The call is currently closed. The selection committee is currently evaluating the incoming projects. Results will be announced in late August to early September 2024. Thank you all for your warm participation from all parts of the earth.
Death and Rebirth of the Landscape
In an era of rapid environmental and social change, landscape assumes a role of primary importance as a place of memory, identity and connection with nature. The call aims to explore the different facets of the contemporary landscape, interrogating its changing nature and multiple implications.
This new 2024 edition includes 2 parallel calls on the same theme: one dedicated, as every year, to audiovisual projects and another, exclusively dedicated to sound projects.
The call is currently closed. The selection committee is currently evaluating the incoming projects. Results will be announced in late August to early September 2024. Thank you all for your warm participation from all parts of the earth.
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Since 2021, he has been teaching in the Master's program in "Sonic Arts. Technologies and Arts of Sound" at the Tor Vergata University of Rome. She has been Art Director of the Arts & New Media section of Spring Attitude Festival. She currently collaborates as curator with international festivals dedicated to electronic music and contemporary culture. She founded the Sound Studies Forum, the first research network on sound studies in Italy, in collaboration with the University of Urbino. He is Art Director of the "Sound Box" at the Mattatoio in Rome. Recent publications include Sound Art. Listening is like seeing, Castelvecchi (2017); Sonic Arts. Tra esperienza percepettiva e ascolto attivo, Castelvecchi (2019). The new volume Electronics is a Woman. Indeed trans-feminist will be published by Castelvecchi in March 2021.
She is in charge of the MEM - Mediateca Emeroteca Musicale project and coordinates Dialogues on the Big - Bari International Gender Festival; she is a visiting professor at Uerj University (Rio de Janeiro) and Université Paul-Valéry (Montpellier). Her research on techno and Afrofuturism is considered seminal in the Italian and international scene; her fields of study range from issues of gender, urban styles and musical cultures to visual culture and mediology.
Among her publications: Electronics is Women. Media, Bodies, and Transfeminist and Queer Practices (with C. Tomeo 2022); The Aesthetics of Malaise. Blackness, punk, and the skull in contemporary media landscapes (2020); A Dark Reflection. Black Mirror and the digital aurora (with V. Susca 2020, translated into 3 languages); Techno. Afrofuturist rhythms (2008-2018); Pornoculture (with V. Susca 2016, translated into 4 languages) and numerous other volumes.
She has also curated a series of podcasts entitled "The Cat Cinderella" with the aim of promoting the dissemination of works by women artists on the brink between net_art, sound art
and audio documentary. At the end of 2012 she started to collaborate with french visual artist Aude Francois: they conceived Self Made Worlds a performance for voice, electronics, and visual explorations [liberally adapted from ”House of Incest” by Anaïs Nin]: a dialogue between the organic body depicted in video and the sounds and voices present on the stage. Her new solo album Body Maps {out on december 16th 2022 on Folderol Records} has been inspired by Jean Luc Nancy’s Corpus. A blend of spoken word, electroacoustic textures and instruments, found sounds and voice; these tracks evolved from a series of improvised recording sessions held in Italy between 2018 and 2021. Barbara is working on a new project making use if rediscovered private memories [old photographs, letters from strangers, sounds of objects no longer in use, semi-forgotten nursery rhymes, etc] .
The list of her collaborations include: sound and visual artists Leonardo Rosado {together they realize Viseu Aural Chronicles audio-visual residency project commissioned by Festival Jardins Efemeros _Viseu_Portugal} Mark Walters; Roland Quelven; Julia Kent; Marco Messina; Mathias Van Eecloo; Marco Bonini, Elio Martusciello, Airchamber 3; Nicola Conte {Blue Note records} becoming the voice of the song "Love me 'till Sunday "soundtrack of the Ras insurance commercial starring Sean Connery; Luminance Ratio; Enrico Coniglio, Roland Quelven, Erica Scherl, Sarah Bliss. She is currently working on SURINAME {a transmedial project involving visual artist Maria Pia Picozza and musician Cristian Maddalena} and FIGURES OF ABSENCE (freely inspired by the cinematic poetics of Dore O', with Elio Martusciello and Cristian Maddalena).
A writer and music critic, he has been one of the longest-running signatures of the monthly music magazine ROCKERILLA since 1983.
A freelance writer for various music webzines, he writes about music and more on the blog DISERTIONS, hosted on SHERWOOD.IT.
He publishes on the literary blog NAZIONE INDIANA, in the European cultural magazine SUD with features on various literary and music publications.
He is co-owner and art-director of the independent digital music labels LAVERNA.NET and FALERNA.ORG.
In 2016, his first literary collection titled HAZKARA' was released by the non-disco publishing house 13_Silentes. He appears, with a short story written together with Francesco Forlani, in the collection "DEATHS IN VENICE" edited by Laura Liberale for Carteggi Letterari.
He participated in the multidisciplinary project ALONE by and with Gianni Maroccolo parecipating with his stories in the first four volumes published. He artecipated in Arlo Bigazzi and Chiara Cappelli's project dedicated to Majakovsky and participated with one of his stories in the volume "Quinto Paesaggio. Concerts of Ideas in Action" soon to be published.
Multidisciplinary Artist, Researcher, Designer, Composer, Curator and Cultural Manager, of Portuguese nationality (PhD) in Digital Media-Art. University Professor of Multimedia and Arts in UPT - Portucalense University - Porto, Portugal; Multimedia Research Coordinator at CIAUD-UPT. Collaborating Researcher at CIAC - Arts and Communication Research Centre (UAb - Lisbon / UAlg - Faro, Portugal) and CIAUD | UPT - Research Centre for Architecture, Urbanism and Design (UPT – Porto, Portugal); Visiting Researcher at M-ITI - Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute (UMA - Funchal, Portugal). Member of the Editorial Board of Editora DIALÉTICA (Brazil). Reviewer of Scientific Articles for ROTURA - Revista de Comunicação, Cultura e Artes of CIAC - Centro de Investigação em Artes e Comunicação da UAlg - University of the Algarve | Algarve, (Portugal). Curator in 44 artistic projects since 1996, with highlights: META-MORFO Portugal's Experimental Exhibition of Audio-visual Technology, in Brazil 2023-2024; Video Art Exhibition on the Border, Portugal and Spain Section - FERIA TRANSFRONTERIZA DE ARTE CONTEMPORÁNEO (CROSS-BORDER CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR) Spain - Portugal 2023-2025; META-MORPHOSIS digital –2023-2024 (Spain); TRANSGRESSION art + technology 2021-2024; THE WRONG BIENNALE 2021-2024 - Spain; TRANSGRESSION art + technology PR 2, 2023-2024 - Portugal; IMAGE PLAY International Video Art Festival 2019-2024 - Portugal; EXPERIMENTA - International Video Art Exhibition, 2019-2024 - Portugal; Digital Aesthetics Laboratory, 2024 (Portugal); MUESTRA INTERNACIONAL DE VIDEONARRACIÓN A/R/TOGRÁFICA 2024 Special Programme DIGITAL TRANSPOSITION (Spain); Curator and Award Jury of the IBRIDA FESTIVAL, 2024 (Italy); Chairman of the Board of + ART CONTEMPORARY Cultural Association, 2022-2026 (Portugal); Artistic Director and Coordinator EXE - Experimental Exhibition | Audio-visual, International Festival/Exhibition Project, 2023-2025 (Portugal); Multimedia Curator at TRATUÁRIO - Gallery, 2024 (Portugal); Curator and Member of the International Scientific Committee of the Video Art Festival OVER THE REAL, 2021- Italy, Curator and Member of among many others. Artistic Director of New Media/Digital Media Arts of APCA 2023-24; President of the + Art Contemporary 2022-2026. Project Director INTER-SECTION International Digital Media Art Festival - 2024 (Portugal). He has received 313 recognitions, 4 Artist Residencies and 10 awards.
He studied photography with Mimmo Jodice and visual arts with Carlo Alfano, Armando De Stefano and Rosa Panaro. His musical aesthetic derives essentially from acousmatic art, but in addition to acousmatic music composition he composes for instruments and live electronics, works in the fields of installation art, multimedia, visual arts and electroacoustic improvisation. He currently lives in Naples.
She is curator and project manager of SHAPE - Association that conceived and produced ROBOT - International festival of digital art and electronic music now in its 12th edition.
For the company Kiné, she produced the TV series 'Rebel Styles' by Lara Rongoni, broadcast in 2020 by Sky Arte.
In 2012 she co-founded Kinodromo, an association of audiovisual professionals in Emilia-Romagna.
For 11 years she was the national head of Doc/it - Association of Italian Documentary Filmmakers.
Currently for the company Bo Film she is overseeing the production of the short animated film 'L'Angoscia e L'Estasi' by Niccolò Manzolini and Lucia Malerba.
She is Production Director of Resilienze, a festival conceived and produced by Kilowatt.
Italian film industry, known for his films, documentaries, short films, commercials, music videos, and installations, which have been awarded and recognized at many Italian and International Festivals, including the Venice Biennale, the Rome Film Festival, the Cefalú Film Festival, and the Independent Film Festival of Latina. He has also active as a musician:
apart from being a bassist and guitarist in several post-rock bands, he is an experimental electroacoustic and generative music composer. His work is characterized by the use of field recordings, tapes, synths and eurorack modular systems. He lives between Brindisi and Rome.
In his more than ten years of experience, he has carried out activities and organized events of international importance that can be traced back to different artistic fields: from cinema to photography, theater, music, and contemporary art. The research is always directed to the discovery and enhancement of new expressive forms and artistic languages, taking up the challenge of the complexity inherent in the contemporary world.
Landscape2024 is a project curated by the Zeugma collective and Laika APS proudly self-funded with the support of:
Cineclub Canudo, Vicoli Corti Festival, Shape Association, Kinetta, Rufa Rome University of Fine Arts, Acusmatiq Festival, Ambient Radio, Rumore Bianco Studio, Salotto Elettronico, Mercato Nuovo, Cavo Fest
Artistic Direction
Francesco Giannico
Anacleto Vitolo