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When Stealing Becomes Art: Interview with Paolo Cirio

Posted on 4. May 2011 by Tatiana Bazzichelli

By Tatiana Bazzichelli, published in Digimag 63, April 2011

In the essay The author as a producer (1934), Walter Benjamin describes the author’s role through the figure of the engineer. Instead of reproducing the production apparatuses, the author/engineer is able to intervene within them, transforming the cultural production function itself and opening it up to [...]

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Book: REFF. The reinvention of the real through critical practices of remix…

Posted on 26. October 2010 by Tatiana Bazzichelli

REFF. The reinvention of the real through critical practices of remix, mash-up, re-contextualization, reenactment.

Foreword by: Bruce Sterling
Edited by: Cary Hendrickson, Salvatore Iaconesi, Oriana Persico, Federico Ruberti, Luca Simeone (FakePress)
Published by Derive Approdi, Rome, Italy, November 2010.
The fake competition RomaEuropa FakeFactory (www.romaeuropa.org) was an act of artivism, in favor of free culture and non-proprietary rights for [...]

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Is Something Wrong Nothing Wrong?

Posted on 23. March 2010 by Tatiana Bazzichelli

"JODI: Something Wrong is Nothing Wrong", Ad by Motherboard TV (DELL)
The above image, published in VICE magazine Vol 7 Nr 2 (2010), is an advertisement for the social networking platform Motherboard TV, sponsored by DELL. But people into digital culture would immediately recognize something else.
The advertisement shows a reconstruction of the homepage http://wwwwww.jodi.org, a work [...]

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