Category: Video
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Interview with Oriana Persico
Oriana Persico is an artist, cyber-ecologist, and director of the research center HER she Loves Data, she explores the relationship between humans, technology, and society by investigating data as cultural phenomena that make us sensitive to complexity and the environment. Her latest work, “pneumOS. The Knowkedge of the Air is Open Source” was exhibited at…
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Interview with Alessandro Quaranta
Alessandro Quaranta is a videoartist born in Turin in 1975. He currently teaches in the Multimedia Department at the Accademia di Belle Arti Giacomo Carrara of Bergamo (IT). His work has been shown at CAIRN Centre d’art (Digne-les-Bains, FR), at the Musée Gassendi (Digne-les-Bains, FR) in 2019 ; at GAM (Museum of Modern Art…
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Interview with Elena Giulia Rossi
Elena Giulia Rossi lives and works in Rome as a researcher, a Professor of Theories of Multimedia Arts, and Editorial Director of the online editorial platform Arshake. Reinventing Technology. After living, studying and working in Chicago for three years (1999-2002), she returned to Italy to further her research in contemporary art, where her…
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Interview with Živa Ljubec
Prior to taking up her current post as Innovation Director with a robotics company, Dr. Živa Ljubec was senior lecturer at SIVA – Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts, where she taught cybernetics and other subjects as well as coordinated the Advanced Degree Course in Technoetic Arts, founded by Roy Ascott, who was also her…
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Interview with Kerstin Borchhardt
Kerstin Borchhardt is an Associate Professor at the Institute of History and Theory of Art at Catholic Private University Linz. She has worked as a postdoc and lecturer at several German Universities and was a cooperating partner at UNAM in Mexico City. Her research interests include hybrid creatures, posthumanism, and the relationship of art, science,…
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Interview with Claudia Schnugg
Dr. Claudia Schnugg is artscience scholar and curator. She holds a PhD in social and economic sciences with an additional focus on cultural sciences and media arts. Her ongoing practice in the field of art and science is twofold: as scholar she is researching artscience collaborations, investigating effects and impact of such art-science…
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Interview with Gabriele Romeo
Gabriele Romeo was born in Palermo in 1983. He has a bachelor’s degree in Science and Technology of the arts at the University of Palermo and a graduate degree in History of Art (with a specialization address on contemporary art) at the University of Bologna. He followed a course of curatorship at the…
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Interview with Jeremy Hight
Jeremy Hight is an artist, writer, theorist and sometimes digital curator. He created the field of Locative Narrative in 2002 with the collaborative project 34 North 118 West. His collaborative digital poetics work Carrizo Parkfield Diaries is in the permanent digital collection of the Whitney museum in New York. He is the author of…
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Interview with Jatun Risba
Jatun Risba (‘ki’) is an artist of self, linguist of kinship and joker exploring beyond human paradigms. By approaching Art, Science, Technology in terms of ritual mysticism, ki recovers poetry and magic in contemporary societies. Since 2014 Risba has been developing the practice of ‘interesse’ (Dance of Life) which consists of liminal somatic &…
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Interview with Giada Totaro
Giada Totaro is a new media artist and innovative didactic expert. Between 2002 and 2015 she graduated in “Theatre Direction” and “Cinema, TV and Multimedia Production” at the University of Roma Tre, the first level master “Digital Environment Design” at NABA in Milan, and the second level Diploma at the School of New Technologies…
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Interview with Marta de Menezes
Marta de Menezes is a Portuguese artist (b. Lisbon, 1975) with a degree in Fine Arts by the University in Lisbon, a MSt in History of Art and Visual Culture by the University of Oxford, and a PhD candidate at the University of Leiden. She has been exploring the intersection between Art and Biology,…
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Interview with Dalila Honorato
Dalila Honorato, Ph.D, is a facilitator of safe spaces for hosting the interaction of ideas around liminal issues in the frame of Art&Sci. Her research focus is on embodiment, monstrosity, the uncanny and the acrobatic balance between phobia and paraphilia. She is Tenured Assistant Professor in Aesthetics and Visual Semiotics at the Ionian University, Greece,…
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Interview with Adam Zaretsky
Adam Zaretsky is a Wet-Lab Art Practitioner mixing Ecology, Biotechnology, Non-human Relations, Body Performance and Gastronomy. Zaretsky stages lively, hands-on bioart production labs based on topics such as: foreign species invasion (pure/impure), radical food science (edible/inedible), jazz bioinformatics (code/flesh), tissue culture (undead/semi-alive), transgenic design issues (traits/desires), interactive ethology (person/machine/non-human) and physiology (performance/stress).
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Interview with Jadwiga Charzyńska
Since 2004 she has been the director of Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art. Before that, she worked at the National Museum in Gdansk. She started her managerial career already as a student, organizing art projects, which subsequently allowed her to obtain an extra degree in culture management.
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Interview with Delma Rodriguez
Who’s Delma? A woman does many things That was the dialogue between two engineers, more than ten years ago to explain Delma’s role as someone who interacts and creates projects and activities on interinstitutional modalities through art, science, technology and society fields. Specifically, the anecdote refers to InfoArt project, created and coordinated by her, as…
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Interview with Olga Kisseleva
Olga Kisseleva was born in Saint Petersburg in 1965. She is Professor the Sorbonne University in Paris and Head of Art&Science International Institute. Her art works hover between science and art and consistently challenges the viewer to rethink accepted notions about the world around us. Graduated from the Vera Mukhina Institute of Industrial Art…
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Interview with Anna Dumitriu
Anna Dumitriu is a British artist whose work fuses craft, technology and bioscience to weave complex narratives around our relationship to infectious disease and its cultural and personal implications. She works hands-on with the tools and techniques of microbiology and synthetic biology to create intricate artworks that reveal strange histories and emerging futures. Her obsessions…
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Interview with Luz María Sánchez
Luz María Sánchez is a transdisciplinary artist, researcher, and academic. She holds a Doctorate in Art from the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona and is an Art Member of the National System of Art Creators (2015-2018) and a Member of the National System of Researchers (2019-2021). She also serves as Chair of the Department of Arts…
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Interview with Danielle Siembieda
Danielle Siembieda is the Managing Director of Leonardo/The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology (Leonardo/ISAST). Siembieda brings over 15-years of experience in community development and strategic communications. As an active leader in the art, science, and technology community, she has served on the board of the Women Eco Art Dialogue and Emerging…
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Interview with Freddy Paul Grunert
Freddy Paul Grunert is an artist and associate curator at ZKM, Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, a research centre and museum that specialises in the study of information technology and its social and cultural repercussions, where he curated among other things, the anthology Francesco Lo Savio – Tano Festa. The Lack of the Other. Grunert studied philosophy and…
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Interview with Bruno D’Amore
Italiano [English below] Bruno D’Amore è stato professore ordinario di didattica della matematica per oltre 40 anni presso l’università di Bologna, attualmente insegna e dirige tesi nel dottorato di ricerca in didattica della matematica di un’università a Bogotà (Colombia), dove vive. Ha tre lauree e due dottorati di ricerca, uno dei quali honoris causa. È…
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Interview with Elif Ayiter
Elif Ayiter, aka. Alpha Auer. I was trained as a graphic designer, and worked for many years in the graphic design industry as an art director; after which I switched to academia. Nowadays, I teach full time at Sabancı University, Istanbul. My areas of instruction are graphic design, art and computing, theory of creative practice,…
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Interview with Luis Miguel Girão
Luis Miguel Girão founder of Artshare, the NATO Art Expert, is a researcher generating support for EU and Transatlantic policy making in the field of the crossings of art, science and technology. He is a transdisciplinary artist developing applications of technology as tools for artistic expression focusing at the moment on bioelectromagnetism. He is…
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Interview with Roberta Buiani
Roberta Buiani is an interdisciplinary artist, media scholar and curator based in Toronto. She is the co-founder of the ArtSci Salon at the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences (Toronto) and a co-organizer of LASER Toronto. Her work explores how scientific and technological mechanisms translate, encode and transform the natural and human world, and…
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Interview with Bill Seaman
Seaman’s work often employs an expanded media-oriented poetics through various technological means— Recombinant Poetics. Such works often explore the combination and recombination of media elements and processes in interactive and generative works of art. Seaman enfolds image/music/text relations in these works, often creating all of the media elements and articulating the operative media-processes involved.…
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Interview with Roger Malina
Roger Malina is an art-science researcher, astronomer and editor. Distinguished Professor of Arts and Technology and Professor of Physics at the University of Texas, Dallas. He directs the ArtScilab which develops art-science collaborations that lead both to scientific discoveries and intense contemporary art works. The Lab runs initiatives in Experimental Publishing with MIT press…
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Interview with Pavel Smetana
Pavel Smetana was born in Ústí nad Labem, Bohemia. From 1979-1982 he studied at the Arts and Crafts School in the Prague Žižkov neighborhood. He was not accepted to the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague because of political reasons, which was one of the reasons why he decided to leave for France…
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Interview with Christa Sommerer
Christa Sommerer studied Biology and Botany (1982-85), followed by Art Education and Art Study in Modern Sculpture (1985-90) in Vienna, Austria. She concluded her post graduate study at the Staedelschule Institut for New Media, Frankfurt (1993-94). Subsequently, Christa Sommerer was an artist-in-resident at the NCSA National Center for Supercomputing Application, Beckman Institute (US) and at…
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Interview with Annick Bureaud
Annick Bureaud is an independent art critic, curator and event organiser, researcher and teacher in art and technosciences. She is the director of Leonardo/Olats, European sister organisation to Leonardo/Isast. She is a co-founding member of the Collectif Nunc. She wrote numerous articles and contribute to the French contemporary art magazine Art Press. She is the co-editor of the collection of essays Connexions…
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Interview with Leonel Moura
Leonel Moura (1948) is a European artist born in Lisbon, Portugal, that works with AI and robotics. He created in 2003 his first swarm of ‘Painting Robots’, able to produce original artworks based on emergent behavior. Since then he has produced several artbots, each time more autonomous and sophisticated. RAP (Robotic Action Painter), 2006, created…
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Interview with Nina Czegledy
An independent media artist, curator and writer, Nina Czegledy divides her time between Canada and Europe, living in Budapest and Toronto. Czegledy is of Hungarian origin and spends a great deal of time in Budapest and within Eastern Europe facilitating exchange between media art organizations and artists in Canada and throughout the rest of Europe.…
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Interview with Alberto Abruzzese
[ITA – English below] Alberto Abruzzese è un sociologo, scrittore e saggista italiano. Ha insegnato presso l’Università IULM di Milano (dove è stato Prorettore per l’Innovazione Tecnologica e le Relazioni Internazionali, Direttore dell’Istituto di Comunicazione e Preside della Facoltà di Turismo, Eventi e Territorio); presso l’Università “La Sapienza” di Roma, Corso di laurea in scienze…
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Interview with Stelarc
Stelarc is a performance artist who has visually probed and acoustically amplified his body. He has made three films of the inside of his body. Between 1976-1988 he completed 25 body suspension performances with hooks into the skin. He has used medical instruments, prosthetics, robotics, Virtual Reality systems, the Internet and biotechnology to explore alternate,…
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Interview with Franco Torriani
[ITA] Franco Torriani (Torino, 1942) laureato in Economia all’Università di Torino è consulente nei campi dell’economia e della comunicazione in vari Paesi europei e in altri Continenti. Negli anni ‘70 inizia una ricerca sui rapporti fra arti, scienze e tecnologie partecipando a eventi e produzioni di rilievo e collaborando a diverse pubblicazioni. La sua pratica,…
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Interview with Giorgio Cipolletta
[ITA – English below] Giorgio Cipolletta si è laureato in Editoria e comunicazione multimediale presso l’Università di Macerata, dove nel 2012 ha conseguito un dottorato di ricerca in Teoria dell’Informazione e della Comunicazione. Attualmente è professore a contratto per il Laboratorio di Arte Visuale e della tecnologia. Inoltre è cultore della materia per la cattedra di…
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Interview with Margarete Jahrmann
Margarete Jahrmann is an artist, curator and researcher in activism, urban play & arts with an international record of exhibitions and conferences. Jahrmann has received major media arts awards, such as the distinction in interactive arts, PrixArsElectronica 2003 and the software arts award, Transmediale, Berlin 2004. Since 2006 she is Professor for Game Design at…
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Interview with Laura Beloff
Laura Beloff is an internationally acclaimed artist who has been actively producing works and exhibiting worldwide in museums, galleries and art events since the 1990’s. During recent years: 2013 in Finland, Norway, and Brussels, Hamburg and in Helsinki in 2012, in Vienna 2011, in Brazil 2008 and at the Venice Biennale 2007. Beloff has…
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Interview with Derrick de Kerckhove
[ITA – English below] Derrick de Kerckhove è stato un associato del Centro per la Cultura e la Tecnologia dal 1972 al 1980 e ha lavorato con Marshall McLuhan per oltre 10 anni come traduttore, assistente e co-autore. È stato direttore del Programma McLuhan in Cultura e Tecnologia, autore de La pelle della…
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Interview with Massimiliano Viel
[ITA – English below] Massimiliano Viel è compositore, musicista e ricercatore. Ha collaborato con ensemble, orchestre, teatri e con compositori come K.Stockhausen e L.Berio, in concerti, eventi e tour europei ed extraeuropei. Oltre alla realizzazione di partiture per strumenti acustici ed elettronici, dallo strumento solista alla grande orchestra, si è interessato alla relazione…
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Interview with Tommaso Maggio
[ITA – English below] Breve bio. Tommaso Maggio è Design Consultancy e dottorando presso T-Node, Planetary Collegium, Plymouth University, Inghilterra. Recentemente rientrato in Italia, ha vissuto circa cinque anni a Bangkok, in Thailandia dove è stato docente di Design per il corso di Laurea in Communication Design presso la facoltà di Architettura di…
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Interview with Jaromil
[ITA – English below] Breve bio. Denis Roio, meglio conosciuto come Jaromil, è uno sviluppatore di software, attivista e artista, fondatore di Dyne.org. Per più di dieci anni i suoi lavori hanno riguardato virus per computer, pirateria, libertà di parola, privacy e media indipendenti. Le creazioni software di Jaromil sono raccomandate dalla Free…
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Interview with Giacomo Verde
[ITA – English below] Breve bio. Giacomo Verde, come lui si definisce, è un teknoartista. Diplomato all’Istituto d’Arte di Firenze, oggi vive a Lucca ma “lavora nel mondo”. L’operato di Giacomo Verde non è limitato a un genere o a una tipologia artistica; essa si caratterizza proprio per la contaminazione e l’attraversamento di…
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Something about the future
[ITA – English below]. Un ciclo di conferenze è un evento culturale che consente di ampliare i propri orizzonti conoscitivi, ciò grazie al fatto che apre nuove discussioni o solo perché può fornire nuove informazioni agli ascoltatori. Tale circostanza rappresenta anche un’occasione per incontrare personalità interessanti che possono illuminarci con le loro riflessioni…
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Interview with Marco Aime
[ITA – English below] Breve bio. Marco Aime, nato a Torino nel 1956, è un antropologo e docente di Antropologia Culturale presso l’Università di Genova. Ha condotto ricerche sul campo, occupandosi delle differenti etnie in Benin, Burkina, Faso e Mali. Dopo aver indagato su semisconosciute etnie, la sua attenzione nei confronti del diverso…