Cinema ed energia

CINEMA & ENERGY: AT THE PALLADIUM IN ROME A CONFERENCE INVESTIGATES THE ENERGY OF CINEMA AND OF UNCONVENTIONAL LANGUAGES – FROM ELECTRONIC TO DIGITAL VIA NETWORK

Changes and trends in cinema and in the arts, from electronic to digital via the network, are discussed in an international conference – which takes place at the Palladium Theatre in Romefrom 9 to 11 December. A valuable opportunity to know more on the less conventional languages and new frontiers of art: exploring the theme of energy from a global point of view. From video art to science, to climate change.

Cinema & Energy – this is the title of the conference, organized by the Department of Communication and Entertainment of Roma Tre University, directed by Giorgio De Vincenti.

“Talking about the issue of energy – says Giorgio De Vincenti, curator of the event with Marco Maria Gazzano – means convening sophisticated and different skills present in different fields of knowledge that usually do not talk to each other, and expecting from their encounter signs for a global governance at the height of the global problems of the planet”.

From the homage to Gianni Toti and its VideoPoemOpere related to the gaze on scientific  imagery, to the performer and filmmaker Amy Greenfield from New York through the teknoartista Giacomo Verde, the New York-based photographer and critic Robert Haller, the English physicist Mark Buchanan and astrophysicist Paolo De Bernardis, the Swiss sociologist Dirk Helbing and epistemologist Brazilian Francisco Ortega; here’s just some of the leading international voices (from the academic world to Eutelsat and Slow Food) of artists and scientists who will discuss on this occasion.

Particular attention will be given to the theme of environment with images and testimonies that come from the World Summit on Climate Change, which simultaneously takes place in Cancun inMexicoand previous appointments on the subject and the rights of peoples and of “Mother Earth”. Among the speeches of statesmen, sociologists, economists, the author of the manifesto-globalization Naomi Klein.To liven up the program – always at the Palladium – for all three days, some of the most interesting video artists of the international scene will exhibit their works in the exhibition entitled: The video art and the interpretations of matter-light by Marco Maria Gazzano, with works of: Adriana Amodei (Switzerland), Robert Cahen (France), Alba D’Urbano (Germany), Ed Emshwiller (USA), Ida Gerosa (Italy), Olga Lucia Hurtado (Colombia), Theo Eshetu, (UK / Italy) David Larcher (UK), Federica Marangoni (Italy), Nam June Paik (Korea / USA), Fabrizio Plessi (Italy), Carlo Quartucci (Italy), Mario Sasso (Italy), Lino Strangis (Italy), Marianne Strapatsakis (Greece ), the Vasulka (USA) and a TV set 3D experimental.

The whole initiative is being broadcast in streaming video on www.dicospe.com