MARCO MANRAY

uqbar. media art culture e Rinascimento Virtuale

Vi invitano all'apertura di /Invite you at the Opening of

MARCO MANRAY

Tuesday, 16 Dicember - Thursday, December 18. 2008

(10PM CET - 01 PM SLT)

ARENA EX.IT slurl (http://slurl.com/secondlife/Experience%20Italy%20NW/128/128/37)

”MARCO MANRAY IN CHINA”

“La mostra di Marco Manray, uno dei net-reporter più conosciuti di Second Life, sembra riprendere quel concetto di “rimediazione” - caratteristica dei nuovi media digitali - proposto da Bolter e Grusin. Sicuramente è l’espressione più chiara che descrive le visioni del “viandante” contemporaneo, colui che non conosce limiti di spazio e che transita da una geografia all’altra, registrando la precaria esistenza dei confini. Ad emergere è l’idea del viaggio, lo stato mentale dell’artista che vede nell’esplorazione l’apertura all’incontro. Ecco dunque l’importanza dell’esposizione in SL di immagini scattate in altri mondi sintetici, in questo caso di un mondo virtuale cinese. Una descrizione che si completa con l’”ipermediazione” di un taccuino Moleskine" - Mario Savini

The exhibition of Moleskines by Marco Manray, one of SL best known reporters, is based on Bolter's and Grusin's concept of "re-mediation" - typical of the new digital media. For sure re-mediation is the most vivid description of the contemporary visions of the "traveller", who knows no limit of space and shifts from one geography to the other, recording the precarious existence of borders. What comes up is the idea of journey itself, of the artist's state of mind and of exploration as opening oneself to encounters. Hence the importance of showing in SL images shot in other synthetic worlds, specifically in a Chinese virtual world. The description is completed by the "hyper-mediation" of a moleskine notebook. - Mario Savini

BIO

http://www.marcomanray.com/

http://www.internetlandscape.it/

Marco Cadioli, artist and photographer in virtual worlds as Marco Manray.
He started to travell and take photographs in the Net since 2003, after the publication of his "Internet Landscape" Manifesto where he set up the concept of net-photography.www.internetlandscape.it
In 2005 he published "ARENAEe a reportage from the war on line, shooting as "embedded" reporter in Quake III, Enemy Territory and Counter Strike.www.internetlandscape.it/arenae
In 2006 realize the 7 minutes video "Interview with the robot" a video interview to an artificial intelligence, and partecipate to SuperNeen at Galleria Pack, Milano.
From feb 2005 he is resident in Second Life as Marco Manray, an artist-photographer who documents the evolving of the metaverse with the stories and the images from his last project My First Second Lifewww.myfirstsecondlife.com
His images from Second Life have been published by international magazine as Liberation (paris), El Pais (madrid), Repubblica (milan), Elle Decor (milan), Elle (madrid), Numerò Beauté (milan), AD Architectural Digest (milan), CasAmica Corriere della Sera (milan), Il sole24ore (milano)
Exibition:MAXXI - Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo“NetSpace: viaggio nell’arte della Rete” Paesaggi elettronici 2007PEAM Pescara Electronic Artists Meeting 2006SuperNeen, Galleria Pack, Milano 2006Premio Michetti Pescara 2005Sintesi Electronic Art Festival in Napoli 2004BitArt Firenze 2004
graduated in Phisycs. After computer studies he begun working in 3-D computer animation since 1985 and he followed the principles step of the development of new media. He teach"Digital Media" at "Accademia di Comunicazione" in Milan, "Net art Laboratory" at Accademia Santa Giulia, Brescia, "Tecniche di scrittura multimediale" at Cattolica University in Brescia and in several Masters.He lives and works in Milan and Second Life