DailyPaywall.com Hacks major Financial Newspapers and Pays You To Read them - Press Release
Dates:
Sun Dec 21, 2014 00:00 - Tue Dec 23, 2014
Press Release, December 20th 2014. NYC - London.
Daily Paywall
http://DailyPaywall.com
Artist Paolo Cirio has hacked the paywalls of the most influential financial newspapers
- Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and The Economist - breaking through their checkpoints every day to liberate over 60,000 pay-per-view items published over the course of 2014.
Now, he redistributes this copyrighted content for free and pays everyone to read it.
His paid-to-read schema is a circular economic model in which profit generated from huge amounts of pirated content is invested into informing and educating the public about institutional crime and corruption, while offering rewards to critical journalists.
http://DailyPaywall.com/?/l/about
With the massive amount of appropriated content, the artist has created his own online and printed newspaper called Daily Paywall. He has edited 15 issues of his paper covering the main topics of our time. For each issue he has selected featured articles which expose major economic injustices and contradictions. Readers receive $1 for responding correctly to simple questions relating to these articles, thereby incentivizing analytical and critical thinking around the story.
http://DailyPaywall.com/?/l/issues
http://DailyPaywall.com/?/l/featured
The Daily Paywall newspaper is distributed on the Internet and in printed versions disseminated in undisclosed spots throughout NYC in unauthorized racks for free papers. See Daily Paywall newsracks in NYC.
http://paolocirio.net/work/daily-paywall/#pics
Beyond advocating the open circulation of knowledge, the project proposes a creative economic model designed for social and educational aims. The visionary concept behind the artistic performance and these socio-economic matters are introduced in his essay.
http://DailyPaywall.com/?/l/about/#essay
Don’t miss another recent project by Paolo Cirio, Global Direct, which outlines and campaigns for a new creative political philosophy:
http://GlobalDirect.today
A few shows featuring Paolo Cirio in 2015:
- Exhibition at Utah Museum of Contemporary Art in U.S.
- Lecture at FutureEverything in Manchester, UK
- Incubation at NEW INC. studio in NYC
- Exhibition at Centre Culturel Bellegard in Toulouse, France
- Solo Show at NOME, contemporary art gallery in Berlin, Germany
- Exhibition at Apexart gallery in NYC
- Exhibition at ISEA2015 in Vancouver, Canada
Current exhibitions with Paolo Cirio’s works:
- Open Society Foundation in NYC
- DOX Centre for Contemporary Art in Prague
- Palazzo del Governatore in Parma
Thank you.
Paolo Cirio.
http://PaoloCirio.net
Daily Paywall
http://DailyPaywall.com
Artist Paolo Cirio has hacked the paywalls of the most influential financial newspapers
- Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and The Economist - breaking through their checkpoints every day to liberate over 60,000 pay-per-view items published over the course of 2014.
Now, he redistributes this copyrighted content for free and pays everyone to read it.
His paid-to-read schema is a circular economic model in which profit generated from huge amounts of pirated content is invested into informing and educating the public about institutional crime and corruption, while offering rewards to critical journalists.
http://DailyPaywall.com/?/l/about
With the massive amount of appropriated content, the artist has created his own online and printed newspaper called Daily Paywall. He has edited 15 issues of his paper covering the main topics of our time. For each issue he has selected featured articles which expose major economic injustices and contradictions. Readers receive $1 for responding correctly to simple questions relating to these articles, thereby incentivizing analytical and critical thinking around the story.
http://DailyPaywall.com/?/l/issues
http://DailyPaywall.com/?/l/featured
The Daily Paywall newspaper is distributed on the Internet and in printed versions disseminated in undisclosed spots throughout NYC in unauthorized racks for free papers. See Daily Paywall newsracks in NYC.
http://paolocirio.net/work/daily-paywall/#pics
Beyond advocating the open circulation of knowledge, the project proposes a creative economic model designed for social and educational aims. The visionary concept behind the artistic performance and these socio-economic matters are introduced in his essay.
http://DailyPaywall.com/?/l/about/#essay
Don’t miss another recent project by Paolo Cirio, Global Direct, which outlines and campaigns for a new creative political philosophy:
http://GlobalDirect.today
A few shows featuring Paolo Cirio in 2015:
- Exhibition at Utah Museum of Contemporary Art in U.S.
- Lecture at FutureEverything in Manchester, UK
- Incubation at NEW INC. studio in NYC
- Exhibition at Centre Culturel Bellegard in Toulouse, France
- Solo Show at NOME, contemporary art gallery in Berlin, Germany
- Exhibition at Apexart gallery in NYC
- Exhibition at ISEA2015 in Vancouver, Canada
Current exhibitions with Paolo Cirio’s works:
- Open Society Foundation in NYC
- DOX Centre for Contemporary Art in Prague
- Palazzo del Governatore in Parma
Thank you.
Paolo Cirio.
http://PaoloCirio.net
Global Direct - Political Philosophy Art - Global Democracy Now
Dates:
Thu Dec 11, 2014 00:00 - Thu Dec 11, 2014
Press Release Nov./Dec. 2014. NYC.
Global Direct
http://GlobalDirect.today
Artwork by Paolo Cirio and currently shown at DOX Prague, Palazzo del Governatore Parma and online on Turbulence.org
With the participation of Carne Ross, Daniele Archibugi, Douglas Rushkoff, Jon Lebkowsky, Ethan Zuckerman, Michel Bauwens, David Moore, among others.
The artwork Global Direct is a visionary political philosophy promoting global participatory democracy driven by information technology and the failure of current primitive political systems.
To illustrate the conceptual work the artist has drawn a series of fifteen organograms for initiating a program for global participatory democracy.
http://GlobalDirect.today/program
These creative diagrams are informed by research in contemporary and emergent forms of democracy which the artist conducted and integrates as part of the artwork. Furthermore, the artist promotes Global Direct through designing a political poster campaign to popularize its visions.
http://GlobalDirect.today/campaign
Akin to a traditional political campaign, posters are disseminated throughout public walls in several cities and consistently feature the campaign’s political symbol beside each slogan. In the poster, a clear sky visually represents a bright future full of new possibilities above the clouds.
Global Direct researches in pursuit of a new advanced version of democracy, where everyone can take part in local and global governance, justice, and economy. For this new political civilization, Global Direct aims to inspire new protocols, procedures, and policies that can cope with the social complexity, crises, and speed of contemporary life. These issues are addressed in the artist’s theoretical essay.
http://GlobalDirect.today/about
Combining multiple voices and ideas about alternative modes of advanced participatory and global democracy, the documentation on the website includes academic publications, links to organizations, and articles that influenced the creation of the project.
http://GlobalDirect.today/today
As part of its documentary component, the artist produced over ten video statements by visionaries close to the ideas promoted by Global Direct. The collection of short video statements are available on the website, offering a compelling overview of the potentials of an ideal society.
http://GlobalDirect.today/statements
The website also presents the artist’s research into social sciences for comparing the political structures of several countries, which are presented through many charts that diagram different governmental functions and features.
http://GlobalDirect.today/yesterday
Through this painstaking investigation the artist was able to analyze common and specific mechanics of contemporary governance and reassemble them with new organograms drawn in order to suggest the creative political alternative proposed by the project.
The fifteen diagrams created for the project are presented via large prints as an installation for art galleries. Each print indicates a single area of governance and social structure.
http://paolocirio.net/work/global-direct/#pics
The diagrams are also presented together on the website and distributed in printed leaflets as interconnected networks of conceptual maps that influence one other in a feedback loop for a fair, self-governing global society.
http://globaldirect.today/press/GD-DIAGRAMS-PDF/0_global_direct-networked_governance.pdf
These diagrams drawn by the artists are the core of the artwork, describing the political program of Global Direct, as the ultimate utopic vision, directly inspired by the multiple perspectives found through research on prevailing political systems, theories, and alternative ideas about advanced forms of democracy.
Global Direct is a 2014 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. in NY, U.S., for its Turbulence.org website, which is made possible with funding from the Jerome Foundation.
Global Direct has been especially supported by DOX Centre for Contemporary Art in Prague and Lunatici Cultural A.P.S Association through the Municipality of Parma, Italy.
Keywords:
Decentralization, Participation, Deliberation, Transparency, Accountability and Openness in governance, Open Source Governance, Open Data, Electronic Voting, Emergent Democracy, Online Consultation.
Thank you for the attention.
Paolo Cirio.
http://paolocirio.net
Global Direct
http://GlobalDirect.today
Artwork by Paolo Cirio and currently shown at DOX Prague, Palazzo del Governatore Parma and online on Turbulence.org
With the participation of Carne Ross, Daniele Archibugi, Douglas Rushkoff, Jon Lebkowsky, Ethan Zuckerman, Michel Bauwens, David Moore, among others.
The artwork Global Direct is a visionary political philosophy promoting global participatory democracy driven by information technology and the failure of current primitive political systems.
To illustrate the conceptual work the artist has drawn a series of fifteen organograms for initiating a program for global participatory democracy.
http://GlobalDirect.today/program
These creative diagrams are informed by research in contemporary and emergent forms of democracy which the artist conducted and integrates as part of the artwork. Furthermore, the artist promotes Global Direct through designing a political poster campaign to popularize its visions.
http://GlobalDirect.today/campaign
Akin to a traditional political campaign, posters are disseminated throughout public walls in several cities and consistently feature the campaign’s political symbol beside each slogan. In the poster, a clear sky visually represents a bright future full of new possibilities above the clouds.
Global Direct researches in pursuit of a new advanced version of democracy, where everyone can take part in local and global governance, justice, and economy. For this new political civilization, Global Direct aims to inspire new protocols, procedures, and policies that can cope with the social complexity, crises, and speed of contemporary life. These issues are addressed in the artist’s theoretical essay.
http://GlobalDirect.today/about
Combining multiple voices and ideas about alternative modes of advanced participatory and global democracy, the documentation on the website includes academic publications, links to organizations, and articles that influenced the creation of the project.
http://GlobalDirect.today/today
As part of its documentary component, the artist produced over ten video statements by visionaries close to the ideas promoted by Global Direct. The collection of short video statements are available on the website, offering a compelling overview of the potentials of an ideal society.
http://GlobalDirect.today/statements
The website also presents the artist’s research into social sciences for comparing the political structures of several countries, which are presented through many charts that diagram different governmental functions and features.
http://GlobalDirect.today/yesterday
Through this painstaking investigation the artist was able to analyze common and specific mechanics of contemporary governance and reassemble them with new organograms drawn in order to suggest the creative political alternative proposed by the project.
The fifteen diagrams created for the project are presented via large prints as an installation for art galleries. Each print indicates a single area of governance and social structure.
http://paolocirio.net/work/global-direct/#pics
The diagrams are also presented together on the website and distributed in printed leaflets as interconnected networks of conceptual maps that influence one other in a feedback loop for a fair, self-governing global society.
http://globaldirect.today/press/GD-DIAGRAMS-PDF/0_global_direct-networked_governance.pdf
These diagrams drawn by the artists are the core of the artwork, describing the political program of Global Direct, as the ultimate utopic vision, directly inspired by the multiple perspectives found through research on prevailing political systems, theories, and alternative ideas about advanced forms of democracy.
Global Direct is a 2014 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. in NY, U.S., for its Turbulence.org website, which is made possible with funding from the Jerome Foundation.
Global Direct has been especially supported by DOX Centre for Contemporary Art in Prague and Lunatici Cultural A.P.S Association through the Municipality of Parma, Italy.
Keywords:
Decentralization, Participation, Deliberation, Transparency, Accountability and Openness in governance, Open Source Governance, Open Data, Electronic Voting, Emergent Democracy, Online Consultation.
Thank you for the attention.
Paolo Cirio.
http://paolocirio.net
Legal updates, Award, Exhibitions & More – The Face to Facebook
Deadline:
Fri Sep 09, 2011 00:50
Press Release,
September 7th, 2011. Linz.
Face to Facebook
http://www.face-to-facebook.net
Stealing 1 million Facebook profiles, filtering them with face-recognition software and posting them without user authorization on a custom-made dating website, sorted by the characteristics of their facial expressions.
A project by Paolo Cirio and Alessandro Ludovico.
The awesome news:
The Face to Facebook project won a prestigious Award of Distinction at Prix Ars Electronica 2011 in the "Interactive Art" category. Furthermore the work was also on display in the related Cyberarts 2011 exhibition, which took place at the OK Centrum, in Linz (Austria).
Face to Facebook presentation, September 5, Prix Ars Electronica Forum 2011:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZKW0ArCmmk
Face to Facebook installation, "Cyberarts 2011" exhibition, OK Center:
http://www.face-to-facebook.net/face-to-facebook/face-to-facebook_ars.php
Legal update (new downloadable files):
We have published the entire legal correspondence between our lawyer and Facebook's legal team so far:
http://www.face-to-facebook.net/legal.php
September 5th is our response to the allegations contained in Facebook's letter of April 7th. Our lawyer answered all their questions precisely, pointing out Facebook's vulnerability (the website did not have any anti-scraping protection for years), the inconsistency of the accusations of criminal violations (we didn't break security measures) and our right to document our art project on the website face-to-facebook.net.
The letter ends: "Moreover, given the recent controversy and questions regarding the legality of Facebook's own "facial recognition" software ("Facebook 'Face Recognition' Feature Draws Privacy Scrutiny", Bloomberg News, July 8 2011), we are surprised that Facebook would continue to aggressively pursue a nonprofit conceptual art project that illustrated the risks of sharing data on social networking websites and wrapped up long ago."
The social experiment (new documents):
We published the personal reactions that we have received so far. The anonymous reactions were obtained through contact forms on the lovely-faces.com and face-to-facebook.net websites. They included responses from a variety of people; some upset, some confused and some very enthusiastic. Check them out here:
http://www.face-to-facebook.net/social_experiment.php
The Global Mass Media Hack Performance (new downloadable files):
The almost overwhelming press reactions have been archived in the form of screenshots. The whole archive of over one thousand global media reviews (still yet to be completed) can be downloaded from:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1527685/face-to-facebook/f2f_press_coverage_screenshots.zip
Exhibitions and lectures:
In the next months we have the following lectures scheduled:
* 28 September, Rewire Conference, lecture, Liverpool - UK
* 13 October, Unsound Festival, lecture, Krakow - Poland
* 5-9 December, Psychoeconomy!, lecture, Seville, Spain
In the last few months Face to Facebook was included in seven exhibitions and we made ten presentations around Europe and beyond. Here are some of the installation pictures:
* Origin at Ars Electronica Festival 2011 in Linz:
http://www.face-to-facebook.net/face-to-facebook/face-to-facebook_ars.php
* REALITYFLOWHACKED at Aksioma Project Space in Ljubljana:
http://www.face-to-facebook.net/face-to-facebook/face-to-facebook_lub.php
* ENTER | DATAPOLIS at 5th Art|tech Biennale in Prague:
http://www.face-to-facebook.net/face-to-facebook/face-to-facebook_enter.php
* Chilling Effects at Tetem in Enschede:
http://www.face-to-facebook.net/face-to-facebook/face-to-facebook_tetem.php
* File PAI Festival 2011 in Sao Paulo:
http://www.face-to-facebook.net/face-to-facebook/face-to-facebook_file.php
* Data cuerpos y retratos compartidos at De Centro Fundación Telefónica in Lima:
http://www.face-to-facebook.net/face-to-facebook/face-to-facebook_lima.php
* RESPONSE:ABILITY at Transmediale Festival 2011 in Berlin:
http://www.face-to-facebook.net/face-to-facebook/face-to-facebook_tm.php
Thanks for your attention.
Paolo and Alessandro.
September 7th, 2011. Linz.
Face to Facebook
http://www.face-to-facebook.net
Stealing 1 million Facebook profiles, filtering them with face-recognition software and posting them without user authorization on a custom-made dating website, sorted by the characteristics of their facial expressions.
A project by Paolo Cirio and Alessandro Ludovico.
The awesome news:
The Face to Facebook project won a prestigious Award of Distinction at Prix Ars Electronica 2011 in the "Interactive Art" category. Furthermore the work was also on display in the related Cyberarts 2011 exhibition, which took place at the OK Centrum, in Linz (Austria).
Face to Facebook presentation, September 5, Prix Ars Electronica Forum 2011:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZKW0ArCmmk
Face to Facebook installation, "Cyberarts 2011" exhibition, OK Center:
http://www.face-to-facebook.net/face-to-facebook/face-to-facebook_ars.php
Legal update (new downloadable files):
We have published the entire legal correspondence between our lawyer and Facebook's legal team so far:
http://www.face-to-facebook.net/legal.php
September 5th is our response to the allegations contained in Facebook's letter of April 7th. Our lawyer answered all their questions precisely, pointing out Facebook's vulnerability (the website did not have any anti-scraping protection for years), the inconsistency of the accusations of criminal violations (we didn't break security measures) and our right to document our art project on the website face-to-facebook.net.
The letter ends: "Moreover, given the recent controversy and questions regarding the legality of Facebook's own "facial recognition" software ("Facebook 'Face Recognition' Feature Draws Privacy Scrutiny", Bloomberg News, July 8 2011), we are surprised that Facebook would continue to aggressively pursue a nonprofit conceptual art project that illustrated the risks of sharing data on social networking websites and wrapped up long ago."
The social experiment (new documents):
We published the personal reactions that we have received so far. The anonymous reactions were obtained through contact forms on the lovely-faces.com and face-to-facebook.net websites. They included responses from a variety of people; some upset, some confused and some very enthusiastic. Check them out here:
http://www.face-to-facebook.net/social_experiment.php
The Global Mass Media Hack Performance (new downloadable files):
The almost overwhelming press reactions have been archived in the form of screenshots. The whole archive of over one thousand global media reviews (still yet to be completed) can be downloaded from:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1527685/face-to-facebook/f2f_press_coverage_screenshots.zip
Exhibitions and lectures:
In the next months we have the following lectures scheduled:
* 28 September, Rewire Conference, lecture, Liverpool - UK
* 13 October, Unsound Festival, lecture, Krakow - Poland
* 5-9 December, Psychoeconomy!, lecture, Seville, Spain
In the last few months Face to Facebook was included in seven exhibitions and we made ten presentations around Europe and beyond. Here are some of the installation pictures:
* Origin at Ars Electronica Festival 2011 in Linz:
http://www.face-to-facebook.net/face-to-facebook/face-to-facebook_ars.php
* REALITYFLOWHACKED at Aksioma Project Space in Ljubljana:
http://www.face-to-facebook.net/face-to-facebook/face-to-facebook_lub.php
* ENTER | DATAPOLIS at 5th Art|tech Biennale in Prague:
http://www.face-to-facebook.net/face-to-facebook/face-to-facebook_enter.php
* Chilling Effects at Tetem in Enschede:
http://www.face-to-facebook.net/face-to-facebook/face-to-facebook_tetem.php
* File PAI Festival 2011 in Sao Paulo:
http://www.face-to-facebook.net/face-to-facebook/face-to-facebook_file.php
* Data cuerpos y retratos compartidos at De Centro Fundación Telefónica in Lima:
http://www.face-to-facebook.net/face-to-facebook/face-to-facebook_lima.php
* RESPONSE:ABILITY at Transmediale Festival 2011 in Berlin:
http://www.face-to-facebook.net/face-to-facebook/face-to-facebook_tm.php
Thanks for your attention.
Paolo and Alessandro.
Legal updates, Award, Exhibitions & More – Face to Facebook
Press Release,
September 7th, 2011. Linz.
Face to Facebook
http://www.face-to-facebook.net
Stealing 1 million Facebook profiles, filtering them with face-recognition software and posting them without user authorization on a custom-made dating website, sorted by the characteristics of their facial expressions.
A project by Paolo Cirio and Alessandro Ludovico.
The awesome news:
The Face to Facebook project won a prestigious Award of Distinction at Prix Ars Electronica 2011 in the "Interactive Art" category. Furthermore the work was also on display in the related Cyberarts 2011 exhibition, which took place at the OK Centrum, in Linz (Austria).
Face to Facebook presentation, September 5, Prix Ars Electronica Forum 2011:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZKW0ArCmmk
Face to Facebook installation, "Cyberarts 2011" exhibition, OK Center:
http://www.face-to-facebook.net/face-to-facebook/face-to-facebook_ars.php
Legal update (new downloadable files):
We have published the entire legal correspondence between our lawyer and Facebook's legal team so far:
http://www.face-to-facebook.net/legal.php
September 5th is our response to the allegations contained in Facebook's letter of April 7th. Our lawyer answered all their questions precisely, pointing out Facebook's vulnerability (the website did not have any anti-scraping protection for years), the inconsistency of the accusations of criminal violations (we didn't break security measures) and our right to document our art project on the website face-to-facebook.net.
The letter ends: "Moreover, given the recent controversy and questions regarding the legality of Facebook's own "facial recognition" software ("Facebook 'Face Recognition' Feature Draws Privacy Scrutiny", Bloomberg News, July 8 2011), we are surprised that Facebook would continue to aggressively pursue a nonprofit conceptual art project that illustrated the risks of sharing data on social networking websites and wrapped up long ago."
The social experiment (new documents):
We published the personal reactions that we have received so far. The anonymous reactions were obtained through contact forms on the lovely-faces.com and face-to-facebook.net websites. They included responses from a variety of people; some upset, some confused and some very enthusiastic. Check them out here:
http://www.face-to-facebook.net/social_experiment.php
The Global Mass Media Hack Performance (new downloadable files):
The almost overwhelming press reactions have been archived in the form of screenshots. The whole archive of over one thousand global media reviews (still yet to be completed) can be downloaded from:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1527685/face-to-facebook/f2f_press_coverage_screenshots.zip
Exhibitions and lectures:
In the next months we have the following lectures scheduled:
* 28 September, Rewire Conference, lecture, Liverpool - UK
* 13 October, Unsound Festival, lecture, Krakow - Poland
* 5-9 December, Psychoeconomy!, lecture, Seville, Spain
In the last few months Face to Facebook was included in seven exhibitions and we made ten presentations around Europe and beyond. Here are some of the installation pictures:
* Origin at Ars Electronica Festival 2011 in Linz:
http://www.face-to-facebook.net/face-to-facebook/face-to-facebook_ars.php
* REALITYFLOWHACKED at Aksioma Project Space in Ljubljana:
http://www.face-to-facebook.net/face-to-facebook/face-to-facebook_lub.php
* ENTER | DATAPOLIS at 5th Art|tech Biennale in Prague:
http://www.face-to-facebook.net/face-to-facebook/face-to-facebook_enter.php
* Chilling Effects at Tetem in Enschede:
http://www.face-to-facebook.net/face-to-facebook/face-to-facebook_tetem.php
* File PAI Festival 2011 in Sao Paulo:
http://www.face-to-facebook.net/face-to-facebook/face-to-facebook_file.php
* Data cuerpos y retratos compartidos at De Centro Fundación Telefónica in Lima:
http://www.face-to-facebook.net/face-to-facebook/face-to-facebook_lima.php
* RESPONSE:ABILITY at Transmediale Festival 2011 in Berlin:
http://www.face-to-facebook.net/face-to-facebook/face-to-facebook_tm.php
Thanks for your attention.
Paolo and Alessandro.
September 7th, 2011. Linz.
Face to Facebook
http://www.face-to-facebook.net
Stealing 1 million Facebook profiles, filtering them with face-recognition software and posting them without user authorization on a custom-made dating website, sorted by the characteristics of their facial expressions.
A project by Paolo Cirio and Alessandro Ludovico.
The awesome news:
The Face to Facebook project won a prestigious Award of Distinction at Prix Ars Electronica 2011 in the "Interactive Art" category. Furthermore the work was also on display in the related Cyberarts 2011 exhibition, which took place at the OK Centrum, in Linz (Austria).
Face to Facebook presentation, September 5, Prix Ars Electronica Forum 2011:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZKW0ArCmmk
Face to Facebook installation, "Cyberarts 2011" exhibition, OK Center:
http://www.face-to-facebook.net/face-to-facebook/face-to-facebook_ars.php
Legal update (new downloadable files):
We have published the entire legal correspondence between our lawyer and Facebook's legal team so far:
http://www.face-to-facebook.net/legal.php
September 5th is our response to the allegations contained in Facebook's letter of April 7th. Our lawyer answered all their questions precisely, pointing out Facebook's vulnerability (the website did not have any anti-scraping protection for years), the inconsistency of the accusations of criminal violations (we didn't break security measures) and our right to document our art project on the website face-to-facebook.net.
The letter ends: "Moreover, given the recent controversy and questions regarding the legality of Facebook's own "facial recognition" software ("Facebook 'Face Recognition' Feature Draws Privacy Scrutiny", Bloomberg News, July 8 2011), we are surprised that Facebook would continue to aggressively pursue a nonprofit conceptual art project that illustrated the risks of sharing data on social networking websites and wrapped up long ago."
The social experiment (new documents):
We published the personal reactions that we have received so far. The anonymous reactions were obtained through contact forms on the lovely-faces.com and face-to-facebook.net websites. They included responses from a variety of people; some upset, some confused and some very enthusiastic. Check them out here:
http://www.face-to-facebook.net/social_experiment.php
The Global Mass Media Hack Performance (new downloadable files):
The almost overwhelming press reactions have been archived in the form of screenshots. The whole archive of over one thousand global media reviews (still yet to be completed) can be downloaded from:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1527685/face-to-facebook/f2f_press_coverage_screenshots.zip
Exhibitions and lectures:
In the next months we have the following lectures scheduled:
* 28 September, Rewire Conference, lecture, Liverpool - UK
* 13 October, Unsound Festival, lecture, Krakow - Poland
* 5-9 December, Psychoeconomy!, lecture, Seville, Spain
In the last few months Face to Facebook was included in seven exhibitions and we made ten presentations around Europe and beyond. Here are some of the installation pictures:
* Origin at Ars Electronica Festival 2011 in Linz:
http://www.face-to-facebook.net/face-to-facebook/face-to-facebook_ars.php
* REALITYFLOWHACKED at Aksioma Project Space in Ljubljana:
http://www.face-to-facebook.net/face-to-facebook/face-to-facebook_lub.php
* ENTER | DATAPOLIS at 5th Art|tech Biennale in Prague:
http://www.face-to-facebook.net/face-to-facebook/face-to-facebook_enter.php
* Chilling Effects at Tetem in Enschede:
http://www.face-to-facebook.net/face-to-facebook/face-to-facebook_tetem.php
* File PAI Festival 2011 in Sao Paulo:
http://www.face-to-facebook.net/face-to-facebook/face-to-facebook_file.php
* Data cuerpos y retratos compartidos at De Centro Fundación Telefónica in Lima:
http://www.face-to-facebook.net/face-to-facebook/face-to-facebook_lima.php
* RESPONSE:ABILITY at Transmediale Festival 2011 in Berlin:
http://www.face-to-facebook.net/face-to-facebook/face-to-facebook_tm.php
Thanks for your attention.
Paolo and Alessandro.
Art & Revolution by Credit Cards - Gift Finance and the Ugly Truth about Money - P2P Gift Credit Cards Newsletter
P2P Gift Credit Cards Newsletter
Press Release. London. 30 June 2011.
The P2P Gift Credit Card is a revolutionary art project that involves
counterfeited virtual money and credit cards for an equal, democratic
and universal distribution of money for the common people.
The project has been released on 20th December 2010 and there are
already a thousand of cardholders who joined the community of Basic
Credit Network. Hundreds of plastic cards have been distributed through
public actions and art exhibitions:
http://www.paolocirio.net/work/gift-finance/p2p_gift_credit_card.php
It's just a matter of the number of cardholders and soon the money
issued though the program Global Basic Credit will be able to be spent,
replacing the worn out money that usually private banks monopolize.
Don't hesitate, apply now for a P2P Gift Credit Card, a new economic
dawn is coming:
http://www.p2pgiftcredit.com
If you already have a card, don’t forget to activate it.
Art and Revolution are about creating new social realities through
subverting present languages and mediums. Credit Cards and Finance
Instruments are great, they allow us to create money out of nothing and
distribute it very efficiently by softwares and devices. You are
probably very furious in these days, but please don't damage cash
machines and banks, we may still need them. Don't hate the media, become
the media. Well, we all hate money, it is our worst obsessive
hallucination, however we should take over it before it defeats us.
There is available an informative document which outlines pivotal issues
about the current scarcity of money as a fraud, the history and present
creation of money, credit and interest origins and degeneracy,
undemocratic and unethical consequences of unregulated financial
capitalism and what we should do to fix it:
http://www.paolocirio.net/press/PDF/Slides-P2PGiftCredit-CriticalFinance2011.pdf
The sources of this document come from an in depth list of recent critical finance analysis:
http://www.p2pgiftcredit.com/infoshop.php
Recapitulating P2P Gift Credit Cards:
- It's about creating money democratically through the technology of credit cards.
- It's not an alternative currency; it's proper counterfeited virtual money (in British sterling).
Why this project:
- We need a new design for money.
- We need to distribute this new money equally.
- We need to control democratically the amount of money and inflation inside our communities.
- We need to engage and inform people in this process through a viral attractive creation and regulation of our money.
The idea:
The project turns tools of the modern financial systems to fair use. Mainly the project exploits in a good way:
- Financial instruments (the Fractional Reserve Banking).
- Credit card infrastructures (the VISA networks).
- Current currencies (the Pound Sterling).
This is all for taking back issuing power from private financial industries and restoring it to the commons.
Killer features of the P2P Gift Credit Cards:
- Anyone can issue money by an email account or cell number. Special
authorizations/devices/skills/power are not needed to issue money, which
means that it’s a very democratic model.
- The money issued is in a currency that is recognized by most of the
world. And the credit card numbers are readable by present machines and
platforms.
Potential new features of P2P Gift Credit Cards:
- New MasterCard and American Express editions of the P2P Gift Credit Cards.
- A marketplace platform where the members of Global Basic Credit can
sell/buy with their card numbers, as to wire money among the accounts.
- Establishment peers limits for regulating the inflation inside the nodes of the networks of the communities.
- Endorsement of the P2P architecture for enabling more connectivity through the peers.
P2P Gift Credit Cards in the media:
Sharing becomes the creator of value
Libération - Credit revolver.
Basic Credit Network, revolves around an intelligent analysis of
the banking system and slightly tweaking this to reflect how public
ownership of the banks could be distributed"
Art Critiqued - The Art of Selling and the Selling of Art.
If we all get some, we’ll create a lending system outside the current, corrupt institutions of credit
Animal New York - Peer-to-Peer Credit Cards Will Free You.
it triggers a viral spread of wealth, creating an alternative credit that everyone can develop and manage by themselves
Neural - Popular born credits.
P2P Gift Credit Card project will be part of Abandon Normal Devices festival in UK at end of September 2011.
However before of that, I have other gigs coming up at:
Networked, Centro Fundación Telefónica, Lima - Peru
File Festival, Sao Paulo - Brazil
Genesis Project, Culture Push, workshop, Brooklyn - U.S.
Ars Electronica Festival, Origin, Linz - Austria
ISEA 2011 Conference, lecture, Instanbul - Turkey
User friendly society, Galerija Galženica, Velika Gorica - Croazia
Rewire Conference, FACT, Liverpool - UK
Thanks for the attention.
Paolo Cirio.
http://www.paolocirio.net
Press Release. London. 30 June 2011.
The P2P Gift Credit Card is a revolutionary art project that involves
counterfeited virtual money and credit cards for an equal, democratic
and universal distribution of money for the common people.
The project has been released on 20th December 2010 and there are
already a thousand of cardholders who joined the community of Basic
Credit Network. Hundreds of plastic cards have been distributed through
public actions and art exhibitions:
http://www.paolocirio.net/work/gift-finance/p2p_gift_credit_card.php
It's just a matter of the number of cardholders and soon the money
issued though the program Global Basic Credit will be able to be spent,
replacing the worn out money that usually private banks monopolize.
Don't hesitate, apply now for a P2P Gift Credit Card, a new economic
dawn is coming:
http://www.p2pgiftcredit.com
If you already have a card, don’t forget to activate it.
Art and Revolution are about creating new social realities through
subverting present languages and mediums. Credit Cards and Finance
Instruments are great, they allow us to create money out of nothing and
distribute it very efficiently by softwares and devices. You are
probably very furious in these days, but please don't damage cash
machines and banks, we may still need them. Don't hate the media, become
the media. Well, we all hate money, it is our worst obsessive
hallucination, however we should take over it before it defeats us.
There is available an informative document which outlines pivotal issues
about the current scarcity of money as a fraud, the history and present
creation of money, credit and interest origins and degeneracy,
undemocratic and unethical consequences of unregulated financial
capitalism and what we should do to fix it:
http://www.paolocirio.net/press/PDF/Slides-P2PGiftCredit-CriticalFinance2011.pdf
The sources of this document come from an in depth list of recent critical finance analysis:
http://www.p2pgiftcredit.com/infoshop.php
Recapitulating P2P Gift Credit Cards:
- It's about creating money democratically through the technology of credit cards.
- It's not an alternative currency; it's proper counterfeited virtual money (in British sterling).
Why this project:
- We need a new design for money.
- We need to distribute this new money equally.
- We need to control democratically the amount of money and inflation inside our communities.
- We need to engage and inform people in this process through a viral attractive creation and regulation of our money.
The idea:
The project turns tools of the modern financial systems to fair use. Mainly the project exploits in a good way:
- Financial instruments (the Fractional Reserve Banking).
- Credit card infrastructures (the VISA networks).
- Current currencies (the Pound Sterling).
This is all for taking back issuing power from private financial industries and restoring it to the commons.
Killer features of the P2P Gift Credit Cards:
- Anyone can issue money by an email account or cell number. Special
authorizations/devices/skills/power are not needed to issue money, which
means that it’s a very democratic model.
- The money issued is in a currency that is recognized by most of the
world. And the credit card numbers are readable by present machines and
platforms.
Potential new features of P2P Gift Credit Cards:
- New MasterCard and American Express editions of the P2P Gift Credit Cards.
- A marketplace platform where the members of Global Basic Credit can
sell/buy with their card numbers, as to wire money among the accounts.
- Establishment peers limits for regulating the inflation inside the nodes of the networks of the communities.
- Endorsement of the P2P architecture for enabling more connectivity through the peers.
P2P Gift Credit Cards in the media:
Sharing becomes the creator of value
Libération - Credit revolver.
Basic Credit Network, revolves around an intelligent analysis of
the banking system and slightly tweaking this to reflect how public
ownership of the banks could be distributed"
Art Critiqued - The Art of Selling and the Selling of Art.
If we all get some, we’ll create a lending system outside the current, corrupt institutions of credit
Animal New York - Peer-to-Peer Credit Cards Will Free You.
it triggers a viral spread of wealth, creating an alternative credit that everyone can develop and manage by themselves
Neural - Popular born credits.
P2P Gift Credit Card project will be part of Abandon Normal Devices festival in UK at end of September 2011.
However before of that, I have other gigs coming up at:
Networked, Centro Fundación Telefónica, Lima - Peru
File Festival, Sao Paulo - Brazil
Genesis Project, Culture Push, workshop, Brooklyn - U.S.
Ars Electronica Festival, Origin, Linz - Austria
ISEA 2011 Conference, lecture, Instanbul - Turkey
User friendly society, Galerija Galženica, Velika Gorica - Croazia
Rewire Conference, FACT, Liverpool - UK
Thanks for the attention.
Paolo Cirio.
http://www.paolocirio.net
