[spectre] DE_ZER Vol. 3

[Domenico Quaranta]

DE_ZER Vol. 3

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.

info at de-zer.com
www.de-zer.com

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Domenico Quaranta

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