Alberto Frigo

Alberto Frigo
Born	1979 (age 37–38) Asiago, Italy
Known for	Photographing all objects used by his right hand
Website	www.2004-2040.com

Alberto Frigo (born 21 July 1979 in Asiago) is regarded as an early proponent of lifelogging. He is known for having photographed every object his right hand has used since the 24th September 2003. Continuously documenting 18 aspects of his life, Frigo intends to create a Rosetta Stone of time to be concluded at 60 years of age, in 2040, after 36 years. The most extreme example of self-tracking, Frigo is the only known person to have digitally documented his life manually and for over thirteen years.

In this respect, Frigo started lifelogging months earlier than the father of lifelogging Gordon Bell, who started wearing his camera only in 2004. Frigo's life project however differs from lifelogging, Quantified Self and other forms of self-tracking practices using sensors and algorithms to reduce the users' effort. Using no automation, Frigo solely relies on his human faculties to document his life and to communicate it on-line at his own web site.

Within Conceptual art and New media art, Frigo's 36 years long project is a primary example of database aesthetics, personal archives and surveillance art practices. Academically, he has coined the term life-stowing both as a theoretical as well as a methodological approach to Media studies and a practice relating to Stoicism.

Alberto Frigo was born in the Italian alps among the . His mother side of the family were landowners in Santa Rita do Passa Quatro in Brazil, but lost their properties while in Europe during World War I. During World War II Frigo's paternal grandfather was part of the Operation Barbarossa in Russia and was one of the few survivals along with his cousin, the Italian neo-realist writer Mario Rigoni Stern. In 1943 Frigo's grandfather was put in Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany while his great grandfather died in Tatura concentration camp in Australia.

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