The third edition of the Media Art Festival, an initiative promoted by the Fondazione Mondo Digitale to explore the new frontiers of art and culture, opens today at the MAXXI, the Museum of 21st Century Arts.
The 2017 edition will feature 35 digital artists from 14 countries, 250 students from 11 schools, 2 major European projects based on the artists in residence formula that insert the event into a pretigious system of European Festivals. The institutional welcome will be held at 11 am with a press review of all the artists involved in MAF.
Programme – Day One - Maxxi
INAUGURATION: THE POWER TO CHANGE THE WORLD EXHIBITION
Spazio D | 11 am – 12 am
- Giovanna Melandri, President, Fondazione MAXXI
- Mirta Michilli, Director General, Fondazione Mondo Digitale
- Paolo Masini, MiBACT Councillor
- Eleonora Guadagno, President, Rome Culture, Youth Policy and Labour Commission
- Lidia Ravera, Culture and Youth Policy Councillor, Regione Lazio
PRESS PREVIEW
with Valentino Catricalà, Artistic Director, Media Art Festival, and Artists
ART IS GOOD FOR THE ECONOMY
Sala Graziella Leonardi Bontempo | 12 am – 1 pm
Interactive debate with start-ups and innovative cultural enterprises
Moderator: Alessandro Caruso, journalist, Inside Art
- Stefano Fantacone, President, Lazio Innova
- Carlo Pratis, Operativa Arte Contemporanea
- Andrea Esu, Spring Attitude
- Valerio Ciampicacigli, Ro-Map (Roma Interactive Light Festival)
- Flavia Sorrentino, Book Cover Project
GUIDED VISITS FOR SCHOOLS
SPAZIO D | 12 am – 5 pm
READY TO HACK
Sala Graziella Leonardi Bontempo | 2 – 3 pm
Preparatory meeting for the Hackreativity, a hackathon on media art promoted in collaboration with Lazio Innova SpA, in-house agency of the Regione Lazio.
Experience of artists working on EU Project Enlight - European Light Expression Network.
ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE
Sala Graziella Leonardi Bontempo | 4 – 4.45 pm
Moderator: Valentino Catricalà, Artistic Director, Media Art Festival
- Christina Hasenau, Libraries, Media and Internet Manager, Goethe-Institut Rom
- Kristina Paustian, artist (Germany)
- Donato Piccolo, artist (Italy)
- Simone Pappalardo, artist (Italy)
MEETING WITH JOSEPH DELAPPE
Sala Graziella Leonardi Bontempo | 5.30 - 6.30 PM
Resistance, Play and Memory: The Work of Joseph DeLappe
INAUGURATION OF THE EXHIBITION
MAXXI – Spazio D | 7 – 10 pm
Vernissage
