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Giuseppe Abate (Bari, 1987). In 2011 he obtained a B.A. in Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. From 2013 to 2014 he had been working at Cannaviello Art Studio, Milan. In 2014 he attended a Residency Program at the Fondazione Bevilacqua la Masa. From 2016 to 2017 he has been invited to the last tree editions of the Guwahati Research Program, Assam (India) promoted by Microclima, Venice.
His work have been shown at: Assam State Museum (Guwahati, India), Museo della Montagna di Torino (Torino), Museo Pino Pascali di Polignano (Bari), Rob Pruitt Flea Market, A+A Gallery (Venezia), Galleria Comunale d'Arte Contemporanea di Monfalcone (Monfalcone), Fondazione Bevilacqua la Masa (Venezia), Studio d'Arte Cannaviello (Milano).
Edoardo Aruta (Rome, 1981) lives and works in Venice. He studied at Rome’s Belle Arti Academy and at Venice’s IUAV University. He has worked as a scenographer and costumer in theatre and cinema. His research focuses on the study of the languages of art and on how they are determined according to the relationship that a man has with space and the social context that accommodates him, using the artistic act as a mean to make a cognitive and explorative experience of the given environment. Such exploration brought him to include various types of languages in his practice, from the more classical approaches of sculpture, to installation, photography, drawing and the creation of alternative spaces.
Riccardo Banfi (Milan, b. 1986) is a photographer who lives and works in between Milan and Venice. Riccardo completed his studies in 2012 with a degree in Progettazione e Produzione delle Arti Visive at the IUAV, Venice. If club culture has been the subject and the filter through which Banfi has focused his research, he has also developed a parallel photographic corpus in which different genres and approaches coexist.
Riccardo’s work has been exhibited in European institutions and festivals including: Cneai (Paris); Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Casa dei Tre Oci, Serra dei Giardini (Venice); Fonderia Artistica Battaglia (Milan); Fotomuseum Winterthur (Winterthur); Agora (Berlin); International Festival of Short Films (Geneva); LOOP Video Art Festival (Barcelona). In 2012 he was artist in residence at Fondazione Bevilacqua la Masa, Venice, and in 2013 at Dena Foundation for Contemporary Art, Paris. In 2015 he participated in the Guwahati Research Program (India), organised by Microclima.
Mario Ciaramitaro (b. Castelfranco Emilia, 1985) is a PhD candidate in Design Sciences at IUAV University of Venice. His research is how interfaces and digital apparatuses change the perception between private/public spaces. Since 2009 he teaches as Assistant Professor at IUAV University at visual arts courses, an experience that he is collecting in the book Jump Age (2017). He works also under the collective name of Blauer Hase at the Paesaggio, a magazine made by only artist texts and the Recorded Audio Festival, Helicotrema.
Alessandra Messali (born in Brescia, November 1985), graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts of Venice and took her Master’s in Design and Production of Visual Arts at the IUAV University of Venice, where since 2012 she has been a teaching assistant for the artist Antoni Muntadas.
Her work has been displayed in institutions and festivals such as Museo della Specola - Sistema Museale di Ateneo (Bologna, Italy), Assam State Museum (Guwahati, Assam, India), Fundación Botin (Santander, Spain), Tram Diogene (Torino, Italy), the Museum of Contemporary Art of Lissone (Lissone, Italy), the 5th Prague Biennale (Prague, Czech Republic), HELICOTREMA Festival of recorded audio (Venice, Italy), the Municipal Gallery of Contemporary Art of Monfalcone (Monfalcone, Italy), the Bevilacqua la Masa Foundation (Venice, Italy) and FILMAKERDOC 14, Spazio Oberdan (Milan, Italy).
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Alessandra Messali (born in Brescia, November 1985), graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts of Venice and took her Master’s in Design and Production of Visual Arts at the IUAV University of Venice, where since 2012 she has been a teaching assistant for the artist Antoni Muntadas.
Her work has been displayed in institutions and festivals such as Museo della Specola - Sistema Museale di Ateneo (Bologna, Italy), Assam State Museum (Guwahati, Assam, India), Fundación Botin (Santander, Spain), Tram Diogene (Torino, Italy), the Museum of Contemporary Art of Lissone (Lissone, Italy), the 5th Prague Biennale (Prague, Czech Republic), HELICOTREMA Festival of recorded audio (Venice, Italy), the Municipal Gallery of Contemporary Art of Monfalcone (Monfalcone, Italy), the Bevilacqua la Masa Foundation (Venice, Italy) and FILMAKERDOC 14, Spazio Oberdan (Milan, Italy).
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Thomas Nadal Poletto (1984, lives and works in Turin).
Through the creation of video-sound installations and actions, Thomas Nadal Poletto investigates the representation of experiences, perception, movement and distances.
Matteo Primiterra (Kinonauts)
Matteo Primiterra graduates in Visual Arts at the IUAV University in Venice in 2012. He is a freelance filmmaker and in 2014 founded the Kinonauts Studio together with Matteo Stocco. Primiterra's research focuses on experiencing the different entities of the documentary cinema. He realized projects in Mongolia, India and Cuba in collaboration with Microclima (Venice) and exhibited his films internationally. Since 2015 he is teacher's assistant at the MA Documentary Cinema course at the IUAV in Venice.
Joe Sartorius (Birmingham, UK, 1985) is a filmmaker based in Venice. He read European Literature and Culture at Cambridge before completing a Master’s in Screen Documentary at Goldsmiths, University of London. He worked in film production for a number of years before turning to documentary filmmaking with a particular interest in social issues and the relationships between unusual environments and the people that inhabit them. His work to date has taken him to Palestine, Tanzania and India and has been screened at the Curzon Cinema Bloomsbury, Cheap Cuts Film Festival (London), Serra dei Giardini (Venice), and River Film Festival (Padova).
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Matteo Stocco (Kinonauts) (b. 1986, Venice, lives and works in Venice). Stocco’s main field of research concerns dynamics and the problems that influence contemporary city development. His work aims to observe micro bounds of intimacy and everyday life. After initially employing photography and interactive installation, he moved to video making, devising a web video prototype as his thesis project. His choice of medium moves between audio-visual projects, documentary and cross-media products.He studied Visual and Multimedia Communication at University IUAV of Venezia and is a freelance video maker and motion designer. He is co-founder of the Videotrope Collective and ihas attended the artist residency programme at Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice.
William West (b. 1964, England)
William West gained his BA in Sculpture from Central St. Martins College of Fine Art, London. He lives and works in Pavia, Italy.
As for West's work, his why's and his worries, they follow a particular narrative of nothingness and emptiness, of failure and error in the context of man, beast, and notions of virtue. A form of anti Wunderkammer.