Lorenzo Oggiano
Photography, Video, New Media, Installations, Assemblages
C.V.
Personal Details
• Lorenzo Oggiano
Born in 1964, Padova (PD), Italy.
Currently lives and works in Sassari (SS), Italy.
E-mail: [email protected] / Web: www.lorenzooggiano.net
Lorenzo Oggiano works in photography, video, new media, installations and assemblages, since the early nineties
is engaged in an artistic and theoretical research concerning the biological, sensorial and cognitive mutations
induced by technologies and the aesthetic and communicative potentiality of new media tools.
Education
• Masterʼs Degree in Visual Arts, University of Bologna / D.A.M.S. (Department of Art, Music and Performing Arts),
Italy. Final thesis on the relationship between arts and new technologies: "Contemporary arts and technological
interaction: the bodies of mutation." [2001]
Solo Exhibitions
• 'Eter(n)otopìe, Recent Works 2002-2009', Settimana della Fotografia Europea, ReVolt#09: Eternaluce, Reggio
Emilia, Italy [2009]
• 'Tecnobiologìe', Traffic Gallery Contemporary Art, Bergamo, Italy [2009]
• 'Quasi-Objects B/W', Rebecca Container Gallery, Genova, Italy [2008]
• 'Lorenzo Oggiano: Selected Video Works 2004-2008' / 'Opening Night Party Special Screening', ViewFest, Museo
Nazionale del Cinema, Sala Massimo + King Kong Microplex, Torino, Italy [2008]
• ʻQuasi-Objects', Traffic Gallery Contemporary Art, Bergamo, Italy [2008]
• ʻSelected Videos 2004-2007', Dissonanze 7, Aula Magna, Palazzo dei Congressi, Rome, Italy [2007].
Selected Group Exhibitions, Screenings, Festivals, Art Fairs
• Bio·Fiction Science Art Film Festival, Naturhistorisches Museum / Bellaria Cinema, Vienna, Austria [2014]
• ‘Zielona Ścieżka / Natura-Sztuka-Technologia’, WRO Art Center, Media Library Curatorial Program, Wroclaw,
Poland [2014]
• 'Design Beyond Making' by 'Vectors', Protein / 18 Hewett Street, London, U.K. [2013]
• 'Drift: Synthesis', TTC Screens Network, Toronto, Canada [2013]
• ʻImagem-Contato. Mostra de Imagem em Movimentoʼ, Sao Paulo, Brazil [2012]
• ʻCaratteri Ereditari e Mutazioni Geneticheʼ, MAN_Museo dʼArte Provincia di Nuoro, Nuoro, Italy [2012]
• Flussi New Media Arts Festival, Belvedere Teatro 'Carlo Gesualdo', Avellino, Italy [2011]
• ʻBio:Fiction - Synthetic Biology Scienceʼ, Art and Film Festival, Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria [2011]
English version. Last update: October 2014
• ʻMinimalelectro im Festsaal Kreuzbergʼ - Bergsaal Kreuzhein, Berlin, Germany [2011]
• ʻVideoformes on Tourʼ - Espace Beaujon, Paris, France, The Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, U.S.A., Hors
D'Oeuvre, Shangai, China [2010]
• 'Pandemonio Visuale', ItalianExperimentalCinema, Mostra del cinema d'artista italiano dalle origini del futurismo
al nuovo millennio, Cinemazzurro, Ancona, Italy [2009]
• Palinsesti 2009, 'Licof, Scenari artistici dell'Alto Adriatico', S. Vito al Tagliamento (PN), Italy [2009]
• ArtVerona, Fair of Modern and Contemporary Art, Fair Center, Verona, Italy [2009]
• 'Between Earth and Sky', Sadali (CA), Italy [2009]
• MiArt, International Art Fair, Fiera Milano City, Milan, Italy [2009]
• Video Screening, Cartes Centre of Art and Technology, Espoon, Finland [2009]
• Directors Lounge 09, Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin, Germany [2009]
• 3rd Beijing Independent Film Festival, Songzhuang Art Center, Songzhuang - Beijing, China [2008]
• 'De Rerum Digitalis', Festival della Creatività, Fortezza da Basso, Firenze, Italy [2008]
• Taide'08, Helsinki Contemporary Art Fair, Wanna Satama, Helsinki, Finland [2008]
• Contemporary Art Ruhr 08, KunstQuadrate, Essen, Germany [2008]
• La Nuit Blanche, 'Optica Review 2007', Istituto Cervantéés, Paris, France [2008]
• 1 Minute Suite Top Ten, Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy [2008]
• KunStart08, Contemporary Art Fair, Bolzano Fair Exhibition Center, Bozen, Italy [2008]
• Digital Media Valencia, "Quasi-Objects 2004-2007", La Nau, Valencia, Spain [2008]
• Cartes Flux3, 'Perception, Time, Subject', Cartes Centre of Art and Technology, Espoon, Finland [2008]
• Videoformes, 'Prix de la Crèation Vidèo', Clermont-Ferrand, France [2008]
• BAF, Bergamo Arte Fiera 2008, Bergamo Fair Center, Bergamo, Italy [2008]
• Directors Lounge, Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin, Germany [2008]
• Optica, International Videoart Festival, Gijon, Spain [2007]
• VideominutoPopTV, New Italian Wave / One Minute Suite, Centro Arte Contemp. Pecci, Prato, Italy [2007]
• Art-Athina International Art Fair, Kataskevi Project, Helexpo Exhib. and Conf. Center, Athens, Greece [2007]
• WRO07, International Media Art Biennale, National Museum + WRO Art Center, Wroclav, Poland [2007]
• Kinofest, National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), Bucharest, Romania [2007]
• Festival Némo, Le Cube, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France [2007]
• Athens Video Art Festival, Technopolis, Athens, Greece [2007]
• Cartes Flux Vol.2, Cartes Centre of Art and Technology, Espoon, Finland [2007]
• Directors Lounge 2007, Directors Lounge, Berlin, Germany [2007]
• CYNETart06 Humane, 10th International Festival for Computer-Based Art (special recognition), Trans-MediaAkademie Hellerau, Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresden, Germany [2006]
• ArtTechMedia, Arco06, Madrid / Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid / CCCB, Barcelona / other
venues, Spain [2006]
• Hybridation/Heredite I. Le cinéma expérimental contemporain et les nouvelles technologies selon Johanna
Vaude, Cinémathèque Française, Paris, France [2006]
• Premio Internaz. Videoarte Biennale Adriatica Arti Nuove, S. Benedetto del Tronto (AN), Italy [2006]
• Interferenze, 'Naturalis Electronica', S. Martino V. Caudina (AV), Italy [2006]
• Imaginaria Independent Film Festival, Chiostro S. Benedetto, Conversano (BA), Italy [2006]
• Panorama Screening Series: 'Living Culture. A look at the relationship between biotechnology and artistic
practices', Eyebeam, New York, U.S.A [2006]
• Images Contre nature, Lices, Marseille, France [2006]
• Darklight Film Festival, Filmbase, Dublin, Ireland [2006]
• MAF / Thailand New Media Arts Festival - MayEd., Live and Retrospective - Bangkok, Thailand [2006]
• Figures of Motion, Internationale Videokunst, Schloss Plüschow, Plüschow, Germany [2006]
• Videoformes, La Jetèe, Clermont-Ferrand, France [2006]
• Cartes Flux / Vol.1, Cartes Centre of Art and Technology, Espoon, Finland [2006]
• Directors Lounge 2006, Directors Lounge, Berlin, Germany [2006]
• Cartes Flux, first flux - Cartes Centre of Art and Technology, Espoo, Finland [2005]
• VAD - Video and Digital Arts International Festivals, Casa de Cultura, Girona, Spain [2005]
• Unimovie, Museo V. Colonna, Pescara / Museo Lab. ex-manif. tabacchi, Città Sant'Angelo (PE), Italy [2005]
• Electrofringe New media Arts Festival 2005, Playhouse Theatre, Newcastle, Australia [2005]
• Media Art Friesland festival - Leeuwarden, Netherlands [2005]
• Imaginaria Independent Film Festival, Chiostro S. Benedetto, Conversano (BA), Italy [2005]
• EMAF - European Media Art Festival, Lagerhalle, Großer Saal, Osnabrück, Germany [2005]
• Today in Paradise. Genetics & Art, Röda Sten, Gotheborg, Sweden [2005]
• MAF / Thailand New Media Arts Festival - Intimacy / Digital Skin-Bed Supper Club, Bangkok, Thailand [2005]
• Spark Video 4.4, Spark Contemporary Art Space, Syracuse, NY, U.S.A. [2005]
English version. Last update: October 2014
• Premio Internazionale Dino Villani, Linguaggi e tecniche della contemporaneità nell'arte e nella comunicazione Galleria del Premio, Suzzara (MN), Italy [2004]
• International Videoart, Galerìa Rosa Santos, València, Spain [2004]
• VAIA - 3rd International Video Art Show of Alcoi, official selection, Alcoi, Spain [2004]
• International Festival of New Film and New Media, Split, Croatia [2004]
• Australian International Festival of Photography, Global Gallery Exhibition Centre, Sydney, Australia [2004]
• MAD03 - 2nd international meeting of experimental art in Madrid, Madrid, Spain [2003]
• Biennale Adriatica Arti Nuove - Baan Lab, Mercato Ittico, S. B. del Tronto (AN), Italy [2003]
• IDAA, International Digital Art Awards - Academy Gallery, University of Tasmania Launceston, Australia / VCA
Gallery, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia [2003]
• Immedia03, School of Art and Design, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A. [2003].
Public Collections (selection)
• Cinémathèque Française, Paris, France
• Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
• Eyebeam Art + Technology Center, New York, NY, U.S.A.
• Association Culturelle VideoFormes, Clermont-Ferrand, France
• WRO Art Center, Wroclav, Poland
• Spark Contemporary Art Space Video Library, Syracuse, NY. U.S.A.
• Directors Lounge Contemporay Art and Media, Berlin, Germany
• EMAF, Osnabrück, Germany
• Vidéothèque P'Silo, Marseille, France
• Cartes Centre of Art and Technology, Espoon, Finland
Selected Bibliography (Reviews/Articles/Catalogues/Interviews)
• "More about Quasi-Objects", Quote the Future. The nordic vision of tomorrow - www.quotethefuture.com, July 2014
(interview - by Sara Ingemann Holm-Nielsen)
• Dominic Pettman, "Look at the Bunny. Totem, Taboo, Technology", Zero Books, John Hunt Publishing, U.K., 2013
• Luca Panaro, "Arte in 3D, esplorazioni di una disciplina.", Flash Art, n. 309, 2013
• "Trend Report / Macro Trend: Reality and digital collide", Computer Arts Collection n.5 / Photography, 2012
• Bianca Wendt - Lorenzo Oggiano, "Plastic Measures", Viewpoint, n.30, 2012
• Alice Aurelitano (curated by), "The Cinematic Experience. Film, Contemporary Art, Museum", Campanotto Editore,
Udine, Italy, 2010
• Piero Pala, "Lorenzo Oggiano. Suhteellisuus ja hybridi Quasi-Objektien elokuvallisina tekijöinä", Taide Design, n.7,
2010
• Emanuela Pezzetta (curated by), "Palinsesti / Licôf", Forum Editrice Università Udinese, Udine, Italy, 2009
(catalogue)
• Luca Beatrice "L'isola che non c'era", Arte, n.431, 2009
• Claudia Bernareggi, "Lorenzo Oggiano", Espoarte Contemporay Art, n.59, 2009
• "Cartes Flux3. Perception, Time, Subject.", Cartes Centre of Art & Technology, Espoo, Finland, 2008 (catalogue)
• Stephen Danzig, "The Vernacular Terrain. Internationl Digital Art projects", Red Box Studio, Sydney, Australia, 2008
(catalogue)
• Simone Arcagni, "Come la tecnologia della visione puó diventare occasione artistica", Nova 24, June 5, 2008
• "Talent / Digital", Kult magazine, n.5, 2008
• Stefania Biamonti, "Vite Artificiali", Il Fotografo, n.190, 2008
• "Quasi-Objects", Traffic Gallery, Bergamo, Italy, 2008 (catalogue)
•,"Quasi Objects project by Lorenzo Oggiano", Digimag, n.29, 2007 - www.digicult.it (interview - by Bertram Niessen)
• "Videominuto PopTV2007", Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy, 2007 (catalogue)
• "12th International Media Art Biennale WRO 07", Wroclaw, Poland, 2007 (catalogue)
• "Cartes Flux vol. 2", Cartes Centre of Art and Technology, Espoo, Finland, 2007 (catalogue)
• "CYNETart_06humane - 10. Internationales Festival für computergestützte Kunst", Festspielhaus Hellerau /
Kunsthaus Dresden - Trans-Media-Akademie Hellerau e V., Dresden, Germany, 2006 (catalogue)
• Manfred Blohm, "Texte zur Medienkunst", Flensburg University Press, Flensburg, Germany, 2006
English version. Last update: October 2014
• "Darklight Festival", Irish Film Istitute / Filmbase, Dublin, Ireland, 2006 (catalogue)
• Simonetta Castia, "I Quasi Objects di Lorenzo Oggiano. Bambole e new media", Plico, n. 10, 2006
• "Cartes Flux vol. 1", Cartes Centre of Art and Technology, Espoo, Finland, 2006 (catalogue)
• "VAIA 2005 - IV. Mostra de video art internacional d'Alcoi", Alcoi, Spain, 2005 (catalogue)
• "Unimovie", Flash Art, n. 254, 2005
• "Media Art Friesland Festival", Leeuwarden / Harlingen / Drachten, Netherland, 2005 (catalogue)
• "Imaginaria - III. Festival Internazionale del cinema libero", Conversano (Bari), Italy, 2005 (catalogue)
• "EMAF / European Media Art Festival", Osnabrück, Germany, 2005 (catalogue)
• Astrid Von Rosen, "Vems paradis talar vi om?", Göteborgsposten, April 2, 2005
• "VAIA 2004 - III. Mostra de video art internacional d'Alcoi", Alcoi, Spain, 2004 (catalogue)
• Laura Chiari, "Networking as Artworking", NextExit, n.18, 2004
• Steve Danzig - W. J. Cosshall, "2003 International Digital Art Awards", Digital Photography + Design Magazine,
n. 23, 2003
• "Artinuove, 2ennale Adriatica", S. B. del Tronto, Ancona, Italy, 2003 (catalogue)
• Franco Lanfredi (curated by), "Web Designer Experiments", Edizioni Sometti, Mantova, Italy, 2003
English version. Last update: October 2014