'Neill, Rome (2009); MAXXI Museum, Rome (2007, 2006);
New Museum, New York (2005); Gavin Brown's Enterprise at Passerby, New
York (2005); Chelsea Art Museum New York (2009,2004) P.S.1 Contemporary
Art Center, New York (2001).
Following a multi-year investigation on net art market issues (inspired
by the IKB International Klein Blue, the color patented by Ives Klein)
during Artissima X (2003) he presented at the Analix Forever booth, a
sculpture-server called “AltarBoy” (Altarboy-Cyrille): a sculptural
portrait and a "physical way" to sell Internet based works.
Carlo Zanni has been recipient of the 2004-05 Rhizome.org
Commission for which he produced “Average Shoveler” [ www.zanni.org/average
] a net videogame challenging the boundaries between video, painting,
net game and photo. In late 2005 The New Museum of Contemporary Art in
New York hosted a presentation of the project. In February 2005, with
artist Yucef Merhi, he hacked into the TimeOut New York magazine's website
and shaped a cityscape using their online queries database. This work,
"Time In' [ www.zanni.org/timein ] was performed live at Gavin Brown's
Enterprise at Passerby during the opening of "CultureCounter"
a show organized by Fernanda Arruda and Michael Clifton.
ICA - Institute of Contemporary Art in London held his first retrospective
in October 2005 and published the book "Vitalogy". In October
2006, "8-bit" a documentary by artist Marcin Ramocki featuring
an interview with Carlo Zanni premiered at MoMA, Museum of Modern Art,
New York.In August 2006, in "Wireless", a show held at La Rada
Art Center in Locarno in partnership with the International Film Festival,
Carlo Zanni presented The Possible Ties Between Illness And Success -
2006 a short film daily transformed by the visitors of the project's website
[ www.ThePossibleTies.com ].
He participated in the last edition of PERFORMA 09,
new performance art biennial held in New York in the fall 2009.
With the upcoming "Iterating My Way Into Oblivion" (2010-11)
Carlo Zanni keeps investigating what he calls
DATA CINEMA: a new way to approach filmmaking and narrative forms at large
based on the use of live
data feedback gathered from the Net, to create ever changing cinematic
live environments.
http://www.zanni.org
LONGER:
Carlo Zanni (La Spezia, IT - 1975)
Carlo Zanni's practice involves the use of live Internet data feedback
to create time based social consciousness experiences under the form of
games, photos, films and installations investigating topical issues of
our life. This data can be eBay.com stock market charts like in "eBay
Landscape” 2004, or a set of images gathered from daily top news
like in "Average Shoveler” 2005 (Rhizome.org commission winner),
or World Bank Indicators and other political data for the latest “The
5th Day”, 2009. This use of live data, screening our society, lets
the viewer be part of the piece even if he physically doesn't interact
with it.
Ideally Carlo Zanni's practice finds its roots in Sol
Lewitt's work and above all in the sentence: "The Idea Becomes A
Machine That Makes The Art" updated to a more contemporary "The
idea becomes the code that renders the art". The artist creates his
own real time digital worlds, lets the "sacred fire" (Internet
feedback) lead through them and stores the live process, available at
the website, in digital archives (weeks, months, years). Paintings, drawings
and prints help investigating and representing these ever changing live
environments.
His work has been shown worldwide in galleries and museums
including: MACRO Museum, Rome (2010); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2009);
Galleria Lorcan O'Neill, Rome (2009); MAXXI Museum, Rome (2007, 2006);
New Museum, New York (2005); Gavin Brown's Enterprise at Passerby, New
York (2005); Chelsea Art Museum New York (2009,2004) P.S.1 Contemporary
Art Center, New York (2001).
In 2002 he organized a three day chat based dialogue
called "P2P_$: Peer to Peer $elling Processes for net_things"
inviting 40 artists and curators to discuss these subjects online. The
second edition "P2P_.edu: Peer to Peer Educationals for Art Dealers"
has been held from April to June '03 as a mailing list. In 2003, he has
been invited by CCA Glasgow’s director Francis McKee to create a
new net project and he participated in "Copy it. Steal it. Share
it." at the Borusan Center for Culture and Arts - Istanbul, a show
curated by Anne Barlow and Michele Thursz.
Following a multi-year investigation on net art market
issues (inspired by the IKB International Klein Blue, the color patented
by Ives Klein) during Artissima X (2003) he presented at the Analix Forever
booth, a sculpture-server called “AltarBoy” (Altarboy-Cyrille):
a sculptural portrait and a "physical way" to sell Internet
based works.
In 2004, invited by Christiane Paul (Adjunct Curator
of New Media Arts, Whitney Museum, NY) and Zhang Ga (Parsons School of
Design, NY), he showed the second Altarboy sculpture, “Oriana”,
a networked portrait of Italian writer and journalist Oriana Fallaci.
Carlo Zanni has been recipient of the 2004-05 Rhizome.org Commission for
which he produced “Average Shoveler” [ www.zanni.org/average
] a net videogame challenging the boundaries between video, painting,
net game and photo. In late 2005 The New Museum of Contemporary Art in
New York hosted a presentation of the project. In February 2005, with
artist Yucef Merhi, he hacked into the TimeOut New York magazine's website
and shaped a cityscape using their online queries database. This work,
"Time In' [ www.zanni.org/timein ] was performed live at Gavin Brown's
Enterprise at Passerby during the opening of "CultureCounter"
a show organized by Fernanda Arruda and Michael Clifton.
ICA - Institute of Contemporary Art in London held his first retrospective
in October 2005 and published the book "Vitalogy". In October
2006, "8-bit" a documentary by artist Marcin Ramocki featuring
an interview with Carlo Zanni premiered at MoMA, Museum of Modern Art,
New York.In August 2006, in "Wireless", a show held at La Rada
Art Center in Locarno in partnership with the International Film Festival,
Carlo Zanni presented The Possible Ties Between Illness And Success -
2006 a short film daily transformed by the visitors of the project's website
[ www.ThePossibleTies.com ].
He participated in the last edition of PERFORMA 09,
new performance art biennial held in New York in the fall 2009.
With the upcoming "Iterating My Way Into Oblivion"
(2010-11) Carlo Zanni keeps investigating what he calls DATA CINEMA: a
new way to approach filmmaking and narrative forms at large based on the
use of live data feedback gathered from the Net, to create ever changing
cinematic live environments.
http://www.zanni.org
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