We continue to follow, week by week, what artists and students are developing for the BNL Media Art Festival. Twelve artists are working with students in 12 schools in Naples, Rome and Milan. The aim is to help students develop a new understanding of art and technology, strategic competitive skills and new professional profiles.
Yesterday, we were at the Rome Liceo Terenzio Mamiani with artists Eva Tennina and Ryan.
The 21 students who are working together with the artists on a shared work in stop motion come from two different classes.
The final video will mould the two shorter videos produced by the students in the two classes. The students’ work will “flow like snips of reality in movement,” explain the artists.
Stop Motion, in fact, is based on time-lapse photography of images in movement that are then edited with specific programmes.
Each student will develop a video based on his or her passions, fashion, famous magazines, drawing and any other tool that helps to express a concept of digital art.
Here are some short interviews by Eleonora Curatola with lab participants.
The appointment with the Media Art Festival original event-project format, which will be held on April 13-17, 2016 at the MAXXI Museum, will feature lectures, installations and conferences with international experts, as well as didactic and educational tracks for students of all ages. The Media Art Festival is an absolute novelty for the Italian artistic panorama, a true, networked laboratory to entice the younger generation to the active, creative and innovative use of technology. Following on the heels of the successful pilot edition, two new partners have joined the initiative developed by the Fondazione Mondo Digitale: BNL Gruppo BNP Paribas and the Rome Fondazione MAXXI. The event is also now has the patronage of the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Cultural Activities and Tourism.
