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Bio

Lorenzo Oggiano (1964, Padova - Italy) works in photography, video, new media, installations, assemblages.
He graduated in visual arts (BA) at the University of Bologna (D.A.M.S.) with a final thesis on the relationship between arts and new technologies: Contemporary arts and technological interaction: the bodies of mutation.
Since the early nineties Lorenzo Oggiano is engaged in an artistic and theoretical research concerning the biological, sensorial and cognitive mutations induced by new technologies, and the aesthetic and communicative potentiality of new media tools.
Lives and works in Sassari (Italy).


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] | 'Quasi-Objects', Traffic Gallery Contemporary Art, Bergamo, Italy [2008] | 'Selected Videos 2004-2007', Dissonanze 7, Aula Magna, Palazzo dei Congressi, Rome, Italy [2007].


Selected Group Exhibitions, Screenings, Festivals, Art Fairs

Flussi New Media Arts Festival, Belvedere Teatro 'Carlo Gesualdo', Avellino, Italy [2011] | Bio:Fiction - Synthetic Biology Science, Art and Film Festival, Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien, Austria [2011] | Minimalelectro im Festsaal Kreuzberg - Bergsaal Kreuzhein, Berlin, Germany [2011] | Videoformes on Tour - Espace Beaujon, Paris, France, The Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, U.S.A., Hors D'Oeuvre, Shangai, China [2010] | 'Pandemonio Visuale', Italian Experimental Cinema, 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', Castello e Palazzo Altan, S. V. 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] | KunStart 08, 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] | Videominuto PopTV2007, New Italian Wave / One Minute Suite, Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea L. Pecci, Prato, Italy [2007] | Art-Athina International Art Fair of Athens, Kataskevi Project, Helexpo Exhibition and Conference 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 | 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-Media-Akademie 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 Internazionale di Videoarte Biennale Adriatica Arti Nuove (finalist), Palazzina Azzurra, 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 Laboratorio ex-manifattura 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 - Maf05Feb, Intimacy / Digital Skin - Bed Supper Club, Bangkok, Thailand [2005] | Spark Video 4.4, Spark Contemporary Art Space, Syracuse, NY, USA [2005] | 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, Univ. of Tasmania Launceston, Australia / VCA Gallery, Univ. 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. | Cartes Centre of Art and Technology, Espoon, Finland | Association Culturelle VideoFormes, Clermont-Ferrand, France | 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.


Selected Articles, Catalogues, Reviews

Aurelitano, Alice (a cura di), The Cinematic Experience. Film, Contemporary Art, Museum / Film, Arte Contemporanea, Museo, Udine, Campanotto Editore, marzo 2010, p. 194-195 | Piero, Pala, "Lorenzo Oggiano - suhteellisuus ja hybridi Quasi-Objektien elokuvallisina tekijöinä", Taide Design, 2010, n.7, p. 84-97 | Pezzetta, Emanuela, (a cura di), Palinsesti 2009 Licôf, catalogue, Udine, Forum Editrice Universitaria Udinese, 2009, p. 20-21; 34-35; 42-43 | Beatrice, Luca, "L'isola che non c'era", Arte, luglio 2009, n.431, p. 110-111 | Bernareggi, Claudia, "Lorenzo Oggiano", Espoarte Contemporay Art Magazine, giugno-luglio 2009, anno X, n.59, p. 133-135 | Cartes Flux³, Perception, Time, Subject, catalogue, Tapiola, Finland, Cartes Centre of Art & Technology Espoo, 2008, p. 64-65 | Danzig, Stephen,The Vernacular Terrain - Internationl Digital Art projects, catalogue, Sydney, Australia, Red Box Studio, 2008 | Kult, maggio 2008, anno 10, n.5, pp.133-135; 140 | Biamonti, Stefania, "Vite Artificiali", Il Fotografo, febbraio 2008, n.190, pp.30-31 | Niessen, Bertram, "Quasi Objects project by Lorenzo Oggiano", Digimag, novembre 2007, n.29, http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1037 | Lorenzo Oggiano, "Quasi-Objects": catalogue, Traffic Gallery, Bergamo, Italy | Videominuto PopTV2007: catalogue, Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy, 6-7-8 settembre 2007, p. 16, 28, 33 | 12th International Media Art Biennale WRO 07: catalogue. Wroclaw, Poland, may 16 - july 17, 2007, p.75 | Careddu, Mariella, "Dissonanze 2007: all'EUR l'arte digitale di Oggiano", L'Unione Sarda, 31 maggio 2007 | Cartes Flux vol. 2., Festival of new media art: catalogue, Cartes Centre of Art and Technology, Espoo, Finland, april 17-24, 2007, p. 2; 4; 7 ; 8; 39 | CYNETart_06humane - 10. Internationales Festival für computergestützte Kunst: catalogue. November 15-19, Festspielhaus Hellerau / November 10-19, Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresden, Germany - Dresden, Trans-Media-Akademie Hellerau e V., 2006, p. 25; 33-34. | Blohm, Manfred, Texte zur Medienkunst, Flensburg, Flensburg University Press, 2006, pp. 28-33 | Darklight Festival 2006: catalogue. Dublin, Irish Film Istitute - Filmbase, june 22-25, 2006, p. 17 | Castia, Simonetta, "I Quasi Objects di Lorenzo Oggiano. Bambole e new media", Plico, giugno 2006, n. 10 | Cartes Flux vol. 1. Festival of new media art: catalogue, Cartes Centre of Art and Technology, Espoo, march 9, 2006, p. 3; 20 | VAIA 2005 - IV. Mostra de video art internacional d'Alcoi: catalogue. Cultural Centre, Alcoi, Spain, november 2005, p. 10; 70-71; 135; 144; 175 | "Unimovie", Flash Art, ottobre-novembre 2005, n. 254, p. 86 | Media Art Friesland Festival: catalogue. Leeuwarden, Harlingen, Drachten (Netherland), september 16 - october 2, 2005, p. 28 | Imaginaria - III. Festival Internazionale del cinema libero: catalogue. Chiostro S. Benedetto, Conversano (Bari), august 1-7, 2005, p. 68 | European Media Art Festival: catalogue. Lagerhalle, Großer Saal, Osnabrück, Germany, april 20-24, 2005, p. 94 | Von Rosen, Astrid, "Vems paradis talar vi om?", Göteborgsposten, april 2, 2005. | VAIA 2004 - III. Mostra de video art internacional d'Alcoi: catalogue. Cultural Centre, Alcoi, Spain, november 13, 2004, pp. 24-25 | Chiari, Laura, "Networking as Artworking", NextExit, luglio-agosto 2004, n.18, pp. 56-57 | Danzig, Steve - Cosshall, Wayne J.,"2003 International Digital Art Awards", Digital Photography + Design Magazine - autumn 2003, n. 23, pp. 30-33 | Artinuove, 2ennale Adriatica 0/2003: catalogue. Mercato Ittico, San Benedetto del Tronto (Ancona - Italy), july 16-20, 2003 | Lanfredi, Franco (aka Lanfree), Web Designer Experiments: agli antipodi del web design. Mantova, Edizioni Sometti, 2003, pp. 138-139


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Bio

Lorenzo Oggiano (Padova, 1964) lavora con fotografia, video, new media, installazioni, assemblaggi.
Laureato in arti visive all'Università degli studi di Bologna (D.A.M.S.) con una tesi sui rapporti tra arti e nuove tecnologie: Arte contemporanea e interazione tecnologica: corpi della mutazione.
Dai primi anni novanta è impegnato in una ricerca artistica e teorica sulle mutazioni biologiche, sensoriali e cognitive indotte dalle nuove tecnologie e sulle potenzialità estetico-comunicative dei nuovi media.
Dal 1998 vive e lavora a Sassari.