{"id":7428,"date":"2023-03-27T07:40:47","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T07:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.niio.com\/blog\/?p=7428"},"modified":"2023-03-27T08:36:09","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T08:36:09","slug":"carlo-zanni-e-commerce-identity-and-the-epic-of-our-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.niio.com\/blog\/carlo-zanni-e-commerce-identity-and-the-epic-of-our-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlo Zanni: e-commerce, identity, and the epic of our times"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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An early practitioner of net art, Carlo Zanni<\/strong><\/a> is among the first artists to explore the nascent opportunities for the online art market and reflect on how the web would impact on our sense of identity and privacy. With a painter\u2019s vision, he has seen in the development of online platforms and graphical user interfaces a space of visual compositions in which the computer desktop becomes a landscape, and everything in it is a fiction. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

He has also developed new forms of storytelling through web-based projects such as the \u201cdata cinema\u201d trilogy: The Possible Ties Between Illness and Success<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (2006), My Temporary Visiting Position from the Sunset Terrace Bar<\/em><\/strong><\/a> <\/em>(2007), and The Fifth Day<\/em><\/strong><\/a> <\/em>(2009). In these online films, he combined a pre-defined narrative with data collected in real time from the same users who were watching the film, or from a distant webcam, or from different sources describing the social and political conditions of Egypt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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