Guido Segni
Guido Segni — also known as Dedalus — b. 1990, 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
Co-founder of Les Liens Invisibles, he exhibited in galleries, museums and art & media-art international festivals
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
He is professor at the Accademia di Belle Arti of Carrara, co-directs the Green Cube Gallery in his spare time, and in 2023 completed his five-year plan for laziness.
See works
Selected Exhibitions
- Surfing on the AlgorithmsSMDOT - Udine, January 28 - April 8, 2023
2023
- Ultimo spettacolo a MilanoEdicola Radetzky, Milano, November 10 – December 8th 2022
2022
- In caso di emergenza rompere gli schermiBologna, November 27 – December 17th 2021
- How to win at photographycurated by Marco De Mutiis and Matteo Bittanti - Fotomuseum Winterthur, June 5 – October 2021
- Non volevo fare assolutamente nullasolo exhibition - SMDOT - Udine, April 16 - May 22, 2021
2021
- 2020 DO NOT LINKgroup 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
2020
- D3us Ex M4ch1nacurated by Karin Ohlenschläger and Pau Waelder, LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón (Asturias), November 22, 2019 - May 16, 2020
- Hyperemploymentcurated by Domenico Quaranta, MGLC - International Centre of Graphic ArtsGrad Tivoli, Ljubljana, November 7, 2019 – January 19, 2020
- Fino alla finesolo exhibition curated by Alessandra Ioalé and Marco Mancuso, Spazio Adiacenze - Bologna, February 1 - March 16
2019
- REFRESH02 – #LAYERS – Contemporary Art in the Digital Eracurated by Fabio Paris, Machines Room of La Raffinerie / Charleroi Danse, Brussels, April 18 - May 26, 2018
2018
- Segni leggeri - Internet is not forevercurated by Alessandra Ioalé, BAG Gallery, Parma, April 28 - May 28 2017
- Reale è Virtualecurated by Chiara Moro and Stefano Monti for spaghettiparty.it project, SETUP Art Fair 2017, Bologna
2017
- Monsters of the Machinecurated by Marc Garrett, LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón (Asturias), November 18 - May 14 2017
- NARGIFSUScurated by Carla Gannis and Tina Sauerländer, online exhibition and screening at TRANSFER galley, New York, March 19 2016
- Arte Laguna Prize – Finalists exhibitionVenice, March 19 – April 3
2016
- A New Social Contractcurated 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 Identitätcurated by Alain Bieber,NRW-Forum, Düsseldorf , September 19 - January 17 2016
2015
- Random Access MemoryMedia Art Festival, Art Museum Arad, Romania, October 17 - November 17, 2014
- Reality checkcurated by Filippo Lorenzin, Spazio ULTRA, Udine, October 4 - November 15 , 2014
- Pics or it didn't happenonline solo exhibition at HOC Gallery, July 15 - October 15, 2014
2014
- Playcurated by Marília Pasculli and Tanya Toft, The Digital Art Gallery of SESI - São Paulo, March 25 to April 7, 2013
2013
- 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 2011curated by Domenico Quaranta e Matteo Bittanti, Centro Culturale Candiani, Mestre (Italy), from June 1 to October 31 2011
- Identità Virtualicurated by Franziska Nori, Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina, Florence, Italy, 21 May - 17 Jul 2011
- Transmediale 11Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany, 1-6 Feb 2011
- Identités précairescurated by Christophe Bruno, Jeu de Paume, Paris, March 9 - Sept. 2011
- GATE(WAY)Scurated by Sabine Himmelsbach, KUMU Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia, May 12 - Sep 25 2011
2011
- Smart Mistakescurated 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 SeeGalerija Galzenica, Velika Gorica (Croatia), Nov 10 - Dec 10, 2010
- NETinSPACEMAXXI - National Museum of the Arts of the XXIst Century, Rome (Italy), 30. May - 25. December 2010
- GLOBALNE OCIEPLENIE / THE MEDIAGATEGaleria NT, Lódz (Poland), 20/04/2010 - 16/05/2010
2010
- Pixxelpoint 2009 | once upon a time in the west curated by Domenico Quaranta, Nova Gorica (Slovenia), Dec 4th - 11th 2009
2009
- Tag ties and affective spiescurated by Daphne Dragona, National Museum of Contemporary Art - Athens (Greece), From March 18th -August 18th 2008
- F for Fakecurated 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 2.0curated by Luis Silva, Lisboa 20 Arte Contemporu00e2nea, Lisbon (Portugal), November 14th 2008
- Ours: Democracy in the Age of BrandingParsons The New School for Design, New York, October 16, 2008 - February 1, 2009
2008
- My Own Private Realitycurated by Sabine Himmelsbach and Sarah Cook, Edith Russ site for media art, May 12th - July 1st 2007
2007
Selected
texts & publications
texts & publications
- Media e arte. Dalle caverne dipinte agli ologrammi cantanti by Simonetta Fadda, 2020
- AI Art: Machine Visions and Warped Dreams by Joanna Zylinska, 2020
- Google Maps, Google Earth and Google Art. When software limits become strengths in online art practice article by Alessandra Ioalé for printed issue of Digimag 78
- The middle finger response, contribute for Disrupting business curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli and Geoff Cox (November 2013)
- Venezia: la realtà aumentata article by Domenico Quaranta for Flash Art (September 2011)
- La Bienal que emerge a través del móvil article by Roberta Bosco for El Paìs (June 2011)
- YES, NOW FAKE IS LEGAL… LA NET.ART AL TEMPO DEL SOCIAL NETWORK article by Martina Coletti for DARS Magazine Extract here: (April 2011)
- Democracy 2.0 text by Geoff Cox for Arnolfini Journal (April 2010)
Publications
- Guido Segni, quando l’arte digitale si scontra con i limiti dei suoi supporti copertina e intervista a cura di Virginia Marchione per il numero 109 di Inside Art, 2017
- Internet - Materializzazioni dell'effimero by Alessandra Ioalé for AI Magazine
- Interview by Elena Giulia Rossi for Arshake magazine
- NRW-Forum by NRW-Forum Düsseldorf in the context of the exhibition “Ego Update - The Future of Digital Identity” (German)
- Inside the internet there’s glory: Interview with Guido Segni interview by Filippo Lorenzin for furtherfield online blog
- The middle finger response interview by Filippo Lorenzin for the blog "L'identità auementata" (April 2013)
- Re:Interview #016: Stories Without Boundaries But Full of Lies | Les Liens Invisibles interview by Michael Kargl and Franz Thalmair published on CONT3XT.NET and Springerin Art Magazine (March 2011)
- The suicide irony. seppukoo and web 2.0 suicidemachine interview by Loretta Borrelli for Digimag magazine (March 2010)
- Neural 34, Fake'ology interview by Alessandro Ludovico for Neural printed magazine (December 2009)
- Getting too close to art: An email conversation between Les Liens Invisibles and Luis Silva interview by Luis Silva for Turbulence blog (May 2009)
- Les Liens Invisibles: Disillusion 2.0 interview by Giulia Simi for Digimag online magazine (May 2008)
Interviews
- Il diritto alla pigrizia. Artista si fa sostituire da un software di intelligenza artificiale article by Valentina Tanni for Artribune Magazine (June 2018)
- Special Project #12. Guido Segni. Verba volant, scripta manent , 2017, critical text by Elena Giulia Rossi for Arshake
- Compra un'opera d'arte, sfrutta un lavoratore by Federico Martelli for The Creators Project online magazine (only in italian)
- Guido Segni’s A quiet desert failure by Gretta Louw for furtherfield online blog
- Nessuna possibilità intermedia , critic text by Andrea Tinterri for the exhibition Pics or it didn't happen
- Middle Finger response von Guido Segni by Florian Kuhlmann for the blog Perisphere (April 2013)
- La respuesta del microtrabajador Article by Pau Waelder for the blog of the UOC-LABoral (March 2013)
- Unicorni Rosa e Padiglioni Invisibili: l’Arte ai confini della Realtà Aumentata dei Les Liens Invisibles Article by Silvie Inb for DARS Magazine (June 2011)
- Les Liens Invisibles article by Violeta Solís Horcasitas for Caviar Izquierda Magazine (November 2011)
- NetStArt/ I retroscena delle geografie digitali article by Tatiana Bazzichelli for Punto Informatico online magazine (November 2010)
- End your social networking life with Seppukoo article by W.J. Hennigan for Los Angels Times online edition (December 2009)
- Seppukoo, réseau antisocial article by MARIE LECHNER for Libération (December 2009)
- Google Is Not The Map (GISNTM) by Les Liens Invisibles interview by Oriana Persico for Artsblog online magazine (January 2009)
- Team Spoof article by Marisa Olson for RHIZOME (July 2008)
- Peking2008, le «controlimpiadi» online article by Alessandra Carboni for Corriere della Sera online Magazine (June 2008)
Texts&Press Articles
Guido Segni is typing now, somewhere ...