Recent and upcoming activities:

2010

(solo) Plugin, Basel, Switzerland (Jun 13 - Aug 22)
National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, Austraia (May 20 - Aug 22)
Arco (Fabio Paris Art Gallery), Madrid (Feb 17-21)
Tan falso como el original, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid (Feb 10)
NO=SÍ, CCCB, Barcelona, Spain (Feb 8)
The Influencers (curators), CCCB, Barcelona, Spain (Feb 4-6)
I know that it's all a state of mind, The Pigs of Today Are the Hams of Tomorrow, Plymouth Arts Centre, UK (Jan 21-24)

2009

Security Through Obscurity, N.O.Gallery, Milano (Dec 16 - Jan)
Biennale Quadrilaterale, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Rijeka, Croatia (Dec 10 - Feb)
PULSE Contemporary Art Fair (Postmasters Gallery), Miami (Dec 3-6)
Pseudo-Futurist Video Game Improvisation Extravaganza, Performa09, Second Life, New York (Nov 16)
100 Years, PS1, New York (Nov 22 - Apr 5)
I'm not here (solo), Fabio Paris Art Gallery, Brescia, Italy (Oct 3 - Nov 15)
ShContemporary (Postmasters Gallery), Shanghai Exhibition Center, China (Sep 10-13)
28 Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia (Sep 4 - Oct 25)
Scope Basel (Fabio Paris Art Gallery), Switzerland (Jun 8-14)
RE:akt! Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Rijeka, Croatia (May 22 - Jun 21)
Prague Biennale 4, Czech Republic (May 14 - Jul 26)
Miart (Fabio Paris Art Gallery), Milan (Apr 17-20)
Best of Digital Art, [DAM], Berlin, (Apr 4 - May 23)
RE:akt!, ŠKUC Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia (Mar 25 - Apr 17)
The future is not what it used to be, Postmasters Gallery, New York (Feb 28 - Apr 4)
Ecomedia, Sala Parpalló, Valencia, Spain (Feb 11 - May 3)
ENTER ACTION, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark (Feb 6 - Apr 26)
The Influencers (curators), CCCB, Barcelona, Spain (Feb 5-7)
I know this steak doesn't exist, NABA, Milano (Jan 29)
RE:akt!, MNAC - National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest, Romania (Jan 22 - Mar 13)
Traveling by telephone (solo), Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai, India (Jan 3 - 24)

 

Complete CV

 

Selected Solo Exhibitions

I'm not here
Fabio Paris Art Gallery, Brescia, Italy (2009)

Traveling by telephone
Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai, India (2009)

It's always six o'clock
MU, Eindhoven, Nederland (2008)

Avatars and Other Alternative Universes
Augen Gallery, Portland (2008)

Portraits
Cain Schulte Gallery, San Francisco (2008)

Annoying Japanese Child Dinosaur
Dockswiss Gallery, Lucerne, Switzerland (2007)

13 Most Beautiful Avatars
Postmasters Gallery, New York (2007)

LOL
Fabio Paris Art Gallery, Brescia, Italy (2007)

13 Most Beautiful Avatars
Italian Academy at Columbia University, New York (2006)

United We Stand
Postmasters Gallery, New York (2005)

Nike Ground Experience
Fabio Paris Art Gallery, Brescia, Italy (2005)

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2009

100 Years
PS1, New York

PERFORMA09
New York

Prague Biennale 4
Czech Republic

ENTER ACTION
ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark

The future is not what it used to be
Postmasters Gallery, New York

2008

Agency: Art and Advertising
McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown, USA

Synthetic Times – Media Art China 2008
National Art Museum of China, Beijing

Radical Advertising ®
NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Düsseldorf, Germany

L'impresa dell'Arte
PAN, Napoli, Italy

2007

Mask
James Cohan Gallery, New York

Performa07
Artists Space, New York

Digital Surrogates
David Krut Projects, Johannesburg

Sparkle Then Fade
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, USA

Gameworld
Laboral Art Center, Gijon, Spain

The Theatre of Life
Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento Italy

2006

Fabrica: Eyes Wide Open
Centre Pompidou, Paris

Le paradoxe du Comédien
Collection Lambert, Avignon

Human Game
Fondazione Pitti Discovery, Florence

2005

Prospective Sites. Aktuelle Kunst in Europa
25 Peaces, public space of Austria

From mini-FM to hacktivists
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand

If it's too bad to be true, it could be 'disinformation'
Apexart, New York

Rhizome ArtBase 101
New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York

Zero Interest!
Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy

Just do it!
Lentos Museum of Modern Art, Linz, Austria

2004

Ipermercati dell’Arte
Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy

Systemstörung
Edith-Ruß-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg, Germany

Nine Points of the Law
NBGK Gallery, Berlin

Reactivity: Unpredictable Past
ICC, Tokyo

A perfect day for bananafish
Postmasters Gallery, New York

Quadriennale d'Arte di Roma
Promotrice delle Belle Arti, Torino, Italy

2003

Bienal de fotografía
Tenerife, Spain

The Conquest of Ubiquity
Fundación Caja Murcia, Spain

New York Digital Salon
World Financial Center, New York

Critical Conditions
Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, USA

2002

World Information
Oude Kerk, Amsterdam

Punto.dot
Galería Punto, Valencia, Spain

Ars Electronica Festival
Linz, Austria

Sónar
Centre d'Art St. Monica, Barcelona

Manifesta 4
Frankfurt

I Love You, computer-virus-hacker-culture
Museum of Applied Arts, Frankfurt

Intermedium2
ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany

2001

Media Connection
Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome

Valencia Biennial
Valencia, Spain

49th Venice Biennial
Slovenian Pavilion, Venice

Double Life
Generali Foundation, Vienna

The Last Futurist Show
Kapelica Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia

2000

Ars Electronica Festival
Linz, Austria

Vanished Paths: crisis of representation and iconoclasm in Art
Palazzo Bonaguro, Bassano, Italy

 

Selected conferences and lectures

 

2008

I'm not here
MAXXI, Roma

2007

Tomorrow Now
Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venezia

2006

The Message is the Message
MICA, Baltimore, USA

The Message is the Message
Columbia University, New York

2005

Media actionism
Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italy

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Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milano

2004

I Trucchi dell’Avanguardia
Museo della Permanente, Milan

Reactivity: Unpredictable Past
ICC, Tokyo

Jamming Culture
Centro de Arte Juan Ismael, Canary Islands, Spain

2002

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Caja de Ahorras del Mediterráneo, Valencia, Spain

Mediations: Archeologies and transformation in the electronic sphere
Austrian Cultural Institute, New York

2001

Korea Web Art Festival
Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul

The Real, the Desperate, the Absolute
Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria

The Society of Control
De Balie, Amsterdam

Arte en Linea
Fundacion la Caixa, Barcelona

1999

ZAC99
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris

 

Grants and awards

New York Prize, The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Italian Academy at Columbia University (2006)

The Thing Residency, New York (2005)

ICC commission, ICC, Tokyo (2004)

Public Netbase Commission, Vienna (2003)

Intermedium2 commission, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Munich (2002)

Jerome commission, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2001)

Honorary mention, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria (2000)

Second prize, Electronic media art competition, Fraunhofer E-Business Innovation Center, Stuttgart, Germany (2000)

First prize, Viper Festival, Basel (2000)

 

Public collections

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA

MEIAC, Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, Badajoz, Spain

21c Museum, Louisville, USA

David Howe Foundation, New York

MAK, Vienna

 

Selected Bibliography

Rudolf Frieling (edited by), The Art of Participation: 1950 to Now, Thames & Hudson, London 2008

Serge Lemoine, L'Art moderne et contemporain, Larousse, Paris 2006

Mark Getlein, Gilbert's Living With Art, McGraw-Hill, San Francisco 2006

Gabriella Giannachi, Politics, New Media, Theatre: Performing the Virtual, Routledge, London and New York 2006

Reena Jana, Mark Tribe, New Media Art, Taschen, Koln 2006

Joline Blais, Jon Ippolito, At the Edge of Art, Thames & Hudson, London 2005

Joan Rothfuss, Elizabeth Carpenter (edited by), Bits & Pieces Put Together to Present a Semblance of a Whole: Walker Art Center Collections, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis 2005

Kembrew McLeod, Freedom of Expression (R): Overzealous Copyright Bozos and Other Enemies of Creativity, Doubleday/Random House, London 2005

Rachel Greene, Internet Art, Thames & Hudson, London 2004

Christiane Paul, Digital Art, Thames & Hudson, London 2003