Until May 19, The Media Art Festival at the MAXXI (Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI secolo) in Paris will exhibit works over 50 artists from 10 countries during the “The Great Convergence: Natural and Artificial Intelligence” exhibition.
What is the relation between natural creativity and artificial intelligence? Artists invite us to discover unexpected relations and reflect on the potential of media art to comprehend urgent cultural and social issues and interpret the complexity of our times.
Who are we? Who will we be? What will we become? Using installations, robotic applications, sound art and video art, the artists will involve the audience in an original viewpoint of the world, a fascinating journey through knowledge that will transform us and motivate new behaviour.
The Media Art Festival, now in its fourth edition directed by Valentino Catricalà, presents the works of world-renowned artists: from Eduardo Kac’s “Inner Telescope,” a work developed in space (a first for Italy), to Gary Hill’s mental experiments and Anna Frants and the Vasulkas’ video art, as well as Italian artists such as Ra Di Martino and Donato Piccolo. Chiara Passa presents “Extreme surfaces and terrains”, a series of Virtual Reality video-sculptures which explore surface shape and architecture as interface. Six of the works that will be exhibited at the MAXXI “Spazio Extra” were developed through collaborative labs that involved 200 students from eight schools in Rome, Milan and Palermo.
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Cover : Gary Hill, The Psychedelic Gedanken Experiment © Nausicaa Pellei
1/ Antonio Fiorentino, Opusimago © Nausicaa Pellei
2/ Chiara Passa, Extreme Surfaces and Terrains © Nausicaa Pellei
