ARTMEDIA FORMER EDITIONS (1985-1999)
After
the exhibition L’immaginario tecnologico that took place at the
Museo del Sannio in Benevento (March 26th - April 14th
1984) and that raised the issue of the relationship between art-aesthetics and
new technologies and that showed art works by international artists (Fred
Forest, Horacio Zabala, Marc Denjean, Gerald Minkoff…), the department of
philosophy of the University of Salerne, under the direction of Mario Costa,
professor of aesthetics, decided to launch Artmedia, a regular
international symposium about the Aesthetics of Media and of Communication.
i>Artmedia is among the first event to have raised, within an
academic environment, the issue of the theory and experiments related to the
new modalities of media communication technologies.
In a first step, this
symposium focused on the relationship between art-communication and remote
communications but very quickly it opened up to the whole field of electronic
arts.
Every edition of Artmedia has
been documented through catalogues and proceedings.
Artmedia I (May 20-25 1985) : Aesthetics of
Communication (with Robert Adrian, Fred Forest, Nathan Karczmar, Tom
Klinkowstein, Mit Mitropoulos, Jean-Marc Philippe, Derrick de Kerckhove, René
Berger, Abraham Moles…).
Artmedia II (May 27-30 1986): Aesthetics of
radio (exhibition at the French Institute of Naples), video
(Walter BauMann, French, German, Japanese and american videos) and the Planetary
Communication Aesthetics (Derrick de Kerckhove, Bernard Stiegler, Peter
Seep, Fred Forest, David Rokeby, Norman White…).
Artmedia III (November 8-10 1990) : Photography
: from optic to electronic (Riwan Tromeur, Natale Cuciniello, Diana
Domingues, Carlos Fadon-Vicente…), computer images (Silvano Onda,
Patrick Prado…), synthetic sounds (Guido Baggiani, Riccardo
Bianchini, Tonino Battista…) and the networks (Fred Forest,
Stéphan Barron, Roy Ascott…). The symposium focused on the theme Electronic
production and the art system (Catherine Millet, Reinhold Misselbek,
Marisa Buovolo-Ullrich…).
Artmedia IV (November 19-21 1992) : Neo-technological
arts between aesthetics and communication.Among the participants :
René Berger, Vladimir Borev, Gillo Dorfles, Lamberto Pignotti, André Parente,
Elie Theophilakis, Derrick de Kerckhove, Diana Domingues, Jean-Louis Le Tacon,
Mario de Blasi…
Artmedia V (November 23-25 1995) : Multimedia
art and the aesthetics of technological communication. Among the
participants : Robert Estivals, Daniel Charles, Pierre Levy, Isabelle
Chemin/Guido Hubner, Roy Ascott, Fred Forest, Edmond Couchot, Annateresa
Fabris, Giovanni Fontana, Giorgio Nottoli…
Artmedia VI (November 27-29 1997): New
Photography (Guido Sartorelli, Alfredo Anzellini…), aesthetics
of communication (Stéphan Barron, Maurizio Bolognini, Evgenija
Demnievska…), electro-acoustic poetry (Felice Piemontese, Rolland
Caignard, Enzo Minarelli…), electronic music (Mauro
Bagella, James Dashow…), sound interfaces (Leonello
Tarabella & Marco Cardini). Theoretical communications by Brunella Eruli,
Simonetta Lux, Franco Fanizza, Yannick Geffroy…
Artmedia VII (November 25-27 1999) : Sound
poetry (Antonio Amendola, Tomaso Binga, Giuliano Zosi, Vincenzo Cuomo),
digital literature (Caterina Davinio, Claude Maillard & Tibor
Papp, Marie-Claude Vettraino-Soulard), video (Dominique Belloir,
Takahiko Iimura, Giacomo Verde, Danila Bertasio, Valentina Valentini), electronic
sound (Elio Martusciello & Mike Cooper & Pino Saulo, Antonio
Camurri, Daniel Charles), technological communication (Peter
d’Agostino, Richard Kriesche, Anne Cauquelin, Maria Grazia Mattei), robotic
perception (Eduardo Kac, Geppino Siano…), new photography
(Alfredo Anzellini, Angelo Candiano & Maurizio Bolognini, Giovanni Pelloso,
Francois Soulages…)