EFA STUDIO PROGRAM: Member Artists

Mattia Casalegno

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Mattia Casalegno is a new media artist, technologist and educator working in a variety of media, from video and performances to immersive installations and Mixed Reality. His work explores the physical and sensory perceptions of its viewers, evoking experiences that are fully immersive, sensorially embodied, and psychologically heightened. His art practice draws from the most disparate disciplines such as anthropology, ecology, biology, neurosciences, informatics, and focusses on the relations and tensions between Nature, society and technology.

He exhibited internationally in more than 100 international venues and institutions including SIGGRAPH Asia, ISEA -International Society of Electronic Artists, Mutek festival, Untilted Art Fair, Superblue Museum, MACRO Museum, Cini Foundation, Rome’s Auditorium and RomaEuropa Festival, Cimatics festival, Le Cube Contemporay Art, Festival de la Imagem, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts.

His work is been featured internationally in publications and catalogues such as “A Touch of Code” -Gestalten Books; “Tactics of Interfacing” -MIT press; “Deleuze and Audiovisual Art” -Manchester Metropolitan University, and on media outlets as the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Art Tribune, Exibart, the Creators Projects, Creative Applications, Hyperallergic, Digicult, e-artnow.

Nominated to the New Technological Art Awards in 2014 and artist is residence at Eyebeam in 2015, he received various grants and fellowships from among others, NEW INC, the Center for Cultural Innovation, Young Italian Artists Network, NYFA, the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts and the Chronus Art Center. In 2018 he is recipient of the Lumen Prize People’s Choice Award.

He is currently Assistant Professor at the department of Digital Arts, Pratt Institute in New York, and at the Digital + Media graduate department, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).