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MAO presents the first number of the Understanding New Media series:

Cultura e nuovi media. Cinque interrogativi di Lev Manovich.

The book (in Italian) is edited by Vito Campanelli and Danilo Capasso, with a preface by Daniele Pittèri.

ISBN:978-88-95869-06-3

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Cultura e nuovi media. Cinque interrogativi di Lev Manovich. is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribuzione-Non commerciale-Non opere derivate 2.5 Italia License.

MAO is media partner of the Beautifully Imperfects project:

Beautifully Imperfects is a research project aiming at understanding how aesthetic perception is affected by the altered production and distribution of cultural materials exchanged in P2P (peer-to-peer) and social networks.
Theoretical framework of the project has been extensively deepen in Web Aesthetics: How Digital Media Affect Culture and Society, a book by Vito Campanelli edited by the Institute of Network Cultures and NAi Publishers.
The central hypothesis to be explored is that a taste for imperfection is growing in all fields of visual culture, including cinema, art, advertising and pornography: As we credit to truthfulness only imperfect images and sounds, we have increasingly developed a sort of generalized distrust of the cold perfection of the cultural industries.
Beautifully Imperfects website serves as a meeting place of ideas in relation to the hypothesis that our age is marked by ‘disturbed’ aesthetic experiences, so everyone can express their opinion and post their examples of ‘beautifully imperfect’ cultural products and media objects.

Get involved by submitting your examples of beautiful imperfection: http://beautifullyimperfects.net

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MAO presents the second edition of the series MAO Aesthetics:

Fuoco!

The book is edited by cyop & kaf, with texts by Vito Campanelli, Luca Rossomando and Gabriele Frasca, photography by Carola Pagani and graphic design by Francesco Quarto.
The first edition, available by February 2010, comes in no. 200 copies and will be presented on the occasion of the homonymous exhibition by cyop & kaf at the Gallery Overfoto of Naples: Friday, February 6, 19.00 -22.00 h.

ISBN:978-88-95869-00-1
Price: € 15,00

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Fuoco! is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribuzione-Non commerciale-Non opere derivate 2.5 Italia License.

MAO is proud to present its first editorial release:

Internet Landscapes (2003-2007)

The book, dedicated to the artistic work of Marco Cadioli, constitutes the first issue of the MAO Aesthetics series. It's curated by Vito Campanelli, with photos by Marco Manray Cadioli and graphic design by Francesco Quarto.
The first edition, available by September 2009, comes in no. 100 copies numerated and personally signed by Marco Cadioli.

ISBN:978-88-95869-00-1
Price: € 20,00

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Internet Landscapes (2003-2007) by Vito Campanelli is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribuzione-Non commerciale-Non opere derivate 2.5 Italia License.

Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”

Internet, Globalization and the Politics of Language

Friday, May the 30th 2008 :: h 16.00 - 18.30
Palazzo Corigliano :: Aula Mura Greche
Piazza S. Domenico Maggiore - Napoli

GEERT LOVINK
Director of the "Institute of Network Cultures" (Amsterdam)

"Once the Internet changed the world, now the world is changing the Internet"

Lovink, former MAO guest during October 2006, is one of the most important Net theorist, absolute sui generis thinker he is very popular in important universities and, in parallel, a very welcomed theorist of European and international counterculture.
Lovink's talk will point out the phenomena of the rise on the Internet of local and regional languages that are bringing up for discussion the egemony of English as official language of a globalizated world.

Final discussion with conclusions:
Prof. Jocelyne Vincent - “L’Orientale “ (Napoli)
Prof. Tiziana Terranova - “L’Orientale “ (Napoli)

Organization by:
Department of American, Cultural and Linguistic Studies
of the Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”

Media Partner:
MAO - Media & Arts Office ONLUS

:: Invitation to the talk

MARCO MANRAY CADIOLI
"REPLICA"

Galleria Overfoto sede di Second Life
From may 07 to July 07 2008
OPENING wedensday may 07, 18.30 (9,30 SLT)

Marco Manray Cadioli, who's been exploring the evolution of virtual worlds through photography for several years, introduces his first personal exhibition, "REPLICA", for the opening of Overfoto Gallery a real life gallery who will open an exhibit space in Second Life [http://slurl.com/secondlife/ZweiteWelt%20Bucht/69/186/22].
Two series of photographies will be displayed: black and white landscapes from the series "Why is there something rather than nothing?", photographies taken in Second Life wild areas still untouched by man, where Manray roams, wearing Ansel Adams' shoes in a metaphorical West, achieving hyperrealistic and abstract results at the same time; and the series "Replica", which gives the title to the exhibition, taken into an avatars clones illegal factory , with portraits of a crowd of clones that seems to walk towards us as a "Fourth Estate of Second Life."
With “REPLICA”, Marco Manray Cadioli opens a new look on the world of Second Life, after the 2007 reports, published by various international magazines, such Libération, Elle, La Repubblica, and shortly after the book Io, Reporter in Second Life, recently published by Shake Editions from Milan, focused on his adventures as a net-reporter.

“Marco Cadioli is a photographer who points his lens at the pixels that give life to the images that materialize on computer screens. He takes pictures of landscapes, faces, gestures - what one would call everyday life; the distinctiveness and the originality of his work lies in the fact that the subjects of his pictures live inside the Web. Cadioli himself lives – in a way – in a metaworld. Although he resides in a precise physical place – Milan – some of his extensions have developed an identity of their own and have built some social relationships that we would call independent.
To highlight through photography the places of the Web and the entities that fill it is a process that needs a true merging between the photographer and the object of his research. So it was for Cadioli, who has never lingered in a distant or detached perspective, but has literally deeply immersed himself in that world: he has, to use the IT term, interfaced himself.
The artist does not judge the phenomena that catch his attention, he rather interprets and represents them; each artistic creation becomes a window, wide open on the realities and an invitation to lean out over them. Cadioli's pictures are an invitation to cross the weak boundary of the computer screen and to discover that what we persist in calling virtual is often more real than what is around us and of which we can feel the materiality. It is an invitation to tear aside the veil of virtuality, to discover how behind each shape that forms on our screen it is possible to recognize a new display of the personality of people for whom the world, as we know it, has become an insufficient habitat”.

Exerpt from : Internet landscapes Shapes and places of the Web in the work of Marco Cadioli, edited by Vito Campanelli for MAO - Media & Arts Office ONLUS editions (coming soon).

Marco Manray - www.marcomanray.com - www.internetlandscape.it
Galleria Overfoto - www.overfoto.it

Media Partner: MAO - Media & Arts Office ONLUS

:: Invitation to the exhibition

MAO evenings :: BRIAN MACKERN - SOUNDTOYS REMIXED [1996-2008]

Friday 11/04/2008 - h 18.00 > 20.30

MADRE – Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina
Via Settembrini, 79 – Naples

An event by MAO – Media & Arts Office ONLUS

FREE ENTRY


Soundtoys Remixed, the title of the performance that Mackern will offer to the MADRE audience, will deal with Net surfing and (real-time) remix of 40 of his soundtoys developed between 1997 and 2007.
Mackernian visions will flow through the (real-time) projection on three different screens, while the surrounding sounds will hold the audience in a sinesthetic embrace that will shake new reflections about the increasingly more hybrid nature of the reality we face everyday.



SOUNDTOYS / AUDIOVISUAL INTERFACES

“... Just listen to your eyes.”
Wim Wenders, Once

Brian Mackern was born in 1962 in Montevideo (Uruguay) and after technical college he started to explore the potentials, mainly sound-related, of the Web. In 1997 he became the director of Artefactos Virtuales #1, one of the first latin-american web spaces about the research and the development of Net Art projects, while in recent years he appeared among the creators of Netart_latino #2, a database whose aim was of both documenting the work of south-american netartists, and building a link between their various experiences, that risked to remain isolated in a continent that tends to keep its artists attempts “unincorporated” #3.
The sense of belonging to a specific culture and the bond with the roots are a key element to the work of Mackern. Central from this point of view is the reinterpretation of the so-called “Tormenta de Santa Rosa”. The worship of Santa Rosa from Lima in the Rio de la Plata area is celebrated in the last days of August, when the place is hit by frequent floods and big rains. These natural phenomena are associated, in the popular belief, to the presence of the Saint, and Mackern provides a personal reading of the cult in his project 34s56w.org #4.

Mackern works have been presented in biennals, festivals and exhibitions at the four corners of the world (Uruguay, Argentina, Mexico, Spain, Italy, Germany, Great Britain, Poland, Korea, etc.) and he was also prized with many awards in the above mentioned countries in over 10 years of artistic activity.

Brian Mackern is definitely an artist of the Net generation and his research is to be collocated within the tradition linked to some creative experimentations about the relationship between audio and visual objects (think about the vanguards of 1900), but it is now, in the Web, that it finds its best ground to get - finally – depth and visibility.
Thanks to the opportunities introduced by new digital tools, the dialectic tension between sounds and images has become object of endless reflections and investigations, all connected to the process of spreading of new cultural paradigms. Among them – above all – self-consciousness and self-sufficient life of the digital objects.
Within this frame, soundtoys is the personal answer of Mackern the artist to his need to find new ways of mediation between sounds and images.
Every soundtoy, pure minimal meaning unit, can be remixed to others, paving the way to a complexity that, by perpetually multiplying the combination chances, becomes almost impossible to be seen as finite and leaves to the observer the task to complete the meaning of one among many possible trajectories.


#1 Artefactos virtuales experience developed from 1997 to 2002 – http://www.internet.com.uy/vibri
#2 http://netart.org.uy/latino
#3 This is the way Alessadro Ludovico talks about Brian Mackern in an article for the austian magazine Spingerin [Noise at Margin -http://www.springerin.at/dyn/heft_text.php?textid=1667&lang=en]
#4 http://34s56w.org

text by Vito Campanelli - translation by Francesco Bordo


Media partner:
Neural - www.neural.it

In collaboration with:
Supportico Lopez - www.supporticolopez.com
Interferenze Festival - www.interferenze.org

Travel and hospitality:
Millenium Falcon Viaggi - www.milleniumfalcon.it

Supporter:
La Controra Hotel - www.lacontrora.com

info MAO evenings: info at mediartsoffice.eu

SHOOTING PIXELS

by Vito Campanelli, Francesco Quarto, Donatella Saccani
15th december 2007 - 16th february 2007

The physical spaces of Galleria Overfoto, together with the virtual ones of Second Life, host the exibition called Shooting Pixels, pictures collection by Marco Cadioli, Antonello Segretario and Marco Zagaria, about the places, anything but material, but still “real”, of cyberspace and its inhabitants.
If it is true that the Web is an alternative reality, a vital space, always changing, in which we spend increasingly more time – and the Second Life phnomenon is the clearest proof of it – Web photography gets the same importance of direct imprint and evidence of something that “has been”, as traditional photography.
So the landscape becomes the red line that links the works of the three artists: landscape in a straight sense, as for the installation of Antonello Segretario (a full-wall view of a green Second Life “island”, including a real lawn extention), but even in a “human” sense, as for the two hyperrealistic portraits by Marco Zagaria, or in both senses, as for the desert black and white landcapes, alterned with images from the virtual wars front and avatar portraits by Marco Cadioli.
All of this, enriched with a recall to the “real reality”, in a dialectic game of inside and “inside-other”, which finds its natural expression in an exposition that involves at the same time the tangible spaces of the Gallery and the simulated ones of Second Life.
MAO is partner of the event.

Opening: saturday, 15th december 2007, 7:00 – 11:00 pm.

Galleria Overfoto - Vico San Pietro a Majella 6 – 80138 Napoli (piazza Bellini) and live on Second Life

Open time: tue-sat, 11:00 am - 13:00 pm, wed and fry, 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Info: ph. / fax 08119578345 – mob. 3396441341

email: info@overfoto.it – web site: www.overfoto.it

Bios
:: Marco Cadioli (www.internetlandscape.it): graduated in physics, is a net reporter in Second Life as Marco Manray since 2005. His reportages were published on "Liberation", "El Paìs", "Repubblica", "Elle", "Numéro Beauté", "CasAmica Corriere della Sera", "Il sole24ore", and displayed at MAXII (Roma - Museo delle arti del XXI Secolo), Pescara Elettronic Artists Meeting (PEAM), SuperNeen (Milano), Sintesi (Napoli). He is a "Digital Media" teacher in several Masters of italian universities. He lives and works in Milan, as well as on Second Life.

:: Antonello Segretario (Caserta 1973): Collettiva - Galleria Studio Legale (Caserta); 2005 Inaugurazione del nuovo spazio Galleria Studio Legale (Caserta); Artefiera ArtFirst 2005 - International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Bologna, Italy - Galleria Studio Legale (Caserta); Miart ArtNow 2005 - Fiera Internazionale di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Milano, Italy - Galleria Studio Legale (Caserta); Artissima 2004 - The International Fair of Contemporary Art in Turin - Galleria Studio Legale (Caserta).

:: Marco Zagaria (www.marcozagaria.it): born in 1969 in Naples, where he lives and works. His first artistic experiences mainly involve painting, getting to the use of manipulated digital photography which fully expresses his desire to interpret and measure reality as a figurative fiction. He took part to several collections in Italy and abroad, among which the XIV Quadriennale at the Palazzo Reale in Naples in 2003.

MAO evenings at La Controra // focus on Wednesday 2007/10/10

Waiting Arte at Cinema or maybe at theatre ...

Since June 2007, the wednesday cultural appointments curated by MAO Media & Arts Office, Neapolitan ONLUS with the mission of widespread new media, are going on, on free entrance, with the title MAO evenings: installation, video, festivals and publishings in Italian preview.

On wednesday October 10, by 8 pm, MAO presents art on video, either in the garden and in the internal spaces of La Controra, unique design hostel in Naples. Coolness for visions and food tasting, far from the urban chaos even if in the centre of the city of Naples, at few steps from National Archeological Museum!

Piero Golia
Italian preview of the documentary:
The vanishing
by Filippo Barbieri

This trip starts at NY with a sleeping bag, with a water resistant baggage, with a pair of special shoes and... with Piero Golia.
On January 14, 2005, Piero left New York without leaving any trace of him, and appears newly the morning of February 7 at Royal Academy of Arts in Copenhagen. This incredible trip has been told by Italian filmmaker Filippo Barbieri with the help of Commander Umberto Rapetto, expert on localisation of missing persons, and Francesco Lanzotti, a criminal psycologist.
The path is clear and emotional representation of a travel, part performance and part an "acting mise-en-scene of potential being".

At the end of the documentary, a special surprise will be screened!

Free entrance

Piazzetta Trinità alla Cesarea, 231
Naples

Focus on Piero Golia:
Piero Golia was born August 24, 1974, in Naples. He lives in Los Angeles, CA. He is considered one of the most interesting young emerging contemporary artists. His work has been shown in major museums and galleries all over the world, from Turin to Los Angeles, from Paris to Miami. Eccentric and provocative, he makes installations which involve the audience, as in Faccio sul serio, presented in 2002 in Milan, where a visible elecric flux goes through a gold inscription informing the audience about the dangers surrounding them. In his works he plays with dimension ­ as in Retrospettiva, a model museum in which all his productions are reproduced in miniatures ­ alternating technological and physical issues. When the Tirana Art Biennal invited him to participate, he arrived in his own boat.

Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2007
Postcards from the Edge, Cosmic Galerie, Paris
Piero Golia, Bortolami - Dayan, New York
2005
Piero Golia, Galleria Fonti, Naples
February 2005, Christina Wilson Gallery, Copenhagen
Let's the Devils Do Their Job, Perry Rubinstein Gallery, New York
2004
The King is Dead, Cosmic Galerie, Paris (with Christian Jankowski and Gianni
Motti)
Killer Shrimps, 61 mostra internazionale d'arte cinematografica di Venezia,
Venice
2003
Art Statement, Miami Basel Art Fair, Miami
May Be Not Even a Nation of Millions, Cosmic Galerie, Paris (with Marcello
Simeone and Marco Boggio Sella)
2002
Faccio sul serio, Studio Massimo De Carlo, Milan
Again, Maze Gallery, Turin
Ecart, Basel Art Fair, Bâle, curated by John Armleder and
Silvye Fleury (with Laurent Pache)
La folie de la Villa Médicis, Villa Médicis, Académie de France à Rome (with Marco Boggio Sella)
2001
Tattoo, I-20 Gallery, New York
Voi non sapete chi mi credo di essere, Viafarini, Milan
2000
Le mucche per Morra, Studio Morra, Naples
...Forever..., Maze Gallery, Turin

Selected Group Exhibitions:
2007
Lara Favaretto, Francesco Gennari, Piero Golia, Massimo Grimaldi, Engholm
Engelhorn Galerie, Vienne
Uncertain States of America, American Art in the 3rd Millenium, touring exhibition Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague; Le Musée de Sérignan, Sérignan; CCA
Warsaw, Warsaw; Herning Art Museum, Herning, curated by Gunnar B. Kvaran, Daniel Birnbaum, Hans-Ulrich Obrist
Dialogues méditerranéens, la Citadelle, Saint-Tropez, curated by Susanne van Hagen
Où? Scènes du Sud : Espagne, Italie, Portugal, le Carré d'art, Nîmes, curated by Françoise Cohen
Space Oddity, Cosmic Galerie, Paris
Vesuvius, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, curated by Gigiotto Del Vecchio
Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, curated by Joseph Backstein, Daniel Birnbaum, Iara Boubnova, Nicolas Bourriaud, Fulya Erdemci, ,Gunnar B. Kvaran, Rosa Martinez, Hans-Ulrich Obrist
2006
Fuori Uso, Pescara, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud and Paolo Falcone
Gold Standards, P.S.1, New York, curated by Anthony Huberman and Paul Pfeiffer
When Fathers Fail, Daniel Reich Gallery, New York, curated by Guillaume Rouchon
Grey Flags, Sculpture Center, Long Island City; CAPC Bordeaux, curated by Anthony Huberman et Paul Pfeiffer
Uncertain States of America, American Art in the 3rd Millenium, ARC, Musée
d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris; Reykiavik Art Museum, Serpentine
Gallery, Londres, Bard College, New York, curated by Gunnar B. Kvaran, Daniel Birnbaum, Hans-Ulrich Obrist
Vesuvius, 798 Space, Pekin, curated by Gigiotto Del Vecchio
People, Volti, corpi e segni contemporanei della collezione di Ernesto Esposito, Museo Madre, Naples, curated by Eduardo Cicelyn and Mario Codognato
Survivor, Bortolami Dayan, New York, curated by David Rimanelli
2005
Performa Biennale 2, 24h Incidental, Swiss Institue, New York, curated by Jordan Wolfson
Napoli Presente, Posizioni e prospettive dell'arte contemporanea, PAN, Palazzo delle Arti, Napoli, curated by Lorand Hegyi
Uncertain States of America, American Art in the 3rd Millenium, Astrup
Fearnly Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, curated by Gunnar B. Kvaran, Daniel Birnbaum, Hans-Ulrich Obrist
Arte all'Arte X, Colle di Val d'Elsa, Siena, curated by Galleria Continua, San Giminiano
E-Flux Video Rental, Portikus, Frankfurt
Closing Down, Bortolami - Dayan, New York
ID Troubles ­ US Visit, NURTUREart INC, New York, curated by Heike Munder and B. Steinbrugger
2004
I nuovi mostri, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan, curated by Massimiliano Gioni
Narcissus: New Vision of Self Representation, CRAC Alsace, Altkirsch
2003
Assenze Presenze, une nouvelle génération d'artistes italiens, Le Botanique,
Centre Culturelle de la Communauté Française Wallonie-Bruxelles, Brussels
Cosi va il Mondo, Espace Paul Ricard, Paris, curated by Charloltte Laubard
Biennale de Prague, Prague, curated by Giancarlo Politi
Sukun, Museum Folkwang, Essen, curated by N. Sonmez
Sub Real: Reality Survival Strategies, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam, curated by Bartolomeo Pietromarchi
2002
Napoli Anno Zero, Qui e Ora, Castel Sant'Elmo, Naples, curated by Giancarlo Maraniello
Radical and Critical, Fondazione Olivetti, Rome, curated by Bartolomeo Pietromarchi
La Folie de la Villa Médicis, Villa Médicis, Académie de France à Rome, curated by Chiara Parisi
There is a Light Which Never Goes Out, Villa Galvani, Pordenone, curated by Sonia Rosso
2001
I Tirana Biennial, National Gallery, Tirana, curated by Giancarlo Politi
Cosa Arcana e stupenda, Sermoneta, curated by Andrea Bellini
Schizzi, macchie e pensieri, Studio Massimo De Carlo, Milan, curated by Paola Clerico
Invasione Italiana, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Siracusa, curated by S. Lacagnina
Lovers, Terminal, Bologna, curated by E. Bordighelli & D. Lotta
Play, Open Space, Milan, curated by Gigiotto Del Vecchio
2000
Castelli in aria, Museo di Castel Sant' Elmo, Naples, curated by Angela Tecce

Lectures:
2005
The Vanishing, The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen
2004
Something About Charlie, MOCA, Los Angeles
2003
1987, Accademia di Brera, Milan
2002
La differenza tra artefice e creatore nel pensiero aristotelico, Università Bocconi, Milan

info MAO evenings: info at mediartsoffice.eu

Volume

The prestigious Dutch Magazine Volume Magazine is finally in Italy and can be read and bought in two places: downtown Milano, to the splendid Hoepli Bookshop, and downtown Naples, to the cultural Wednesdays signed by MAO starting from July 18 and continuing through Sept. 2007 chez the design hostel La Controra, few steps by Museo Archeologico Nazionale.

MAO, the no profit Neapolitan company, shares a preview on the official national distribution of the magazine that will upcome on Autumn 2007: a very precious occasion to meet not only one of the best architecture magazines but also a very positive case of publishing, from the graphic design to the constitution of a thematic palinsesto, ending with the choice of famous contributors. Volume magazine is offered to a special price of Euro 17.50 each issue (for MAO members there will be a further discount).
See archis.org.

Volume magazine is a project by Archis, AMO, C-Lab and other partners.

AMO is a research and design studio that applies architectural thinking to disciplines beyond the borders of architecture and urbanism. AMO operates in tandem with its companion company The Office for Metropolitan Architecture ( Rotterdam, The Netherlands, www.oma.nl)
C-Lab , the Columbia Laboratory for Architectural Broadcasting, is an experimental research unit devoted to the development of new forms of communication on architecture, set up as a semi-autonomous think and action tank at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation of Columbia University ( www.arch.columbia.edu ).

Diana Marrone, journalist and fundraiser, founding partner of MAO, tells us how she met the editors from Volume Magazine and how this cooperation was born: " I always loved Volume. It is a magazine, edited in English language, that is so precious as rare. It does not face front to design themes as we always deal in Italian or other International architecture magazines. Volume borns by the genious Koolhas (the joung Rem started as journalist and critic, before becoming, in elder age, an architect) and from the golden experience of Archis Magazine that was glued in the new Volume project. Im all the time seeking themes and projects that stand as innovative from the editorial viewpoint and further on how they use language and meta-language, our first and second main media. Recently, by attending an International Architecture festival to Cagliari (who invited to talk, among the others, Koolhas and Christian Ermster, a joung Dutch historian and map-theorist who is an Archis editor) I asked to give to MAO the issues of Volume Magazine as preview on the next official distribution: a very good strike!

Our crowded Wednesday have a right occasion more to do not be missed: among the publication we exhibit and sell for our guests, you will find also the last Volume year. The issues 6, 7, 8, 10, 11 are edited in beautiful single-theme issues and have all a very curious claim: independent bimonthly for architecture to go beyond itself. I let get you very curious with the title of the above 5 issues : Architecture of Power (Power Building, Power Logic), Ubiquitous China, Agitation ! See what architecture is shaking, until the last Cities Unbuilt."

MAO – city holidays // focus on Wednesday 2007/06/27

ONE MINUTE SUITE is a project, rather a work in progress signed by Andrea Mi (Florence) and Francesco Quarto (Naples) in occasion of the lattest editions of Videominuto Pop Tv (Tuscany region, Italy). This video festival is continuously upgrading and tell the digital revolution acting on new media horizons thanks to audiovisual hybrid made by the sounds of electronic scene and the digital video screening.

Some of the most interesting cool vibrations that in these years were crossing on the changing ground of digital arts, seemed to choose the videoclip as way to experiment kinaesthetic languages. The curators started by this matter of fact to ask to some very representative and international djs, music producers and musicians to produce a musical micro-suite lasting 1 minute. A sonic challenge made of loop, short sequences, noise, glitch and any other possible electronic nuance able to narrate in few seconds a powerful condensed image on the move and expanded sounds. The micro-clip are signed by some of the most innovative musicians helped by the same level of talents in visual design. The result is a patchwork of digital microclip as crazy fragments of our "electronic daily life", a puzzle to stimulate our audio-visual imagery.

Address:
La Controra
Piazzetta Trinità alla Cesarea, 231
Napoli

info MAO – city holidays: info at mediartsoffice.eu

MAO – city holidays // each Wednesday from 7 pm 19 to 11.30 pm / your sense oasis

The pleasure to chat, to face with art collectives, directors, authors and artists, each time engaged in a sweet or salty struggle with fine foods&drinks that merge with their messages. Everything will take place in a splendid XVII cent. garden in the Naples heart, few steps up Archeological Museum.

MAO - Media&Arts Office, Neapolitan no profit fully dedicated to widespread the digital culture and the arts of our days, curate san informal summer palinsesto, splitting between infotainment and networking.

MAO – city holidays, each Wednesday by 7 pm to 11.30 pm in the design oriented spaces of La Controra, is a weekly programme that that besides public conversations, screenings, creative writing, each time a different food offer that sells food and wines. Nor too much intellectual aptitude, nor screamings, but just a place where debate or simply listen, by sitting on the grass – while the laptop is linked to an open and free WiFi connection.

With MAO – city holidays, Media&Arts Office launches its membership card that allows to get involved in the virtual and real community of the Neapolitan no profit company and also publisher. The MAO red book, the gadgets for the beginners (T-shirt and accounts), the contents palinsestos, together with some discounts offered by theatres, shops and local agencies, give you the possibility to sustain the MAO activities and to join it.

Before screenings, meetings and food and wine tastings (that will start always on 20.30), each weekly appointment is opened by a hata yoga class (Swami Satyananda Saraswati method) curated by Alessandra Cianelli. Each class starts at 7 pm and lessons are made on the grass.

This are the first 2007 summer wednesday:

June 20, 2007: Docutech, MAO screenings: 2 world awarded documentaries on the key figures and scene of contemporary electronic music (original language)

June 27, 2007: OneMinuteSuite, a very powerful condensed of moving images and expanding sounds. Videoclip very hard to see on che MTV!

July 4, 2007: video show case from the Catania Art Collective Cane Capovolto; presentation of the monthly magazine and project NapoliMonitor

July 11, 2007: OrientExpress edition house presentation

July 18, 2007: first Neapolitan Presentation of the media art festival Struttura [studi e visioni sul mare digitale at S.Vincenzo and Campiglia Marittima (Livorno)]; screening video Mediaterrae

July 25, 2007: MyCreativity platform by the Dutch Media Theorist Geert Lovink, distribuzione newspaper MyCreativity;
Call for entries for N.EST, open urbanistic project: presentation

MAO – city holidays 2007
Each Wednesday by 7 pm to 11.30 pm June 20 – Agoust 1, 2007

Yoga, conversations, presentations, screenings and food&wine tasting

Address:
La Controra
Piazzetta Trinità alla Cesarea, 231
Napoli

info MAO – city holidays: info at mediartsoffice.eu

for Yoga class: ale.cianelli at tele2.it

Possible Time
a conversation with
Fran Ilich, Mexico City, possibleworlds.org

participants:
Vito Campanelli, Naples, mediartsoffice.eu
Krystian Woznicki, Berlin, berlinergazette.de

moderator:
Maurice Frank, Berlin, exberliner.com

Dr. Pong
Eberswalder Strasse 21, Berlin
02.02.2007 - from 20 pm
Free entrance

:: more info

Understanding New Media 2.2
The German Scene:
The network, memory and identity: a challenge for digital art
Open Lecture by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
Tuesday Dec. 12, 2006 4 pm – 6.30 pm
Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”, Palazzo del Mediterraneo
Via Nuova Marina 59 Naples (I)
Hall 1.1 / free entrance, English language
Video streaming

Who’s really Wilfried Agricola de Cologne? Nobody knows his true identity and his true age (he declares to be born on 1950). Surely Wilfried Agricola de Cologne is German, born somewhere in the Black Forest. And surely he is one of the most exceptional virtual artist and curator ever existed, who lived and worked truly practicing a permanent online exposure. He declares to have died as the artist AGRICOLA on 31 December 1998 as the result of a terrorist attack and also tells to be reborn as the artist AGRICOLA de Cologne on 1 January 2000. He is living and working since 1984 in Cologne (Germany).
MAO, Neapolitan no profit agency with an European mission that speaks English and like to import in Italy all that would remain unknown (while exports the best Italian practices), continues its mission to disseminate digital culture and the most relevant topics of new arts to Italian audience. MAO invites the German Artist de Cologne to open the new cicle of the talks Understanding new media dedicated to the stars of the German Scene by producing and curating an open lecture streamed on the web as every talk offered before in Italy, where audience is acclaiming such moments dedicated to indepth with strong quality issues the debate on digital culture.
The seminar, entitled The network, memory and identity: a challenge for digital art, is dedicated to explore the most recent Agricola’s projects. Agricola tells, for the first time in Italy, about his Java Museum and the experience of [R] [R] [F]---> 200X (Remembering, Repressing, Forgetting), a flash video festival (as well as an online environment) that put together more than 800 artists and 50 curators of international standing and gives evidence of how is possibile, also in the art world, to apply the networking aptitude and culture. Curators select a numbers of artists on a theme base, after each selection and after the consequent online and offline exhibition, they put new visions and new culture insights, with the creation of new memories and connections. Therefore, after the different acquiring of further themes of selection and after having done further editions, Agricola created a network and an incredible database, either structural and performative – that is filled by all the viewpoint of the participating artists/curators but mainly assuring infinite other collective and rizhome-based visions.
Since 2004, the festival selected just two themes, the memory and the identity, that are the core of the talk, curated by MAO, that the artist will offer on December 12, in Naples, starting at 4 pm.
The lecture will be the first European occasion to appreciate the festival results, because it has been closed and just presented to MACRO (Museum de Arte Contemporaneo, Rosario, Argentina), on last November 14. So MAO offers, according to its mission, an absolute preview, that could be easily followed from each part of the world by the web streaming on mediartsoffice.eu website.

Agricola will be introduced by the MAO curators, that will announce also the next no profit projects.
To give the salutation of the collaborating University, the madam professor Jocelyne Vincent, Director of Dipartimento di studi americani, culturali e linguistici of Università degli Studi di Napoli “L'Orientale”, together with Tiziana Terranova, culture media and film science of the Essex University (UK), visiting professor to the department managed by Professor Vincent thanks to the “brain incentives” programme dedicated by Italian Ministry of Education to the mobility return of Italian researcher abroad.

:: an interview with Agricola de Cologne [.pdf]

The first MAO talk, placed in the section labelled "Understanding New Media", is dedicated to the stars of the Dutch Scene.

On Friday October 6, at Napoli, thanks to the crucial support of The Dutch Embassy in Rome, and the contribution of the degree course “Lingue, culture e istituzioni dei Paesi del Mediterraneo” of the Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”, MAO invites Geert Lovink, well known dutch mass media theorist and activist (his essays translated in italian are Dark Fibers, and Internet non è il Paradiso).
Lovink is the most important Net theorist and the first to highlight the sharp limits of this media. Abosolute sui generis thinker, Lovink is a young intellectual: very popular in big universities, he is, in paralleli, a very welcomed theorist of counterculture, cyber and not.

Lovink will meet the public in a free entrance conference from 4.30 to 6.30 pm at Palazzo del Mediterraneo of the Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”: the talk will be also streamed on Internet in realtime thanks to C.I.L.A. (Centro Interdipartimentale di servizi Linguistici ed Audiovisivi) on the site www.cila.unior.it and on the MAO site, www.mediartsoffice.eu

Starting from 8.30 pm, MAO will offer a party for Geert Lovink, only upon invitation (for information press@mediartsoffice.eu), at the Spollichino (Piazza S. Maria la Nova - Napoli). The place will be filled with 10 statement taken from the artist’s thought: a creative provocation from which start to interact with the MAO world and the Lovink world.