Silvio Lorusso
Silvio Lorusso is a writer, artist and designer based in Rotterdam (NL). In 2018 he published his first book entitled Entreprecariat. He is an assistant professor and vice-director of the Centre for Other Worlds at the Lusófona University in Lisbon. Lorusso’s work focuses on the cultures and rhetorical regimes embedded in techno-social systems. His practice combines various media such as videos, websites, artist’s books, installations and lectures. His work has been presented at, among other venues, MAXXI - National Museum of 21st Century Arts, Rome (IT); Transmediale, Berlin (DE); The Photographers’ Gallery, London (UK) and Kunsthalle Wien (AT).
Last update on 10-03-2023
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851px x 315px is a performance that took place from 12th September to 1st November 2012. The work consisted in collecting a series of images that accidentally fit exactly the dimensions of the Facebook cover (851px x 315px) by looking at a period before the advent of the Facebook timeline.
Lorusso highlights the boundaries that the interfaces of social media platforms impose on users and how these dimensions shape one’s expression, as if it were an advertising banner. Additionally, the performance reflects upon the construction of identity that takes place on dominant forms of social media, through a rejection of any personal expression which is substituted by a set of rules such as picture dimensions and time.
851px x 315px
2021
Digital Images, Performance
The Foundry
Artist Talk: Jisu Choe and Silvio Lorusso
28/02/22
Online
Special Artist Talk with Jisu Choe and Silvio Lorusso about “Memento Minti”, a group show curated by Filippo Lorenzin and Marie Chatel.
Opening of the exhibition "Memento Minti"
08/01/22
Decentraland
Opening event of Memento Minti”, a group show curated by Filippo Lorenzin and Marie Chatel featuring works created by Nicolas Sassoon, Sasha Stiles, Jisu Choe, Silvio Lorusso and Dancevatar.
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Memento Minti is a group show curated by Filippo Lorenzin featuring works by Nicolas Sassoon, Sasha Stiles, Jisu Choe, Silvio Lorusso and Dancevatar, artists who have been exploring the thin line between self-promotion and survival strategy concerning the online presence of artists and creatives making and releasing digital art.
Composed of five rooms and displayed in Decentraland, Memento Minti addresses the psychological and physical toll of narrating your life as if it were an online brand. The works propose an informed perspective on how marketing strategies have changed the way creatives promote and sell works online, inviting artists who have been active before and after the popularisation of NFTs.
“The works propose an informed perspective on how marketing strategies have changed the way creatives promote and sell works online, inviting artists who have been active before and after the popularisation of NFTs.“
(Filippo Lorenzin, curator)