Silkscreen prints on paper, acrylic, metal alloy, mistyped keywords from SEO (Search Engine Optimization) platforms
Installation variable, each print measuring 50x70cm
Installation variable, each print measuring 50x70cm
Up until recently, key words have long been used as a way to understand developing aspects of society over time. With recent developments in digital marketing and online targeted advertising, keywords are now used to curate what we find online and forecast
our future preferences as consumers. They feed a complex, opaque and unregulated market of data extraction, which has become a fundamental tool to influence our opinions, and what we want to buy, or vote for.
Alluding to the totalitarian way secret data extraction won’t leave anything unexploited, the artwork presents a mistyped list of keywords, selected among those presented by Raymond Williams in his 1988 seminal book and the actual price assigned to them by
SEO (Search Engine Optimization) platforms. Screen-printed as posters and displayed one next to the other, they allude to a borderline illegal technique known as wild posting and often used in guerrilla advertising, where public street spaces are appropriated to display branded ads.
Fabio Lattanzi Antinori, Fat Finger I Poster
£ 250.00
