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#RomaMAF Underway!

#RomaMAF Underway!

#RomaMAF Underway!

The BNL Media Art Festival (Rome, April 13-17) begins today. The event, which is orgainsed by the Fondazione Mondo Digitale in co-production with the BNL Group BNP Paribas, will be feature 20 types of events in 8 locations over 5 days. Today, the festival will be inaugurated at the MAXXI – National Museum of 21st Century Art with a press conference.

 

  Programme – Day One – April 13

 

MAXXI - Spazio D 11 am – 7 pm

EXHIBITION OF SELECT WORKS

ARTISTS

 

MAXXI - Corner D 11 am – 7 pm

EXHIBITION OF WORKS

SCHOOLS

 

MAXXI - Auditorium 11 - 11.30 am

LIVE STREAMING

PRESS CONFERENCE – FESTIVAL PRESENTATION

Moderator: Federico Ferrazza, Director, Wired Italia

Speakers

  • Dario Franceschini, Minister of Cultural Heritage and Tourism
  • Nicola Zingaretti, President, Regione Lazio
  • Mirta Michilli, Director General, Fondazione Mondo Digitale
  • Luigi Abete, President, BNL Group BNP Paribas
  • Gerfried Stocker, Managing Director, Ars Electronica Linz
  • Siegfried Zielinski, Founding Rector, Academy of Arts & Media Cologne, and Rector, University of Arts & Design Karlsruhe
  • Giovanna Melandri, President, Fondazione MAXXI

 

 

MAXXI - Spazio D 11.45 am

EXHIBITION VISIT

With a performance by media artist Giacomo Lion

 

MAXXI - Auditorium 12 am - 13.30 pm

 

 

LIVE STREAMING

ROUND TABLE

“MEDIA ART: THE NEW ITALIAN CHALLENGE”

Moderator: Valentino Catricalà, Artistic Director, BNL Media Art Festival

Speakers

  • Alfonso Molina, Scientific Director, Fondazione Mondo Digitale
  • Anna Boccaccio, Institutional Relations Director, BNL Group BNP Paribas
  • Alberto Dambruoso, Art Critic, founder of “I Martedì Critici”
  • Gerfried Stocker, Managing Director, Ars Electronica Linz
  • Piotr Krajewski, Co-founder and Artistic Director, WRO Art Center
  • Siegfried Zielinski, Founding Rector Academy of Arts & Media Cologne and Rector, University of Arts & Design Karlsruhe
  • Antoni Muntadas, Media Artist and Professor at the Venice IUAV Visual Art Laboratory

 

MAXXI - Auditorium 3.30 – 4.30 pm

LECTURE FOR STUDENTS

Distr-active Works. An On-line Dialogue between Arts and Science.

  • Giorgio Barberio Corsetti, Theatre director (video conference)
  • Alex Barchiesi, Dept. Distributed Calculations and Storage, Consortium GARR
  • Bruno Nati, Web Communications, Consortium GARR

 

MAXXI - Auditorium 4.30 – 5 pm

FROM ART GALLERY TO CULTURAL ATTACHE’

Stephen Labensky, Cultural Attaché, US Embassy in Italy

 

MAXXI 21 19 – 20

 

 

LIVE STREAMING

ART PITCHES

Moderated and introduced by Mirta Michilli, Director General, Fondazione Mondo Digitale

Speakers

  • Stefano Celi, Synergy Coordinator, BNL Group BNP Paribas, Italy
  • Andrea Limone, CEO, PerMicro, Italia

5 digital artists present their creative project to clients and entrepreneurs; Q&A with entrepreneurs

 

MAXXI 21 e Spazio D 19

EXHIBITION VERNISSAGE & INAUGURATION

With a performance by media artist Cinzia Cremona

 

MAXXI - Auditorium 8.30 – 9.15 pm

SOUND ART PERFORMANCE

AUDINT Collective, United Kingdom

 

Mestiere-impresa-bnlBNL Mestiere Impresa will man a desk at the MAXXI.

 

 

 

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