Alberto Frigo

Alberto Frigo

Frigo photographing his right hand

Alberto Frigo, 2004-2040
Born 1979 (age 36–37)
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]

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]

A 90x30 centimeters month of activities where each line is a day. By placing 12 months in a row and 36 years, a perfect square of over 36 by 36 feet will be obtained in 2040

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.

Facts

As of 18 May 2014, among other self-tracking projects he daily conducts, Frigo had documented:[11]

Notable Work

Below is a link to Frigo's 36 years long project in which 36 projects are presented:

See also

References

  1. ↑ Michael Zhang (14 May 2013). "This Guy Has Taken a Picture of Everything His Right Hand Has Touched For the Past 11 Years". Petapixel.
  2. ↑ Christopher Pramstaller (4 March 2015). "Life-Logging: 998 640 Fotos einer rechten Hand". Süddeutsche.
  3. ↑ Dmitry Belyaev (9 March 2015). "PHOTOS: Alberto Frigo photographs everything his right hand touches". Metro World News.
  4. ↑ Imogen O'Neill (14 May 2013). "The Future of Lifelogging – Interview with Gordon Bell". Autographer.
  5. ↑ "How safe is your quantified self?" (PDF). 2014.
  6. ↑ Alex Preston (3 August 2014). "The death of privacy". The Guardian.
  7. ↑ Mark Wilson (3 March 2015). "For 11 Years, This Man Has Taken Photos Of Everything His Right Hand Touches". Fast Company.
  8. ↑ Corey Charlton (27 February 2015). "The most touching set of photographs you'll ever see!". Daily Mail.
  9. ↑ Cianan Brennan (12 February 2015). "This man has been taking a photo of everything he touches… for the last 11 years". The Journal.
  10. ↑ Bruce Sterling (9 April 2006). "Alberto Frigo". Wired Magazine.
  11. 1 2 "Alberto Frigo: A 36-year Tracking Project". 2014.
  12. ↑ "Alberto Frigo on Tebahism, Information seminar at Stockholm Uniarts". 2014.
  13. ↑ Tilma Baumgärtel (2015). "Die polymorph-perverse Maschine". Die Tageszeitung.
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