The Big Plot
2009.
Mixed media, dimensions variable.

» Website: TheBigPlot.net
Press material
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Press Release, 15th Jan. 2009.
- Press Material in high resolution
- Synopsis and links of the fiction
- Interview Web Literature book (en) (it)
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Interview Springerin (en) (de)
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Interview Velvet magazine (en) (gr)
- Interview Web Cinema book (it)
- Critical text
by A. Ludovico (en) (de)
- Review text by B. Cassetta (en) (it)
- Reviews by the audience in forums
- Text Eurasia Revolution
- Text Global Conscience
- All the scripts of the fictions
- Essay Recombinant Fiction theory
Selected press coverage
Printed
- ArtNews, magazine, review, 2011, U.S.
- Springerin, interview, 2010, Austria
- Neural, Cover and interview, 2010, Italy
- Velvet, magazine, 2009, Greece
Online
- Complex, review, U.S., 2014
- ArgNet, review, U.S., 2009
- Wired, Beyond the Beyond, U.S., 2009
- Writing Machines, review, U.S,. 2010
- CoolHunting, review, U.K., 2010
- Biblumliteraria, review, Spain, 2011
- Springering, interview, Austria, 2010
- Mediateletipos, review, France, 2009
- Netzpiloten, review, Germany, 2009
- Ludic pyjamas, review, Greece, 2009
- Calcalist, newspaper review, Israel, 2009

This experimental fiction was a romantic spy story about a dysfunctional and surveilled sociality created by social media. The cloned identity of a real spy was used to infiltrate an extremist Russian political movement as the drama deconstructed the language and symbolism of ideologies by remixing characters' lives and identities with real-world events. The fiction was conveyed through actors using video dialogues, personal photos, and messages posted and linked on several media channels. Actions in public spaces supplemented the set of environments upon which the show was performed, and audiences took an active role in unfolding and creating other parts of the fiction. This project introduced the genre of Recombinant Fiction as an experimental form of tactical transmedia fiction.
Selected pictures of installations at the following shows
.Move
Festival Halle, Germany, 2009; Cairo Prize Milan, Italy, 2009.
Video playlist
Selected shows and presentations
OLE .01 International Festival of Electronic Literature, exhibition at PAM, 2014, Naples - Italy
IMAC 2011, Re-New, lecture, 2011, Copenhagen - Denmark
Mobile Learning Conference, lecture, 2011, Bremen - Germany
STRP Festival, lecture, 2010, Eindhoven - Netherlands
Hacking Public Space, screening at Flashback, Microwave Festival, 2010, Hong Kong
Hacking Public Space, screening at Flashback, S.M.A.K. and Vooruit, 2010, Gent - Belgium
Art Project 2, exhibition, 2010, Viareggio - Italy
Map Digital Space, exhibition, 2010, Ithaca - U.S.
10th Cairo Prize, exhibition at Palazzo della Permanente
, 2009, Milan - Italy
Da Festival, exhibition at the National Academy of Art, 2009, Sofia
4th TINA B, exhibition, 2009, Prague - Czech Republic
Espacio Enter, exhibition, 2009, Tenerife - Spain
Share Festival, exhibition, 2009, Turin - Italy
.move, EMARE exhibition, 2009, Halle - Germany
ENTER 4th, exhibition, 2009, Prague - Czech Republic
FAD Festival, exhibition, 2009, Belo Horizonte - Brazil
Moves09 Forum, lecture at CornerHouse, 2009, Manchester - UK
SocialEast Seminar on Art and Espionage, lecture at Courtauld Institute, 2009, London - UK
Tag ties and affective spies, exhibition at National Museum of Contemporary Art, 2009, Athens - Greece
Selected bibliographyTransdiscourse, Book, Review, Walter de Gruyter, Germany, 2016, ISBN 3110470934Thinking Through Digital Media, Book, Palgrave, U.S., 2015, ISBN 9781137433626Interactive Media Arts Conference, Book, Re-new, Denmark, 2012, ISBN 9788771120370Uncontainable, Book, Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Turkey, 2011, Volume 18 Issue 5, ISBN 9781906897192The Social Revolution, ARTnews, Magazine, U.S., 2011, Issue JuneAntologia della webletteratura, Book, Il Foglio Letterario, Italy, 2010, ISBN 9788876062643Fino alla fine del cinema, Book, Mediaversi, Italy, 2010, ISBN 8849134118Friends? , Neural, Magazine, Cover, Italy, 2010, Issue #35.Move Festival, Catalog, Germany, 2009, ISBN 9783000289729TINA B, Catalog, , 2009, ISBN 9788090446106Tag Ties and Affective Spies, Catalog, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Greece, 2009, ISBN 9789608349360Springerin, Magazine, Austria, 2009, Issue 3/09Artè, Magazine, Cairo Editore, Italy, 2009, Issue 434The Big Plot, Velvet, Magazine, Interview, Greece, 2009
Selected pictures of the installation of The Big Plot in Milan at the Cairo Prize, 2009. |
Selected pictures of the installation of The Big Plot in Halle at the .Move Festival, 2009. |
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