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Freedom in Control in London
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Wed, 08 Jul 2026 15:47:18 +0000
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“Control” opens tonight at Peckham Oasis, if you’re in London a must visit, up ’till August 1st.
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But I Love Human in Venice
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Thu, 07 May 2026 15:00:54 +0000
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At the second venue presenting RAGE BAIT – a private swimming pool located next to Palladio’s famous Il Redentore church – we’re staging a monumental site-specific video installation. The pool water ripples with the reflection of the video ‘But I Love Human’ (2024), playing on a huge LED screen suspended above the water.
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Rage Bait at Palazzo Franchetti
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Wed, 06 May 2026 12:53:57 +0000
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Some photos of “Rage Bait” currently installed at Palazzo Franchetti, Venice.
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Rage Bait in Venice
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Tue, 05 May 2026 15:06:53 +0000
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RAGE BAIT, opening May 5th in Venice.
@ Palazzo Franchetti (5 May–30 Jun 2026) and Le Cabanon (5–31 May 2026)
Curated by Nadim Samman and Luisa Haustein.
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A Necessary Fiction
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Mon, 04 May 2026 13:33:35 +0000
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“A Necessary Fiction: Maps, Art & The Models of Our World” opens tomorrow at Abbazia San Gregorio, in Venice. Curated by Sara Almutlaq and Aurora Fonda, it’s “a journey through territories in constant flux, where historical maps—dating from the thirteenth century to the present—serve as a lens through which to examine our enduring need to create models of the world.” We’re exhibiting My Little Big Data (2019). Image here, info here.
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Re: Re: Re: Net Art is online!
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Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:43:02 +0000
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A revisitation of the Net Art aesthetics of the 1990s—raw, glitchy, poor—through AI vibe coding.
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Ceiling Cat is watching you pray
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Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:07:20 +0000
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Permanently installed at Palazzo Bentivoglio, Bologna.
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New IG account: “realcursedcat”
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Mon, 24 Nov 2025 10:51:12 +0000
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Instagram account dedicated exclusively to AI-generated images and prompts based on our sculpture Cursed Cat.
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Giant LED screens hijack in Tokyo!
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Mon, 10 Nov 2025 18:38:46 +0000
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This screening at Shibuya crossing, the world’s busiest junction, marks the opening chapter of a new project—months in the making, stay tuned…
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But I Love Human is now live
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Tue, 07 Oct 2025 08:58:03 +0000
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Hi there! Our new video, But I Love Human, is now live — watch it here. Ice cream so good.
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New edition now available on Metalabel
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Wed, 04 Jun 2025 09:48:27 +0000
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Just released Deep Fried Cursed Cat, a limited edition of 100 prints created for the RHIZOMA Biennial. Now available on Metalabel.
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Mickey is Died on magnetic boards
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Sun, 01 Jun 2025 17:11:49 +0000
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We just previewed Mickey is Died at the Madre Museum in Naples. It’s a meme that took 12 years to materialize (!). If you’re curious, the full story is here. For this version, we printed 92 found images on magnetic sheets and displayed them across six white magnetic boards.
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Cursed Cat in a Roman crypt
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Sat, 24 May 2025 09:49:37 +0000
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Cursed Cat is currently installed within the depths of an actual Roman crypt (!), surrounded by mosaics with haunted icons like Cerberus and the Centaur and other spectral guardians of the underworld, all set to an eerie AI-generated soundtrack by Jon Rafman.
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But I Love Human premiere
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Mon, 05 May 2025 09:48:46 +0000
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New work But I Love Human premiering tonight at Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz, for Model Collapse curated by Nadim Samman.
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Personal Photographs at the Bastioni di Porta Venezia
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Sat, 05 Apr 2025 14:16:40 +0000
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We’ve just installed “Personal Photographs” on the façade of the neoclassical Bastioni di Porta Venezia in Milan, curated by Matteo Lucchetti. If you pass by in the next month, look up! Photos here.
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Ceiling Cat spotted in Bologna
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Wed, 05 Feb 2025 16:34:04 +0000
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Watching you at Garage Bentivoglio, until March 1st.
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Poetics of Encryption at Kunsthal Charlottenborg
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Fri, 27 Sep 2024 12:55:06 +0000
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The second iteration of “Poetics of Encryption”, the mind blowing group show curated by Nadim Samman, is now open at Kunsthal Charlottenborg. Info here, photos here.
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1 Megabyte Line___________________
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Thu, 26 Sep 2024 12:47:24 +0000
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This is an ooooold work but never shown IRL before!!! 1 Megabyte Line, from 1998, is a text file containing a single line of ASCII underscores. The line is not defined by its length, but by the file size: 1 Megabyte – equals 1,048,576 underscores. We’re showing it tonight, at Progetto Ludovico & Ctrl+Alt Museum.
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How did we became artists?
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Fri, 20 Sep 2024 12:37:53 +0000
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Find out on Art Basel ;-)
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J8~g#|\;Net.Art{-^s1 at at Gallery Kendra Jayne Patrick
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Thu, 30 May 2024 12:34:03 +0000
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Tomorrow, we’re opening “J8~g#|;Net.Art{-^s1”, a small exhibition at Gallery Kendra Jayne Patrick in Bern, Switzerland. The show features a video, two wall panels, and three new sculptures, including one that produces a free takeaway edition on the spot… Photos here.
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Deep Fried Half Cat edition for KW
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Fri, 22 Mar 2024 09:54:32 +0000
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Check out Deep Fried Half Cat, our newest limited edition made for KW Berlin!!!
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Pac-Man-inspired installation at MoCA Busan
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Fri, 15 Mar 2024 12:20:44 +0000
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For this incredible group show at MoCA Busan in South Korea, we had the rare opportunity to curate a selection of our past and recent works in a space entirely designed by us. The layout draws inspiration from a longtime obsession: Pac-Man! The white raised floor—commonly found in office spaces and data centers—mimics the walls and pathways of the iconic video game maze. Works in the show include Darko Maver (1998), Freedom (2010), My Generation (2010), Emily’s Video (2012) and at the center of the maze – where the ghosts spawn in the game – What Has Been Seen (2017). Info here, photos here.
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Preview of AI-Assisted Circuits
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Tue, 20 Feb 2024 11:08:59 +0000
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Our latest body of work is AI-Assisted Circuits: large multicolored circuits created by feeding AI with previous works of ours.
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508 Loop Detected opening at Apalazzo gallery
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Sat, 10 Feb 2024 15:38:06 +0000
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Tonight we’re opening “508 Loop Detected” at Apalazzo gallery, here’re some photos.
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Roomba Cat is watching you
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Sat, 25 Nov 2023 11:00:58 +0000
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Roomba Cat is a sculpture of an attentive looking cat sitting on a functioning robot vacuum cleaner, in constant movement within the exhibition space…
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Up Next video on DIS
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Mon, 25 Sep 2023 10:04:57 +0000
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Our latest video Up Next is now live on DIS. More info on the work here.
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Photos of “Fake Views”
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Tue, 29 Aug 2023 07:43:42 +0000
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“Fake Views” is our ongoing solo show at Frankfurter Kunstverein. Info about the show – including press release, public program etc. – are here, photos of the show here.
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“Fake Views” opening tonight!
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Thu, 13 Jul 2023 15:32:55 +0000
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Here’s the trailer for “Fake Views”, our show at Frankfurter Kunstverein opening… tonight!
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Net Art on LED Wall
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Wed, 19 Apr 2023 15:29:42 +0000
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A one night only event in Milan: our early Net Art piece “New Free” (2000) screened on a HUGE 14x8m outdoor LED Wall with a very special soundtrack by Cory Arcangel! Pics and video here, more about the work here. Curated by Ilaria Bonacossa. Thanks Reasoned Art!
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New install at Miart (plus a little intervention…)
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Fri, 14 Apr 2023 16:26:32 +0000
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Commissioned by MSGM (thanks Massimo Giorgetti!), the installation hosts an invisible image in constant circulation between two microcomputers. The same image is sent from our personal phones to nearby random visitors via AirDrop—an idea inspired by the common practice among teenagers of exploiting crowds to share digital materials. The intervention creates an unexpected temporary human connection in a place mostly driven by commercial transactions. Pics here.
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