ENG – ITA
THE ITALIAN JOB | Job n.1, embarrassment party • Job n.2, An-Archiving Game • Job n.3, Lazy Sunday
THE ITALIAN JOB is a series of conceptual artworks (“jobs”) that intends to highlight the hidden structures behind themes such as originality, legality, artistic legitimization, collective processes, digital labor and the relationship between artists and curators in the age of the Internet.
Job n.1, embarrassment party
I was selected for a digital artist residency program on the topic of cloud computing called embarrassment party, conceived and led by Marii Nyröp. My project consisted of stealing the entire residency program plus the eleven artworks by seven international artists created for it. With curatorial texts by Lucrezia Calabrò Visconti and Marii Nyröp.
Job n.2, An-Archiving Game
I created an exhibition based on photographs from the FBI Archive of stolen artworks as an animated .gif for the Widget Art Gallery. I also sold my original copies using an experimental open source platform that proposes an online decentralized network for peer to peer commerce that has no fees, no intermediaries, uses BitCoins and cannot be censored. With curatorial texts by Monica Bosaro and Emma Stanisic.
Job n.3, Lazy Sunday
I was invited to take part in a virtual residency program organized by the University of Milan. I joined the residency but I overturned its premises: rather than participating from afar, I turned my point of view into a 12-hour long film produced with a 360° camera and made available for only one day. Through a VR headset the film viewers can be ‘in residence’ within my own point of view: reading on my hammock, drifting through the streets of Cambridge and Boston, hiking in my shoes and swimming with my friends. With curatorial texts by Elisabetta Modena and Sofia Pirandello.
EXHIBITIONS
- (2021) (Solo Exhibition) Casa degli Artisti + 12° Atelier. THE ITALIAN JOB – Job n.3, Lazy Sunday, curated by Elisabetta Modena e Sofia Pirandello (AN-ICON), Milan, Italy
- (Online Exhibition) Noemata. Undocumented events and object permanence (2020). Curated by Bjørn Magnhildøen and Ana Buigues.
- AMRO – Art Meets Radical Openess, Festival dedicated to Art, Hacktivism and Open Culture, Behind the Smart World (2016), curated by KairUs, Linz, Austria
- THE WRONG, New Digital Art Biennale, Homeostasis Pavillion (2015), curated by Julia Borges Araña and Guilherme Brandão, online exhibition
- (Online Solo Exhibition) THE ITALIAN JOB – Job n.2, An-Archiving Game (2015), exhibition at WAG Widget Art Gallery and auction with OpenBazaar, curated by Monica Bosaro and Emma Stanisic
- THE ITALIAN JOB – Job n.1, embarrassment_party (2014), curated by Marii Nyröp and Lucrezia Calabrò, online and physical exhibition at Amherst College, MA, US
+INFO:
- THE ITALIAN JOB n1 was supported by the Five College Digital Humanities Project (MA), US and Andrew Mellon Foundation through the embarrassment party online residency program.
- THE ITALIAN JOB n.3 was produced by ERC Advanced Grant “AN-ICON. An-Iconology: History, Theory, and Practices of Environmental Images), Università degli Studi di Milano, Department of Philosophy, Italy.
(SELECTED) BIBLIOGRAPHY
[CURATORIAL TEXT]
THE ITALIAN JOB
“Italian Theory and The Art of Trolling”
Curatorial text for “THE ITALIAN JOB n.1: embarrassment party” by Lucrezia Calabrò Visconti, 2014. (eng)
[PROJECT]
[CURATORIAL TEXT]
THE ITALIAN JOB
“embarrassment party”
Curatorial text for “THE ITALIAN JOB n.1: embarrassment party” by Marii Nyrop, 2014. (eng)
[PROJECT]
[CURATORIAL TEXT]
THE ITALIAN JOB
“ITALIANS ON THE JOB: Inside and Outside an Anarchival Impulse”
Curatorial text for “THE ITALIAN JOB n.2: An-archiving Game” by Monica Bosaro, 2015. (eng)
[CURATORIAL TEXT]
THE ITALIAN JOB
“A Question of Stealing”
Curatorial text for “THE ITALIAN JOB n.2: An-archiving Game” by Emma Stanisic, 2015. (eng)
[CURATORIAL TEXT]
THE ITALIAN JOB
“Un artista della domenica”
Curatorial text for “THE ITALIAN JOB n.3: Lazy Sunday” by Elisabetta Modena, 2022. (eng)
[CURATORIAL TEXT]
THE ITALIAN JOB
“Catch Me if You Can”
Curatorial text for “THE ITALIAN JOB n.3: Lazy Sunday” by Sofi Pirandello, 2022. (eng)
[CONTRIBUTION]
INTERARTIVE
“THE ITALIAN JOB: Original VS Copy”
Curatorial texts for “THE ITALIAN JOB n.2: An-Archiving Game” by Monica Bosaro and Emma Stanisic, n.75 Special Issue ‘Original VS Copy’, (Ed. by Lucila Vilela), 2015. (eng)
[MA Thesis]
Accademia di Belle Arti Roma – Comunicazione e valorizzazione del patrimonio artistico
“New media art, blockchain e mercato” (titolo provvisorio)
by Eugenia de Francesco, Roma, Italy, 2019. (ita)
[INTERVIEW]
Digicult.
“Thought is my Main Medium. Interview with Emilio Vavarella | Il pensiero è il mio medium principale. Intervista con Emilio Vavarella”
by Giada Totaro, July 2020. (ita-eng)
[SOURCE (ita) | SOURCE (eng) | ARCHIVED]
[EXHIBITION CATALOGUE]
Noemata
“Undocumented events and object permanence”
Exhibition catalogue by James Hutchinson, 2021. (eng)
[PROJECT REVIEW]
Artnoise
“Un’opera creata digitalmente con immagini di opere rubate…realmente”
Interview by Lucia Longhi to Monica Bosaro about “THE ITALIAN JOB N.2”
2015. (ita)
[PDF | SOURCE | PROJECT]
[BOOK]
Nelle storie. Arte, cinema e media immersivi
Modena, Elisabetta. Carocci Editore, June 2022, p. 125
[ACADEMIC PAPER]
Visual Culture Studies
“Lending the Face / Prestare il volton”
by Elisabetta Modena, in VCS n.3, Mimesis Edizioni, 2022. (ita – eng)
[BOOK CHAPTER]
Immersioni. Arte contemporanea e realtà virtuale
“Nel corpo di un altro” and “Performer con il casco”
by Modena, Elisabetta. Milan: Joahn e Levi Editore, 2023 (ita)
[ACADEMIC PAPER]
VCS: Visual Culture Studies
“Lending the face. Lazy Sunday by Emilio Vavarella”
by Modena, Elisabetta in VCS: Visual Culture Studies, (#5 Il volto nell’era digitale), Mimesis Edizioni, 2023, pp. 77-94 (eng)