Caterina Davinio at FONLAD 6 2010 - COIMBRA, PORTUGAL - PORTO SANTO BIENNIAL
Fonlad #06\_2010, in partnership with the Porto Santo's Biennial,
will present Virtual Humanities, an exhibition of photography and digital painting, in Coimbra, at the Ícon Gallery.
The Opening Show - on May 1st 2010 10:00 PM -
will feature video from the digital performance&installation "The First
Poetry Space Shuttle Landing on Second Life"
by Caterina Davínio, who engaged in this work 231 international poets from around the world (event performed in world première at the Venice Biennale 2009 - collateral events).
See the video and read the complete list of participants:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3zMgGMiUuw (copy and paste in your browser) Music: Mirko Lalit Egger.
The exhibition Virtual Humanities is curated by José Vieira and Manuel
Pessôa-Lopes.
CREDITS
Artistic direction: José Vieira
http://www.iczero.org - http://www.teatrodoscastelos.org - http://www.fonlad.net
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
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