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“OUT OF OFFICE.MP4” For our newest cooperation with adidas, Clusterduck worked together with Xi Design to create a massi...
09/10/2023

“OUT OF OFFICE.MP4” For our newest cooperation with adidas, Clusterduck worked together with Xi Design to create a massive mural painting inspired by biophilic design and synesthetic perception! Picking up on modern aesthetics shaping the digital and urban context such as Anti Style, Ignorant Drawing, and Frutiger Aero, Clusterduck shows the experience of a person who, while listening to music on her/his/their computer, visualizes nostalgic, happy, or trippy memories evoked by those sounds, blurring the boundaries between the physical (IRL, short for “In Real Life”) and the digital world (URL, “Uniform Resource Locator”, colloquially known as a web address) in the process. Since our online and offline activities are capable of changing our brains, for the better or worse, Clusterduck likes to remind us that maintaining a balance between the two worlds is crucial for our mental well-being! May y’all get lost in the material body connection again, May y’all find your digital friends on a physical beach, may y’all find IRL what Frutiger Aero has promised us URL!

For our newest cooperation with Adidas original, Clusterduck worked together with Xi Design to create a massive mural painting inspired by biophilic design a...

🦆 LOOK MAMMA WE’RE ON ARTE TV! 📺We’re honored and grateful to ARTE for giving us the chance to talk about our work and r...
17/02/2023

🦆 LOOK MAMMA WE’RE ON ARTE TV! 📺

We’re honored and grateful to ARTE for giving us the chance to talk about our work and research during the program Twist, which aired last Sunday. 📹

Clusterduck collective can now proudly say that it has been featured on national tv, in national newspapers, in national and international exhibitions, and on the World Wide Web! And if you missed that, don’t worry, it’s still available on the app 📱

Dive into a madness made of memes, love, art, and much more, condensed in 10 mere minutes during a full episode dedicated to the fascinating subject of art & humor 🎭

https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/110331-001-A/twist/

We are happy and grateful to collaborate on this beautiful project with Nishant Shah and Yehwan Song!Clearly, everyone c...
03/02/2023

We are happy and grateful to collaborate on this beautiful project with Nishant Shah and Yehwan Song!

Clearly, everyone can see that we are in a situation of crisis. And like every year, despite the atmosphere of impending doom, people from all over the world will come to Berlin, to discuss and learn from each other at Transmediale.

During the "Doing things with crises" workshop we will try to help participants to build networks that can continue after the festival, bringing something home, however small it might seem at first glance. Solutions can come bit by bit, nurturing the networks (and our collective imagination) is the first step!

Go meet our duck Tomato tomorrow, Feb 4 2023 h12:00 at Akademie der Kuenste Hanseatenweg / Salon!

Thanks to Nora O'Murchu and Influ Bani !

2023 is here and so is our first online lecture! This Monday we are going to be in beautiful Dresden with a talk titled ...
07/01/2023

2023 is here and so is our first online lecture! This Monday we are going to be in beautiful Dresden with a talk titled "From Meme Magic to TikTok Realness: How Platforms are Changing the Game of Online Propaganda". Hope to see you there!

Join the lecture by registering here ➡️ https://tud.link/hiay

The talk is part of the lecture cycle “Image protests in social media: Internet memes, videos of police violence, and relations to art”, funded by the German Research Foundation.

You can find more info here ➡️ bit.ly/ImageProtestsSocialMedia

Udite udite! Oggi e domani, a Viareggio, si terrà "ARTIVISM: azioni oltre le rappresentazioni", un evento imperdibile or...
17/12/2022

Udite udite! Oggi e domani, a Viareggio, si terrà "ARTIVISM: azioni oltre le rappresentazioni", un evento imperdibile organizzato dal Collettivo "Dada Boom" e Collettivo SuperAzione in collaborazione con Tatiana Bazzichelli, Loretta Borrelli e Guido Segni.

La nostra papera onoraria Aria Mag sarà presente con un'edizione speciale del nostro : un breve excursus del viaggio di ricerca del collettivo Clusterduck nell’oscura selva della memetica, una crociera che navigherà le produzioni digitali e analogiche del collettivo, andando a presentare i focus nodali del percorso di cinque anni di indagine nei meandri delle comunità online e offline, e i principali progetti prodotti dal collettivo: INTERNET FAME, , e MEME MANIFESTO.
Nella parte conclusiva, i partecipanti saranno invitati a partecipare un breve esperimento basato sul workshop dedicato al Political Compass.

Sito dell'evento: https://artivism.today/
Evento Facebook: ARTIVISM - Azioni oltre le rappresentazioni

After years of underwater work, today we are finally happy to present you https://mememanifesto.space 2.0 ! ! ! The meme...
10/06/2022

After years of underwater work, today we are finally happy to present you https://mememanifesto.space 2.0 ! ! !

The mememanifesto.space landing page, The Iceberg, is inspired by the descending path of classic meme-templates such as “Iceberg Tiers Parodies” or “Galaxy Brain”. Scrolling down, you will be led through ever deeper levels of memetic complexity, from the most popular formats to the most occult.

To be as inclusive as possible of the countless web communities that contributed to enrich the history of memes, The Iceberg is also linked to Telegram bridge bot called AbyBot , which allows everyone to contribute to the Iceberg installation and database by inserting new memes. Send us your memes!

You do not know how to contribute? By surfing in The Detective Wall pages you will be able to deepen your knowledge even more, reading the discoveries made during our investigation, level by level, color by color.

We deeply thanks our wizard developer Gregorio Magini, Dean John Detweiler for the soundtrack, packed with references, Jules LazyDog for the typeface design, Umberto Boschi for the Aby Bot developing, and Pietro Ariel Parisi aka superinternet for adding some liquid magic with his water shader!

25/05/2022

Ten panels (*bang*), ten layers of history (*bang*), ten days (*video fading to black and fading again*), ten hours a day (*fading 👹again*), ten people online and offline (*music intensify*), to create 100 square meters of the c̶̼̬̭̆̄̾҉̶͍̝̓̀ r̵̛͇͕̟͐҉̸̦͔̪̈́̚ a̴͉̥͒̓҉̴̫̣̆̈ z̸͉͖̠̄̽҉̶̙́̅̀̂ i̴̤̾̀̉͝҉̴̢̫̗͙̄ ę̶̼͚̅̓̂͝҉̴̱͋ s̶̹̭̭̓͝͝͝҉̴̡̥ ͒͑ͅ t̵͇̓͜҉̴̹̋̔ Detective Wall ever built in the history of meme kind. Ok maybe not the biggest, but the craziest for sure, as we went mad building it. Many thanks to all the people that sent memes from home, to the communities that allowed themselves to be explored by our f̶̰̽e̴͇͂b̷̡͂r̸͒͜í̸̡l̷͚̓è̴̝ ̵̬̕g̴̞͆a̸̡͝z̸̹̅e̷͚̽, to the patient students who helped us in the build-up, and to Villa Arson for the very kind and patient hospitality! ✨Thanks Philomene, Simon, Clementine Pierre, Theo, Flora, Elen, Vittorio!

Five years ago on this day, we embarked on an adventure together, not knowing that what was about to start would become ...
23/12/2021

Five years ago on this day, we embarked on an adventure together, not knowing that what was about to start would become one of the most important, transformative experiences of our lives.

Sometimes we're not even sure about what we're doing. Sometimes it all seems too difficult, the price to pay seems too high. And that persistent, nagging question keeps coming up: "is it really worth it?"

Then there are those other moments: when all this magnificent cl*******ck we have been navigating for the past five years dissolves, mutating into something serene, magical and colourful.

In those moments we can hear the answer clearly. And as long as we will feel in our hearts that it's all worth it, we'll keep going.

Our deepest gratitude goes to everyone who has joined us along the way, becoming part of our extended clusterducked family and allowing us to get this far. You all rock, we ❤️ you.

Here is to the next five years of Clusterduck. May we all keep living in interesting times. Let's duck things up!

15/12/2021

🎯“Holy moly, it’s a real cl*******ck out there!”🎯
Here it is, the best of the qualifications and semi-finals of The Struggle is Real ! ! !

🏆 On Thursday 16th we will see who will be the winner! 🏆

You are all invited to assist the carnage, on greencube[DOT]gallery or on the Fondazione Spara twitch channel!!

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THE STRUGGLE IS REAL, is the first artist tournament set in Fondazione Spara — an online multiplayer first-person shooter video game by Riccardo Rudi and Superinternet. — taking place in the context of this fall Green Cube Gallery’s new exhibition program and curated by Clusterduck Collective.

THE STRUGGLE IS REAL aspires to be an open and participatory performance on the physical and mental condition of digital artists today. A space where artists are invited to share their frustrations over the hyper-competitive art world. A space to meet, curse, talk and try to survive.

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Fondazione Spara by Riccardo Rudi & superinternet
Curated by the lascivious CLUSTERDUCK Collective
A wonderful Live Commentary by Wade Wallerstein
Hosted by those strange people at Green Cube Gallery
Sponsored by the generous Giga Design Studio, Mirror, NM3
3D Model by the very structured HyperHub
Visual Design by a very tender LEONARDO ROMANO
Sound Design by the sharper of the sharpest MARCO RIP

Congrats and so long to the artists that are struggling for their life, on this cruel social media platform and professional world:
Matthias Schäfer Bob Bicknell-Knight Irene Fenara Valerio Veneruso Domenico Dom Barra Esben Holk Fabien Zocco Federico Delfrati Federico Poni Guildor Gallo Jonas Höschl Kamilia Kard Luca Leggero Marco Cadioli Mario Santamaria Influ Bani Parasite 2.0 Adonis Archontides Silvio Lorusso Simona Andrioletti Studio Tonnato The Hmm The Cool Couple Seong-Young Her Sofia Braga Willem De Haan Zsolt Mesterhazy.

Very happy to have concurred to the satanization of our homely newspaper, Il Corriere Fiorentino. Mamas and Grampas plea...
02/12/2021

Very happy to have concurred to the satanization of our homely newspaper, Il Corriere Fiorentino. Mamas and Grampas please buy our book!

01/12/2021

Meanwhile, we are on a secret mission in San Marino!

Together with other participants, so far we have already explored many different topics: why ni***es can't be free; the consequences of Snapchat dysmorphia and TikTok ticks; the human and robotic catfishing from Onlyfun to Replika; the infininte feedback loops of Post truth and propaganda; centralised and decentralised Metaverses; the dark effects of memes for meme celebrities and the scary consequences of League of Legend tournaments and such.

While we keep trying to unravel this Cl*******ck, we want to thank the “Web design and multimedia” course (with Pietro Costa and Davide Giorgetta) at UNIRSM Design for hosting us in their “Digital Safari”.

THE STRUGGLE IS REAL𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘚𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘯 𝘈𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘔𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢 𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦is starting today!!!🔫🏁Stay tuned on gree...
25/11/2021

THE STRUGGLE IS REAL
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘚𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘯 𝘈𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘔𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢 𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦
is starting today!!!🔫🏁

Stay tuned on greencube.gallery at 9pm CET to assist the matches!!! May the worst artist win!!

24/11/2021

We are happy to present THE STRUGGLE IS REAL, a series of artists’ death matches curated by CLUSTERDUCK and played in Fondazione Spara — an online multiplayer first-person shooter video game by Riccardo Rudi and superinternet, that will take place in the wonderful Green Cube Gallery!

THE STRUGGLE IS REAL aspires to be an open and participatory performance on the physical and mental condition of digital artists today. A space where artists are invited to share their frustrations over the hyper-competitive art world. A space to meet, curse, talk and try to survive.

A selection of 32 international digital artists will face each other in seven elimination matches, lasting 10 minutes. The artist who will hold the pole position till the end, will win the phantasmatic prize: a 500€ ᴀʀᴛɪꜱᴛ ꜰᴇᴇ. 🤑
Thanks to Giga Design Studio Mirror and NM3.

The events will be streamed through Twitch on Green Cube Gallery’s website from November 25th - date of the first two matches - to December 16th, date of the final match.

Visit www.greencube.gallery for the latest info on the tournament and see the live streams!

𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘈𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘴:
Adonis Archontides, Bani Brusadin, Bob Bicknell-Knight, Dirk Paesmans, Domenico Dom Barra, Esben Holk, Fabien Zocco, Federica Di Pietrantonio, Federico Delfrati, Federico Poni, First Last, Guildor, Irene Fenara, Jonas Höschl, Kamilia Kard, Luca Leggero, Marco Cadioli, Mario Santamaria, Matthias Schäfer, Molly Erin McCarthy, Parasite 2.0, Proyectouna, Seong Her, Silvio LoRusso, Simona Andrioletti, Sofia Braga, Studio Tonnato, The Cool Couple, The Hmm, Valerio Veneruso, Willem de Haan, Zsolt Mesterhazy.

3D Model: Hyper Hub
Visual Design: Leonardo Romano
Teaser sound design: Marco RIP
Live Commentary: Wade Wallerstein

It's on everyone’s lips...Memology is a mess? You can’t keep up with them strange images?Do yourself a favour. Get a Gui...
02/11/2021

It's on everyone’s lips...
Memology is a mess? You can’t keep up with them strange images?
Do yourself a favour. Get a Guide.

28/10/2021

We are live Drugo more !

Se siete al Salone del Libro a Torino oggi o domani fate un salto a trovare il banchino di NERO Editions - Not! Ci siamo...
15/10/2021

Se siete al Salone del Libro a Torino oggi o domani fate un salto a trovare il banchino di NERO Editions - Not! Ci siamo anche noi!!! Nel frattempo siamo felici e sorprese di accogliere la notizia che “The Detective Wall Guide” è arrivata 9° nelle Classifiche di Qualità di L'Indiscreto! W la lettura!!

The Detective Wall Guide is available now!!!🔥 https://bit.ly/TheDetectiveWallGuide 𓅢🔥T̶̨̡̻͖͒̔̓̌͑his book is a guide to C...
06/10/2021

The Detective Wall Guide is available now!!!
🔥 https://bit.ly/TheDetectiveWallGuide 𓅢🔥

T̶̨̡̻͖͒̔̓̌͑his book is a guide to Clusterduck Collective’s work "The Detective Wall" and your key to the parallel universe called the MEMESPHERE. 𓆏✨

Ȟ̴̡̗̮͍̞̖͐̏̃͗̊̚͝͠͝𝘰𝘸 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥?
𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘶𝘯𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦?
𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘱 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘶𝘯𝘮𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦?

P̶̺͗́art of Clusterduck Collective’s new participative transmedia project, , the Wall is loaded with meanings, symbols, paintings and memetic fossils – joined together by a plot, but difficult to decipher. This book will guide you in the process, giving you precious hints. 𓆡💦

G̸̢̮̝̱̙̗̠̬͂̑͑͌̓͘͠𝘦𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘥𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯.
𝘎𝘦𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘪𝘥.
𝘎𝘦𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘵.

𓆓🔎👹🌚🌓📕𓆃

Love and peace✌ to all the ducks that teamed up in this crazy venture and that now shall rest for a while. Tommaso Cappelletti, Silvia Dal Dosso, Francesca Del Bono, Jules LazyDog, Noel Nicolaus, Aria Mag. And a special thanks to Marc Tuters who joined us in the book by writing a mad stunning intro!

We are thankful to anyone that somehow got involved in the project, and that’s why a lot of thanks will follow in the comments...

This book is published by Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana and co-published by IMPAKT, Centre for Media Culture, Utrecht.
Supported by IMPAKT as part of Clusterduck’s / 2020 residency, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Municipality of Ljubljana.
📸 by Domen Pal / Aksioma.

Thrilled to have been part of this year's EMAP Garden at Werkleitz Festival and Ars Electronica – next to such legends a...
15/09/2021

Thrilled to have been part of this year's EMAP Garden at Werkleitz Festival and Ars Electronica – next to such legends as Disnovation[DOT]org, no less! From the event description: "The works of the sociosphere contextualise our digital society from different perspectives. (...) Online Culture Wars by Disnovation[DOT]org and by Clusterduck Collective offer overviews of digital-political movements and memes."

Thanks to IMPAKT and / , for making our project a beautiful, twisted reality 𓁿👹𓆏✨

Photo Credit: Michel Klehm

Watch a video description of the installation (starting from 55:10) 👁️👉 https://vimeo.com/594293772

Have a look at the event website 🖥️ 👉 https://ars.electronica.art/newdigitaldeal/en/emap-move-to-sociosphere/

The podcast where we present the project will be soon available here 👂👉 https://moveto.werkleitz.de/en/mememanifesto/

Dear ducks, friends and comrades, we're taking some time OFF! Take care, and see you on the other side... ☀️🌴🌊☀️🌴🌊☀️🌴🌊☀️...
29/06/2021

Dear ducks, friends and comrades, we're taking some time OFF! Take care, and see you on the other side...
☀️🌴🌊☀️🌴🌊☀️🌴🌊☀️🌴🌊☀️🌴🌊☀️🌴🌊☀️🌴🌊
"As the world we live in shifts from a raging pandemic to a post-vaccine new normal, Clusterduck collective is about to take some time off.
This has plenty to do with the creative industry and its mechanisms, something to do with us as a collective, and some touching points with the restrictions and limitations that Covid-19 and some other unfortunate events brought into our lives, but most of all, it has to do with the fact that we are tired."
☀️🌴🌊☀️🌴🌊☀️🌴🌊☀️🌴🌊☀️🌴🌊☀️🌴🌊☀️🌴🌊
READ THE FULL ARTICLE:
👉 https://clusterduck.medium.com/wed-rather-be-offline-941a085197d1 👈

As the world we live in shifts from a raging pandemic to a post-vaccine new normal, Clusterduck collective is about to take some time off.

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