FRANCESCA FINI

( Italy – Itália)

FRANCESCA FINI - is an interdisciplinary artist, experimental filmmaker, and performer whose practice thrives on the friction between tradition and innovation. Moving fluidly across cinema, live media performance, installation, and artificial intelligence, she constructs poetic, surreal, and often unsettling narratives that question the boundaries between body, technology, and identity.

Over the years, Fini's work has been presented at major international venues and festivals including the WRO Biennale (Poland), CINEMED Film Festival (Montpellier), NordArt International Art Exhibition (Germany), Berlin Directors Lounge and IKONO TV Film Festival (Germany), Videoformes Festival (Clermont-Ferrand), Szczecin European Film Festival – SEFF (Poland), FILE Electronic Language Festival (Brazil), Athens Videoart Festival, Proyector Festival (Madrid), CYBERFEST and Now&After (Russia), Robot Festival (Bologna), Instants Video numériques et poétiques (Marseille), MANIFESTA12 collateral events (Palermo), IMAGE PLAY, MEM Festival at the Guggenheim Bilbao, BODY + CAMERA at MANA Contemporary Chicago, Un-Becoming at SomoS Berlin, the Japan Media Arts Festival (Tokyo), the Margaret Guthman Musical Instrument Competition (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta), as well as MAXXI and MACRO in Rome.

She has held notable solo exhibitions including BODY (S)CUL(P)TURE at Fondazione Dino Zoli (Forlì), My Name is Francesca (online, 2020), Other Identity Biennale (Genoa, 2019), Cyborg Fatale at Narkissos Gallery (Bologna, 2019), and RED (Rome, 2018). Her work has also been shown at The Arts House (Singapore), Palazzo Merulana and Galleria d'Arte Moderna (Rome), Photopia Festival (Hamburg), FILE Festival (São Paulo), Palazzo delle Esposizioni (Rome), and in the Takeda Italia Metaverse project.

As a performer, she took part in the landmark first edition of the Venice International Performance Art Week, alongside Valie Export, Yoko Ono, Jan Fabre, Marina Abramović, and Hermann Nitsch. She has been an artist-in-residence at Robert Wilson's Watermill Center (New York, 2014 and 2016) and at Rocca Sinibalda Castle (Italy, 2022).

7-1S  REDSPECTRUM  - Rodrigo de Carvalho   1ª SESSÃO | 1st SESSION

IMAGE PLAY ► International Video Art Festival - VI Edition 2024 (Funchal, Madeira - Portugal)

CREDITS:

Rodrigo de Carvalho  Director

Rodrigo de Carvalho & Miguel Neto (Boris Chimp 504)  Concept

Rodrigo de Carvalho Visuals

Miguel Neto Sound

SYNOPSIS:

REDSPECTRUM: Spitzer Space Telescope was an infrared observatory, used to study objects too cold to emit visible light, including exoplanets, brown dwarfs, comets, and asteroids. Despite halting its science operations in January 2020, it has recently and unexpectedly started transmitting... in the red spectrum! Besides this apparent malfunction of the abandoned telescope, it has also been transmitting data of uncanny mechanical structures and unknown bio-organisms."

This new Boris Chimp 504's chapter explores new territories and space dimensions by adding a new color dimension to the monochromatic vision and merging organic and two-dimensional visuals with the usual 3D geometric-hard edges aesthetic. The audiovisual narrative follows up with Boris Chimp 504 voyages through outer space emerging the audiences in space exploration, science and technology themes, merging reality and fiction

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            SILENT INHABITANTS                   2'49''                           2019                     (Portugal)                                  16:9                                                                                                                  

14-1S SILENT INHABITANTS  - Rodrigo de Carvalho   1ª SESSÃO | 1st SESSION

IMAGE PLAY ► International Video Art Festival - VI Edition 2024 (Funchal, Madeira - Portugal)

CREDITS:

Rodrigo de Carvalho  Director 

Rodrigo de Carvalho  Concept, Programming, Photogrametry

Francisca Gonçalves  Sound

SYNOPSIS:

SILENT INHABITANTS is an audiovisual exploration focused on classified trees specimens from the city of Porto. These trees, silent inhabitants , who have been living in our cities for dozens of years (some for hundreds) have witnessed key historical events and transformations in the city's urban fabric. The trees were digitally captured by photogrammetry techniques, then transformed in point clouds and used as catalyst for audiovisual exploration.

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            BC504 AUDIOVISUAL                          01'43''                             2015                              (Portugal)                                   16:9     

                EXPLORATIONS                                                                                                                         

9-2S BC504 AUDIOVISUAL EXPLORATIONS - Rodrigo de Carvalho  2ª SESSÃO | 2nd SESSION

IMAGE PLAY ► International Video Art Festival - VI Edition 2024 (Funchal, Madeira - Portugal)

CREDITS:

Rodrigo de Carvalho  Director

Rodrigo de Carvalho & Miguel Neto (Boris Chimp 504)  Concept

Rodrigo de Carvalho Visuals

Miguel Neto Sound

SYNOPSIS:

BC504 AUDIOVISUAL EXPLORATIONS -  Extracts from the recent Boris Chimp 504's audiovisual explorations.

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15-2S ANIMALS IN MOTION - Rodrigo de Carvalho 2ª SESSÃO | 2nd SESSION

IMAGE PLAY ► International Video Art Festival - VI Edition 2024 (Funchal, Madeira - Portugal)

CREDITS:

Rodrigo de Carvalho Director

Rodrigo de Carvalho Concept

Rodrigo de Carvalho Visuals, Programming (Using Opensource library TraceSkeleton by Lingdong Huang and Public Domain photographs by Eadweard Muybridge)

SYNOPSIS:

ANIMALS IN MOTION - Capturing in realtime the skeleton of different animals and exploring abstract movement visualizations.The animal motion is taken from Eadweard Muybridge studies: Animal locomotion : an electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of animal movements : prospectus and catalogue of plates / by Eadweard Muybridge (1987)

1.Cat: "Plate 720 'Cat galloping"

2.Camel: "Plate_739 Bactrain Camel Galloping"

3.Baboon: "Plate 748 Baboon Walking On All Fours"

4.Mule: "Plate 659 Mule Ruth Bucking and Kicking"

Made with Processing using TraceSkeleton by Lingdong Huang (2020) "A new algorithm for retrieving topological skeleton as a set of polylines from binary images."