Starting 2004 Alberto Frigo continuously documents multiple aspects of reality. By 2040 his 36 year life project will include 1,000,000 photos of all the objects he used, 432,000 of his dreams, 93,312 of the songs he heard, 25,950 of his thoughts, 77,760 of the public places he visited, 3,456 portraits of the people he met, 6,912 collages of the trash he found on the sidewalk, 10,368 shapes of the clouds he observed and much more.
Alberto Frigo is know for having photographed every object his right hand has used since September 2003. His project has been awarded the Prix Ars Electronica and exhibited at the Hasselblad Foundation and the Museum Angewandte Kunst among others.
Frigo has been a lecturer at Tongji University in Shanghai and at Sodertorn University in Stockholm where he obtained his PhD. He has been a project assistant at Harvard Graduate School of Design and a project leader at MIT University Design Lab.
Alberto Frigo's installations can be viewed in remote natural environments. His last work, a 25 feet iron cube located on the little dolomites, can be visited by appointment filling up the below form.
2024
Alberto Frigo Encodes His Life As Iron Pixels Designboom
Francesco Amorosino, La fotografia nell'era dell'ipercontrollo, Casa Editrice Emuse
2022
Peter Hall & Patricio Dávila, Critical Visualization, Bloomsbury Publishing
David Jones, Visual Culture and the Forensic: Culture, Memory, Ethics, Routledge Edition
Henriette Lind, S-v-i-m-l-e-n-d-e-, Politiken
2021
Andrea Mennicken & Robert Salais, The New Politics of Numbers, Springer Int.
Thorben Mämecke, Das quantifizierte Selbst, Transcript Edition
Paul Goodwin, Something Doesn’t Add Up, Profile Books Ltd
Svea Braeunert, Sarah Tuck & Louise Wolthers, (W)archives, Sternberg Press
2020
Florian Mehnert, Datismus Versus Freihet, BvD-News
2019
Margaux Dussert, Par amour du trolling ou par quête de sens, L'ADN
Toft Tanya, Digital Dynamics in Nordic Contemporary Art, Chicago University Press
2018
Sigtryggur Ari, Aldrei úr augnsýn, DV
2017
Desjardins, Images partagées et autres selfies, Mowwgli
Samantha Deman, Special Mobile Art, Arts Hebdo Media
Mark Hoogendoorn & Burkhardt Funk, Machine Learning for the Quantified Self, Springer Int
Susan Flynn, Antonia Mackay , Spaces of Surveillance, Palgrave Macmillan
Aude Launay, Watched! Surveillance, Art and Photography, Zero Deux
2016
Deborah Lupton, The Quantified Self, Polity Press
Tamar Sharon & Dorien Zandbergen, From data fetishism to quantifying selves, New Media & Society
David Jones, Installation Art and the Practices of Archivalism, Routledge Edition
Rune Gade, Overvågningens vaesen, Information
2015
Birgit Richard, Hamster-Hipster-Handy, Kerber Edition
Die Welt, Wie das Handy unseren Lebenswandel bestimmt
2014
Abel van Gijlswijk, Alberto maakt 36 jaar lang foto’s van alles wat hij met zijn rechterhand doet, Vice Magazine
2011
Sherry Turkle, Alone Together, Best Books
Rob Kitchin & Martin Dodge, Code/space: Software and Everyday Life, MIT Press
2010
Outi Remes & Pam Skelton, Conspiracy Dwellings, Scholars Publishing
Dominique Moulon, Art Contemporain et Nouveaux Médias, Sentier d'Art Edition
2006
Hannes Leopoldseder & Gerfried Stocker, CyberArts 2006, Hatje Cantz Publishers
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