IOCOSE, A Crowded Apocalypse, website and crowdsourced digital photos, 2012.
– David Icke, conspiracy theorist
IOCOSE has been drawing on crowdsourcing to generate a multitude of conspiracy theories. The group has commissioned a series of micro tasks, each of them being almost completely meaningless. However, when put together, the tasks collectively contributed to generate a series of potential paranoias. The results have been commissioned, collected, organised and exhibited by the artist group, showing the result of a process of mechanical and unemotional involvement of the participants in the process of writing and protesting against conspiratory narratives.
Website: http://acrowdedapocalypse.com/
Commissioned by AND Festival and Furtherfield.
EVENTS AND EXHIBITIONS
2024
- Human-alike NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A.
2018
- All I know it’s on the internet, The Photographers Gallery, London UK
- Im Zweifel für den Zweifel, NRW Forum, Düsseldorf, DE
2013
- Transmediale, Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt, Berlin, Germany
- Far Festa, Giardini della Biennale, Venice, Italy
2012
- Invisible Forces, Furtherfield, London, UK
- Abandon Normal Devices, Manchester, UK
- FOTOGRAFIA. Festival internazionale di Roma, MACRO Testaccio, Roma, Italy
- Augmented Place. L’arte aumenta la realtà, Galleria Cavour, Padova, Italy
CRITICAL READINGS
- Garrett, M. (2012), Crowdsourcing a conspiracy, interview with IOCOSE, published by Abandon Normal Devices [English]
- Tanni, V. (2012), L’Apocalisse? E’ partecipata, parola di IOCOSE, Artribune [Italian]
- Lechner, M. (2012), Le Complot carbure au pastiche, Liberation [French]
- Sampson, T. D. (2012), Digital Milgram and the Spreading of Conspiracy Theories, Virality [English]
- Ghedini, M. (2013) On The Upgrade, Wysiwyg editions [English]
