Press Release
Seppukoo.com (2009) is no longer active. This page documents the project through its official press materials, the international press coverage, the academic literature and the interviews released by Les Liens Invisibles.
Press releases and documents
- Seppukoo - Viral suicide goes pandemic! - Press release, 25 November 2009 (PDF)
- Press release [eng] (RTF) - Press release [ita] (RTF)
- Seppukoo @ Torino SHARE Festival '09 - November 2009 (PDF)
- Seppukoo keeps challenging Facebook and starts the DIY suicidal campaign - Press release, 17 December 2009
- Facebook cease and desist letter - 16 December 2009 (PDF)
- Les Liens Invisibles reply to Facebook - 22 December 2009 (PDF)
- Seppukoo Chronicles - timeline of the events, October-December 2009
Press review
Newspapers, magazines, news agencies and blogs, in chronological order.
Papers and books
| Year | Author | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Tatiana Bazzichelli | Per una letteratura della partecipazione, preface to Mario Gerosa (ed.), Parla come navighi. Antologia della webletteratura italiana - Edizioni Il Foglio | Book chapter |
| 2011 | Tero Karppi | Digital Suicide and the Biopolitics of Leaving Facebook - Transformations, no. 20 | Journal article |
| 2013 | Simona Lodi | Illegal Art and Other Stories About Social Media, in Geert Lovink, Miriam Rasch (eds.), Unlike Us Reader. Social Media Monopolies and Their Alternatives - Institute of Network Cultures | Book chapter |
| 2013 | Tatiana Bazzichelli | Networked Disruption. Rethinking Oppositions in Art, Hacktivism and the Business of Social Networking - DARC Press, Aarhus University | Book |
| 2014 | Tero Karppi | Disconnect.Me: User Engagement and Facebook - University of Turku, Annales Universitatis Turkuensis B 376 | PhD dissertation |
| 2018 | Tero Karppi | Disconnect: Facebook's Affective Bonds, chapter "Deactivate" - University of Minnesota Press | Book |
| 2020 | Simonetta Fadda | Media e arte. Dalle caverne dipinte agli ologrammi cantanti - FrancoAngeli | Book |
Interviews
Answers given by Les Liens Invisibles to journalists and researchers.
- Interview Libération - December 2009 (PDF)
- Interview Le Monde - December 2009 (PDF)
- Risposte per SNAFU - La Repubblica.it - January 2010 (PDF, ita)
- Intervista ArtsBlog (PDF, ita)
- Interview FOX News (PDF)
- Domande di Sabrina Zorzan: Seppukoo, Transmediale e varie - 2011 (PDF, ita)
Press Area
General Contacts
Please, refer to the following contact forms to get in touch with the authors of Seppukoo.
Hi-res Images
- Download a .zip file containing all preview images
- Download Seppukoo logo (red on white)
- Download Seppukoo logo (white on red)
About the authors
Les Liens invisibles (www.lesliensinvisibles.org) is an imaginary art-group from Italy. It is comprised of media artists Clemente Pestelli and Gionatan Quintini, whose aproach focuses on the invisible links between the infosphere, neural synapsis, and real life.
Recent works deal with social media as artistic environment to inhabit, explore and transform: starting from the flickr-clone Subvertr.com (2006) to the A Fake is a Fake project passing through the nonsense map representations of Google is not the map, Les Liens Invisibles mixes contemporary net pop culture with new media criticism.
Partners
Graphic design and communications has been developed and curated by Parcodiyellowstone.
Parcodiyellowstone is an italian design duo based in Rotterdam.
Born
in love with graphic design they are combining their passion with open
source culture, new media and design ethics. Through different
perspectives on communication they make graphic design meeting crafts
and programming, using ad-hoc means and tools.
At the same time their research deals with new social dynamics, influenced by global changes and the internet phenomenon.
Credits
Please, visit the dedicated page to get the credits list