Eva & Franco Mattes

Eva & Franco Mattes (b. 1976) are an Italian-American conceptual artist duo known for their pioneering contributions to Net Art under the moniker 0100101110101101.org. Since the mid-1990s, they have developed works that blur reality and fiction through appropriated websites, staged media hoaxes, online interventions, and installations examining the ethics and politics of digital life, often with dark humour.

The duo’s projects address questions of authenticity, surveillance, authorship, and the cultural impact of the internet. In Life Sharing, they publicly exposed the contents of a personal computer in real time, while Biennale.py, presented at the 49th Venice Biennale in 2001, took the form of a computer virus released as an art intervention in collaboration with the hacker group epidemiC. Later works engage extensively with internet memes as both subject and material, translating online culture into physical forms, including the LOLcat sculptures.

Their current exhibition RAGE BAIT, presented by Autotelic Foundation, is on view in Venice during the 61st Venice Biennale from 6 May to 30 June 2026.