Guido Segni

Guido Segni — also known as x — b. 1979, Italy.

With a background in hacktivism, net art and video art, he lives and works somewhere, online and offline, playing with art, internet culture and data hallucinations.

Mainly focused on the daily (ab)use of the Internet, his work is characterized by minimal gestures on technology which combines conceptual approaches with a traditional hacker attitude in making things odd, useless and dysfunctional.

fig.1 A laziness performative session, 2018.

Co-founder of Les Liens Invisibles , he exhibited in galleries, museums (MAXXI Rome, New School of New York, KUMU Art Museum of Talinn) and art & media-art international festivals (International Venice Biennale, Piemonte SHARE Festival, Transmediale).

Recently he has been shortlisted for the art division of the 20th Japan Media Arts Festival(2017), has been finalist at Prize Arte Laguna (2016) and got an honorary mention at Transmediale (2011) with Les Liens Invisibles.

Currently he's in the middle of his laziness five-year plan. In his spare time he co-directs the Green Cube Gallery, teaches at the Accademia di Belle Arti of Carrara and directs the imaginary REFRAMED lab.


Selected Exhibitions

2021

  • How to win at photography, curated by Marco De Mutiis and Matteo Bittanti - Fotomuseum Winterthur, June 5 – October 2021
  • Non volevo fare assolutamente nulla, solo exhibition - SMDOT - Udine, April 16 - May 22, 2021

2020

  • 2020 DO NOT LINK, group exhibition curated by Dirk Paesmans & Bob Bicknell-Knight - Upstream gallery, Amsterdam, 12 Jun - 28 Jun '20
  • A Journey into a living being – From Social Sculpture to Platform Capitalism, curated by Tilman Baumgärtel - Kunstraum Kreuzberg Bethanien, Berlin, May 18 - August 16, 2020

2019

  • D3us Ex M4ch1na, curated by Karin Ohlenschläger and Pau Waelder, LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón (Asturias), November 22, 2019 - May 16, 2020
  • Hyperemployment, curated by Domenico Quaranta, MGLC - International Centre of Graphic ArtsGrad Tivoli, Ljubljana, November 7, 2019 – January 19, 2020
  • Fino alla fine, solo exhibition curated by Alessandra Ioalé and Marco Mancuso, Spazio Adiacenze - Bologna, February 1 - March 16

2018

  • REFRESH02 – #LAYERS – Contemporary Art in the Digital Era, curated by Fabio Paris, Machines Room of La Raffinerie / Charleroi Danse, Brussels, April 18 - May 26, 2018

2017

  • Segni leggeri - Internet is not forever, curated by Alessandra Ioalé, BAG Gallery, Parma, April 28 - May 28 2017
  • Reale è Virtuale, curated by Chiara Moro and Stefano Monti for spaghettiparty.it project, SETUP Art Fair 2017, Bologna

2016

  • Monsters of the Machine, curated by Marc Garrett, LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón (Asturias), November 18 - May 14 2017
  • NARGIFSUS, curated by Carla Gannis and Tina Sauerländer, online exhibition and screening at TRANSFER galley, New York, March 19 2016
  • Arte Laguna Prize – Finalists exhibition, Venice, March 19 – April 3

2015

  • A New Social Contract, curated by Elena Giulia Abbiatici for OFF Biennale, Cairo, November 28 - December 29 2015
  • Object | Pixxelpoint media art festival curated by Igor Štromajer,  Nova Gorica and Gorizia , November 27 – December 4 2015
  • (in)exactitude in science @ The Wrong: New Digital Art Biennale, curated by Filippo Lorenzin and Kamilia Kard, November 1– January 31 2016
  • Ego Update. Die Zukunft der digitalen Identität curated by Alain Bieber, NRW-Forum, Düsseldorf , September 19 - January 17 2016

2014

  • Random Access Memory Media Art Festival, Art Museum Arad, Romania, October 17 - November 17, 2014
  • Reality check  curated by Filippo Lorenzin, Spazio ULTRA, Udine, October 4 - November 15 , 2014
  • Pics or it didn't happen  online solo exhibition at HOC Gallery, July 15 - October 15, 2014

2013

  • Play, curated by Marília Pasculli and Tanya Toft, The Digital Art Gallery of SESI - São Paulo, March 25 to April 7, 2013

2011

  • Well, the loop gets you ahead. (Iteration III, Progress) curated by CONT3XT.NET, Glockengasse No.9 (Vienna, Austria), October 8 - October 21, 2011
  • Neoludica. Art is a game 2011-1966 - Biennale di Venezia 2011 curated by Domenico Quaranta e Matteo Bittanti, Centro Culturale Candiani, Mestre (Italy), from June 1 to October 31 2011
  • Identità Virtuali, curated by Franziska Nori, Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina, Florence, Italy, 21 May - 17 Jul 2011
  • Transmediale 11, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany, 1-6 Feb 2011
  • Identités précaires curated by Christophe Bruno, Jeu de Paume, Paris, March 9 - Sept. 2011
  • GATE(WAY)S, curated by Sabine Himmelsbach, KUMU Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia, May 12 - Sep 25 2011

2010

  • Smart Mistakes, curated by Simona Lodi, Piemonte SHARE Festival 2010, Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali - Turin (Italy), From November 2nd to November 7th 2010
  • The More I Look, the More I See, Galerija Galzenica, Velika Gorica (Croatia), Nov 10 - Dec 10, 2010
  • NETinSPACE, MAXXI - National Museum of the Arts of the XXIst Century, Rome (Italy), 30. May - 25. December 2010
  • GLOBALNE OCIEPLENIE / THE MEDIAGATE, Galeria NT, Lódz (Poland), 20/04/2010 - 16/05/2010

2009

  • Pixxelpoint 2009 | once upon a time in the west, curated by Domenico Quaranta, Nova Gorica (Slovenia), Dec 4th - 11th 2009

2008

  • Tag ties and affective spies, curated by Daphne Dragona, National Museum of Contemporary Art - Athens (Greece), From March 18th -August 18th 2008
  • F for Fake curated by Emma Bugden,  Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, Auckland (New Zeland),  07 March - 12 April 2008
  • PIXXELPOINT 2008 / FOR GOD'S SAKE! curated by Domenico Quaranta, Nova Gorica (Slovenia), December 5th - December 12th 2008
  • LX 2.0 curated by Luis Silva,  Lisboa 20 Arte Contemporu00e2nea, Lisbon (Portugal),  November 14th 2008
  • Ours: Democracy in the Age of Branding, Parsons The New School for Design, New York, October 16, 2008 - February 1, 2009

2007

  • My Own Private Reality curated by Sabine Himmelsbach and Sarah Cook, Edith Russ site for media art, May 12th - July 1st 2007