![]() MARINA ABRAMOVICFrom the very get-go, Marina Abramović opted to use her own body as the object of her art, testing the limits of mental and physical endurance. Her performances and video installations aim at exploring the capabilities and boundaries of resistance: the body is the object and subject of her studies,... THE BIOGRAPHY |
![]() RYOICHI KUROKAWAWinner of the Ars Electronica Golden Nica award for Digital Music and Sound Art, the installation rheo: 5 horizons by Ryoichi Kurokawa could be defined as a temporal audiovisual sculpture which runs on an 8-minute loop. Composed of five vertical monitors and five speakers, rheo: 5 horizons fuses HD ... RHEO: 5 HORIZONS |
![]() GIUSEPPE LA SPADAVisual artist, photographer, and designer, Giuseppe La Spada organized a flash mob this year in Milan with 600 people who gave shape to an enormous human tree, clear confirmation of the artist’s commitment to environmental causes. He was born in Sicily but has long resided in Lombardy’s ... AFLEUR |
![]() CHRISTIAN MARCLAYVisual artist and musician, Christian Marclay should be considered a virtuoso of collages utilizing sound, noise, cinema, photography, and other forms. Even in the 70s, long before the era of hip hop and DJs, he used turntables as musical instruments to create sounds and beats through heterodox mani... 80 EAST 11TH STREET |
![]() MASBEDOThe installation presented by Masbedo embraces many of the paths this duo has embarked upon during their artistic career: video, photography, theatrical performances, and documentaries. Beachy Head, in East Sussex, Great Britain, is a nature reserve famous for its white cliffs, rising as high as 16... SERENDIPITY |
![]() QUAYOLAStratas,a project that came to life in 2007, consists of a series of films, prints, and installations: this term defines a geological formation constructed of multiple layers of rock; which correspond to various eras. The title of this cycle by Quayola refers to the idea of relative time, a powerful... STRATA #4 |
![]() CARSTEN NICOLAIIn his work as a visual artist, characterized by the presence of light, space, and sound, Carsten Nicolai, known as a musician under the alias Alva Noto, works with technology in an intense and scientific manner. These characteristics find synthesis in Aoyama Space, which Nicolai himself defines as ... AOYAMA SPACE |
![]() DANIELE SPANO'With the title Safety distance, Daniele Spanò offers us a musing on distance/nearness with emblematic values and serious social implications. The video installation is presented as a dramatic event of an unknown nature, represented by a white light and electronic pulsations: virtual and real ... SAFETY DISTANCE |
![]() SABURO TESHIGAWARAWith Double District, Saburo Teshigawara, visual artist, choreographer, and dancer, demonstrates an all-absorbing approach to technology, which is used to create a separate universe where performing art and installation meld together. The title lends itself to numerous emblematic references: accordi... DOUBLE DISTRICT |
![]() FELIX THORNExtravagant music-making sculptures, that’s what Felix’s Machines are: various types of percussion instruments and idiophones are mounted together, mechanically activated, and rhythmically illuminated by small LED lights. At first glance, Felix Thorn’s works hardly seem assimilable... FELIX MACHINES |
![]() DEVIS VENTURELLIDevis Venturelli, whose Lezioni di tiro won the third edition of Romaeuropa Webfactory for video art, is represented in Digital Life 2 by his second work: Superfici fonetiche. This gives us insight into the various facets of this emerging artist, born in Romagna but living and working in Milan where... LEZIONI DI TIRO | SUPERFICI FONETICHE |
![]() SANTASANGRE + THE POOL FACTORYThe collaboration between Santasangre and The Pool Factory accentuates how two worlds related to cinema, performances, dance and theater, can veer toward a visual work which has no ties to the performing arts, as with Progetto abLimen. Nevertheless, protagonists exist, but they’re unaware and ... CO-NECT # 1 | abLimen |
![]() CATTIDFrom within the interaction design laboratories of CATTID (Centro per le Applicazioni della Televisione e delle Tecniche di Istruzione a Distanza) at Università La Sapienza in Rome, arises The Future Mood, an innovative project which aims to represent the mood of Italians in a dynamic and int... CO-NECT # 3 | THE FUTURE MOOD |
![]() BCAAThe systems developed by BCAA find an opportune implementation in the world of performing arts thanks to their refined interaction between machine and performer, be it a dancer, actor, musician, and so on. In particular, the Kilyka system created by BCAA has proven to be very versatile, for example ... CO-NECT # 2 | 3DOM, The Ge-Dhir journey |
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