Mattia Casalegno

Mattia Casalegno

Mattia Casalegno at South Street Seaport, 2015
Born Naples
Nationality Italian
Education La Sapienza University, UCLA
Alma mater UCLA
Style digital arts
Movement contemporary arts
Website www.mattiacasalegno.net
audiovisual installation. 1 ch. videoprojection, neon light, loop 7’00'. 2007

Mattia Casalegno is an Italian interdisciplinary artist, live-media performer and installation artist working in a broad range of media.[1] His multidisciplinary work is influenced by both post-conceptualism and digital art, and has been defined relational, immersive, and participatory. His practice explores the effects new media have on our societies, investigating the relationships between technology, the objects we create, our subjectivities, and the modes in which these relations unfold into each other.[2]

Casalegno was born in Naples, Italy and studied Communication studies at La Sapienza University in Rome and Design Media Arts at UCLA.

He performed and exhibited in international arts festivals and institutions including MUTEK (CA), Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts (TW), New Technological Art Awards (BE), Budafabriek Kunstcentrum (BE), La Oficina de l'Arte (AR), Optronica (UK), Le Cube - Contemporay Art Museum (FR), OFFF (SP), AVIT (GE), Wright Gallery, AxS Festival and LACMA in US, and Netmage, Sant'Arcangelo dei Teatri, Romaeuropa Festival, MACRO Museum and Auditorium in Rome, Italy.

In 2001 he co-founded with Giovanni D'Aloia the project Kinotek,[3] a seminal VJing and live-media group based in Rome, among the first Italian collectives to use digital tools during their performances.[4] In 2005 he collaborated with the electronic music composer Maurizio Martusciello in the audiovisual project X-Scape, presented in numerous international and Italian events.[5]

His work often revolves around Deleuzian ideas. He reportedly manifested his interest in "painting the forces" and the use of audiovisual languages as "affections in their pure state".[6] In an interview in 2010, discussing one of his projects, he alluded to the concept of ritornell in Deleuze and the capacity of structured sounds, notably rhythm, to define a space.[7] He often deploys technologies, ideas and aesthetics borrowed from science. He used EEG and Neurofeedback technologies in several installations and performances.[8][9] His kinetic sculpture RBSC.01(2011–2014) is an improbable sacramental bread-making machine inspired by the RuBisCO enzyme, the most abundant protein on Earth.[10]

In other projects Casalegno tackles topics of ecology, system theory and biology, as in Strutture Dissipative (2009),[11] and the interactive audiovisual installation Il Gesto Sospeso, ideated in collaboration with the fashion designer Roberto Capucci and artist Maurizio Martusciello, and premiered at the Hadrian Temple for the Rome Fashion week in 2010.[12][13]

In 2012 he designed a visualization of data from the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute as part of a site-specific performance by environmental artist Lita Albuquerque for the Knowledge Festival at the Mount Wilson Observatory in California.[14]

Mattia Casalegno is also cited in a collection of poems by artist and writer Johanna Hedva published in 2011.[15]

Casalegno was an Eyebeam resident in 2015[16] and adjunct faculty at Pratt's Digital Arts department in Fall 2016.

References

  1. ↑ http://file-magazine.com/citylikeyou/profiles/mattia-casalegno
  2. ↑ "e-artnow.org: Mattia Casalegno at South Street Seaport". www.e-artnow.org. Retrieved 2015-11-22.
  3. ↑ "||||||||||| k i n o t e k |||||||||||". www.kinotek.org. Retrieved 2015-10-20.
  4. ↑ "Rhizome | Mattia Casalegno". rhizome.org. Retrieved 2015-10-20.
  5. ↑ "X-scape: Escape From Language – Digicult | Digital Art, Design and Culture  : Digicult | Digital Art, Design and Culture". www.digicult.it. Retrieved 2015-10-30.
  6. ↑ Powell, Anna (4 July 2007). Deleuze, Altered States and Film. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 9780748632404.
  7. ↑ "The Open – we make money not art". we-make-money-not-art.com. Retrieved 2015-10-20.
  8. ↑ "Tangible Feelings – A symposium on EEG (and biofeedback) for the Arts". iMAL. Retrieved 2015-10-20.
  9. ↑ "A Touch of Code". Gestalten. Retrieved 2015-10-20.
  10. ↑ "Homo Ludens' Playground – Mattia Casalegno". CreativeApplications.Net. Retrieved 2015-10-20.
  11. ↑ "Mattia Casalegno – Dissipative Structures & Cartesian thought-forms | Dataisnature". www.dataisnature.com. Retrieved 2015-10-20.
  12. ↑ "Il Gesto Sospeso: A tribute exhibition to Roberto Capucci". Fashion and Runway. Retrieved 2015-10-20.
  13. ↑ "Gesto Sospeso – Vogue.it". www.vogue.it. Retrieved 2015-10-20.
  14. ↑ "Lita Albuquerque's Performance at Mount Wilson Observatory". Pasadena Adjacent. Retrieved 2015-11-02.
  15. ↑ "An Excerpt from To the Left Armpit of Mattia Casalegno and Other Love Letters, Summer 2010, Berlin". indigestmag.com. Retrieved 2016-03-04.
  16. ↑ "Mattia Casalegno | eyebeam.org". eyebeam.org. Retrieved 2016-01-28.

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