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VERY SHORT:
Carlo Zanni (La Spezia, 1975) is an Italian born artist living between
Milan and New York. In the past years his work has been shown worldwide
in galleries and museums including: MAXXI Museum, Rome (2007, 2006); New
Museum, New York (2005); Gavin Brown's Enterprise at Passerby, New York
(2005); P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York (2001). 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. With "My
Temporary Visiting Position From The Sunset Terrace Bar" - 2007
[ www.FromTheSunsetTerrace.com ] 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 time based social consciousness experiences. More info on the
artist at http://www.zanni.org
SHORT:
Carlo Zanni (La Spezia, 1975) is an Italian born artist living between
Milan and New York. His work is focused on the intersection of computation
and representation using and fusing old and new media (Drawing, Painting,
Film, Internet) to shape landscapes and portraits often confronting themes
such as real time/real life; fiction/information; social economy/special
effects.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) then uploaded to portable personal
devices like the iPod. Paintings, drawings and prints help investigating
and representing these ever changing live environments. In the past years
his work has been shown worldwide in galleries and museums including:
MAXXI Museum, Rome (2007, 2006); New Museum, New York (2005); Gavin Brown's
Enterprise at Passerby, New York (2005); Chelsea Museum, New York (2004);
CCA Glasgow (2003); Analix Forever Gallery, Geneve (2003, 2002); P.S.1
Contemporary Art Center, New York (2001).
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 ].
With My Temporary Visiting Position From The Sunset Terrace Bar
- 2007 [ www.FromTheSunsetTerrace.com ] 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 time based social consciousness experiences. More info
on the artist at http://www.zanni.org
LONG:
Carlo Zanni (La Spezia, 1975) is an Italian born artist living between
Milan and New York. His work is focused on the intersection of computation
and representation using and fusing old and new media (Drawing, Painting,
Film, Internet) to shape landscapes and portraits often confronting themes
such as real time/real life; fiction/information; social economy/special
effects.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) then uploaded to portable personal
devices like the iPod. Paintings, drawings and prints help investigating
and representing these ever changing live environments. In the past years
his work has been shown worldwide in galleries and museums including:
MAXXI Museum, Rome (2007, 2006); New Museum, New York (2005); Gavin Brown's
Enterprise at Passerby, New York (2005); Chelsea Museum, New York (2004);
CCA Glasgow (2003); Analix Forever Gallery, Geneve (2003, 2002); 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 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 ].
With My Temporary Visiting Position From The Sunset Terrace Bar
- 2007 [ www.FromTheSunsetTerrace.com ] 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 time based social consciousness experiences. More info
on the artist at http://www.zanni.org
LONGER:
Carlo Zanni (La Spezia, 1975) is an Italian born artist living between
Milan and New York. His work is focused on the intersection of computation
and representation using and fusing old and new media (Drawing, Painting,
Film, Internet) to shape landscapes and portraits often confronting themes
such as real time/real life; fiction/information; social economy/special
effects.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) then uploaded to portable personal
devices like the iPod. Paintings, drawings and prints help investigating
and representing these ever changing live environments.
In the past years his work has been shown worldwide in galleries and museums
including: MAXXI Museum, Rome (2007, 2006); New Museum, New York (2005);
Gavin Brown's Enterprise at Passerby, New York (2005); Chelsea Museum,
New York (2004); CCA Glasgow (2003); Borusan Center for Culture and Arts
- Istanbul (2003); Analix Forever Gallery, Geneve (2003, 2002); 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. 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
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 called "Time In" was shown and 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
].
With My Temporary Visiting Position From The Sunset Terrace Bar
- 2007 [ www.FromTheSunsetTerrace.com ] 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 time based social consciousness experiences. More info
on the artist at http://www.zanni.org
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