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10 and 12 December 2024
Online on Zoom
3pm — 5pm (CET)
about
The course, curated by Valentino Catricalà, focuses on the relationship between art and innovation, on how artists, using media that are changing our societies, not only open up new reflections on media but also create new practices that impact the world of innovation.
Therefore, the point of interest of the research is not only how the world of art can develop through technology but also how the world of innovation can benefit from the relationship with artists.
These issues will be developed through case studies with a focus on artists who use databases and archives, to understand how archives reinterpreted by artists can be a source of technological innovation. In the second lesson, the artist Donato Piccolo will discuss the poetics of his creative process and the ongoing dialogue between science, technology and art in his work.
The course will be held in Italian.
lecturers
Valentino Catricalà
He is curator and museum director. He has been founder and artistic director of MODAL Gallery at SODA in Manchester and lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is currently involved in a big new project in Saudi Arabia. He has curated exhibitions in important Museum and Galleries such as Fondazione Prada (Milan, Tokyo), Minnesota Street Project (San Francisco), Ermitage (Saint Petersburg), MAXXI (Rome), ADI Design Museum (Milan), Museo Riso (Palermo), Media Center (New York), Istituto Italiano di Cultura Nuova Delhi, Ca’ Foscari (Venice).
Donato Piccolo
His art investigates natural, physical and biological phenomena through design drawings and technological and mechanical installations. Through the study of human cognitive faculties, his art analyses the perceptive aspects of the natural world. Most of his works combine two complementary aspects: they are sculptures and machines, forms and processes at the same time. This hybrid character constitutes the very nature of a “holistic art”: an art whose essential function is to explore “the incomprehensible mystery of the visible world”. He is an acclaimed Italian artist on the international stage and his creations have been showcased in prominent museums and institutions worldwide.
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