DIGITALAB 0.2 | LANDSCAPE 4 VIDEO ART & SOUND ART

DIGITALAB 0.2 | LANDSCAPE 4 includes 2 parallel proposals on the same theme: one dedicated, as every year, to audiovisual projects and the other, exclusively dedicated to sound projects, presenting 10 audiovisual works and 10 works of sound art. 

LANDSCAPE is a project organised by the Zeugma Collective, with Artistic Direction by Francesco Giannico and Anacleto Vitolo, supervision by the Laika Association, and curated by the International Committee of Experts. 

The International Committee is made up of members of the Selection and Awards Jury, made up of international audiovisual and sound art experts, to evaluate the proposals submitted for this 4th Edition: 

Members of the Selection and Awards Jury: Caterina Tomeo, Claudia Attimonelli, Alberto Novello, Barbara De Dominicis, Vincenzo Madaro, Mirco Salvadori, Paolo Bragaglia, Hernando Urrutia, Dionisio Capuano, Elio Martusciello, Elisa Trento, Guido Max Calanca, Daniele Falchi, Karin Fink, Paco Maddalena, Antoni Musci & Daniela Di Niso, Peppe Trotta and Giovanni Sabattini.

DIGITALAB 0.2 | LANDSCAPE 4 is an exhibition of video art and sound art whose essence is unconventional research and creation, promoting both the soundscape and the audiovisual landscape. The event seeks to bring together and create audiences, valorising artistic experimentation and reinforcing its educational and dissemination dimension.

The exhibition is based on the concept ‘Death and rebirth of the landscape’, reflecting on the environmental and social transformations of contemporary times. The selection of works aims to emphasise the importance of memory, identity and connection with nature, fundamental elements for understanding the landscape in its dynamic and constantly changing character.

In this context, the landscape is not just a physical space, but a symbolic territory where collective and individual narratives are inscribed. Climate change, accelerated urbanisation and the digitalisation of the world are profoundly altering our relationship with the environment, making it urgent to reflect on ways of preserving, transforming and reinterpreting the landscape in the present and in the future.

DIGITALAB 0.2 | LANDSCAPE 4 therefore invites artists and researchers to explore the different dimensions of the contemporary landscape, questioning its ephemeral nature and its multiple cultural, social and environmental implications. The exhibition seeks not only to present innovative works, but also to stimulate debate and critical awareness about the challenges and possibilities that emerge from this relationship between art, technology and nature.

The DIGITALAB-Laboratory of Digital Aesthetics project is born out of the growing path that is being marked in contemporary artistic and discursive production with the digital computer language of the new media. DIGITALAB proposes to enhance the relations of thought/action and creativity/innovation in the changing experiences of contemporary society and the languages that make these changes and new experiences possible.  

DIGITALAB – Laboratory of Digital Aesthetics, directed and curated by Hernando Urrutia, aims to promote an encounter between avant-garde languages, proposing reflection and digital thinking, exploring relationships with experimental tendencies and/or links to technology, through a stable programme of international, national and regional exhibitions, conferences and digital experimentation spaces, workshops in the field of regional, national and international creation/production. 

Official Selection of the AUDIOVISUAL Category of DIGITALAB 0.2 | LANDSCAPE 4 

𝟭 𝗘𝗴𝗶𝗱𝗶𝗼 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝘂𝗹𝗹𝗼 𝗲 𝗚𝗶𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗶𝗼 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗲 —𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘇𝗼𝗻𝘀 (‘𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗮𝗿𝗮 𝗥𝗶𝗴𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗲’ 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝘇𝗲)
2 Ian Gibbins – Cause We Can
3 Masamichi Shimada – WAVE
4 APEX Percussion – 2124
5 Elena Ghigas – Beneath the surface of the world
6 ROSARIO GRIECO – ECHI NEL VUOTO
7 Flavio Perazzini – Chiara Zaccaria – PERCHè NON è MORTO AL MARE
8 Luigi Grassi, Mario Petrecca – Some are born to the endless night
9 AntPaul Projects – Adrift
10 Pietro Gardoni & Luca Formentini – ‘First word / last word’

Official Selection of the SOUND ART Category of DIGITALAB 0.2 | LANDSCAPE 4

𝟭 𝗕𝗿𝘂𝗻𝗼 𝗕𝗲𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗶 – 𝗔𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗼𝗰𝗲𝗻𝗲 (‘𝗥𝗮𝘆𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗠𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗮𝘆 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗳𝗲𝗿’ 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝘇𝗲)
2 Elena Ghigas – Beneath the surface of the world
3 Masafumi Oda – Hyper-real landscape
4 Ebo Ensemble – Pneuma
5 UENO Collective – Ourà Landscape
6 Antonio Tonietti – Salirophilia Urcionii
7 Simon Šerc – Polynya
8 Alessandro Buggio – Music for the rooftops of Venice
9 Salvatore IAIA (SIC project) – Fluire
10 Stefano Tashi – Ɱēŧåmørƒøŝī ŋēl v̇ēntø

The Italian collective Zeugma therefore proposes to act mainly on two fronts: the performance side and the dissemination / education side; to this end, it relies on the collaboration of private and public partners in order to create a virtuous map of actors located throughout Italy and the rest of the world, whose aim is to promote culture through a series of dissemination-orientated activities such as publications, live shows, installations, exhibitions, meetings, conferences and workshops.