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Fig. 16.7
A screenshot of
Show Me Your Digital
, 2011, IOCOSE, augmented reality, copyright
IOCOSE. Description: this work is positioned in the entrance of the main boulevard of The Giardini
as a stage curtains of 54th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale
led to a new partnership with the artistic collective Manifest.AR and their Venice
Biennale 2011 AR Intervention. Together a format was built that stepped up the
interventionist component of the projects.
Nine artists—Artie Vierkant, Constant Dullaart, CONT3XT.NET, IOCOSE, Jon
Rafman, Les Liens Invisibles, Molleindustria, Parker Ito, and REFF-RomaEuropa
FakeFactory— were invited to contribute to the pavilion project, turning the
Biennale space into a performance by providing a stream of works for the entire
length of the exhibition (see Fig.
16.7
).
Molleindustria is an Italian team of artists, designers and programmers, whose
aim is to encourage serious discussion of the social and political implications of
videogames. Their strategy is to involve media activists, net-artists, habitual gamers
and detractors of videogames (see Fig.
16.8
). Their intervention and contribution to
the Invisible Pavilion targeted the Chinese Pavilion, after Chinese artist Ai Weiwei
was arrested at Beijing Airport on April 3, 2011, while en route to Hong Kong.
His arrest appeared to be part of a larger crackdown on democracy activists and
dissidents.
Augmented Perspective
references Ai Weiwei's series of photographs
Study of
Perspective
, allowing visitors to superimpose the artist's one-finger salute onto
the surrounding landscape. The Chinese Pavilion, it is known, was under the
direct control of the Chinese government, leading Molleindustria to denounce
