Today, the Hon. Davide Faraone, MIUR Undersecretary of State, will inaugurate a special training day dedicated to coding and “fabbing” for art.

As part of the BNL Media Art Festival, tomorrow, April 14, all the activities at the Phyrtual Innovation Gym (via del Quadraro 102) will centre on artistic activities, intersecting other projects underway with historical partners of the Fondazione Mondo Digitale.

This original day will be kicked off by the Hon. Davide Faraone, Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Education, University and Research.

In particular, the day dedicated to the BNL Media Art Festival features three activities. The day will begin with Breakfast with Art, How to Make Art in a Fab Lab (10:20-11:20 am) in the digital manufacturing lab. From 3-4 pm, the BNL Corner will feature transmedia artist Lino Strangis, who transformed an artistic experience into a videogame together with students. Also from 3-4 pm, the Activity Space will host a debate with French and Italian teachers on Art for Inclusion, an event organised by the French Embassy and the Lazio Regional School Department.

The other environments at the Phyrtual Innovation Gym will host three more projects: Microsoft Youthspark Live Event, Code Your Future and Future Recoded. All of these projects are run with historical FMD partners Microsoft and Telecentre Europe, as well as a new strategic collaboration with the Fondazione Filarete. The tree projects are united by the experience of coding to advance the digital skills of youth and create new work opportunities for them.

The BNL Media Art Festival (Rome, April 13-17) is an event promoted by the Fondazione Mondo Digitale in co-production with BNL Group BNP Paribas. The full programme is available at bnlmediaartfestival.org

PROGRAMME

BNL MEDIA ART FESTIVAL AT THE PHYRTUAL INNOVATION GYM

RomE, via del Quadraro 102

10.00 am - AGORÀ

Mirta Michilli, Director General, Fondazione Mondo Digitale

OPENING KEYNOTE

Hon. Davide Faraone

10.20 – 11.20 am - FABLAB

BREAKFAST WITH ART: HOW TO MAKE ART IN A FAB LAB

Moderator: Alessandro Caruso, Associate Editor, InsideArt

• Alfonso Molina, Scientific Director, Fondazione Mondo Digitale
• Stefano Celi, BNL Group BNL Paribas
• Giacomo Lion, Media Artist
• Mauro Del Santo, Designer and Fab Lab Coordinator at the Phyrtual Innovation Gym
• Fabio Mongelli, Director, RUFA - University of Fine Arts

10.30 am – 1.00 pm - AGORÀ

YOUTHSPARK LIVE EVENT: CODING IN ART

WELCOME

• Ana Lain, Fondazione Mondo Digitale
• Paola Andreozzi, CSR Lead Microsoft

PANEL SESSION: HOW TECHNOLOGY SUPPORTS CAREERS IN THE IT INDUSTRY

Moderator: Fondazione Mondo Digitale

• Walter Paradiso, Videogame Artist
• Cinzia Cremona, Digital Performer
• Laura Leuzzi, Curator and Video Art Historian, University of Dundee
• Leonardo Birindelli, Startup DVI99
• Francesco Del Sole, Education Lead Microsoft

PRESENTATION OF INSPIRING DIGITAL ART WORKS

Digital artists

Q&A with students and teachers

CAREERS IN IT WITH MICROSOFT

• Marusca Giacomini, HR Partner Microsoft
• Alessio Moretti, Microsoft Student Partner

1 – 2 pm - BREAK

2-5 pm

WORKSHOPS: USE & CREATE WITH TECHNOLOGY

• CREATIVE LESSONS WITH ONE NOTE with Fiammetta Castagnini, Fondazione Mondo Digitale – Class 3.0
• CREATIVE CODING WITH MINECRAFT with Giorgia Di Tommaso, Phd in computer science and Developer, Sapienza University – Coding Lab
• CREATIVE APPS WITH APPSTUDIO with Luca Congiu, DotNetCode.IT, Microsoft .Net Coding Community – Robotics Centre
• VIDEO ART with Salvatore Insana, Video Artist – Video Lab
• FABART with Luca Frogheri, Digital Maker – Fab Lab
• IMMERSIVE ART with Domenico Zungri, Immersive Designer – Immersive Lab

3-4 pm – GAME LAB

DIGITAL ART ALLA PALESTRA DELL’INNOVAZIONE

Inauguration of the BNL Corner with Lino Strangis and the team of students with whom he developed a media art works.

Luigi Maccallini, Retail Communications Manager, BNL Group BNP Paribas.

3-5 pm - AGORÀ

ARTE FOR INCLUSION

In collaboration with the French Embassy and the Lazio Regional School Department, a debate with French and Italian teachers

Moderator: Cecilia Stajano, School Innovation Manager, Fondazione Mondo Digitale.

Speakers

• Gildo De Angelis, Director, Lazio Regional School Department
• Fabienne Rondelli, Educational Cooperation Attaché, Embassy of France