Pics or it didn't happen

"Pics or it didn't happen", rule number 32 of the rules of the Internet, is what people type when they want photographic proof from whoever they are arguing with on a forum or a social network.

It is also an exhibition I made in 2014 for HOC / gallery, about how a Google Images search becomes a list of images, how I turn those images into real objects, and how I turn them back again into pictures of the internet.

The whole project follows the constant traffic between the URL realm (Uniform Resource Locator) and the IRL realm (In Real Life): from the internet to the world and back, using every channel the digital puts at hand, from a home printer to print-on-demand services to any photo or video device.

Everything ends up online at pics.oritdidnthappen.com: a collection of all sorts of images, photos, print-on-demand objects, ecommerce receipts, gathered, modified, printed and then documented once more.

2014
Website, poster print, video, ondemand printed objects
Online project

READ ME BY EMAIL

An email that arrives now and then, from a server out in the bushes. Works, shows, texts, and whatever the feed has no room for. Mostly in Italian. If it doesn't arrive, blame me. No spam. I haven't got enough material even for that.

Fatto. Ti abbiamo mandato un link magico via email: apri la casella e clicca per completare l’iscrizione.

The artist is typing. Now and somewhere...