Guido Segni is the alias of an artist who works in hacktivism, net art, and video art. He lives and works somewhere, online and offline, playing with art, internet culture, and data hallucinations. Mainly focused on the daily (ab)use of the internet, his work uses technology as a way to create subtle gestures and tweaks, and to combine conceptual approaches with a traditional hacker attitude in the creation of odd, useless, and dysfunctional things.
Co-founder of Les Liens Invisibles, he has exhibited in galleries, museums (MAXXI Rome, New School of New York, KUMU Art Museum of Tallinn), and international contemporary and digital art festivals (International Venice Biennale, Piemonte SHARE Festival, Transmediale). Recently he was shortlisted for the art division of the 20th Japan Media Arts Festival (2017), was a finalist at Prize Arte Laguna (2016), and got an honorary mention at Transmediale (2011) with Les Liens Invisibles.
Currently, he's in the middle of his “laziness five-year plan,” an ongoing project in which he delegates his artistic production to an AI program that learns from his moments of idleness. In his spare time, he co-directs the Green Cube Gallery, teaches at the Accademia di Belle Arti of Carrara, and directs the imaginary REFRAMED lab.
