Dates are > November 14 – November 17, 2011

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“A sign that genuinely remained only related to itself and thus totally in the category of firstness would in itself be a contradiction. Namely, if a first relates to itself, then this is conditional on a relation and therefore necessarily a second.” (1) Each sign exists in a time continuum between a preceding and a following sign. If one thinks of such a continuum as a changeable flow, then it suggests the conclusion that no sign can relate to something that would stand as an object outside this flow—a paradoxical mind game that thinks about thinking, in a loop that starts from the beginning again as soon as it reaches the end.

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The DEberlusconiZER is proud to announce DE_ZER Vol. 3, the third of a series of exhibitions in which some contemporary artists are invited to give a new meaning to the informational space “liberated” from the unwieldy presence of the Italian Prime Minister. Every show includes three works by three different artists and lasts ten days, in an unprecedented adaptation of the codes of street art and public art to the online environment.
From May 16 to May 25, 2011, three works will alternate randomly into this public space: Offresi piazze italiane per aspiranti rivoluzionari, by Maddalena Fragnito; Your Face Here, by Les Liens Invisibles; and The bigger a man’s gun the smaller his doodlewick, by Jon Cohrs.

Maddalena Fragnito uses the space provided by the DEberlusconiZER to set up a marketing campaign for her brand new project: http://offresipiazze.wordpress.com/, the website of a company renting out city squares of different sizes to wannabe revolutionaries. The work ironically plays with the celebrated revival of Italian’s public spirit, but behind this playful facade it offers a real service: providing useful informations for activists, and explaining the history and the current use of places that should be considered, but not always are, public spaces.

The Italian collective Les Liens Invisibles also made a marketing campaign promoting A Fake is a Fake, a web publishing tool that let you use, for your website, the readymade interfaces provided by the most inportant news platforms, from the New York Times to Repubblica. The work pokes fun at the savoir faire of the Italian Prime Minister, but it’s also an invitation for everybody to contrast, with the tools provided by the internet, his videocracy.

With his animations of young, sexy, armed women and his quote by Calamity Jane, the American Jon Cohrs puts together his interest in Internet memes and the macho, patriarchal model embodied by Silvio Berlusconi on the international media.

The DEberlusconiZER is a web tool that replaces the images and words related to the Italian Prime Minister. The software subverts the media machine created by one of the most controversial figures in Italian politics by reclaiming the space devoted to him and using it for new porpuses.

The DEberlusconiZER is a project by Elisa Giardina Papa, Fabrizio Giardina Papa, Giovanni Salerno and Floriano Lapolla.
The artists have been selected and invited by art critic Domenico Quaranta.

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Artists:

Alessandra Rigano e Federico Castronuovo ‘Serenata’, Auriea Harvey e Michael Samyn ‘Tale of Tales’, Lorne Lanning e Sharry McKenna ‘Oddworld’; Paolo Della Corte, Marianna Santoni; Nino Mustica, Mikayel Ohanjanyan, Samuele Arcangioli, Massimo Giuntoli; Gabriella Parisi; Matteo Bittanti + IOCOSE, Marco Brambilla, Tonylight, Marco Cadioli, Mauro Ceolin, Damiano Colacito , Eva & Franco Mattes , Les Liens Invisibles, Molleindustria, Antonio Riello, Federico Solmi, Santa Ragione, Stefano Spera, Carlo Zanni , Miltos Manetas, Vjvisualoop; Tibe; Jan Vormann.

The event on the Venice Biennale website | www.neoludica.it

Here it is an interview we had with Michael Kargl & Franz Thalmair from CONT3XT.NET

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(Ground Control To Major Tom, Single Channel Video loop)

(The Banana Revolution, Single Channel Video loop)

(Tryptich – Study for The Google World Revolutions - , Three Channels Video loop)

“Virtual Suicide as Decisive Political Act”,  from _Activist Media and Biopolitics_ conference, University of Innsbruck, Nov 2010.
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