Alterazioni Video
Born: Milano 2004
Lives and works: New York and Milano
Members: Paololuca Barbieri Marchi, Alberto Caffarelli, Matteo Erenbourg, Andrea Masu and Giacomo Porfiri.
Alterazioni Video's tatticts and artistic practices
by Marco Scotini
Established in Milan in 2004 by Paololuca Barbieri and Alberto Caffarelli, the group waiting to be transformed into a S.p.A., now benefits by the participation of Matteo Erenbourg, Andrea Masu and Giacomo Porfiri. Grandchildren of the community video groups, of the militant communication labs, of the counter-information and the Italian "video hoodlums" of the 70s, Alterazioni video members describe themselves as a platform which combines art with a social and an alternative function of the new electronic media. Culture jammers, neo-situationists and media-activists, the members of Alterazioni Video infiltrate - camouflaged - through the meshes of Society ready to highjack messages and information of the official communication stepping from one medium to another: from street art to web space, from D.J. live sets to physics laboratories, from urban enquiries to the production of community T.V. Image saboteurs, they focus their work more on the use of representations rather than on the production just like when they set up a fake fashion show in Milan, when they reconstruct the format of Guernica painted in an ONU blue on an expository space in New York or they replicate the tapestries by Alighiero e Boetti for Shanghai.
But it isn't all about proposing themselves as an antagonistic subject against the interdiction zones, though it is more like acting as a collective figure which tries to open the repossession spaces of communication techniques and a social imaginary otherwise controlled and disciplined. In this sense we must interpret the first production as video-makers who've just come out of the post-Seattle movements ("101 out of 3 million", 2004 or the video "Sunny side", 2005), the idea to grant their spaces in museums and galleries for a fund raising operation to support the Black Bloc on trial for the G8 in Genoa (like in the case of Empowerment in Genoa, 2004 and Disobedience in Berlin, 2005) or the creation of a communication junction between the inhabitants of a village and the rest of the world (Isola Space Sharing, 2006).
Alterazioni Video therefore belongs to that emerging artistic generation which operates through various projects in the "grey zone" between art and politics.
Exhibitions
Solo
2008
DEA, Chi Wen Gallery, curated by Joe Hill, Taipei, Taiwan
2007
Concrete Island (Incompiuto Siciliano) , VM21 artecontemporanea, Roma, Italy
Night talk of the forbidden city #2 , Fabio Paris Art Gallery, Brescia, Italy
Incompiuto Siciliano, The Italian Academy Columbia University, New York, USA
The aesthetics of drugs (DEA Project) , Dispari e Dispari, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Night talk of the forbidden city , DDM Warehouse Gallery, Shanghai, China
2006
Mediterraneo , curated by Manon Slome and Ombretta Agro',Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA
2005
Photons , curated by Jaqueline Ceresoli, Casa dell'Energia, Milan, Italy
September Back up , curated by Katia Anguelova & Alessandra Poggianti, Isola Art Center, Milan, Italy
Group
2008
Manifesta 7 the European Biennial of Contemporary Arts, curated by Adam Budak, Trentino - South Tyrol, Italy
Junkbuilding , Treiennale Bovisa, curated by Davide Giannella and Maria Chiara Piccioli, Milano, Italy
Remembering, American Accademy, curated by Raffaele Gavarro, Rome, Italy
Zoom, San Servolo, curated by Raffaele Gavarro, Venice, Italy
2007
52 International Art Exhibition, Think with the senses - Feel with the mind , Venice Biennial, curated by Robert Storr, Venice, Italy
Forms of Resistance , Artists and the desire for social change from 1871 to the present, curated by Marco Scotini, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Laws of Relativity , Fondazione Sandretto Rebaudengo, curated by Anna Colin and Elena Sorokina, Guarente (CN) , Italy
Remote Control , curated by Wenny Teo and Ella Liao, MoCA, Shanghai, China
Re lighting the city/preview, curated by Martina Angelotti, Massa, Italy
2006
Tomorrow now , Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, Italy
Feedback Radio , Kunstlerhaus, Stuttgart, Germany
Self Education , curated by Dmitry Vilensky and Petr Bystrov, National Center for Contemporary Art, Moskow, Russia
Premiata Officina Trevana 2006 , curated by Maurizio Coccia e Matilde Martinetti, Trevi, Italy
Invisible Layers - Electric Cities , curated by Margherita Slamaso & Allard Van Hoorn, Island6 Arts Center, Shangai, China
The People Choice's , curated by di Marco Scotini, Isola Art Center, Milan, Italy
Beautiful Nature , curated by Synapser, Galleria Comunale d'Arte Contemporanea, Castel S. Pietro Terme - Bologna, Italy
Scope Art Fair , New York, USA
AIR Exhibition , Location One, New York, USA
Slow Burn , curated by Jonah Freeman, Edward Mitterrand Gallery, Geneva, Italy
2005
Disobedience , curated by Marco Scotini, Kunst Behetanien Museum & Play Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Frisbee , curated by Jan DeNaike, Miami Art Basel, Miami, USA
Con Altri Occhi , curated by Roberto Pinto & Katia Anguelova, Palazzo della Ragione, Milan, Italy
Multiplo 2 , curated by Stefano Coletto N.O. Gallery, Milan, Italy
Don't touch!, curated by Marina Moiana, Mia Art Fair, Milan, Italy
Conflitti , curated by Katia Anguelova & Alessandra Poggianti, Villa Serena, Bologna, Italy
Serpica Naro , collective project, Cavalcavia Bussa, Milan, Italy
2004
Empowerment , curated by Marco Scotini, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Villa Croce, Genova, Italy
Economies , curated by Manuela Grandini, Art & Gallery, Milan, Italy
Aperto , curated by Dede Auregli Galleria d'arte moderna, Bologna, Italy
Zoomer , Media Art Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Digital Divide , World information Summit, Rome, Italy
Live performances
2007
Acusmatiq 2.0 - Electronic Electroacustic Videoperformance Festival , Ancona, Italy
Flowers - Electronic Music Festival , Mercati Generali, Catania, Italy
Light Waves , Link, Bologna, Italy
2006
Waiting for the tsunami (web tv live show), La creazione della Realtà, curated by Emanuela Gandini, artandgallery, Milano, Italy
Pandemic festival , Mediateca di Santa Teresa, Milan, Italy
Nokia connect to art , MoCA, Shanghai, China
Light waves , Fine Art Gallery, New York, USA
Light waves, Location One, New York, USA
2005
Light Waves , No Art Gallery, Milan, Italy
Conferences and Workshops
2008
Boom Boom - 4th Bishkek International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Ecopolis - Conosce l'ambiente/Comunicare il paesaggio, ex Convento di San Bernardino , Civita, Italy
Rassegna del Contemporaneo - Nuovi formati dell'arte contemporanea , Acireale, Italy
The Influencers , CCCB Center of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona, Barcellona, Spain
Incompiuto Siciliano , Hangar, Barcellona Spain
2007
Festarch , International Architecture Festival, Cagliari, Italy
Incompiuto Siciliano , The Italian Academy Columbia University, New York, USA
ABC TV , Trevi elementary school, Trevi, Italy
Residency programs & grants and awards
2005/ 2006
Duolun M.O.M.A.,Shanghai, China
Goyang Art Studio, National Museum of Contemporary Art , Seul, South Korea
Location One Residence program, New York, USA
Movin'up, Milan, Italy
ElettroWave first classified, best Vj Set, Arezzo, Italy
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Alterazioni Video
Born: Milano 2004
Lives and works: New York and Milano
Members: Paololuca Barbieri Marchi, Alberto Caffarelli, Matteo Erenbourg, Andrea Masu and Giacomo Porfiri.
Alterazioni Video's tatticts and artistic practices
by Marco Scotini
Established in Milan in 2004 by Paololuca Barbieri and Alberto Caffarelli, the group waiting to be transformed into a S.p.A., now benefits by the participation of Matteo Erenbourg, Andrea Masu and Giacomo Porfiri. Grandchildren of the community video groups, of the militant communication labs, of the counter-information and the Italian "video hoodlums" of the 70s, Alterazioni video members describe themselves as a platform which combines art with a social and an alternative function of the new electronic media. Culture jammers, neo-situationists and media-activists, the members of Alterazioni Video infiltrate - camouflaged - through the meshes of Society ready to highjack messages and information of the official communication stepping from one medium to another: from street art to web space, from D.J. live sets to physics laboratories, from urban enquiries to the production of community T.V. Image saboteurs, they focus their work more on the use of representations rather than on the production just like when they set up a fake fashion show in Milan, when they reconstruct the format of Guernica painted in an ONU blue on an expository space in New York or they replicate the tapestries by Alighiero e Boetti for Shanghai.
But it isn't all about proposing themselves as an antagonistic subject against the interdiction zones, though it is more like acting as a collective figure which tries to open the repossession spaces of communication techniques and a social imaginary otherwise controlled and disciplined. In this sense we must interpret the first production as video-makers who've just come out of the post-Seattle movements ("101 out of 3 million", 2004 or the video "Sunny side", 2005), the idea to grant their spaces in museums and galleries for a fund raising operation to support the Black Bloc on trial for the G8 in Genoa (like in the case of Empowerment in Genoa, 2004 and Disobedience in Berlin, 2005) or the creation of a communication junction between the inhabitants of a village and the rest of the world (Isola Space Sharing, 2006).
Alterazioni Video therefore belongs to that emerging artistic generation which operates through various projects in the "grey zone" between art and politics.
Exhibitions
Solo
2008
DEA, Chi Wen Gallery, curated by Joe Hill, Taipei, Taiwan
2007
Concrete Island (Incompiuto Siciliano), VM21 artecontemporanea, Roma, Italy
Night talk of the forbidden city #2, Fabio Paris Art Gallery, Brescia, Italy
Incompiuto Siciliano, The Italian Academy Columbia University, New York, USA
The aesthetics of drugs (DEA Project), Dispari&Dispar galleryi, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Night talk of the forbidden city, DDM Warehouse Gallery, Shanghai, China
2006
Mediterraneo, Chelsea Art Museum, curated by Manon Slome and Ombretta Agro', New York, USA
2005
Photons, Casa dell'Energia, curated by Jaqueline Ceresoli, Milan, Italy
September Back up, Isola Art Center, curated by Katia Anguelova and Alessandra Poggianti, Milan, Italy
Group
2008
Pixxelpoint, International New Media Art Festival, curated by Domenico Quaranta, Kulturni Dom Nova Gorica, Slovenia
Abre tus ojos, 5º edición de La noche de los museos, curated by Adriana Forconi and Ana Martínez Quijano, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Videoreport Italia 2006_07, Galleria civica d'Arte Caontemporanea, curated by Andrea Bruciati, Monfalcone, Italy
The Video Lounge at Artissima 15, The international fair of contemporary art, curated by Latitudes (Max Andrews & Mariana Cánepa Luna) Turin, Italy
Manifesta 7 the European Biennial of Contemporary Arts, curated by Adam Budak, Trentino - South Tyrol, Italy
Museum in the Street, Moderna galerija, curated by Zdenka Badovinac and Bojana Piškur, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Industrial Lies, Dispari&Dispari gallery, curated by Giovanni De Donà, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Zoom - Inside the human space, curated by Raffaele Gavarro, Venice, Italy
Junkbuilding, Treiennale Bovisa, curated by Davide Giannella and Maria Chiara Piccioli, Milano, Italy
Remembering, American Accademy, curated by Raffaele Gavarro, Rome, Italy
2007
52 International Art Exhibition, Think with the senses - Feel with the mind, Venice Biennial, curated by Robert Storr, Venice, Italy
Forms of Resistance, Artists and the desire for social change from 1871 to the present, Van Abbemuseum, curated by Marco Scotini, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Laws of Relativity, Fondazione Sandretto Rebaudengo, curated by Anna Colin and Elena Sorokina, Guarente (CN) , Italy
Remote Control, MoCA, curated by Wenny Teo and Ella Liao, Shanghai, China
Re: lighting the city/preview, curated by Martina Angelotti, Massa, Italy
2006
Tomorrow now, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, curated by Stefano Coleto, Venice, Italy
Feedback Radio, Kunstlerhaus, Stuttgart, Germany
Self Education, National Center for Contemporary Art, curated by Dmitry Vilensky and Petr Bystrov, Moskow, Russia
Premiata Officina Trevana 2006, curated by Maurizio Coccia e Matilde Martinetti, Trevi, Italy
Invisible Layers - Electric Cities, Island6 Arts Center, curated by Margherita Slamaso and Allard Van Hoorn, Shangai, China
The People Choice's, Isola Art Center, curated by di Marco Scotini, Milan, Italy
Beautiful Nature, Galleria Comunale d'Arte Contemporanea, curated by Synapser, Castel S. Pietro Terme - Bologna, Italy
Scope Art Fair, New York, USA
AIR Exhibition, Location One, New York, USA
Slow Burn, Edward Mitterrand Gallery, curated by Jonah Freeman, Geneva, Italy
2005
Disobedience, Kunst Behetanien Museum & Play Gallery, curated by Marco Scotini, Berlin, Germany
Frisbee, Miami Art Basel, curated by Jan DeNaike, Miami, USA
Con Altri Occhi, Palazzo della Ragione, curated by Roberto Pinto and Katia Anguelova, Milan, Italy
Multiplo 2, N.O. Gallery, curated by Stefano Coletto, Milan, Italy
Don't touch!, Miart Fair, curated by Marina Moiana, Milan, Italy
Conflitti, Villa Serena, curated by Katia Anguelova and Alessandra Poggianti, Bologna, Italy
Serpica Naro, collective project, Cavalcavia Bussa, Milan, Italy
2004
Empowerment, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Villa Croce, curated by Marco Scotini, Genova, Italy
Economies, Art & Gallery, curated by Manuela Gandini, Milan, Italy
Aperto, Galleria d'arte moderna, curated by Dede Auregli, Bologna, Italy
Zoomer, Media Art Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Digital Divide, World information Summit, Rome, Italy
Live performances
2007
Acusmatiq 2.0 - Electronic Electroacustic Videoperformance Festival, Ancona, Italy
Flowers - Electronic Music Festival, Mercati Generali, Catania, Italy
Light Waves, Link, Bologna, Italy
2006
Ikra Club, Moscow, Russia
Waiting for the tsunami (web tv live show), La creazione della Realtà, Art & Gallery, curated by Emanuela Gandini, Milano, Italy
Pandemic festival, Mediateca di Santa Teresa, Milan, Italy
Nokia connect to art, MoCA, Shanghai, China
Light waves, Fine Art Gallery, New York, USA
Light waves, Location One, New York, USA
2005
Light Waves, No Art Gallery, Milan, Italy
Conferences and Workshops
2008
Interfacce nell'arte contemporanea - L'arte come interfaccia contemporanea, Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy
Boom Boom - 4th Bishkek International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Ecopolis - Conosce l'ambiente/Comunicare il paesaggio, ex Convento di San Bernardino, Civita, Italy
Rassegna del Contemporaneo - Nuovi formati dell'arte contemporanea, Acireale, Italy
The Influencers, CCCB Center of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona, Barcellona, Spain
Incompiuto Siciliano, Hangar, Barcellona Spain
2007
Festarch, International Architecture Festival, Cagliari, Italy
Incompiuto Siciliano, The Italian Academy Columbia University, New York, USA
ABC TV, Trevi elementary school, Trevi, Italy
Residency programs, grants and awards
2005/ 2006
Duolun M.O.M.A., Shanghai, China
Goyang Art Studio, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seul, South Korea
Location One Residence program, New York, USA
Movin'up, Milan, Italy
ElettroWave first classified, best Vj Set, Arezzo, Italy
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