Multimedia artist, writer, poet. Pioneer of
Italian digital art and computer poetry in 1990. Her work has been
presented in many countries, six times in the Venice Biennale and
Collateral Events since 1997, where she created participative
projects collaborating also as curator. Other exhibitions: Biennale
of Sidney (Online Venue 2008), Athens Biennial (2007), Liverpool
Biennial (Independents 2006, and 2008), Biennales de Lion (1999, and
2007), Biennale de Paris (2004), New Media Art Biennial (Merida,
Yucatan/Messico, 2003). For extensive list and bibliography see:
http://xoomer.alice.it/cprezi/caterinadav.html
Caterina Davinio was
as painter and poetry performer in the 80s. Since 1990 she realized
video and computer art (still and animated), digital visual poetry,
multimedia performance, photography, art printings (on various
materials), on line events. In 1998 she was the creator of Italian
Net-poetry, a development of net-art related to multi-located
experimental poetry events, based on line and in real spaces. Among
her publications: Color color (novel, 1998), Techno-Poetry
and Virtual Realities (It - Engl., essay, 2002, with preface by
Eugenio Miccini).
Selected Exhibitions List
Biennale di Venezia ed eventi collaterali (1997, 1999, 2001, 2003,
2005, 2009)
Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, San Francisco (MCCLA).
Special guest with a small solo exhibition, festival Visual Poetry &
Performance, June-July 2009
E-Poetry Barcelona 2009, Barcelona University (video 1990-2009)
Mostra internacional de videoarte e performance, Encontro de Arte
Global, Panteao Nacional, Lisboa, 2009
Biennale of Sidney (Online Venue 2008)
Solo exhibition, MAS Gallery, Serbia, November 2008
Videobardo, Buenos Aires, Biblioteca Nacional, November 2008.
Palazzo Ducale, Genova – The Room of Poetry, April 2008
Sala de Cerimonias de la Intendencia Municipal de Montevideo, March
2008
India International Centre, Delhi, Febbruary 2008
Athens Biennial (2007)
Markers6, Artlife Gallery, Venice, June 2007 and Park Industry,
Kassel
BienalB, Brazil, Porto Alegre, 2007
Biennales de Lyon (1999, Intern. Kiosk 2007)
Orensanz Center For the Arts, Markers, NYC, USA, 2007
Museum of Contemporary Art Rosario/Argentina, 2006
National Film Board of Canada, Toronto, 2006
Liverpool Biennial, Independents, 2006 e 2008
MACRO Museo Arte Contemporanea, Rosario, Argentina
Museo d’arte Contemporanea di Casoria (NA), IT, 2006
Contemporary Art Museum, Santa Fe, Argentina, 2006
Mostra internacional Poesia Visual, Eletronica, Itu, Brasile,
November 2005
Cyberpoem, festival, Barcelona 2005
Museo Caixa Forum, Barcelona (acquisition)
NEME InTransition and In transition Russia (2006 e
2007),
Hong Kong Artists' Biennale 2005
Biennale de Paris (2004)
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Festival Internacional de Arte Eletronico, Rosario Argentina. Museo
castagnino, 2004
Sound Poetry Festival, Portland Oregon, August 2004
Thailand New media Art Festival – Bangkok, March 2004. Fine Art
Faculty of Scrinakarinwirot University, Imaging Department
GA
International Generative Art Conference, Milan 2003
Interfacce 03, Roma, Università di Tor Vergata, 2003
MAD
03 Award (for Karenina.it), Madrid 2003
Fenomenologie seriali, and GATES, solo exhibition D’Ars Gallery,
Milan, 2003 (Signorini Prize)
Observatori 03 Museo de las Ciencias Principe Felipe. Ciudad
de las Artes y las Ciencias di Valencia, Spain, October-November
2003.
Museo de Arte Moderno – Ciclo de arte electronico, Buenos Aires
Argentina, September 2003
New
Media Art Biennial Interactiva 2003 Contemporary Art Museum of
Merida, Yucatan/Messico, July-September 2003
Fundacion Centro de Artes Visuales de la Plata, 2003
Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 2003
Museo Ebraico di
Venezia, Wandering Library, lbri d’artista, UNESCO, June-August 2003
Biennale di arte
elettronica, della televisione di qualità e dell’editoria
multimediale, various venues, Roma December 2001/January 2002
Polyphonix 2001, Paris
Le
tribù dell’arte I, Galleria d’arte moderna e contemporanea of Roma
(A. Bonito Oliva Curator), 2001
Le tribù
dell’arte II – Tribù del video e della performance, Galleria d’arte
moderna e contemporanea of Roma (curator of a video compilation) ,
2001
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International Poetry Festival of Medellin, Colombia (curator of a
video compilation), 2001
2nd
Interpoetry Exhibition, Mackenzie University, Sao Paulo, Brazil,
2001
II
Biennial of Experimental poetry, Mexico City, November-December 2001
Selected Exhibitions of the 90s
Artmedia VII,
Mario Costa Curator, Salerno (I), various venues, University of
Salerno, 1999
Biennale di Arti Elettroniche, della Televisione di qualità e dell’
Editoria multimediale di Roma, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Roma 1999
Mediaterra 99, international meeting of new media, Athens, 1999
La
coscienza luccicante: l’arte nell’età elettronica, Palazzo delle
Esposizioni, Roma 1998
Genovantasettevideo, Palazzo Ducale, Genoa (curator of a video
compilation), 1997
Virtual Light, Palazzo Fizzarotti, Bari, 1996
VeneziaPoesia,
Nanni Balestrini Curator, various venues, Venice 1996
Cybernauti 2, Palazzo Sanguineti, Bologna, 1995
International Videoart festival, Buenos Aires, 1995
Dialogìe al metroquadro, solo exhibition, with installation of
computer art and 10 digital art printings 100x50. In the context
of: La Parola e lo Sguardo, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Roma, January
1995
Oltre le arti
elettroniche: la nuova sperimentazione: Museo Pecci, Prato, new
media art meeting, April 1995 (curator)
Art
Electronics & Other Writings (international itinerant exhibition),
various locations in Rome, Florence, Bologna, Milan, Turin, and
other cities, 1994 (curator)
Centomilamodi di… perdere la testa (itinerant multimedia art
exhibition), various venues in Rome, Florence, Bologna, Milan, and
other cities, 1992/93 (curator)
L’arte e la
comunicazione nell’era del virtuale, Galleria Mara Coccia, M.M.
Gazzano Curator, Rome, 1993.
Art
Gallery Prize for computer art, organized by MC Microcomputer
computer magazine (Rome), with exhibition in SMAU – Milan Fair
(1992)
Poesia e non-poesia, solo exhibition, painting (50 pieces, oil on
canvas) and live multimedia performance, Il
Classico di Roma, September 1990
Luci dei caffè, solo exhibition, painting (50 pieces, oil on canvas)
and poetry reading, Galleria IDEA, Rome, June 1990. Catalogue edited
by Galleria Parametro, V. Margutta.