Head Sculpting
BY BETTY ARGENZIANO
@ VOL 3
ON JUL 01, 2012
Betty Argenziano is a sculptor who works with clay, slip, and marble. She's also an architect, writer, painter, and photographer. Her model of choice is the head, and she aims to produce realistic portraits that aim to tell unreal feelings. (in Italian)
Master of the Midfield
BY GIANNI STEVANO
@ VOL 3
ON JUL 01, 2012
Gianni Stevano's presentation is about how he came to produce -- or what inspired -- the new Master of the Midfield clothing line. It is expressed through the memory of playing on the road, in the sand, or anywhere else where there are no restrictions. (in Italian)
Trip to Old Genoa
BY JACOPO BACCANI
@ VOL 3
ON JUL 01, 2012
Faced with a contemporary situation characterized by daily complaints on the immobility of Genoa and of the Genoese, it arouses astonishment to rediscover in the dawn of the last century, an astonishing concentration of technological experimentation, avant-garde architecture, and urban visions. (in Italian)
Privacy Traders
BY FEDERICO FASCE
@ VOL 1
ON FEB 26, 2012
Federico Fasce (of Urustar) talks about how he thinks games can change the world. He believes that games are the most important form of expression of this century. The presentation covers his experience with Privacy Traders, a game designed and developed for high school students. In Privacy Traders, through mechanical trade and exchange, the idea is to stimulate a reflection on the sharing of personal data, on the role of the internet and social networks, and on the importance to better understand the people to whom we entrust sensitive data every day. (in Italian)
Symbolism
BY PAOLA VIADANA
@ VOL 1
ON FEB 26, 2012
Paola Viadana is a painter and expert in languages, and is interested in art and primitive symbolism. She pursues ongoing research using art, and in her later works increasingly with the use of photographic instruments. Since 1996, she has participated in fifteen group exhibitions and five solo shows. (in Italian)
Duplex Ride
BY MARCO CACCIAMANI
@ VOL 1
ON FEB 26, 2012
Duplex Ride is a cultural association founded in 2010 and interested in all forms of art, which mainly organizes events for electronic music and video projections. Duplex Ride is an idea in motion, it's an art collective, electronic research, experimenting in all its forms, including painting, photography, and writing. (in Italian)
SOTTO: Under the Overpass
BY GREGORY MELITONOV
@ VOL 1
ON FEB 26, 2012
In his presentation, Gregory Melitonov talks about his SOTTO project, that incorporates typical Italian laundry lines and t-shirts to send a message to the community at large. (in English)
City Urban Planning in Genoa
BY BEATRICE MORETTI
@ VOL 1
ON FEB 26, 2012
Beatrice Moretti and Paola Sabbion are architects from URBAN LAB. In this presentation, they cover a project called the new City Urban Planning. The project involved the announcement of the Genoa Urban Plan 2010 through the publication of the Urban Lab Notebooks, and the staging of the exhibition "Genoa Today, Genoa Tomorrow" in December 2011, an extraordinary instrument of participation and opportunity for discussion. (in Italian)