professional creative guy
Experienced, reliable, serious. Problem solver, optimizer. Good organizer and activator of synergies.
Affable. Authentic, hearty, available. Inquiring, creative, dynamic. Resilienced. Decisive. Accurate.
Open to new points of view.
I love doing my job with concentration, but always available at a moment of levity.
I love art, cinema, and everything that concerne with the image. Even television!
I'm a great reader, a traveler but never a tourist.
My home is everywhere lives beauty.
on art & design, obviously...
roughly...
I worked in the organizing team of the project
I was one of the designers of the course
I taught Theory of the Image and Photography Language for the course
I realized and conducted, on behalf of Manuali.net, the online course
I cared for the look and feel in the Laboratory of Journalism organized by the Municipality of Amalfi, within the Project
I teach web design & development at a webdesigners course, at
I work like Mapping Lab expert, within the project La Grande Bellezza (financed by EU) for
graphic & web designer, and web developer
I worked for many years as a freelance, first in Palermo and then in Rome, where I was also Art Director of an advertising agency, which had among its clients companies such as SNIA (Fiat group), the Italian Space Agency and Efibanca.
Throughout the years, I designed the entire corporate image of the environmental association KRONOS 1991, and the entire graphic-editorial plant of the newspaper il Mezzogiorno.
I collaborated with agencies A.K.A., Blustudio Sviluppi, Milagro Adv, 6Power, Making, ToDay Communication, Mediterraneo, Estro, Jiolahy, Shake-Up and Artemisia Comunicazione.
web showreel
logo showreel
Clients
Among the major companies that I have realized design projects:
AVIO INTERIORS (seats and interiors for aviation)
BRASITAL (import of Brazilian foodstuffs)
EDIZIONI QUASAR (publisher)
C.I.S.I. (Coordination Italian Space Industries)
EFIBANCA (merchant banking)
ELTCOM (electronic warfare)
E.P.I.N. (agency promoting shipbuilding)
GILARDINI group (military industries FIAT group)
I.P.C. (shopper)
KRONOS 1991 (environmental association)
MINISTERO per il COORDINAMENTO delle INIZIATIVE per la RICERCA SCIENTIFICA e TECNOLOGICA (Government)
IL MEZZOGIORNO (newspaper)
R.I.T.A.D. (grouping advanced technology industries)
RESIDENZA DI RIPETTA (residence in Rome)
SNIA-BPD (military industry)
SNIA ENGINEERING (chemical and textile industry)
CAFFÉ TRUCILLO (coffee production)
GENESI SIM (financial operator)
GRAFICHE PONTICELLI (printing company)
NTV (local broadcast television)
UNIVERSITÁ DEGLI STUDI DI SALERNO (University)
FEDERFIORI (national association florists)
PNUD (UN cooperation project)
CERAMICHE ARCEA (ceramics company)
AUTOMOBIL CLUB SALERNO
AD HOC (job center)
VETRIDEA (stained glass industry)
SOVRINTENDENZA BAPPSAD (artistic and cultural heritage - Salerno / Avellino)
MEGARA (quality certifications and e-learning)
CANTIERI VISIVI (film commission - Salerno)
TIMPANI & TEMPURA (catering and gourmet)
HARLEY DAVIDSON (local dealer Naples)
ALMET (metalworking)
ALIMENCO (foods)
TRAVELLERO (tour operator)
and many others...
I designed and developed websites and multimedia products for:
MAGMART (PHP, JQuery)
ROSSELLA CANCIELLO (PHP, JQuery)
LUCA CANCIELLO (PHP, JQuery)
VIDEOWORDS (PHP, JQuery)
SLIDEDOOR (PHP, JQuery)
MAGMART (PHP, JQuery)
SGUARDI BASSI (PHP)
JATTA FURESTA (PHP, JQuery)
BODIES (PHP, JQuery)
ISCHIA TOP HOTEL (PHP, JQuery)
SGUARDI BASSI (HTML)
VIVO PRODUCTS (HTML, PHP, JQuery)
CITY OS (HTML, JQuery)
SILVANA SFERZA (HTML, JQuery)
FOODS PROJECT (HTML)
ANTONIO SIMONETTI (JQuery, PHP)
STUDIO LEGALE MARTUCCI-SCHISA (HTML, PHP)
F.I.V.E. PROJECT (JQuery, PHP)
PUBBLI-PROMO (PHP)
100X100=900 PROJECT (JQuery, PHP)
COMPAGNIA MUSELLA/MAZZARELLI (AJAX,PHP)
SILVANA SFERZA (PHP)
FONDERIA ARTISTICA RUOCCO (FALSH, PHP)
TIKI (PHP)
COFIM (PHP)
ALIMENCO (PHP)
RINO TREVES (PHP)
E-MERGING THOUGHT PROCESS (HTML)
MACCHIAROLI & PARTNERS (Flash, PHP)
ISCHIA TOP HOTEL (AJAX, PHP)
MARLAWOTI (PHP)
IISS SCOTELLARO (PHP)
ALMET (Flash,PHP)
VILLA GERVASIO (Flash, PHP)
COMPASSES (PHP)
SHAVIS.COM (AJAX, PHP)
VIAWEBINSTITUTE (Flash, PHP)
ENRICO CARIA (HTML)
MAGMART (AJAX, PHP)
TIMPANI E TEMPURA (Flash, PHP)
MEGARA (Flash, PHP)
CANTIERI VISIVI (Flash, PHP)
CERTIFICAZIONI (Flash)
BLUSTUDIO SVILUPPI (Flash)
LONGOBARDI DEL SUD (Flash)
VETRIDEA (PHP)
VIAPERVIA (PHP)
MARRIEDINITALY (Flash, PHP)
ADHOC SPA (Flash, PHP)
ASSOCIAZIONE MAGMA (Flash)
CERAMICHE ARCEA (HTML)
DARIO JACOBELLI (HTML)
PNUD (HTML)
FEDERFIORI (PHP)
SAU STUDI (Flash, PHP)
PANDAFLOR (PHP)
MUSEO DEL MARE (HTML)
NAPOLITIVU (Flash)
GRAFICHE PONTICELLI (HTML)
NAPOLILIBERAL (HTML)
RAGAZZE.IT (HTML)
MEDITERTRANS (HTML)
NAPOLI FITNESS SHOW (HTML)
PASHÀ (HTML)
CRC (HTML)
DI VINCENZO (HTML)
FAST-INFORMATICA (HTML)
FORMIFICIO MERIDIONALE (HTML)
NAPOLI BIANCO & NERO (HTML)
GENESI SIM (HTML)
NAPLESHOMECHARTER (HTML)
TRUCILLO (HTML)
PATTO TERRITORIALE CAMPI FLEGREI (HTML)
CORSO FSE VIDEOGIORNALISMO (HTML)
on art and 'cultural policies' questions
Some articles I wrote, and published on my Medium channel (in english), and on online magazines Meer and FreakOut Magazine (in italian).
"I dati come nuovo linguaggio?" (2023): Meer "Oltre la cornice" (2023): Meer "L’AI ci interroga" (2023): Meer "Are data a new language?" (2022): Medium "Deframing or not?" (2022): Medium "The empire of signs" (2021): Medium "L’impero dei segni" (2021): Meer "L’Alba di Kac" (2021): Meer "The bison of Altamira" (2021): Medium "Il bisonte di Altamira" (2021): Meer "Sperimentare il museo" (2020): Meer "Musei come piazze" (2020): Meer "Manifesto per l’Arte Espansa" (2020): Meer "Senza l’arte" (2020): Meer "Fiori luminosi a margine delle città" (2019): Meer "Art in the era of bits" (2019): Medium "L’arte nell’era dei bit" (2019): Meer "Female noun" (2019): Medium "The festivals, a window on the world" (2019): Medium "Video art and music, an ancient liason" (2019): Medium "On the sense of collecting video art" (2018): Medium "The expanded image" (2018): Medium "The video language between small and big screen (and back)" (2018): Medium "Educare alla bellezza" (2018): Meer "Un Rinascimento 4.0?" (2018): Meer "Un ‘patto’ per il turismo" (2018): Meer "Nell’era dei Big Data" (2018): Meer "Il Paese delle Meraviglie" (2018): Meer "Sull’arte contemporanea" (2018): Meer "L'asilo di Stendhal" (2018): Meer "Millennium museum" (2017): Meer "Il museo dà i numeri" (2017): Meer "Articolo 42" (2017): Meer "Renaissance Manifesto" (2017): Meer "L'arte salverà il mondo?" (2017): Meer "Blob cities" (2017): Meer "E chi vuol (sovra)intendere..." (2017): Meer "Il passo del cambiamento" (2017): Meer "Italia take-away" (2017): Meer "9" (2017): Meer "Il derby" (2016): Meer "Una fotografia dell'Italia" (2016): Meer "L’assioma sbagliato" (2016): Meer "Piccolo esercizio d'immaginazione" (2016): Meer "Le città palcoscenico" (2016): Meer "Nell’economia post-umana" (2016): Meer "Nel blu dipinto da Blu" (2016): Meer "Le città della conoscenza" (2016): Meer "La cultura ai tempi dell’integralismo" (2016): Meer "La sfida del museo futuro" (2015): Meer "L'inverno culturale italiano" (2015): Meer "Connettere, connettere, connettere!" (2015): Meer "Per un Museo 3.0" (2015): Meer "Un paese da raccontare" (2015): Meer "Il bisogno di un cinema nuovo" (2015): Meer "Mai tornare indietro" (2015): Meer "Non solo sassi" (2014): Meer "Per un sistema culturale diffuso" (2014): Meer "The disorientation of the senses in the electronic arts" (2014): Medium "La confusione dei sensi nelle arti digitali" (2014): Meer "Reutilization manifesto" (2014): Meer "I linguaggi della moving image" (2014): Meer "The language of moving image" (2014): Medium "La scomparsa dell'immagine" (2014): Meer "The disappearance of the image" (2014): Medium "L’altra faccia del digital divide" (2014): FreakOut Magazine "The other side of digital divide" (2014): Medium "L’arte nell’era della sua fruibilità ubiqua" (2014): Meer "Art in the age of its ubiquitous availability" (2014): Medium "Sul come l’arte (pubblica) produce cambiamenti sociali" (2014): FreakOut Magazine "On how (public) art produces social changes" (2014): Medium "Arte Pubblica: Funzione o Finzione? Napoli un case study" (2013): FreakOut Magazine "Public art: function or fiction?" (2014): Medium "A videoart glance on 1900s" (2014): Medium
art direction and curatorial
I'm the founder and Art Director of Magmart | video under volcano, international videoart festival that takes place in Naples since 2005.
Main partner of festival is the Casoria Contemporary Art Museum (CAM), an avantgarde museum in the neighborhood of Naples.
Over the years, the festival has established, from time to time, other partnerships with GenomART, Stella Film, Computer Arts magazine, Faculty of Sociology of University of Naples, PAN Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, Foundation Universal Forum of Cultures, insu^tv.
1st edition 2005/06 (with 123 artists and +180 videos)2nd edition 2006/07 (with 130 artists and +220 videos)3rd edition 2007/08 (with 170 artists and +290 videos)4th edition 2008/09 (with 130 artists and +250 videos)5th edition 2009/10 (with 190 artists and +290 videos)6th edition 2010/11 (with 360 artists and +550 videos)7th edition 2011/12 (with 455 artists and +700 videos)8th edition 2012/13 (with 340 artists and +480 videos)9th edition 2014/15 * (with 390 artists and +800 videos)
* becomed biennal10th edition 2016/17 (with 312 artists and +470 videos)11th edition 2018/19 (with 280 artists and +380 videos)12th edition 2020/21 (with 336 artists and +520 videos)13th edition 2022/23 (with 269 artists and +384 videos)
By 2013, I developed any year an international videoart project, focusing on different themes.
100x100=900 Project(2013), (100 videoartists to tell a century), it was a project to celebrate 50th of videoart.
It involved 100 artists, each of which has been called to create a video artwork on one year of 1900s; the match between artists and years has been done randomly.
The project has developed into an international tour, thanks to a partnership program.
Involved in project were:
100 videoartists from: Iran, Austria, Germany, United States, Serbia, Brazil, France, Italy, Netherland, Peru, China, Norway, Mexico, India, Egypt, Estonia, Sudan, Russian Federation, Argentina, Spain, United Kingdom, Israel, Lebanon, Portugal, Canada, Switzerland, Belgium, Hong Kong, Japan, Bosnia, Etiopia, Cile, Turkey, Hungary, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, Nigeria, Vietnam
39 curators from: Iran, Spain, Canada, Argentina, China, United States, Russian Federation, Hungary, Albania, Romania, Italy, Brazil, India, Philippines, Poland, Mexico, Ukraine, Portugal, Bulgaria, Bosnia and herzegovina
59 screenings:
#TAG (Italy)
500X GALLERY (United States)
5th BASE (United Kingdom)
AAC (Italy)
ACADEMY OF CARRARA OF FINE ARTS (Italy)
ARMENIAN CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY EXPERIMENTAL ART (Armenia)
ARTMUSICEVENT (Italy)
ARTUR FIDALGO GALERIA (Brazil)
ATHENS VIDEO ART FESTIVAL (Greece)
AVAART (Spain)
BS1 / BACK TO SQUARE JUAN - PWU (Philippines)
C.A.R.M.A. (Italy)
CENTRE3 FOR PRINT AND MEDIA ARTS (Canada)
CROSSTALK VIDEO ART FESTIVAL (Hungary)
DIGITAL ARTS ENTERTAINMENT LABORATORY (United States)
DIMANCHE ROUGE (France)
EAST ART GALLERY (Iran)
FESTIVAL MEM (Spain)
FONLAD (Portugal)
GALLERIE CHARTIER (United States)
HOLDUDVAR GALLERY (Hungary)
IKONO TV (International)
INSTITUT FÜR ALLES MÖGLICHE (Germany)
INTER ART CENTER / GALLERY (China)
ITACI Art&Cult (Italy)
JAAGA (India)
KOLEKTIVA (Slovenia)
KROWSWORK (United States)
LECTIO (Romania)
LXT FILM FUND (China)
MAGMA (Romania)
MURATCENTOVENTIDUE (Italy)
NEW BULGARIAN UNIVERSITY (Bulgaria)
NEWHAM NDP (United Kingdom)
NOW&AFTER (Russian Federation)
OZON INTERNATIONAL VIDEO ART FESTIVAL (Poland)
PHOTON GALERIJA (Slovenia)
PERAS DE OLMO - ARS CONTINUA (Argentina)
PROYECTOR (Spain)
REGIONAL OF HISTORY OF COLIMA (Mexico)
RICHLAND COLLEGE (United States)
SEED SPACE (United States)
SMART (Hungary)
THE FORMAT (Italy)
THE RED HOUSE (Bulgaria)
THE SCIENTIST (Italy)
TORRANCE ART MUSEUM (United States)
VIDEO BABEL (Perù)
VIDEOARTIST IRAN (Iran)
VIDEOPLAY (Argentina)
VISIVA (Italy)
VIZII INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF VISUAL CULTURE (Ukraine)
WEBSTER UNIVERSITY FILM SERIES (United States)
XX.9.12 FABRIKArte (Italy)
ZETA GALLERY & ART CENTER (Albania),
ZHENGZHOU EXPERIMENTAL FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL (China),
LISHUI PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL (China)
IBRIDA FESTIVAL (Italy)
The project, with a duration of one year, has achieved 59 screenings, 29 countries reached, 461 days total.
(2014), (Feelings International Videoart Experience), it was a project on 5 senses, based on an open call, with 25 video artworks selected by an international jury, five for each sense.
It involved 193 videoartists (participants), with 233 videos (submitted), from: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Benin, Brazil, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Croatia, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Macedonia, Mauritius, Mexico, Netherlands, Pakistan, Palestine, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Togo, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Venezuela, Vietnam
Finally involved in project were:
25 videoartists from: Austria, Belgium, Benin, France, Italy, Netherlands, Palestine, Poland, Spain, Turkey, United States
47 curators from: Algeria, Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Ethiopia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Italy, Malaysia, Morocco, Netherlands, Peru, Portugal, Russian Federation, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovenia, Spain, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States
32 screenings:
ARMENIAN CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY EXPERIMENTAL ART (Armenia)
ATHENS VIDEO ART FESTIVAL (Greece)
CENTRE 3 FOR PRINT AND MEDIA ARTS (Canada)
DEMOLDEN VIDEO PROJECT (Spain)
ELGALPON ESPACIO (Peru)
FILM STUDIO JEB'YE PRODUCTION (Ukraine)
FONLAD FESTIVAL (Portugal)
INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF COMPUTER ARTS (Slovenia)
JAAGA GALLERY (India)
LXT FILM FUNDS (China)
LIGHT VESSEL 21 (United Kingdom)
MEDITERRANEAN BIENNALE OF CONTEMPORARY ART (Algerie)
NETSA ART VILLAGE (Ethiopia)
NEW BULGARIAN UNIVERSITY (Bulgaria)
NOW & AFTER (Russian Federation)
WEBSTER UNIVERSITY FILM SERIES (United States)
RICHLAND COLLEGE (United States)
SEED SPACE (United States)
VIBRAFUSION LAB (United Kingdom)
TORRANCE ART MUSEUM (United States)
KING'S COLLEGE LONDON (United Kingdom)
ROOM (United Kingdom)
OPEN ART FOUNDATION (Bulgaria)
CINEMATICA (Italy)
PULIMENTOS DEL NORTE (Spain)
DIGITAL MARRAKECH FESTIVAL (Morocco)
BEIJING INSTITUTE OF FASHION TECHNOLOGY (China)
INTER ART CENTER / GALLERY (China)
MUZAPLUS (Isreael)
JIA PINGWA CULTURAL MUSEUM OF ART (China)
ALLE SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS AND DESIGN (Ethiopia)
URBAN NOMADISM：2017 HANGZHOU LIANGZHU BIG ROOF INTERNATIONL MOVING IMAGE EXHIBITION (China)
The project, with a duration of one year, has achieved 40 screenings, 23 countries reached, +190 days total.
(2015), the project coincide with the universal EXPO (on May/october 2015, in Milan, Italy), on theme "Feeding the planet - energy for life".
The aim of the project is to explore the theme of food/aliment.
The project involve 11 videoartists, each of which has produced a video, freely interpreting the theme of the project.
The project involved:
11 videoartists: Gerard Cairaschi (France), Marcos Bonisson & Khalil Charif (Brazil), Didier Feldman (France),Francesca Fini (Italy), Barbara Hertiman (Venezuela), SSMIDD (Germany), Francesca Llopis (Spain), Lina Alejandra Pulido Barragán (Colombia), John Sanborn (United States), Venugopal V.G. (India).
21 curators from: Spain, USA, Bulgaria, México, Peru, China, Slovenia, Morocco, Italy, India, Ecuador, Ukraine, Russian federation, Argentina.
22 screenings:
TAM TORRANCE ART MUSEUM, South Bay area of Los Angeles, USA
THE NIGHT IN PLOVDIV, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
CENTRO NACIONAL DE LAS ARTES, México City, México
LA NEOMUDEJAR, Madrid, Spain
PLUTONCC, Valencia, Spain
VIDEOBABEL 2015, Cusco, Peru
ESPACIO ODEÓN, Bogotá, Colombia
INTER ART CENTER / GALLERY, Beijing, China
22th VIDEO EVENING KOLEKTIVA, Ljubljana, Slovenia
ARAB MEDIA LAB, Marrakesh, Morocco
MUTOSCOPIO FESTIVAL, Puebla, Mexico
RECETAS CULTURALES, Bilbao, Spain
ARTMUSICEVENT, Padua, Italy
CINEMATICA FESTIVAL, Ancona, Italy
1SHANTHIROAD, Bengaluru, India
ORANGE COUNTY CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART (OCCCA), Orange County, USA
PALAMINGA, Quito, Ecuador
SF GASTROART. ARTE Y GASTRONOMÍA, Valencia, Spain
NOW&AFTER, Moscow, Russian federation
SEED SPACE, Nashville, USA
CENTRO CULTURAL DE ESPAÑA, Montevideo, Uruguay
DEMOLDEN VIDEO PROJECT, Santander, Spain.
(2017), the project want explore the relationship of human being with his own body, as well as relationships between body and tecnologies and the resulting transformations - physical and cultural.
The project ha launched a public call, and then has been selected 10 videos by different international videoartists.
11 videoartists: Alessandro Amaducci (Italy), Dragan Mileusnic and Željko Serdarevic (Croatia), Eleonora Manca (Italy), Fenia Kotsopoulou (Greece), Francesca Fini (Italy), Fran Orallo (United Kingdom), Igor Imhoff (Italy), Isabel Pérez del Pulgar (France), Jose Vieira (Portugal), Sara Simeoni (Italy).
The international tour will start on 2018 fall.
4 curators from: Portugal, Colombia, Nigeria, UK.
2 screenings:
Coimbra, Portugal
Villa del Rosario, Colombia.
on going
(2020), Fifteen pairs of words, antinomical to each other, which represent as many aspects of life, emotions and human expectations. Thirty international artists, are called to interpret these words - what they represent - trying to weave a dialogue with the public.
30 videoartists
on going
In addition to the artistic direction of the festival and international projects above, throughout the years I have curated several exhibitions and selections of videoart.
Curatorial* A series of seminars at the Macro museum in RomeAbout the future, an event for European Cultural Heritage: the digital experiences (curatorial, 2018), in Campobasso (Italy)DAF Digital Art Fest (curatorial, 2018), in Naples (Italy)Medarts Forum Visuel (curatorial, 2019), Tanger (Morocco)The Suspended Glance (curatorial, 2019), Venice (Italy)#videovirus (curatorial, 2020), online (worldwide)Videobardo (curatorial, 2021), Buenos Aires (Argentine)Fonlad (selection, 2022), in Coimbra (Portugal), invited by Fonlad FestivalVesuvius (selection, 2022), in Naples (Italy), invited by Vesuvius Film FestivalFonlad (selection, 2023), in Coimbra (Portugal), invited by Fonlad Festival
if you really wanna do it...
If after all this you still want to contact me (or did you come up in the meantime...), you can do it in many ways:
Skype or e-mail...and also by phone!
+39 347 12 72 139You can contact/follow me on social too:
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