Athens SLINGSHOT is a new festival of independent music, innovative art and technology, taking place in Athens, Georgia (USA) on March 9, 2013. SLINGSHOT features bands from across the US and abroad, innovative art presented throughout the urban environment, and technology talks with big thinkers in arts technology.
OFFICIAL WEBSITE: athensslingshot.comINFO: info@athensslingshot.com
Director: Kai Riedl
Curator: Eric Marty
Advisors: Chris Eaket, Gene Kansas, Michael Oliveri
FEATURED ITALIAN ARTISTS
Alessandro Perini (Cucciago, Italy)
“Forking Shadows”
sound, light and sculptural installation
2012 (US premier)
Alessandro Perini (1983) studied Composition (with teachers such as Luca Francesconi and Ivan Fedele), Electronic Music and Science of Musical Communication in Italy and Sweden. His artistic production ranges from instrumental music to audiovisual and interactive works with a particular focus on the relationship between the sonic and the visual perception. His compositions have been played in Italy and abroad in festivals such as Biennale di Venezia (Italy), Festival Futura (France), Open Spaces (Germany), Connect Festival (Sweden), Procesas (Lithuania). As a media artist he founded in 2004 Gruppo Làbun, a multimedia research trio awarded at Mantova Musica Festival, Biennale of Young Artists (Imperia, Italy), Digital Art Awards Tokyo and GTC Pisa. His videos and installations have been exhibited or screened in festivals worldwide, broadcasted by Al Gore’s Current TV and awarded at MagmArt, Premio Arte Novara, Arrivano i Corti, Marsciano Arte Giovani, Profezie Presenti, La città in fiore. Among the most prestigious group exhibitions are “A.N.G.E.L.I e tracce d’infinito” (Lugano, Switzerland), “Gameplay” (Omaha, USA), “Flow interrupted” (Chicago, USA), “La Colomba” (Venice, Italy), “Art Cycle” (Newark, USA). He has been teaching courses in audiovisual production for the arts at the Conservatory of Como, Italy.
Giulio Colangelo (Potenza, Italy)
“Perception Synesthésique 5”
sound installation
2011 (North American premier)
Giulio Colangelo (1986) obtained a BA degree cum laude in Electronic Music Composition at the Conservatory of Potenza (Italy) under the supervision of composer G. Gemini. He attended master-classes in contemporary instrumental techniques and electronic composition with Esther Lamneck and Cort Lippe. He has attended many specialist courses in sound engineering and postproduction and has worked for a long time in the field of music production. He is completing a MA degree in Audio-Video Composition at the Conservatory of Frosinone (Italy) under the supervision composer A. Cipriani. His compositions have been played in several national and international competitions and festivals, including Intermedia Festival 2008 (italy), Intermediart 2009 (Italy), Beam festival 2011 (UK), TES 2011 (Toronto Electroacustic Symposium), ICMC 2012 (IRZU – Ljubljana), EMUfest 2012 (Italy), ZKM (Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie – Germany), and WOCMAT 2012 (Taiwan)
Luca De Siena (Minturno, Italy)
(video by Antonello Belgrano)
“Concrezione”
audiovisual composition
2012 (US premier)
After his degree in sound engineering and MIDI programming at the Saint Louis Music College in Rome, Luca De Siena continued his musical studies, earning a bachelor’s degree in Electronic Music at the Conservatory of Frosinone (Italy) under the guidance of prof. A. Cipriani with a thesis entitled “The electroacoustic Mass: legacy of a millennial genre” (rapporteur Prof. Theresa Chirico). The questions underlying his research are about the relationship between tradition and innovation and between art’s functionality and rituality in modern society. He attended workshops and master classes with Alvise Vidolin, Leigh Landy, and Mary Castro. He studied intermedial art with Alba D’Urbano at the HGB Leipzig (Germany). His acousmatic pieces have been selected in several festivals and concerts in Italy (Sassari, Bari, Salerno) and abroad (Poland, Denmark, England, South Korea). His audiovisual work “Concrezione” (video by Antonello Belgrano) has been selected for many international festivals including the International Computer Music Festival 2012 of Ljubljana (Slovenia) and the WOCMAT of Taiwan. Together with five other composers he is a founding member of HEKA, whose electroacoustic soundtrack for the silent film “Kinoglaz” by D. Vertov was presented during the 47th Festival of Nuova Consonanza in Rome and performed in many festivals abroad including “Cybersound,” a festival at Temple University in Philadelphia (USA). Together with HEKA he is also the author of electroacoustic soundtrack for the silent film “Il Piccolo Garibaldino” commissioned by Nuova Consonanza as a part of the celebrations for the 150th anniversary of the unification of Italy, and which was premiered at the 48th festival of music of Nuova Consonanza. As a mastering engineer he has worked on the s post-production of some electronic music records released by some foreign independent labels.
Julian Scordato (Venice, Italy)
“Vision II”
electroacoustic composition with animated graphic score
2012 (US premier)
Julian Scordato graduated in Composition and New Technologies with Corrado Pasquotti and Alvise Vidolin at the Conservatory of Music in Venice. His chamber and electroacoustic music works have been performed in Europe and America (Biennale di Venezia, Festival 5 Giornate – Milan, Electronic Arts and Music Festival – Miami, EMUfest – Rome, Re-New Digital Arts Festival – Copenhagen, Gaudeamus Music Week – Utrecht, Siren Festival – Gothenburg, Deep Wireless Festival – Montreal, Punto de Encuentro – Valencia and elsewhere), selected in international competitions (Roma Soundtrack Competition, Flores D’Arcais Composition Prize, Conlon Music Prize and others) and broadcasted (RAI Radio3, NAISA Webcast, RadioCemat). As a composer and performer he participated in scientific events like the Meetings of Music Informatics and the 8th Sound and Music Computing Conference. He composes music for video, theater and installations. He has been music curator of Rassegna dell’Arte e del Teatro indipendente di Pordenone and he collaborated with Giorgio Cini Foundation and Ca’ Foscari University in Venice. He is a member of Arazzi Laptop Ensemble, group of electroacoustic music performers and composers. Ars Publica and Taukay Edizioni Musicali publish his compositions.
Marco Mendeni (Milan, Italy)
“FOV02”
machinima (audiovisual work)
2012 (US premier)
Born in Brescia, Italy, Marco Mendeni (1979) divides his creative time between Berlin and Milan. He graduated from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan with a thesis focusing on the relationship between videogames and art, and also holds an MFA in Art and Technology. Since 2009, he has created a series of game-based artworks in a variety of different formats (scultpure, installation, and “machinima”). Mendeni has long been dedicated to artistic research that experiences the contamination of materials, computer animation and 3D production, all with a particular focus on the process that leads the videogame medium to become a social medium. His work explores the global diffusion of the digital information technologies and videogame, and ranges from painting and photography to game-mod and video installation. Recent exhibitions and festivals include BYOB Milano (2012), Theca Gallery (Switzerland, 2012), RoBOT 05 (Bologna, 2012), Playing the Game (Milano, 2012), Pulseart (Shio, Italy, 2012), and the OltreDimore Gallery (Bologna).
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