Artist: Vincenzo Montefusco
Exhibition: Frontiers of Privacy
Size: 24 x 12 cm – Digital printing on forex panels – 70 pieces
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About the artist
Through his artworks Vincenzo Montefusco explores how the digital innovations of the Information Age are progressively reshaping the ethic and the esthetic of the present society. From big data to digital twins, social media to phygital marketing, Vincenzo manipulates a wide range of digital ‘entities’ which have become significant to political, economic, social and cultural endeavors: he presents us with urgent reflections about our interaction with them, exploring more visceral ways of visualizing it. Recent exhibitions include: I AM MY DATA at Foco gallery in Lisbon.
Vincenzo was born in Brescia in 1989, where he graduated as computational engineer. After some years working in the field of data visualization and information design in Paris, Stuttgart and Milan, he moved to Lisbon, where he started his art exploration. He currently lives in Siracusa, Italy.
The Artists Statement about his work:
It is invisible, untouchable, ethereal. Often inaccessible, hard to interpret, but at the same time, ubiquitus. We’re immersed in it at all times, just like air: it’s our Data.
Everyday, we produce around 2.5 quintillion bytes of Data, for an average of around 1 giga bytes per person per day, as result of the interactions with online services including social media, web browsing, entertainment and e-commerce. Some of these services bring a lot of convenience to our lives, others make us waste a lot of time scrolling and swiping. Most of the mainstream ones have one thing in common: we seem to need them more and more to function in society. In order to have a role, you need to opt in, and log in.
The artworks of the exhibition use Data recollected from the artist’s social media profiles (Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp) as the raw material, simultaneously medium and media, each time processed in a different way: the Data is progressively printed, painted, mirrored, hidden, cut, stretched, pressed, compressed, crumpled, torn off; each of these manipulations is meant to be a starting point to explore a different connection, or conflict, between the user and its own Data, either questioning the current condition or speculatively imagine future scenarios.
