Silvio Lorusso
Silvio Lorusso (born 1985) is an Italian writer, artist, and designer. His work critically examines design culture, technology, digital platforms, and labor. He is the author of Entreprecariat (2019), a book on entrepreneurialism and precarious labor, and What Design Can’t Do (2023), which explores the limitations of the design profession.
Silvio Lorusso
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- Name
- Silvio Lorusso
- Born
- 1985
- Birthplace
- Altamura, Italy
- Field
- Contemporary Art, Design, Non-fiction Writing
- Training
- IUAV University of Venice and Politecnico di Bari
- Nationality
- Italy
- Occupation
- writer · university teacher · artist · design historian · designer
- Fields
- literary activity · design · art
- Languages
- Italian
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Silvio Lorusso (born 1985) is an Italian writer, artist, and designer. His work critically examines design culture, technology, digital platforms, and labor. He is the author of Entreprecariat (2019), a book on entrepreneurialism and precarious labor, and What Design Can’t Do (2023), which explores the limitations of the design profession.
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Biography
Biography
What Design Can’t Do was nominated among the best design books of 2023 by Fast Company and The Architect's Newspaper.
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Key facts
• Name — Silvio Lorusso • Born — 1985 • Birthplace — Altamura, Italy • Field — Contemporary Art, Design, Non-fiction Writing • Training — IUAV University of Venice and Politecnico di Bari • Notable Works — Kickended, Shouldn't You Be Working?, Five Years of Captured Captchas (with Sebastian Schmieg), 56 Broken Kindle Screens (with Sebastian Schmieg • Style — Conceptual artist • Website — https: silviolorusso.com/
Biography
Biography
Lorusso earned a Ph.D. in Design Sciences from Iuav University of Venice and serves as an assistant professor at Universidade Lusófona.
Work
Work
Lorusso's artistic and research practice includes projects such as Kickended and Shouldn't You Be Working?, which comment on digital culture and productivity. Lorusso also created the Post-Digital Publishing Archive, an online archive focused on works of experimental publishing informed by digital technology.
Books
• Paperback edition. Foreword by Geert Lovink. Afterword by Raffaele Alberto Ventura. • Paperback edition.
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- 1.Silvio Lorusso's 'Entreprecariat: Everyone is an entrepreneur. Nobody is Safe' (2019)- an interview by Floor van Luijk. Metropolis M.
- 2.Neural. Silvio Lorusso – What Design Can't Do: Essays on Design and Disillusion Neural. 2024-10-16.
- 3.Fuller, Jarrett. The Best Design Books of 2023. Fast Company. 2023-12-26.
- 4.AN collects a bevy of the best architecture-related books published in 2023. The Architect’s Newspaper. 2023-12-22.
- 5.Silvio Lorusso. Universidade Lusófona.
- 6.Google Scholar profile
- 7.Frizzell, Nell. Kickended: the enthralling world of crowdfunding flops. The Guardian. 2014-11-14. 0261-3077.
- 8.Swanson, Ana. Meet the Web site where start-up dreams go to die. The Washington Post. 2015-06-16. 0190-8286.
- 9.Shouldn't you be working? by Silvio Lorusso. www.roehrsboetsch.com.
- 10.Cartwright, James. P-DPA is a user generated archive of developments in digital publishing. It’s Nice That. 2015-04-24.
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