In the Internet era the separation between labour and spare time (leisure) has become subtle as never before.
Chat statuses are one of the most indicative representation of this con-temporary condition: available, busy, away or offline.
"Leisure" is an ongoing time-based portrait of me, myself and the internet from the point of view of my temporary chat status symbols.
Once per hour, 24/7, a script posts archives and over-exhibits my intimate Google Talk status through the www.temporarystatussymbols.com website forming an abstract and coloured texture from which users can date back any moments of my daily life.
Link:
http://www.temporarystatussymbols.com/
With a background in Hacktivism, Net Art and Video Art, Guido Segni, aka Clemente Pestelli, (b. 1983, Italy) lives and works somewhere at the intersections between art, pop internet culture and data hallucination.
In quite recent years he moved from an identity to another producing works, actions and interventions under pseudonyms, collectives and multiple names (Dedalus, Clemente Pestelli, Guy McMusker, Angela Merelli, Anna Adamolo, Guy The Bore, Umberto Stanca, Silvie Inb, Fosco Loiti Celant, Guru Miri Goro, Leslie Bleus, Luther Blissett).
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).
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