• Loophole4All.com Wins Big Art Award and Turns into ArtCommodities.com

    Press Release. June 2nd 2014, NYC.

    It’s a pleasure to announce that Loophole for All won the Golden Nica,
    first prize of Prix Ars Electronica, one of the most prominent awards from socially engaged media art - in Linz, Austria.
    http://prix2014.aec.at/prixwinner/12143

    Shortly: The project exposed 215,000 anonymous companies in the Cayman Islands and attempted to sell their identities in order to democratize tax shields.

    In one year Loophole4All.com received:
    2 Cease and Desist letters from Chinese financial firms.
    10 legal threats from business owners in the Cayman Islands.
    12 articles in international newspapers.
    1,000 orders made through the selling of companies.
    700 USD made and lost through selling the identities of Cayman Island
    firms.
    2 PayPal Account suspensions and a ban on trading.
    25,000 investigative queries into the database of 215,000 entities.
    900 subscriptions to the project???s newsletter with anonymous email
    addresses or from domains like: ey.com, hsbc.com, citi.com, kcs.com, etc.

    Unfortunately, PayPal didn’t concede and I lost all the money that I earned from the selling of subversive artworks in a limited edition. In the meantime, my mailbox on the Cayman Islands appears to have been shut down and I haven’t received mail there in a few months. By the way, I am not making up a single detail of the project. Read the full story here:
    http://paolocirio.net/press/texts/text_loophole4all.php

    There has finally been increased political pressure on the loopholes of
    anonymous companies, so I decided to move onto the next booming financial instrument that hasn’t yet been regulated, in fact my next project taps into the art market with a promising Smart model that allows everyone to collect art and increase the value of the collections.

    Today, I introduce ArtCommodities.com. The platform offers a simple
    economic analysis of how value is created in contemporary art and proposes an innovative model that allows everyone to invest in art that matters with a new type of collectable object. Read more about the new model:
    http://ArtCommodities.com/?/c/model

    By turning offshore firms in art commodities, you can now buy artworks from Loophole4All.com once again. Become the only owner of unique historical artworks for 99 cents and up!

    Have a look at the photos of the art installation of Loophole for All in
    the following exhibitions
    Show at Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary Art in Ljubljana:
    http://paolocirio.net/work/loophole-for-all/loophole-for-all-aksioma.php
    Show Unstable Territories at CCC Strozzina in Florence:
    http://paolocirio.net/work/loophole-for-all/loophole-for-all-strozzina.php
    Show Global aCtIVISm at ZKM, Center for Art and Media, in Karlsruhe;
    and Out of the Box at MAK, Museum for Applied Arts, in Vienna, some
    pictures:
    http://paolocirio.net/work/loophole-for-all/loophole-for-all-others.php

    A recent video interview in Slovenia on national TV:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLHi4K92_5c


    A recent interview published on The Wild Magazine:
    http://thewildmagazine.com/blog/paolo-cirio-loophole-for-all
    You can learn more about the project, its others exhibitions and
    publications here:
    http://paolocirio.net/work/loophole-for-all

    Follow new and upcoming artworks and shows

    Global Direct
    http://paolocirio.net/work/global-direct
    This project introduces the idea of real-time participation in world wide
    governance. It’s an ambitious project, which will be ongoing for a few
    months. It is a 2014 commission by Turbulence through the Jerome Foundation and It’ll be shown at Kasa Gallery in Istanbul in June and at DOX Prague in November.

    Fingerprints Catalogue
    http://DataAsCulture.org
    This project is commissioned by Open Data Institute for shows at
    FutureEverything and Lighthouse in UK. It makes use of sophisticated
    browser tracking technology for an Anti-Social Sculpture. The fingerprints left on the catalogue and its artworks are collected for composing the display of the featured artworks.

    (W)orld Currency
    http://paolocirio.net/work/world-currency
    A manipulation-proof currency through the creative formulation of an
    equation and a trading algorithm. It started through a commission at the Museumsquartier in Vienna and was shown in March at Borroworrob at HDLU in Zagreb, in September it’ll be exhibited during the Digital Design Weekend at the V&A Museum in London.

    Street Ghosts
    New photos of Street Ghosts published on the map in Barcelona
    http://goo.gl/maps/YDJT7 - Zagreb http://goo.gl/maps/0nK19 - Lincoln
    http://goo.gl/maps/0PCFj - Sydney UTS http://goo.gl/maps/dYs3L and here a great video from The Influencers action http://vimeo.com/85017360

    . In september it will be installed for Making the City Playable in Bristol, at the V&A Museum in London and Eternal September for Aksioma Institute and Skuc Gallery in Ljubljana.

    Face to Facebook
    It’s currently being shown in Big Bang Data at CCCB Museum in Barcelona and Out of Control at Ars Electronica Center in Linz. In these installations the audience can browse the epic dating website Lovely-Faces.com! The piece will be shown also at The Photographers’ Gallery in London during this summer.

    HD Stencils
    http://paolocirio.net/work/hd-stencils
    It is an experiment with laser cutters and coding. This new technique for High Resolution stencils will be used with spray paint. A few painting will be shown in Berlin in 2015. While this summer you will see those graffiti on downtown’s walls.

    Direct Democracy within the Internet at Left Forum
    http://www.leftforum.org/content/direct-democracy-within-internet
    I curated this panel at the major Left-wing gathering in U.S. that
    investigated the potential and limits of enhancing democracy through the Internet at John Jay College, CUNY in New York City.

    Performing Change panels series
    http://paolocirio.net/press/texts/perfoming-change.php
    Don’t forget to check out the video recordings of the panel series with 14 awesome speakers that I curated at Eyebeam in NYC last October.

    * I’ve also written a new artist statement about working with contemporary social complexity this year. You can read it here:
    http://www.paolocirio.net/press/texts/paolo_cirio_statement.php

    There are also some video recording of lectures I gave recently:
    Berlin: http://youtube.com/watch?v=7lf9lRE99ng


    Amsterdam: http://youtube.com/watch?v=oTWD_T4eAYA

    Barcelona: http://vimeo.com/83314656

    Ljubljana: http://vimeo.com/84716181

    Many thanks for reading.
    With the promise of other new explosive top-secret projects this summer!
    Paolo Cirio’s press office.
    http://PaoloCirio.net

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