[spectre] MEDIATERRAE VOL.1 - IRPINIA ELECTRONIC LANDSCAPE

[Valentina Tanni]

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MEDIATERRAE VOL.1 - IRPINIA ELECTRONIC LANDSCAPE

PRESS RELEASE :::001

"Mediaterrae Vol.1 - Irpinia Electronic Landscape" is a project that aims 
either at a cultural and territorial promotion and at an audio /video 
production. The event is produced by Gal Verde Irpinia in collaboration with 
Media Terrae film commission. Conceived as a yearly meeting where the art of 
audio/video production is the main focus, MediaTerrae is a project created 
in order to offer for each year new topics, new territorial visions, new 
volumes.

Its first edition sees the creation of a residence project, a live event and 
finally the production of a DVD. Fourteen international artists will be 
selected and hosted in Irpinia for a period of five days (from the 19th to 
the 23rd February) The residential project aims at the constitution of a 
creative base among the selected artists which will be the starting point 
for the production of seven audio/video tracks that will eventually be part 
of the "MediaTerrae Vol.1 - Irpinia Electronic Landscape" dvd, including a 
documentary film. This dvd will then be produced and freely distributed 
(10.000 circulation copies) with the July-August issue of the magazine 
Blow-Up.

The participants will spend few days in the little town of Montemarano 
during its suggestive and peculiar carnival, while MediaTerrae Crew will 
follow the artist in order to facilitate the video, audio and text 
documentation of the carnival itself, necessary to the later audio and video 
productions. The locking up of this first phase of the project will see the 
creation of a live event, aka "MediaTerrae Night" that will take place 
Friday 23rd February in the Teatro Carlo Gesualdo in Avellino.
During this free event, it will be possible to assist to live sets of some 
of the artists involved in the project; these performances will give 
anticipation on the artists' ownreading of Montemarano's Carnival and on 
their own experience in the Irpinia territories.

MediaTerrae Night will give space to several artists:
Rechenzentrum, Deadbeat + Niko Stumpo, Burnt Friedman & Jaki Liebezeit + 
Anders Weberg & Robert Willim.

The project will however involve a broader list of international names. The 
audio part will be covered by:
Burnt Friedman + Jaki Liebezeit, Rechenzentrum, Deadbeat, Zavoloka, 
Populous, Retina.it, Marco Messina

while the video will see:
Bianco-Valente, Anders Weberg & Robert Willim, Niko Stumpo, Alex Dragulescu, 
Riccardo Arena, Jeffers Egan.

The project artistic production is devolved upon Interferenze - the 
international festival of new arts, in collaboration with Soundabbast - 
booking and management
together with the authorial and executive production of Ufficio Bifolco. 
Curator for the project video section is Valentina Tanni.

For more information, please visit www.mediaterrae.com

Press Office:
Leandro Pisano - Ufficio Bifolco
email: leandro at ufficiobifolco.it
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