Marco Mancuso
Marco Mancuso (PhD) is a critic, researcher, and curator working at the intersection of art, technology, and scientific research. He holds a degree in Chemistry from the University of Milan and a PhD in Digital Cultures from the IUAV University of Venice. He is a tenured professor at the Polytechnic Institute of the Arts in Bergamo, a visiting professor and coordinator of the Curating the Digital master’s program at the Node Center in Berlin, and a lecturer at Alma Mater University of Bologna and the Philosophy of Digital master's program at the University of Udine.
His research focuses on how the interdisciplinary dialogue between art, philosophy, and technoscience allows for an observation of the ongoing transformations in the relationship between humans, the body, sensory perception, and their environment. He explores the possible identity, ethical, and political implications of these changes in designing and conceptualizing new modes of interaction between the human and non-human within collective, natural, and artificial environments.
Founder and director from 2005 at Digicult (http://www.digicult.it/), Digimag Journal and Digicult Editions (https://issuu.com/digicultlibrary) publishing house his essays and interviews were published on the website and in magazines, books and catalogues. He has curated exhibitions and events at national and international levels, including the group exhibition Umwelt (Modena, 2024), the Digitalks series (2021), the seminar Art and Future (2020), the workshop series I Nuovi Corpi: Three Workshops on Art, AI, and Biotechnology (2020), the Fantomologia project (2019), solo exhibitions such as Fino alla Fine by Guido Segni (2019) and Click Clack: The Interactive and Kinetic Installations of Virgilio Villoresi (2018), the acousmatic concert by COH / Ivan Pavlov at San Fedele Auditorium (Milan, 2016), the Italian pavilion at the Streaming Egos exhibition for Goethe Institute (2015-2016), The Mediagate (Lodz, 2010) collective exhibition, Sincronie (Milan, 2008-2009) festival, Graffiti Research Lab / Laser Tag (Rome, 2008) public art performance, Screen Music (Florence, 2006-2007) and Mixed Media (Milan, 2006) festivals. He presented his productions and screenings (“+39: Call for Italy”, “Visual Music”, “Hidden Worlds”, “Hyper Reality”) at festivals like If Festival (Milan, 2017), Creative Tech Week (New York, 2016), Bozar (Brussels, 2014), Subtle Technologies (Toronto, 2011), Elektra (Montreal, 2010), Nemo (Paris, 2009), Sonic Acts (Amsterdam, 2009), Strp (Eindhoven, 2008), Cimatics (Brussels, 2008), Dissonanze (Rome, 2006).
He lectures and takes part in round tables and meetings about the relationship between art, design and technology and how contemporary art market is changing according to industry and digital platforms. Among others at Art-Er (Bologna, 2019), Museo della Scienza e della Tecnologia Leonardo di Vinci (Milan, 2019), Università Ca' Foscari (Venice, 2019), EIA - CSR Centro Sardegna Ricerche (Cagliari, 2019), Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera (Milan, 2019), Galleria Nazionale di Arte Contemporanea (Rome, 2019), La Triennale (Milan, 2019), CUBO Unipol (Bologna, 2019), Fondazione Fotografia (Modena, 2019), Digital Arts and Culture Biennial (Aix-en-Provence, 2018), Bologna Business School (Bologna, 2018), Università Alma Mater di Bologna (Bologna, 2018, 2019), Arte Fiera (Bologna, 2018), Spektrum (Berlin, 2017), Bologna Design Week (Bologna, 2017), Saperi Proibiti (Milan, 2017), AGI Verona (Siena, 2016), Effimera (Modena, 2016), Video Sound Art (Milan, 2016, 2017), Artlab (Milan, 2016), IUAV (Venice, 2014, 2018), Nona Conferenza Internazionale Arts in Society (Rome, 2014), Cyberfest (Berlin, 2013), 55ima Mostra Internazionale di Arte (Venice, 2013), Milano Design Week (Milan, 2013), Open World Forum (Paris, 2012), Isea (Istanbul, 2012), Subtle Technologies (Toronto, 2011), XVI Convegno Internazionale di Studi Cinematografici (Rome, 2010), Laptop’r’s (Madrid, 2010), Fabrica (Treviso, 2009), Città della Scienza (Naples, 2008), Market for Digital Arts/Elektra (Montreal 2008).
He produced more than 100 interviews for Digicult from 2005 to 2020 and writes critical texts for publications and catalogues (Direct Digital, Otolab, Alterazioni Video, Zimoun and Streaming Egos exhibitions, Fantomologia project among others); he also curated for MCD magazine the Issue 63 - “The Open Future” (2012) and the carde-blanche Issue 64 - “Art Industries” (2014). He is part of the publication "Cultural Blogging in Europe" by LabForCulture.org (2010) and he is partner of the program EMAP/EMARE, among the founders of the studies center SSH! - Sound Studies Hub at Iuav University in Venice and has published the books “Chimera. Il Corpo Espanso per una nuova ecosofia dell'arte” (2023) "Arte, Tecnologia e Scienza" (2018) e “Intervista con la New Media Art" (2020) per Mimesis.
Phone: 3408371816
Address: Via Solferino 39, Bologna
His research focuses on how the interdisciplinary dialogue between art, philosophy, and technoscience allows for an observation of the ongoing transformations in the relationship between humans, the body, sensory perception, and their environment. He explores the possible identity, ethical, and political implications of these changes in designing and conceptualizing new modes of interaction between the human and non-human within collective, natural, and artificial environments.
Founder and director from 2005 at Digicult (http://www.digicult.it/), Digimag Journal and Digicult Editions (https://issuu.com/digicultlibrary) publishing house his essays and interviews were published on the website and in magazines, books and catalogues. He has curated exhibitions and events at national and international levels, including the group exhibition Umwelt (Modena, 2024), the Digitalks series (2021), the seminar Art and Future (2020), the workshop series I Nuovi Corpi: Three Workshops on Art, AI, and Biotechnology (2020), the Fantomologia project (2019), solo exhibitions such as Fino alla Fine by Guido Segni (2019) and Click Clack: The Interactive and Kinetic Installations of Virgilio Villoresi (2018), the acousmatic concert by COH / Ivan Pavlov at San Fedele Auditorium (Milan, 2016), the Italian pavilion at the Streaming Egos exhibition for Goethe Institute (2015-2016), The Mediagate (Lodz, 2010) collective exhibition, Sincronie (Milan, 2008-2009) festival, Graffiti Research Lab / Laser Tag (Rome, 2008) public art performance, Screen Music (Florence, 2006-2007) and Mixed Media (Milan, 2006) festivals. He presented his productions and screenings (“+39: Call for Italy”, “Visual Music”, “Hidden Worlds”, “Hyper Reality”) at festivals like If Festival (Milan, 2017), Creative Tech Week (New York, 2016), Bozar (Brussels, 2014), Subtle Technologies (Toronto, 2011), Elektra (Montreal, 2010), Nemo (Paris, 2009), Sonic Acts (Amsterdam, 2009), Strp (Eindhoven, 2008), Cimatics (Brussels, 2008), Dissonanze (Rome, 2006).
He lectures and takes part in round tables and meetings about the relationship between art, design and technology and how contemporary art market is changing according to industry and digital platforms. Among others at Art-Er (Bologna, 2019), Museo della Scienza e della Tecnologia Leonardo di Vinci (Milan, 2019), Università Ca' Foscari (Venice, 2019), EIA - CSR Centro Sardegna Ricerche (Cagliari, 2019), Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera (Milan, 2019), Galleria Nazionale di Arte Contemporanea (Rome, 2019), La Triennale (Milan, 2019), CUBO Unipol (Bologna, 2019), Fondazione Fotografia (Modena, 2019), Digital Arts and Culture Biennial (Aix-en-Provence, 2018), Bologna Business School (Bologna, 2018), Università Alma Mater di Bologna (Bologna, 2018, 2019), Arte Fiera (Bologna, 2018), Spektrum (Berlin, 2017), Bologna Design Week (Bologna, 2017), Saperi Proibiti (Milan, 2017), AGI Verona (Siena, 2016), Effimera (Modena, 2016), Video Sound Art (Milan, 2016, 2017), Artlab (Milan, 2016), IUAV (Venice, 2014, 2018), Nona Conferenza Internazionale Arts in Society (Rome, 2014), Cyberfest (Berlin, 2013), 55ima Mostra Internazionale di Arte (Venice, 2013), Milano Design Week (Milan, 2013), Open World Forum (Paris, 2012), Isea (Istanbul, 2012), Subtle Technologies (Toronto, 2011), XVI Convegno Internazionale di Studi Cinematografici (Rome, 2010), Laptop’r’s (Madrid, 2010), Fabrica (Treviso, 2009), Città della Scienza (Naples, 2008), Market for Digital Arts/Elektra (Montreal 2008).
He produced more than 100 interviews for Digicult from 2005 to 2020 and writes critical texts for publications and catalogues (Direct Digital, Otolab, Alterazioni Video, Zimoun and Streaming Egos exhibitions, Fantomologia project among others); he also curated for MCD magazine the Issue 63 - “The Open Future” (2012) and the carde-blanche Issue 64 - “Art Industries” (2014). He is part of the publication "Cultural Blogging in Europe" by LabForCulture.org (2010) and he is partner of the program EMAP/EMARE, among the founders of the studies center SSH! - Sound Studies Hub at Iuav University in Venice and has published the books “Chimera. Il Corpo Espanso per una nuova ecosofia dell'arte” (2023) "Arte, Tecnologia e Scienza" (2018) e “Intervista con la New Media Art" (2020) per Mimesis.
Phone: 3408371816
Address: Via Solferino 39, Bologna
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Pubblicato originariamente su Digicult il 12/07/2017
Marco Mancuso, Intervista con la New Media Art. L'osservatorio digicult tra arte, design e cultura digitale, Milano 2020. Paperback, color, 486 pages, ISBN 978-8857569444
Pubblicato originariamente su Digicult il 23/11/2014
Marco Mancuso, Intervista con la New Media Art. L'osservatorio digicult tra arte, design e cultura digitale, Milano 2020. Paperback, color, 486 pages, ISBN 978-8857569444
Pubblicato originariamente su Digicult il 01/04/2011
Marco Mancuso, Intervista con la New Media Art. L'osservatorio digicult tra arte, design e cultura digitale, Milano 2020. Paperback, color, 486 pages, ISBN 978-8857569444
Pubblicato originariamente da Digicult il 01/03/2010
Marco Mancuso, Intervista con la New Media Art. L'osservatorio digicult tra arte, design e cultura digitale, Milano 2020. Paperback, color, 486 pages, ISBN 978-8857569444
Pubblicato originariamente su Digicult il 03/03/2008
Marco Mancuso, Intervista con la New Media Art. L'osservatorio digicult tra arte, design e cultura digitale, Milano 2020. Paperback, color, 486 pages, ISBN 978-8857569444
Pubblicato originariamente su Digicult il 02/07/2007
Marco Mancuso, Intervista con la New Media Art. L'osservatorio digicult tra arte, design e cultura digitale, Milano 2020. Paperback, color, 486 pages, ISBN 978-8857569444
Pubblicato originariamente su Digicult il 01/04/2007
Marco Mancuso, Intervista con la New Media Art. L'osservatorio digicult tra arte, design e cultura digitale, Milano 2020. Paperback, color, 486 pages, ISBN 978-8857569444
Pubblicato originariamente su Digicult il 02/05/2006
Marco Mancuso, Intervista con la New Media Art. L'osservatorio digicult tra arte, design e cultura digitale, Milano 2020. Paperback, color, 486 pages, ISBN 978-8857569444
Marco Mancuso, Arte, Tecnologia e Scienza. Le Art Industries e i nuovi paradigmi di produzione nella New Media Art contemporanea, Mimesis, Milano 2018. Paperback, color, 292 pages, ISBN 978-8857553139
Marco Mancuso, Arte, Tecnologia e Scienza. Le Art Industries e i nuovi paradigmi di produzione nella New Media Art contemporanea, Mimesis, Milano 2018. Paperback, color, 292 pages, ISBN 978-8857553139
Marco Mancuso, Arte, Tecnologia e Scienza. Le Art Industries e i nuovi paradigmi di produzione nella New Media Art contemporanea, Mimesis, Milano 2018. Paperback, color, 292 pages, ISBN 978-8857553139
Marco Mancuso, Arte, Tecnologia e Scienza. Le Art Industries e i nuovi paradigmi di produzione nella New Media Art contemporanea, Mimesis, Milano 2018. Paperback, color, 292 pages, ISBN 978-8857553139
Marco Mancuso, Arte, Tecnologia e Scienza. Le Art Industries e i nuovi paradigmi di produzione nella New Media Art contemporanea, Mimesis, Milano 2018. Paperback, color, 292 pages, ISBN 978-8857553139
fluttering their wings. By walking in the installation space, participants can journey through the universe as if they’re flying between the stars together with the birds.