Jaime Martinez‘ solo exhibition “Ciencias Sobrenaturales” opens tomorrow at the Vice Gallery in Mexico City and I wrote a little curatorial text for it. Don’t miss it!
Testo in pdf (italian version)

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Senso Orario is an exhibition I curated in Voltaggio (Alessandria), a little town in the north of Italy. Five contemporary artists (Bianco-Valente, Mariagrazia Pontorno, Tamara Repetto, Roberto Pugliese and Marcella Vanzo) created site specific works for the occasion. Here are some photos…
http://www.senso-orario.com

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After ten years, my beloved Random Magazine quits (but stays online)… Wait a minute, we have to celebrate first! So here it is: the very best of Random in book form. Contents are mixed but most are in italian (an english version will come soon).
Thanks to Domenico Quaranta and Fabio Paris (Link Editions)!
“Random, by Valentina Tanni, wants to celebrate the ten years of an online magazine that became part of the history of contemporary art publishing ...

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A little photo-report on the last exhibition I curated in Verona (Italy).

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Ok, just a little auto-promo here: Enlargemypenis.org, our blog on Spam, Memes, Gifs and other Internet madness is featured on December Issue of Wired Italy. Thanks to Marco Rossari for the article and to Alessandro Toscano for the photo shoot (it was a fun afternoon…). If you’re interested, here’s a scan (italian only).

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“The enemy of photography is the convention, the fixed rules of ‘how to do’. The salvation of photography comes from the experiment.” (Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, 1947)
Maps and Legends. When Photography Met the Web focus on the relations that photographic practice is establishing with the world of the Web: its culture, its language and its imagery. From animated.gifs to photos shot in virtual worlds; from the images of Google Street Views to snapshots that change in real time, with ...

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You, the World and I: new video work by Jon Rafman. A voice over essay about love, memory, photography, technology, and our experience of the world.
“In this modern day Orphean tale, an anonymous narrator also desperately searches for a lost love.  Rather than the charms of the lyre, contemporary technological tools, Google Street View and Google Earth, beckon as the pathway for our narrator to regain memories and recapture traces of his lost love. In the ...

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I took advantage of these calm midsummer days to dig into my analog archive and reverse some material that otherwise would be lost. I’m very proud to show you what I found! Here are some videos that document my first two exhibitions, both organized between the end of 2002 and the beginning of 2003. They’re television reviews, so sometimes the voice over tells naive or even wrong stuff, and they’re available only in italian, but nonetheless… I ...

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I’m in Bisaccia (Avellino, Italy) for Interferenze, a great new media art festival that this year takes place in an ancient castle. The location is breathtaking and the program looks amazing also. I curated the Software Art and the Video sections. Here’s some links to the works:
Andrè Goncalves, “The Bird Watcher”, 2010 www.andregoncalves.info
Alessandro Capozzo, “Talea”, 2007-2010 www.abstract-codex.net
Corby, Baily & Mackenzie, “Southern Ocean Studies”, 2009-2010 www.reconnoitre.net/bas
Rick Silva, “A Rough Mix”, 2007, 8 min. ...

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Good News! As you might have read somewhere in the press, I’ve been selected as a guest curator for the next three editions of FotoGrafia Festival Internazionale di Roma regarding the section “photography and new media”. The other two curators are Paul Wombell (photography and contemporary art) and Marc Prust (photography and publishing). FotoGrafia, international festival in Rome, is promoted by Comune di Roma and MACRO, produced by Zoneattive, director Marco Delogu.
I’m totally open to ...

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I wrote a little review of Doug Aitken’s work for Public Address Blog (Nothern Light). You can read it here.

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One of my beloved (web)creatures, Who Killed Bambi? has a brand new site. You better take a look…

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Bianco-Valente, Entità Risonante – info - foto

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Dopo una lunga pausa, torna on line Random Magazine!Commenti, consigli e quant’altro sono graditissimi… inviateli a info AT random-magazine.net

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A dangerous criminal gang is riding the net. They act in the dark, exploring the most sinister places, in search for the bloody heart of talent and creativity. Their favourite victims are banality, conformism, lack of humor and good will at any cost. Killing Bambi is a good metaphor for their mission. They are unarmed, actually, but they can still hurt. So be careful…
The Bambi Killers proudly presents:
www.whokilledbambi.co.uk
special thanks: walt disney, sex pistols and all ...

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