Researcher Design / Imaginary Property
01.09.08 – 31.08.09
Researcher’s website: http://xname.cc
Project website: http://virtualentity.org
Virtual Entity is a philosophical research starting from the assumption that the concepts of authenticity, ownership, uniqueness and seriality are no longer valid within the digital domain. In fact, there is no substantial difference between copy and original on the Web – and these two categories are not relevant. Since any file can generate an infinite number of entities identical to itself, there is no scarcity on the Net; any resource is indefinitely available. Assuming possession is related to the numerical proportion between resources (objects) and potential owners (subjects), then the concept of ownership and the idea of property become superfluous, whereas resources are unlimited.
If socialist and communist experiments in the real world were limited by the presence of state ownership, Virtual Entity is proposing the implementation of a non-property system within the digital domain.
The practical method to achieve such result is a new radical software being specifically developed to release, license and catalogue digital files. This system, transforming the traditional approach towards metadata, is based on the idea that any file is an independent creation living its own life and experiencing various levels of transformation and progressive generation (of meaning, shape and entities) in the course of its virtual existence. Thus, digital resources, interpreted as cultural units, are considered the main actors of the web.
Milan, IT
PhD candidate Cultural Studies. Goldsmiths College, University of London, London, GB.
Leonardo in Media Art. Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst (NIMK) Montevideo, Amsterdam, NL.
Painting. Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna, Bologna, IT.
MA (Honours) in Semiotics of Art. Università di Bologna, Bologna, IT.
BA DAMS Literature and Philosophy. Università di Bologna, Bologna, IT.
Blogger. Transmediale, Berlin, DE.
Researcher. Giss.tv, Barcelona, ES.
Blogger for the Piksel festival. Bergen, NO.
Writer for the online art magazine Digicult. Milan, IT.
Video art archivist for the personal archive of artist Marina Abramovic. Amsterdam, NL.
Performer, editor and archivist. Streamtime, Amsterdam, NL.
Video editor and camera operator for the online multimedia magazine Face Culture.
Video editor. E-culture Fair, Virtueel Platform , Amsterdam, NL.
Video editor, archivist and researcher. Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst (NIMK) Montevideo, Amsterdam, NL.
Set designer assistant and scene painter for Sergio Pappalettera’s Mario il cavallo. Milan, IT.
Introductory week. Steim, Amsterdam, NL.
Travel stipend Brazil. Associazione per il Circuito dei Giovani Artisti Italiani (GAI).
Leonardo grant.
First prize for Best short film. Cronosfera Festival, Cavatore, IT.
Jury mention at Premio Dams Art. Università di Bologna, Bologna, IT.
Code dreams. With Gisle Frøysland & Martin Howse. (12 December 2008 – 25 January 2009). Bergen, NO: Galleri 3.14; Bergen, NO: Galleri Volt.
The Piksel bang bang. In: Aymeric Mansoux & Marloes de Valk (Eds). Floss+art. London, GB: Goto10; London, GB: OpenMute.
The ball in the hole. With Silvano Galliani. In: Ricardo Barreto & Paula Perissinotto (Eds). Geomatrix. Reconfigured habits. Sao Paulo, BR: File.
Newbie. In: Yves Bernard, Maja Kuzmanovic & Annemie Maes (Eds). x-med-a. Experimental media arts.
The ball in the hole. In: Gisle Froysland (Ed.). Piksel 06. Bergen, NO: Bergen Center for Electronic Arts (BEK).
Video streaming across wide area networks. Research on technologies for content distribution. With Denis Rojo. In: Kompetenznetzwerk Mediengestaltung 2004-2006.
Streamtime.org. With Cecile Landman. In: Juha Huuskonen (Ed.). Dot org boom! Helsinki, FI: Kiasma Museum.
100 kb (*). An age-old streaming/Confronting histories. In: Marina Grzinic (Ed.). Net art’s cyborg[feminist]s, punks and manifestos. Rhizome.
s100kb. In: Gisle Froysland (Ed.). Piksel 05. Collective code. Bergen, NO: Bergen Center for Electronic Arts (BEK).
Eduardo De Carli. La permanenza del sapere. In: Digimag. Digicult, 34. Published on: http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1161.
Annalist. Controllo, terrore e sorveglianza. In: Digimag. Digicult, 31. Published on: http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1073.
Sonstenibile non-prprieta’, la risposta di Estudio Livre [Sustainable non-property, the answer by Estudio Livre]. In: Digimag. Digicult, 28. Published on: http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=969.
Dio error bang. Pure data e le macchine inutili [Dio error bang. Pure data and the useless machines]. In: Digimag. Digicult, 25. Published on: http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=875.
Il testamento di Cavandoli [Cavandoli’s testament]. In: Digimag.Digicult, 24. Published on: http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=830.
Joost e la televisione online [Joost and online television]. In: Digimag. Digicult, 22. Published on: http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=759.
The Piksel bang bang. Tra arte e codice. In: Digimag. Digicult, 20. Published on: http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=657.
Piksel 06. Hardware network politics. In: Digimag. Digicult, 19. Published on: http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=452.
Floating gender. Appunti di viaggio dall’ETC [Floating gender. Travel notes from ETC]. In: Digimag. Digicult., 18. Published on: http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=428.
The ball in the hole. (15 August). Sao Paulo, BR: Centro Cultural de Sesi.
/booting. WONBIT. Women on biotechnologies. (23 June). Rome, IT: Aula Convegni CNR.
Virtual entity. (4 November). In: Haip festival Hacktopia. Ljubljana, SI: Kiberpipa.
Real-time artistic rendering in the Blender game engine. The spring_alpha project. In: Blender conference 2004. Amsterdam, NL: De Waag.
Dot org boom. Activist afternoon. (15 April). In: Pixelache. Helsinki, FI: NIFCA Project Space.
Web 3.0. Conspiring to keep the Net public. (3 February). In: Transmediale. Berlin, DE: Haus der Kulturen der Welt.
Techno-historical collusions. The making of a trojan horse. (2 February). In: Transmediale. Berlin, DE: Haus der Kulturen der Welt.
Greying of the commons. IP, the law and the street. (1 February). In: Transmediale. Berlin, DE: Haus der Kulturen der Welt.
Virtual entity. Hands on metadata. (19 June). In: Hacker space fest. Paris, FR: /tmp/lab.
Real-time video manipulation. In: Dio error bang! First Italian pure data convention. (30 March – 1 April). Rome, IT: Bugslab.
Audiovisual bazaar. In: Eclectic tech carnival. (4 – 8 September). Timisoare, RO: H.arta.
Dynebolic. (15 July). In: Eclectic tech carnival. Graz, AT: Kunstlabor.
FreeJ. In: Piksel 04. (30 October – 7 November). Bergen, NO: Bergen Center for Electronic Arts (BEK).
Video editing. In: X-med-k workshops for artists. (21 – 25 June). Brussels, BE: Nadine.
Preservation of video art. (18 May). In: Master in Cinema, television and new media. Bologna, IT: Università di Bologna.
Museum of the stealing of souls. The soul of a file. In: Manifesta 7. The European biennial of contemporary art. (19 July – 2 November). Trento, IT: Palazzo delle Poste.
Cronosfera video contest. /booting. (20 – 22 June). Cavatore, IT: Torre Medievale.
Terrorism is it! What is terror? (14 – 21 April). Berlin, DE: Künstlerhaus Kreuzhaus/Bethanien.
Terrorism is it! What is terror? (29 March – 13 April). Berlin, DE: Arthouse Tacheles.
Computer art congress 2008. Emerging forms of computer art. Making the digital sense. (26 – 28 March). Mexico City, MX.
ACM multimedia. I/You/Other. (23 – 29 September). Augsburg, DE: University of Applied Sciences.
FILE. Geomatrix. (13 August – 9 September). Sao Paulo, BR: Centro Cultural de Sesi.
A 3Dee vegan animal porn film. (7 July). In: Innmotion. Barcelona, ES: Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB).
The ball in the hole. (21 – 28 March). Milan, IT: La Cueva No Art Gallery.
Piksel. Damaged goods. (13 – 29 October). Bergen, NO: Hordaland Kunstsenter.
Spring_alpha. Diggers. (11 September 2006 – 8 February 2007). Dundee, GB: Hannah Maclure Centre.
Trouble 1. Female body. (28 – 29 May). Berlin, DE: Stadtbad Oderberger Straße.
Cinema solubile. (10 – 11 February). Amsterdam, NL: Melkweg.
Spring alpha. (9 April – 6 June). Amsterdam, NL: Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst (NIMK) Montevideo.
What is terror? (single channel, video, 11:04 min).
/booting. (single channel, video, 9:34 min.).
A 3dee vegan animal porn film. (single channel, 3d, 12 min.).
/booting_01. (single channel, site specific, 3:50 min.).
spring-alpha. (single channel, documentary, 4:46 min.).
os_anm. (single channel, video, 1:50 min.).
Splatter tracks. (single channel, short film, 11:01 min.).
Palestine. (single channel, video, 1:30 min.).
A chill of remembrance. (single channel, video, 2:37 min.).
A descent into the maelstrom. (7 December). In: Abstract code. Bergen, NO: Wrap Arts Centre.
Radio ubique. Music was not enough. Rome, IT: Radio Onda Rossa.
Psychedelic visions. (28 May). Amsterdam, NL: Vrankrijk.
Pure semantic audiovision. (19 – 22 September). Amsterdam, NL: NSDM werf.
Radio ubique. Dislocated caccofonia, remote radio Amsterdam. (6 March). Rome, IT: Radio Onda Rossa.
Radio ubique. Fragments of noise from Milan. (10 January). Rome, IT: Radio Onda Rossa.
Polyphonic ensemble. (16 September). Vienna, AT: fluc/FQ-Kunsthalle.
Wild mushroom code. (23 September). Amsterdam, NL: NSDM werf.
Visual set. (23 June). With X-Off and Rubbishy Machine. Barcelona, ES: Macabra.
Dislocated radio performance. (22 June). Barcelona, ES: Hangar.
Plenum. In: Kingdom of piracy. (31 March – 1 April). London, GB: Limehouse Town Hall; London, GB: Node.london.
On a wire. (22 March). London, GB: Space.
Illegitimate. (16 February). With Nancy Mauro-Flude. Amsterdam, NL: Overtoom 301.
Xname. (29 January). Bologna, IT: XM24.
Illegitimate. (22 – 23 August). Berlin, DE: Schokoladen-Mitte.
Illegitimate. (7 July). Dresden, DE.
Illegitimate. (7 May). Amsterdam, NL: Occii.
s100kb. (16 October). Bergen, NO: Hordaland Kunstsenter.
s100kb. (17 – 26 June). With Yves Degoyon. Tarifa, ES: Guzman el Bueno Castle.
s100kb. (15 April). With Yves Degoyon & Naeem Mohaiemen. Helsinki, FI: UMO Jazz House.
Illegitimate. International electronic circus. (15 February). Amsterdam, NL: Overtoom 301.
The station. (14 January). Amsterdam, NL: De Waag.
The station. (13 November). Rotterdam, NL: Van Nelle Ontwerpfabriek.
Dual lives set. (3 November). Bergen, NO: Landmark.
Info noise. The rumor of our media. With Guy Van Belle. Amsterdam, NL: Steim.
Virtual entity.
The oracle machine.