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
BNL Mestiere Impresa will man a desk at the MAXXI.
