[spectre] Face-to-facebook: Disrupting Monopolism.

[marc garrett]

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Face-to-facebook: Disrupting Monopolism.

Reviewed by Elin Ahlberg

Elin Ahlberg reviews 'Face to facebook' by Italian artists Paolo Cirio 
and Alessandro Ludovico. It was the Final project of a series of three 
called 'Tha Hacking Monopolism Triology'. The 'Face to facebook' project 
was to steal 1 million facebook profiles and re-contextualize them on a 
custom made dating website (lovely-faces.com).

http://www.furtherfield.org/features/reviews/face-facebook-disrupting-monopolism

Paolo Cirio works as media artist in various fields: net-art, 
street-art, video-art, software-art and and experimental fiction. He has 
won prestigious art awards and his controversial works have been 
sustained by research grants, collaborations and residencies. He has 
exhibited in museums and art institutions worldwide. As public speaker 
he delivers lectures and workshops on media tactics.

Alessandro Ludovico is a media critic and editor in chief of Neural 
magazine since 1993. He's one of the founders of the 'Mag.Net 
(Electronic Cultural Publishers organization). He also served as an 
advisor for the Documenta 12's Magazine Project. He has ben guest 
researcher at the Willem De Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. He teaches at 
the Academy of Art in Carrara.

Furtherfield reviewer, Elin Ahlberg is studying Art and Visual culture 
at the University of the West of England in Bristol. She has been living 
in the UK, and Bristol, since her move from Sweden in 2006. As an 
artist, she works in a variety of mediums and produces work which aims 
to both amuse and provoke. Her practice and research is informed by 
quasi-anthropological observations and an interest in technology. "One 
year ago I gave up Facebook for lent. It was quite an interesting 
experiment and I realised how integrated my life was with the social 
networking website..." Ahlberg's essay 'Meanings constructed around 
Facebook 2011' can be found here - http://tinyurl.com/6a34xyv

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