Eva e Franco Mattes (0100101110101101.ORG)
opere disponibili /available works
Selected Solo Exhibitions
Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai, India (2009)
It's always six o'clock - MU, Eindhoven, Nederland (2008)
Avatars and Other Alternative Universes - Augen Gallery, Portland (2008)
13 Most Beautiful Avatars - MMGalleries, San Francisco (2008)
Annoying Japanese Child Dinosaur - Dockswiss Gallery, Lucerne, Switzerland (2007)
13 Most Beautiful Avatars - Postmasters Gallery, New York (2007)
LOL - Fabio Paris Art Gallery, Brescia, Italy (2007)
13 Most Beautiful Avatars - Italian Academy at Columbia University, New York (2006)
United We Stand - Postmasters Gallery, New York (2005)
Nike Ground Experience - Fabio Paris Art Gallery, Brescia, Italy (2005)

Selected Group Exhibitions
2008
9° Premio Cairo, Palazzo della Permanente, Milano (Oct 24 - Nov 2)
Agency: Art and Advertising, McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown, USA (Sep 19 - Nov 8)
Industrial Lies, Dispari&Dispari, Reggio Emilia, Italy (Jul 4 - Aug)
Try Again, Koldo Mitxelena Kulturenea, San Sebastián, Spain (Jun 26 - Sep 27)
Synthetic Times – Media Art China 2008, National Art Museum of China, Beijing (Jun 10 - Jul 3)
Glamour and Globalization, PROGR, Bern, Switzerland (Jun 5 - Jul 5)
Scope Basel (Fabio Paris Art Gallery), Basel (Jun 3-8)
Am Puls der Stadt. Karlsplatz, Wien Museum, Austria (May 29 - 26 Oct)
My public space, Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam (May 23 - Jun 21)
It's always six o'clock, MU, Eindhoven, The Netherlands (May 23 - Jun 29)
L'impresa dell'Arte, PAN, Napoli (May 16 - Jul)
Holy Fire, IMAL, Brussels (Apr 18-30)
Try Again, La Casa Encendida, Madrid (Apr 10 - Jun 8)
Radical Advertising ®, NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Düsseldorf, Germany (Apr 5 - Aug 26)
Synthetic Performances, Maison des Arts de Créteil, Créteil, France (Apr 4)
Avatars and Other Alternative Universes, Augen Gallery, Portland, USA (Apr 1 - 27)
13 Most Beautiful Avatars, Cain Schulte Gallery, San Francisco (Mar 15 - May 3)
VIA Festival, Maubeuge, France (Mar 13 - 23)
The Influencers (curators), CCCB, Barcelona, Spain (Feb 27-28 - Mar 1)
Sex in Design/Design in Sex, Museum of Sex, New York (Jan 31 - Apr 27)
Nothing is Real, Everything is Possible, Future Film Festival, Bologna, Italy (Jan 18-19)
Io non sono qui, MAXXI, Roma (Jan 9)
2007
Mask - James Cohan Gallery, New York
Performa07 - Artists Space, New York
Sparkle Then Fade - Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, USA
Gameworld - Laboral Art Center, Gijon, Spain
The Theatre of Life - Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento Italy
2006
Fabrica: Eyes Wide Open - Centre Pompidou, Paris
Le paradoxe du Comédien - Collection Lambert, Avignon
Human Game - Fondazione Pitti Discovery, Florence
2005
Prospective Sites. Aktuelle Kunst in Europa - 25 Peaces, public space of Austria
From mini-FM to hacktivists - Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
If it's too bad to be true, it could be 'disinformation' - Apexart Gallery, New York
Rhizome ArtBase 101 - New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
Zero Interest! - Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy
Just do it! - Lentos Museum of Modern Art, Linz, Austria
2004
Ipermercati dell’Arte - Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy
Systemstörung - Edith-Ruß-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg, Germany
Nine Points of the Law - NBGK Gallery, Berlin
Reactivity: Unpredictable Past - ICC, Tokyo
A perfect day for bananafish - Postmasters Gallery, New York
Quadriennale d'Arte di Roma - Promotrice delle Belle Arti, Torino, Italy
2003
Bienal de fotografía - Tenerife, Spain
The Conquest of Ubiquity - Fundación Caja Murcia, Spain
New York Digital Salon - World Financial Center, New York
Critical Conditions- Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, USA
2002
World Information - Oude Kerk, Amsterdam
Punto.dot - Galería Punto, Valencia, Spain
Ars Electronica Festival - Linz, Austria
Sónar - Centre d'Art St. Monica, Barcelona
Manifesta 4 - Frankfurt
I Love You, computer-virus-hacker-culture - Museum of Applied Arts, Frankfurt
Intermedium2 - ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
2001
Media Connection - Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome
Valencia Biennial - Valencia, Spain
49th Venice Biennial - Slovenian Pavilion, Venice
Double Life - Generali Foundation, Vienna
The Last Futurist Show - Kapelica Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Selected conferences and lectures
2007
Tomorrow Now - Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venezia
2006
The Message is the Message - MICA, Baltimore, USA
The Message is the Message - Columbia University, New York
2005
Media actionism - Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italy
0100101110101101.ORG - Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milano
2004
I Trucchi dell’Avanguardia - Museo della Permanente, Milan
Reactivity: Unpredictable Past - ICC, Tokyo
Jamming Culture - Centro de Arte Juan Ismael, Canary Islands, Spain
2002
0100101110101101.ORG - Caja de Ahorras del Mediterráneo, Valencia, Spain
Mediations: Archeologies and transformation in the electronic sphere - Austrian Cultural Institute, New York
2001
Korea Web Art Festival - Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
The Real, the Desperate, the Absolute - Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria
The Society of Control - De Balie, Amsterdam
Arte en Linea - Fundacion la Caixa, Barcelona
1999
ZAC99 - Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris

Grants and awards
New York Prize, The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Italian Academy at Columbia University (2006)
The Thing Residency, New York (2005)
ICC commission, ICC, Tokyo (2004)
Public Netbase Commission, Vienna (2003)
Intermedium2 commission, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Munich (2002)
Jerome commission, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2001)
Honorary mention, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria (2000)
Second prize, Electronic media art competition, Fraunhofer E-Business Innovation Center, Stuttgart, Germany (2000)
First prize, Viper Festival, Basel (2000)

Public collections
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
MEIAC, Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, Badajoz, Spain
21c Museum, Louisville, USA
David Howe Foundation, New York
MAK, Vienna

Selected Bibliography
Serge Lemoine, L'Art moderne et contemporain, Larousse, Paris 2006
Mark Getlein, Gilbert's Living With Art, McGraw-Hill, San Francisco 2006
Gabriella Giannachi, Politics, New Media, Theatre: Performing the Virtual, Routledge, London and New York 2006
Reena Jana, Mark Tribe, New Media Art, Taschen, Koln 2006
Tom Corby (edited by), Network Art: Practices and Positions, Taylor & Francis, London 2006
Joline Blais, Jon Ippolito, At the Edge of Art, Thames & Hudson, London 2005
Joan Rothfuss, Elizabeth Carpenter (edited by), Bits & Pieces Put Together to Present a Semblance of a Whole: Walker Art Center Collections, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis 2005
Kembrew McLeod, Freedom of Expression (R): Overzealous Copyright Bozos and Other Enemies of Creativity, Doubleday/Random House, London 2005
Rachel Greene, Internet Art, Thames & Hudson, London 2004
Christiane Paul, Digital Art, Thames & Hudson, London 2003