Alberto Frigo
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Alberto Frigo, 2004-2040
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| Born | 1979 (age 44–45) Asiago, Italy |
| Known for | Photographing all objects used by his right hand |
| Website | www.2004-2040.com |
Alberto Frigo (born 21 July 1979 in Asiago) is a conceptual media artist and an early proponent of lifelogging. He is known for having photographed every object his right hand has used since 24 September 2003 becoming perhaps the first to digitally document his life manually and for over ten years.[1][2][3]
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Early Life and Education
Alberto Frigo was born in Asiago, Italy but lived in Canada, United States, the Netherlands and lastly in Sweden where, at the age of 24, on 24 September 2003 he started photographing every object his right hand used in order to keep track of his activities.
In this respect, Frigo started lifelogging months earlier than the father of lifelogging Gordon Bell, who started wearing his camera only in 2004.[4]
While working as a media art teacher for various institutions in Sweden, in 2009 Frigo moved to China where he taught at Tongji University and later he moved to the United States where he worked as a project leader at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
On-going Work
Referred to as the most extreme example of self-tracking[5] and an early proponent of lifelogging[6] since 2003, Alberto Frigo has embarked on an ambitious project, 2004-2040, to create a complete yet interpretable record of the reality experienced by a human being of the new millennium.[7][8][9]
Starting with tracking everything his right (dominant) hand has used,[10] he’s slowly added on different tracking and documentation projects. Keeping the focus on himself and his surrounding has helped him connect to himself and the world around him.[11]
Frigo differentiates from common lifeloggers - he does not automate the process of capturing, organizing and retrieving his lifelog, but he accomplishes this process manually. By "becoming both the sensor and the algorithm", programming his own behavior to do so, Frigo avoids the privacy implications related to automatic lifelogging approaches turning his operation into what can be defined lifestowing.[12]
Exhibitions
Regarded as today's On Kawara,[13] since the beginning of the project in 2003 Frigo has exhibited his work in various venues. At this point of time an increasingly bigger museum space is needed to display his work. In 2040, a 36 by 36 feet wall alone will be needed to display 36 years of photographing every object his right hand has used.
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2006: OK Centrum, Linz
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2009: Art Museum, Uppsala
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2015: Science Gallery, Dublin
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2015: MAK, Frankfurt
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2016: Hasselblad Foundation, Gothenburg
Facts
As of 18 May 2014, among other self-tracking projects he daily conducts, Frigo had documented:[11]
- 295.032 activities by photographing the objects his right hand uses
- 12.367 dreams,
- 5.444 songs that he heard and recognized
- 629 portraits of new acquaintances
- 286 square meters of discarded objects picked from the sidewalk
- 1.513 news of casualties
- 15.661 films of public spaces where he seats
- 7.568 drawings of ideas
- 2.763 recordings of thoughts while walking alone
- 1.704 shapes of clouds
Notable Work
Below is a link to Frigo's 36 years long project in which 36 projects are presented:
See also
References
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