Check the captured video of the installation on Second Life :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3zMgGMiUuw
"The First Poetry Shuttle Landing on Second Life", 5'45'', 2010
Concept, Virtual Installation SL & Video: Caterina Davinio
Collaboration: Riccardo Preziosi.
Music: Mirko Lalit Egger.
53. Venice Biennale - Eventi Collaterali
June 4 - November 22 2009.
Evento Collaterale MHO_Save the Poetry, Curators: Marco N. Rotelli, Fondazione Mare Nostrum.
Music: [Virtual Freedom] (c) by Mirko Lalit Egger (Mirko Kosmos aka Mahisha) MK Productions, Switzerland.
On the Centenary of Italian Futurism, on the 40. Anniversary of the First Lunar Landing,
The First Poetry Space Shuttle Landing on Second Life
Landing of the poets: July 20-21 2009.The poets have form of spheres and colorful prisms which donate a poem file. The guest book of the shuttle "Welcome on Board" contains more then 300 poems by authors from various continents, countries, and planets...
Stay tuned...
Link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3zMgGMiUuw
Caterina Davinio.
Born 1957. Multimedia artist, writer, poet. Pioneer of Italian digital art and computer poetry in 1990. Her work has been exhibited in many countries in more than 300 exhibitions, seven times in the Venice Biennale and Collateral Projects (1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2009, 2011), where she created participative events collaborating also as curator. Other exhibitions: Biennale of Sidney (Online Venue 2008), Athens Biennial (2007), Liverpool Biennial (Independents 2006 and 2008), Biennales de Lyon (1999, and Intern. Kiosk 2007), Biennale de Paris (2004), New media Art Biennial of Merida, Hong Kong Artists' Biennial, International Poetry Festival in Medellin. For extensive list see: http://xoomer.alice.it/cprezi/caterinadav.html
Caterina Davinio was a poet and painter in the 80s; in Rome she participated in poetry and performance meetings, getting in touch with the international circuits of the avant-garde. She creates video and digital art (still and animated), digital visual poetry, photography, performance, on line events. In 1998 she was the creator of Italian Net-poetry, a development of net-art related to multi-located experimental poetry events, based on line and in real spaces. Among her publications: Color color (novel, 1998), Techno-Poetry and Virtual Reality (It - Engl., essay, 2002, with preface by Eugenio Miccini), Serial Phenomenologies (poems, 210), Il libro dell'oppio (The Book of Opium, poems, 2012), Virtual Mercury House. Planetary & Interplanetary Events (texts and documents about electronic poetry, 2012).
Contact:
Davinio Art Electronics
Via Sassi 10
23900 Lecco (LC) ITALY
T: +39 0341 282712
e-mail davinio@tin.it
Dr Eugenia Fratzeskou