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https://www.inthenet.eu/2023/01/13/mitologie-digitali/"L’esposizione collettiva Mitologie Digitali, che nasce da una sel...
13/01/2023

https://www.inthenet.eu/2023/01/13/mitologie-digitali/

"L’esposizione collettiva Mitologie Digitali, che nasce da una selezione di una settantina di opere di artisti italiani e cinesi che hanno risposto alla call delle curatrici Silvia Vannacci e Lisha Liang, trova in questo contesto – essenziale, geometrizzante ma ricco di storia – la perfetta cornice per una serie di opere multimediali e videoartistiche su tematiche che ruotano intorno a paure ataviche e nevrosi tutte contemporanee – dal peso dell’immagine plastificata imperante all’eredità patriarcale non sradicabile dal singolo, dalla labilità dell’individuo nell’attuale società fluida allo spreco di alimenti in un mondo diseguale.

Le tecniche utilizzate sono molto diverse – dalla fotografia alla video-arte, dall’anime all’esperienza in 3D da fruire con il visore – così come il grado di interazione richiesto al visitatore che può immergersi in un’esperienza di realtà virtuale, fruire di un video, osservare una fotografia o cercare di modificare un’installazione interagendo con un semplice mouse.

Tra le 23 opere selezionate – tutte di ottimo livello sia tecnicamente sia per sublimazione artistica – alcune si hanno particolarmente colpiti per la loro qualità o per la ricchezza metaforica."

A beautiful review (in Italian) of Mitologie Digitali 数字神话 exhibition by Simona M. Frigerio and Luciano Uggè.

Meet the artist!Emiliano Zucchini’s research focuses on communication and on the image construction process via the anal...
20/12/2022

Meet the artist!

Emiliano Zucchini’s research focuses on communication and on the image construction process via the analysis of the means of communication themselves. In the early 2000s, he started investigating analogue devices, concentrating on the antenna, interference, and analogue photography. Since 2011, he has been carrying out a research on the latest frontiers of digital computer graphics, the web, and virtual reality.

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Mitologie Digitali. Exhibition view at Saletta Campolmi, Prato 2022The exhibition is on view till December 27. Come to v...
19/12/2022

Mitologie Digitali. Exhibition view at Saletta Campolmi, Prato 2022

The exhibition is on view till December 27. Come to visit us from Wednesday till Saturday from 4pm till 7pm and the 27th for the finissage.

Mitologie Digitali. Livia Ribichini. Exhibition view at Saletta Campolmi, Prato 2022The exhibition is on view till Decem...
19/12/2022

Mitologie Digitali. Livia Ribichini. Exhibition view at Saletta Campolmi, Prato 2022

The exhibition is on view till December 27. Come to visit us from Wednesday till Saturday from 4pm till 7pm and the 27th for the finissage.

Mitologie Digitali. Exhibition view. Prato, 2022The exhibition is on view till December 27. Come to visit us from Wednes...
19/12/2022

Mitologie Digitali. Exhibition view. Prato, 2022

The exhibition is on view till December 27. Come to visit us from Wednesday till Saturday from 4pm till 7pm and the 27th for the finissage.

Meet the artist!Zhang Hao is a net artist based in Shanghai. He uses web technologies to craft innovative front-end expe...
17/12/2022

Meet the artist!

Zhang Hao is a net artist based in Shanghai. He uses web technologies to craft innovative front-end experience in the post-internet era. His art work takes the form of the media installation where he combines video documentation, behaviors and other mediums together.

Working with physical and digital media, his work asks the questions that arise from the screen-based culture, exploring the mutual impact between human and networked technologies. His projects have recently focused on Anthropocene, digital humanity, cybernetics and the Internet. In 2021, he was awarded with the NoName Studio Residency program in Shanghai. In 2017, his work was exhibited at Ars electronica: Different AI.

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Meet the artist!Yu Xinhan is a visual artist, born in 1996, based in Bologna.He graduated in 2022 in Visual Arts from th...
17/12/2022

Meet the artist!

Yu Xinhan is a visual artist, born in 1996, based in Bologna.

He graduated in 2022 in Visual Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna. In his interventions, there is always a taste for spectacle, humour, and the grotesque, and his provocations resonate with Chinese youth. He hides irony and metaphors in his imaginary plot, flirting with the problems of new-age Chinese society in a crude but playful way.

The desire for revenge, the need to act, and the desire to circumvent a system that oppresses and inhibits are the motivations that stimulate his works. An artist of Chinese origin, he uses the different mediums as a tool for social criticism, a means to exhume a memory both personal and collective, of a reality that needs to be brought to light. His recent practice revolves around power structures and institutions of violence.

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Meet the artist!Xu Chenshuo. Fashion film director and digital artist he was born in Wenzhou, Zhejiang in 1997. Xu Chens...
17/12/2022

Meet the artist!

Xu Chenshuo. Fashion film director and digital artist he was born in Wenzhou, Zhejiang in 1997. Xu Chenshuo is a refined fashion storyteller. By combining fashion material research with digital installations he re-evaluates common male gender stereotypes; his work reflects issues that new masculinity and social interaction face in the post-digital era. His artworks stem from different cultural myths and religions and they deconstruct stereotypical male identities through new fashion narratives. He also uses modern perspective to examine ancient myths in combination with a variety of media to create the new masculinity of contemporary multiple myths. His video work premiered at 2022 NOWNESS / NOWNESS ASIA and was officially selected for the 2022 Berlin Fashion Film Festival and the 2022 London Fashion Film Festival.

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Meet the artist!Wu Leilei is a digital artist, born in 1997 in Zhejiang, now based in Milan.Her media include 3D-printed...
17/12/2022

Meet the artist!

Wu Leilei is a digital artist, born in 1997 in Zhejiang, now based in Milan.

Her media include 3D-printed objects, installations, experimental images, web art, and AI research. She draws inspiration from synthetic materials to develop a unique hybrid- form sculptural language and to disrupt material, social, computational, and metaphysical realities through provocation, collaboration, and “weird” / science-fictional thinking. Situated at the intersection of art and technology, her body of work questions the new technologies employed in production, reproduction, and distribution, with an emphasis on exploring the relationship between technology, history, and art.

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Meet the artist!Wang Wei’s work spans 3D digital art, sculptural installations, and easel paintings. Since the first yea...
16/12/2022

Meet the artist!

Wang Wei’s work spans 3D digital art, sculptural installations, and easel paintings. Since the first year of the cyberpunk revival in 2020, he has been creating new media and installation- based artworks with a sci-fi worldview.

The work focuses on the liberal and anti-utopian aspects of the future world of science fiction. Through different media and art forms, he presents the Z generation's vision of life and virtual worlds in the context of electronic pop culture and the big time, as well as reflecting on the current cultural disconnect and the changing relationship between technology and human beings themselves.

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Meet the artist!Tuan Mu is a digital artist, born in 1994. Currently active in Taipei. His creative prectice span across...
16/12/2022

Meet the artist!

Tuan Mu is a digital artist, born in 1994. Currently active in Taipei. His creative prectice span across VR, video installation, and oriental media. Earlier works were mainly ink wash paintings on paper.

More recently, Tuan Mu has begun to refer to the aesthetic and philosophical views of East Asian culture, trying to interpret through alternative viewpoints mankind’s perceptive states within the experience of technology, including the subject-object experience in VR and the virtual experience of the body. In addition to his personal creative context, he has also ventured into curatorial and interdisciplinary creative projects since 2019. His works have been exhibited in the "FutuRetro-Athens Digital Arts Festival", the "Asia Digital Art Exhibition" at the Beijing Times Art Museum, and "Framed: wormhole" in Taipei and Zurich.

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Contemporary Matters is a Shanghai based art platform specialized in contemporary art in China. Focusing on art curation, production and consultancy, we work hard to interpret the need for curatorial practices in China and to support the stunning Chinese art scene.

We're very young - just a bunch of months of intense activity, a couple of which spent in a covid19 self-quarantine! - but we have an extensive experience working with talented artists, museums, art fairs, galleries and non-profit spaces worldwide.

Enthusiasts about the contemporary art scene in China and abroad, we like to thing ourselves as connectors across the artistic and cultural scene of Shanghai. We are devoted to arts in all their forms and we enjoy sharing our knowledge by hosting or moderating talks and lessons, planning an exhibition, producing a performance or simply guiding a specialized art tour within the city.

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