The Oxford English Dictionary has chosen “brain rot” as the word of the year for 2024. The expression— which we could translate as “brain decay”—perfectly captures that feeling of mental numbness experienced after hours of mindless scrolling on social media.
Opening the eighth edition of Fotonica, Rome’s audio, visual and digital art festival, is an installation by Hungarian artist David Szauder, inspired by none other than an iconic work by painter, photographer, designer and constructivist theorist László Moholy-Nagy, Light Prop for an Electric Stage.
Attending a NONOTAK performance is an emotion that is hard to forget. The combination of different elements (light, sound and space) creates a unique, immersive and enveloping visual and sensory experience for spectators.
A robot dog performs a dance routine while a laser projects apparently incomprehensible phrases in English and Italian on a steel wall.
We are not watching a science fiction movie- we are at the MAXXI museum, and more precisely on the first floor in the Gian Ferrari room, inside a freight elevator. In reality, the performance we are watching is part of the work, ASSENZAHAH ESSENZAHAH (2024), created by Riccardo Benassi for the MAXXI BVLGARI PRIZE, the prestigious international award sponsored by the renowned Roman jewellery brand.
The metaverse is no longer a distant prospect reserved only for those with a passion for technology. Today, this virtual dimension, enriched with the most advanced immersive technologies, has become an increasingly greater part of current society and is radically transforming the way in which brands interact with their consumers.
Federica Di Carlo, renowned and attested artist on the Italian and international art scene, returns to amaze the public with an ambitious and visionary work to be shown at the UNESCO world heritage site among the iconic Cheops, Chefren and Menkaure pyramids on the legendary Giza plateau.
João Enxuto and Erica Love collaborate on projects that examine the dynamics of value and labor in creative economies. Enxuto received an MFA in Photography from RISD and Love holds BAs from Brown University in Economics and Visual Arts and an MFA from UCLA. Together they were fellows at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program and were awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts Artist Fellowship (2023 & 2017) and a Creative Capital Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant.
Mozzarella Light is the artistic duo composed of Giulia Ciappi (Poggibonsi, 1997) and MarcoFrassinelli (Rome, 1992). They trained at the Academies of Fine Arts in Florence and Rome, where they graduated in Sculpture, and at the Universidad del País Vasco in Bilbao, Spain, doing workshops and residencies in the USA, Greece and Israel.
Max Magaldi was born in 1982; he began as a musician and drummer and today is a prominent artist in the field of digital arts and other forms of expression. In 2018, he started to experiment with digital device performances, combining music, contemporary art, and hacking on social networks, and began developing the concept of the sound mural. He has created sound and installation performances, and has exhibited both in Italy and abroad, in France, Greece, and Saudi Arabia. He has collaborated with renowned artists like Edoardo Tresoldi, Gonzalo Borondo, Studio Azzurro and Andrea Villa.
If you enter the coordinates 42.4437339 and 11.4855630 in digital maps, you will find an exact point in the wilds of the Maremma, at the top of a hill near the Fattoria Stendardi in Pescia Fiorentina, a place chosen by the artistic collective, neo-conceptual artist, Claire Fontaine for one of her works inspired by the language of emoticons and created for the sixth Hypermaremma Festival.