Mar 18, 2022Are data a new language?The development and evolution of human language is an extremely long and complex thing, which also is strictly related with the biological and morphological evolution of the homo species, but which — to this day — is not incontrovertibly ascertained and known. What we know for sure is that —…Data4 min readData4 min read
Feb 1, 2022Deframing or not?Although we have been living in the digital age for decades, this has not yet developed — and perhaps never will — its own original representation; the entire symbolic system, through which we interface with digital devices, refers to the analog, pre-digital world. …Vi̇deo7 min readVi̇deo7 min read
Aug 4, 2021The empire of signsFor several decades, the emergencies deriving from the anthropogenic impact on the planet have been well known, and there has been no lack of calls to slow down development, nor international commitments in this regard. However, most of the time, they simply turned out to be mere declarations of intent…AI7 min readAI7 min read
Jan 31, 2021The bison of AltamiraThe bison of Altamira When one of our ancestors drew the ‘portrait’ of a bison on the walls of a cave, it most likely responded to a double requirement, descriptive and symbolic. Unlike us, he probably felt that he himself was an ‘animal’, and he perceived himself as part of…Art5 min readArt5 min read
Mar 30, 2019Art in the era of bitsObviously there cannot be a profound connection between art and society, in which the communicative flow is bidirectional; more, they are interpenetrated one another, since the artist is part of society. Thus art can also be understood as a form through which society questions and responds itself, a modality of…Technology6 min readTechnology6 min read
Mar 7, 2019Female nounIt would be easy to dismiss it with a joke: video art is a feminine noun. And with this everything was said. But obviously the question is not so simple. During the previous five meetings, we talked about various issues that affect the world of video art, but not by…Art3 min readArt3 min read
Feb 5, 2019The festivals, a window on the worldWhen I launched myself in the adventure of organizing a video art festival fourteen years ago, it was at a turning point — even though I could not fully realize it at the time. The advent of the internet, in fact, made possible to communicate quickly with much part of the…Art3 min readArt3 min read
Jan 10, 2019Video art and music, an ancient liasonBetween video art and music, there is an ancient liason, indeed quite original. Long before they made their appearance the music video in the ’60s, and certainly well before they established themselves as a video genre in the’ 80s. Nam June Paik, father of video art, was in fact a…Music3 min readMusic3 min read
Dec 6, 2018On the sense of collecting video artThe peculiar nature of video art, linked as it is to an additional dimension — time — and therefore also to the need for special instrumentation to be able to use it, is certainly one of the reasons why the collecting of this form of art is, apparently, so little…Art5 min readArt5 min read
Nov 6, 2018“ The expanded image”This is the text of the introductory speech I gave to Macro (Museum of Contemporary Arts in Rome) on November 7, 2018, on the occasion of the second seminar meeting of the Macro-scopio cycle, on the theme “Videoart and exhibition space”, organized by Magmart, in collaboration with Pensiero Meridiano and…Art5 min readArt5 min read
