BIO
Valentino Catricalà is a theoretician and a curator specialised in the analysis of the relationship of artists
and film makers with new technologies and media. On this topic, he has written essays and articles in books
and has participated to International Symposiums. He has organised and curated exhibits and screenings.
He is the artistic director of the Media Art Festival of Rome (first edition 2015, Centrale Montemartini,
Rome) and is director of the “Experimental Section” of the International Festival of Short Films Corti and
Cigarettes (since 2008, Auditorium Conciliazione, Rome). He created and curated the TV program Entr’acte
intermediale. Rubrica di videoarte e cinema sperimentale. He received a PhD from the Department of
Philosophy, Communication and Performing Arts - University of Roma Tre in 2014. He is presently part time
postdoc research fellow at Department of Philosophy, Communication and Performing Arts – Roma Tre and
works as research fellow at Fondazione Mondo Digitale.
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EVENT

Rereading moving image. For an archeology of Media Art


Dates:
Thu May 28, 2015 18:15 - Thu May 28, 2015

Location:
Rome, Italy

Time Travel_Back and forth… This is the only way to understand our technological era. Increasingly the artistic practice is related to the technological advancement: new concept and new methodologies are growing. An archeological overview on the relationship between art and technology is helpful to better understand the nowadays artistic practice. This is the aim of the lecture, focusing on the audiovisual historical Media Art experience. Starting from the end of the Eighteen century, where a real new media context emerged, we will retrace the principal point which have characterized the relationship between art and technology: as the Hausman and Lissitzky experience in the 30st avantgard period, the emerge of electronic technologies in the sixties till the advent of digital technologies and the interactivity artworks.
Moving forward and looking back, travelling in the time, in order to find the roots which have fixed our present.