Since 2004 Alberto Frigo has embarked on a life-project to document multiple aspects of his life and surroundings. Every day he keeps track of his actions by photographing the objects he uses, he writes his dreams down, the songs he hears, his thoughts, the places he visits, the people he meets, the trash he finds and the weather he experiences.

The result is one of the most detailed record of a human being. Unlike all other life-logging attempts that were discarded by big corporations, this project has managed to continue through the years by keeping low-key and by avoiding any complicated technologies, focusing on a manual and curated self-documenting approach.

Moreover the project presents Frigo's self-analysis which ultimately led him to consider his project a lifeboat on board of a ship. As the later forces humanity simultaneously into a spaceship and a battleship, Frigo with his lifeboat longs to reconnect his humanity and that of others back to nature and a more ecological and mindful living.

Lastly Frigo came up with the term arkism to conceptualize about his artistic practice as well as that of other marginal arkists creating arks of their realities. While many of his thoughts on the subject can be read in his essays and his lectures of his open-data project, two books on the subject are being edited, one focusing on the theory and one focusing on the practice.

Along with stowing the content inside his ark-lifeboat, Frigo has been enganged in actually building one. On the side of Novegno Mount he has built a 25 foot tall iron cube. A cube was in fact the the pre-blibical ark of Utnapishtim and Frigo has realized one made of 15.552 welded iron pixels, each pixel corresponding to a month production of each work (432 months in 36 years multiplied 36 projects) The resulting pattern encodes the formulas behind each of the 36 works.

Beyond a mere time-capsule or black-box of our troubled times, Frigo's cube is a Rosetta stone in which visitors can compare different languages of time and come up with a new interpretation. This generative work result from Frigo's fascination with the ancient combinatorial arts as more inventive and syncrethic forms of knowledge productions and with the trends of using such methods in contemporary literature (O.U.L.I.P.O.) and advant-garde cinema (Dziga Vertov).

To start navigating the ark press one of the 36 icons below representing one of Frigo's on-going works. Each work is divided in 12 different sections making up the 432 month productions of the 36 project. Each tag will lead to a description of each production from where it can be viewed. By pressing the question mark is it possible to read about each specific work.