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Maurizio Bolognini lives and works in Italy. He received degrees in urban planning and social science from the University of Venice and the University of Birmingham, UK. He works as both a media artist and researcher in electronic democracy and network communication techniques. He has written extensively on these subjects, as well as teaching at the University of Milan and acting as a consultant to several institutions. Since 1994 he has also developed a variant of the Delphi Method to be applied to electronic democracy. As an artist he has exhibited widely in Europe and the U.S.A. His latest solo shows include ones at the Villa Croce Museum of Contemporary Art, Genoa; PAN-Palace of Arts, Naples; Laboratory Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome; Neon, Bologna; CACTicino, Bellinzona, Switzerland; WAHCenter, New York; Depardieu, Nice; Roger Smith Lab, New York. He is author of many publications, including the books Democrazia elettronica (Rome: Carocci, 2001) and Postdigitale (Rome: Carocci, 2008). Bolognini’s research interests are art, technology and democracy. Since 1988 he has used computers to produce endless streams of random images. In the 1990s, he programmed hundreds of computers (IMs, Computer sigillati, Atlas 2 series etc.) to generate continuously expanding images and then let them run indefinitely. Since 2000 he has concentrated on combining programming and communication devices, as in the Collective Intelligence Machines (CIMs): interactive installations connecting his Programmed Machines to the mobile telephone network, to allow interaction by members of the public. Many of his installations delegate choices to electronic devices and/or to processes of communication and e-democracy involving the audience in new forms of generative, interactive and public art. Recent books and catalogs on his work: D. Scudero (ed.), Maurizio Bolognini: installazioni, disegni, azioni (Rome: Lithos, 2003); S. Solimano (ed.), Maurizio Bolognini: Programmed Machines 1990-2005 (Genoa: Villa Croce Museum, 2005); M. Costa et al., Infinito personale, (Nuovi Strumenti, 2007).
nota biografica (300 parole) Maurizio
Bolognini vive
e lavora in Italia. Ha studiato urbanistica all'Università di
I suoi interessi comprendono arte, tecnologie, democrazia. Dal 1988 ha iniziato a usare elaboratori elettronici per produrre flussi di immagini casuali. Negli anni '90 ha programmato centinaia di macchine (serie IMs, Computer sigillati, Atlas 2 ecc.) per generare immagini in continua espansione, lasciandole funzionare all'infinito. Dal 2000 si è concentrato sulla combinazione di dispositivi di programmazione e di comunicazione, come nelle Collective Intelligence Machines (CIMs): installazioni interattive che connettono alcune delle sue macchine programmate alla rete telefonica cellulare, consentendo l'intervento del pubblico. Molte delle sue installazioni delegano le scelte a dispositivi elettronici o a processi di comunicazione e e-democracy che coinvolgono i fruitori nella sperimentazione di un'arte generativa, interattiva e pubblica. Libri e cataloghi recenti sul suo lavoro: D. Scudero (a cura di), Maurizio Bolognini: installazioni, disegni, azioni, Lithos, Roma 2003; S. Solimano (a cura di), Maurizio Bolognini: Macchine Programmate 1990-2005, Museo di Villa Croce, Genova 2005; M. Costa et al., Infinito personale, Nuovi Strumenti, 2007.
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