Travelling exhibition of multimedia art

130 artists from 34 nations

CAM | Casoria Contemporary Art Museum

5 | 30 October 2008

opening

Saturday 4 October 2008

curated by

Antonio Manfredi

arranged by

FaticArt association | Perugia

On Saturday Octorber the 4th, at 7.00 pm, CAM_Casoria Contemporary Art Museum, on occasion of the IV edition of the “Day for the Contemporary” promoted by AMACI, will host the last leg of the III edition of the Contemporary Art  Festival “Sound Glances 2008”, arranged by FaticArt association.

The exhibition at CAM_Casoria, curated by Antonio Manfredi, involves 130 international artists, among them renown face sto Casoria Museum, like Agricola De Cologne, Carlo Fatigoni, the GruppoSinestetico, Thorsten Fleisch, Brigitte Neufeldt and new names, like Kojo Hitoshi, Domenico Olivero and Haidji. Participating visual and sound art artists come from all over the place, with important names from Great Britain, Switzerland, France, Holland, Italy, Japan, US.

The stops of the event followed between June to October all over Italy stating from Schio (Vicenza) Lanificio Conte, then moved to Palazzo Orsini in Bomarzo (Viterbo), to the State Disco of Rome (Central Institute for Sound and Audiovisual goods), to the San Marco in Tarquinia (Viterbo) Chiostro, to Villa d’Este (Tivoli–Rome), and concluding, from October the 4^th to the 30^th , at Casoria Museum.

CAM_ Casoria Contemporary Art Museum is particularly known to the artists and to net-art for having one of the best and richest collections of International digital and multimedia art and to first approach the issue of fruition and keeping of digital artworks.

Particularly, Casoria Museum, always ready to welcome international artistic experimentation, will present two sections making the program of Sound Glances, “Six seconds around me”, video session, and “Sign the sound”, digital photography dedicated session.

The six seconds of the video session configure as time margin of the images and sounds perception of an inner feeling. Videos show what artists think about the world and about their own being thus springing from it ideal, real, soul and lived  landscapes.

The “Sign the sound” session inquires through photography, the relationship between image and sound, between looking and listening into the contemporary. Pictures are the visual trans position of a sound, a noise, of music or of silence.

A particular mention to the tribute session dedicated to Angel Alonso, Damir Fuentes Garcia and Dennis H. Miller respectively for digital animation movies, comics matrix drawings and coloured computer compositions.

Moreover, a selection of excerpts from movies by Cinema Astratto (3 to 8 minutes) since 1910 till today, in which contributions shine by big shot artists like: Ed Emshwiller, Emile Cohl, Gordon Matta Clark, Jordan Belson, Larry Cuba, Le Corbusier, Mary Ellen Bute, Nam June Paik/Fluxus, Oskar Fischinger, Peter Kubelka, Robert Breer, Stan Brakhage, Tony Conrad, Viking Eggeling.

From 8.00pm to 10.30pm, on the opening night the French – although Italian adopted – Axelectro, very young dj and music composer of electro-experimental tone.

Participating to the realization of the travelling exhibition:

Regione Lazio, Comune di Roma, Provincia di Roma, Istituto Centrale per i beni sonori e audiovisivi – Discoteca di Stato, Provincia e Comune di Benevento, Regione Campania, Provincia di Viterbo, Comune di Tarquinia, Comune di Bomarzo, Comune di Schio, G.A.S.P Gallery Boston, Carlo Gavazzi Space s.p.a.