Two days of workshops, conferences, installations and performances.
For 2023 Kernel returns to Monza with Kernel Lab
STAY KERNEL!
Two days of workshops, conferences, installations and performances.
For 2023 Kernel returns to Monza with Kernel Lab
STAY KERNEL!
Kernel Monza Lab /023 – New Media Light Art Festival awaits you on 29 and 30 September in Monza with live performances of electronic music and visual mapping, light installations, conferences, workshops and itinerant performances. A program that is concentrated in the complex of the Royal Palace of Monza and radiates into the historic center of the city.
An edition that promotes experimentation, social sustainability and inclusion, becoming an active and participatory laboratory.
A still innovative Kernel that invests in contents, ideas, projects, comparisons and relationships destined to grow and consolidate for the enhancement of the next editions of the Festival.
Be Kernel … STAY KERNEL !
NANNI VALENTINI STATE ARTISTIC HIGH SCHOOL
The courtyard of the high school hosts light installations and welcomes performances of music and electronic sound by established artists and young talents selected by tender, accompanied by Live Visual Mapping created by professionals and participants in the scheduled workshops.
STAY TUNED FOR THE LINE UP!
This year Kernel Lab is focusing on training and community involvement, developing training courses and participatory projects and offering the opportunity to young emerging talents in the field of electronic music and visual mapping to perform live.
LICEO ARTISTICO STATALE NANNI VALENTINI
Multimedia and Scenography Course – Liceo Nanni Valentini
The Liceo Artistico Nanni Valentini opens the doors of its historic headquarters to the public to present the multimedia projects developed by the students during a workshop on light and audiovisual led by teachers and tutors of the AreaOdeon team.
Teachers: Maurizio Telloli, Makio Manzoni, Lorella Belli, Francesca Monforte
Tutors: Marcello Arosio, Edoardo Falasco
AI AR VR XR EXPERIENCES IN CONTEMPORARY ART
Saturday 30 September – Sala degli Specchi, Villa Reale di Monza
2:30 pm – 7:00 pm – free entry – limited seats
REGISTRATION LINK
A conference dedicated to the relationship between art and the most recent evolutions of new technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Extended Reality, Biodata. The TECH INSIDE ART program is developed in collaboration with renowned academic, scientific and artistic entities and sees the presence of personalities of national and international importance, artists, teachers, curators and researchers who compare themselves by sharing their experiences and visions.
SPEAKERS
IMAGINE…
…Physical-digital hybrid places of culture, experiential places that encourage the sharing of knowledge through virtualizations, interactions with natural and artificial intelligences, gamification mechanics and business models that make management sustainable.
Poetronicart, within the Culture4Life platform, is already doing so, together with its strategic and technological partners and the network of public and private museums with which it collaborates.
BIO
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW?
The intervention aims to delve deeper into the concept of Artificial Intelligence (AI) by historically framing its evolution and providing a vision of what this technology is and how it works.
Following this, the current states of progress of AI will be evaluated, with particular attention to the advent of increasingly high-performance hardware (GPU, TPU, other) and the potential future prospects that could materialize with the use of Quantum Computers.
Finally, some ideas will be given on the European AI-ACT (Artificial Intelligence-ACT) which is currently under discussion and aims to regulate the use of Artificial Intelligence with respect to ethical and sustainability-related issues.
MELLOPHONICS: OF SONIC CHIMERAS AND TRIPPING UP AI
Artificial intelligences are the last link in a long chain of simulacra that man has incessantly created since ancient times.
The innate human propensity towards representation has led us from the talking statue of the ancient Egyptians to the great linguistic models capable of seriously challenging our fragile descriptions of consciousness and intelligence as well as the very perception of reality.
AI in the arts are often seen as tools that undermine authenticity, identity and the very concept of authorship.
However, this vision not only does not take into consideration all the applications of AI and the infinite possibilities of a critical use of these means, but we can also try to put these systems in difficulty in order to escape representation and allow new differences to flourish (and therefore generate originality ) by adopting lateral thinking, i.e. voluntarily making the algorithm wrong by introducing errors into the process.
In this speech, Giorgio Sancristoforo presents Mellophonics, a musical work in which AI is not used to clone voices or instruments, but to generate new sounds through improper use of the algorithm, overturning the purpose for which it was created, taking leave from the simulacrum so as to bring out sound chimeras that are impossible to produce with currently known synthesizers, samplers or processes.
Transformative interdisciplinary projects from sound and video art, biodata sonification and science.
MONAS is an artist collective around the musician and sound artist Kurt Holzkämper, whose work and research focus is on the connection between sound and biodata.
The name MONAS (ancient Greek: “unit”) refers to the natural-philosophical unit and describes the metaphysical origin of numbers in ancient Greek mathematics, the transition from the indivisible to the countable and measurable.
The direct inclusion of the natural and plant world in artistic work opens up a current perspective on our anthropocentric perception of nature as a counterpart – and on the dualism of nature and culture, the “original and the artificial”, consolidated in the industrial revolution.
Artists: Kurt Holzkämper, Hubert Wiggering, Martin Stahl
BIOS
BETWEEN INPUT AND ALGORITHMS: ART IN THE AGE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
The era of Artificial Intelligence is accompanying us to discover new artistic horizons and face unprecedented challenges. From the pioneering use of GANs employed by AI Artists to create works of art to the most recent experiments with Generative AI, we will explore the intersection between art and AI, analyzing how the latest generation technologies not only today amplify the creative process of artists but often become real collaborators. An in-depth study will be dedicated to the topic of “human inspiration vs algorithmic input”. Some significant works by AI Artists will be presented and the role of the artist in the 3.0 digital era and the impact of AI on the configuration of the current and future artistic panorama will be explored. In conclusion, a reflection will be dedicated to the ways in which AI Art can be used.
BIO
BEYOND THE BASTIONS OF ORION AND THE GATES OF TANNHÄUSER
Tales of a traveler in the off-world colonies of virtuality.
Virtual, expanded, mixed reality: but how many are there? isn’t reality just one?
Digital manipulation confuses ideas. In the virtual worlds where I go, am I still me? And what I know about reality is still valid beyond the digital mirror? Let’s talk about Spatial Computing, the science of human interactions with machines in which machines maintain and manipulate references to real objects and spaces.
organized by TIZIANA GEMIN with the artists MARCO CADIOLI, KAMILIA KARD, KATJA NOPPES, ELEONORA ROARO.
The spread of increasingly new digital tools has introduced new ways of narrating reality into artistic practice. Furthermore, thanks to the network we have access to infinite data, so numerous that to organize and manage it we rely on algorithms and computer systems in an attempt to make sense of it.
In the images generated by artificial intelligence or modified through augmented reality, in the spaces visualized in virtual reality, in the metaverses accessible online, the machine becomes the protagonist of the new visions of the world that are being built.
This ongoing process has important consequences at the level of the imagination and perhaps something will end up changing in our minds too, conditioned by algorithmic visions.
How do the paradigms of the imagination change with immersive technologies and artificial intelligence? What does it mean to create a work starting from the construction of an archive?
In this round table four artists, Marco Cadioli, Kamilia Kard, Katja Noppes and Eleonora Roaro, are invited to discuss these issues starting from their personal experience and the presentation of some of their representative works.
Edited by Tiziana Gemin, curatrice e docente IED Milano.
T. GEMIN _BIO
M. CADIOLI _BIO
K. KARD _BIO
K. NOPPES _BIO
E. ROARO _BIO
HISTORIC CITY CENTER
Itinerant dance and light performance
While the Royal Villa remains the fulcrum of the event’s artistic and scientific programme, a performative Light Parade winds its way through the main streets of the city, branching off, starting from the Reggia complex and reaching the ends of the historic centre.
A community project that involves local academic and social realities such as Il Veliero, Rete TikiTaka, Istituto Tecnico Hensemberger, Accademia BPS, promoting community, integration, comparison and collaboration through art and light.
A participatory project of sharing and socializing in which performing art, light and technology meet to give life to a collective event whose maximum expression is the itinerant artistic performance, which brings choreographic music and dance performances “to the street” , accompanied by the dynamism of lights and colors that characterize the luminous costumes of the performers.
A Light Parade open to all, capable of involving the public and making them part of an inclusive and one-of-a-kind experience.
Light Parade was created thanks to the contribution of Fondazione di Comunità di Monza e della Brianza and the support of Wimex s.p.a.
Performer: Il Veliero, Scuola di danza Il Sogno, Accademia Professionale PBS
Ideazione: Marcello Arosio
Progetto tecnico: Marcello Arosio, Davide Cappelletti, prof. Flavio Scrima – ITI Hensemberger
Produzione: Onda Studio
Realizzazione costumi: Accademia PBS
LIVE VIDEO MAPPING
25 – 30 September –Register here
Liceo Artistico Statale Nanni Valentini – Aula Magna
Intensive visual mapping program during which participants learn the main skills underlying this particular technique and develop, under the guidance of professionals, the visual contents to be staged as part of the evening events accompanying the musical performances.
The program includes the in-depth study of application details, the learning of a work process as a whole and the opportunity for a practical experience in which to apply what has been learned and deal with the design and creation of one’s own artistic content.
SCHEDULE (52 hours)
from Monday to Thursday: from 2:00 pm – to 10:00 pm
Friday and Saturday: from 2:00 pm – to 12.00 am
A practical experience of creativity and collaboration that allows, in addition to the deepening of technical issues, to deal with the dynamics, challenges and emotions of a live VJ mapping performance, created to accompany the musical performances scheduled for the public of Kernel Lab /023, in the fascinating context of the Liceo Artistico Statale della Villa Reale Nanni Valentini.
The workshop is aimed at people with skills in the world of video production, who want to learn techniques and tricks on mapped projection, in particular on live performance.
Designers, animators (2D/3D), modelers, VJs, any video clip production technique can be used in a video mapping project, therefore the figures who can co-participate in the project are different and varied.
The Kernel Team will evaluate the skills of the participants (indicated in the participation form), and will select the most suitable profiles for the final purpose of the workshop.
The goal is to form a heterogeneous group in terms of skills, which can collaborate in the creation of a live VJ mapping show on the occasion of Kernel Lab.
REQUIREMENTS
Participants are required to have experience in at least one of the following categories (to be indicated when registering via the form):
– 2D/3D animation
– vector/raster graphics
– compositing/editing
– VJing/live performances
RAOUL BATTILANI
Art Director and Lead 3D Artist at Delumen. Art Director and VFX Supervisor Vision Fr.
Delumen is a Laboratory of Ideas that was born in 2013 and is constantly looking for multimedia contaminations between the arts, where the idea is always the cornerstone and creativity the necessary development. Delumen is a project open to relationships, collaborations and suggestions such as to generate the perfect context for the idea to be born, shared and implemented.
Supported by the most modern software technologies and the continuous search for “original” solutions, Delumen positions itself as a developer of digital arts and projects with a strong emotional impact, which have led it to be an established reality and which involves not only the historical team made up of Raoul Battilani (artistic director, 3d supervisor and musician), Angelo Santimone (technical director) and Simone Vezzani (3d artist) over ten professionals, including programmers, 3d artists, graphic designers and technicians of a now consolidated and constantly expanding group.
VINCENZO SIRACUSANO
He develops his interest in digital arts influenced by his studies in architecture and his passion for music. As a thesis project, he realizes the virtual reconstruction of the mosaic decoration of the Cathedral of Messina, starting from the sketches of Aristide Sartorio.
Geometry, space, lights and shadows, interaction are an integral part of his works and lead him to explore the world of videomapping, a technique that allows him to combine architecture, music, virtual spaces and real spaces.
Fascinated by the world of programming, he studied different languages for the management of light sources, with the aim of integrating ever-changing techniques into his works and making the virtual world interact with physical objects, through micro-controllers and sensors.
He collaborates with theatrical productions as a light designer and digital set designer.
To request participation in the workshop, it is necessary to fill in the form by the deadline of Wednesday September 20th.
Subsequently, the Kernel Team will proceed with the selection of the participants as indicated and will communicate the results.
Those selected will then have to confirm their effective participation in the workshop by paying the €80 fee before the start of the course scheduled for Monday 25 September.
Selected candidates will be required to pay a registration fee of €80 as confirmation of participation in the workshop.
The workshop is free for students of the Liceo Artistico Statale della Villa Reale Nanni Valentini.
Kernel has always been committed to creating new opportunities for artists by calling them to submit their creations to our international call.
We renew the invitation on the occasion of this Kernel Lab which focuses on experimentation, training and social sustainability.
Join the platform with your projects by logging into your account or creating one: it is free and offers you the possibility of having your work selected for this occasion or future ones to come.
Be Kernel … STAY KERNEL !
Live the Kernel experience firsthand by helping in the organization, promotion and management of the event.
The last weekend of September is near, there are still many aspects to take care of to make Kernel Lab /023 at its best.
From promotion in the city, to setting up the works and spaces, to taking care of the installations and visitors during the moments open to the public.
Register at this LINK to get in touch with us and become part of the Team.
Be Kernel … STAY KERNEL !
conception and production: AreaOdeon
with: Onda Studio
art and technical direction: Marcello Arosio
project management: Carlotta Fumagalli
production and programming: Edoardo Falasco, Raoul Battilani, Vincio Siracusano
web development and coding: Davide Cappelletti
organizing secretary: Paola Tagliabue
external relations: Carlo Mondonico
press office: Espresso Communication
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FRANCESCO GARGIULO
The Eng. Francesco Gargiulo currently works as a Technologist at the Institute of High Performance Computing and Networks of the National Research Council. He obtained his PhD in Computer and Automatic Engineering from the University of Naples “Federico II” in 2009. His research interests fall in the areas of Artificial Intelligence and in particular Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing and Quantum Computing.
He has published over thirty articles in international conferences and journals. He has been involved in several regional, national and European projects. He participated in the organization of international conferences. He is appointed as a Technical Scientific Expert in various MISE projects.
ELEONORA ROARO
Eleonora Roaro (Varese, 1989) visual artist and researcher who lives in Milan. Eleonora Roaro’s artistic research concerns moving images, with a particular interest in video, archival practices and the archeology of cinema. In 2019 she was a research fellow at the University of Udine with the project “Augmented reality and virtual reality for the enhancement of artistic and cultural heritage”; in the two-year period 2020-2022 she was the winner of the MISTI Global Seed Fund of MIT (Boston) with the project “Sensing Dolce Vita: An Experiment in VR Storytelling”. He teaches Aesthetics of New Media, Multimedia Communication and History of Modern Art at NABA (Milan), and Phenomenology of Contemporary Arts at IED (Milan).
KATJA NOPPES
Trained as a set designer, she worked in theater and opera in France and Italy, collaborated with Studio Azzurro, and was a teacher at the Santa Giulia Academy of Fine Arts in Brescia. He has exhibited in national and international museums and institutions, held workshops and lectures and is present in national and international collections. His research asks questions about method and the process of ideation and is characterized by utopian configurations of materials, cataloging and archives and by a peculiar interest in a dialogue between competing disciplines. Listening and exchanging different knowledge is structural to observe and play with the permutations between the memory of traditional techniques and the writing of digital media.
KAMILIA KARD
Artist and teacher born in Milan. His research explores how hyperconnectivity and new forms of online communication have modified and influenced the perception of the human body, gestures, feelings and emotions. It moves between different media including the printed image, the video game, the website, 3D printing, performance and the virtual environment. His work has been exhibited in galleries, festivals and institutions nationally and internationally. She is a doctor in Digital Humanities at the University of Genoa and professor of Multimedia Communication and New Media Aesthetics at the Brera Academy in Milan.
MARCO CADIOLI
Graduated in Physics (Cybernetics), he has followed the evolution of New Media since the early 90s. His research is focused on blurring the lines between real and virtual, from his first experiences as a reporter from virtual worlds to photographs of the world seen from Google Earth satellite. In many of his works there is a subversion of the use of software to push its limits and go beyond the surface of the system. His current work analyzes how and what Artificial Intelligence is learning. He has exhibited in national and international exhibitions. He is a teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts in Palermo and lives and works in Milan.
TIZIANA GEMIN
She began to be interested in digital technologies in the late 1990s, studying programming in Berlin. Upon his return to Italy in the early 2000s he graduated in Digital Design and worked for a few years at the Interaction Design studio “Limiteazero”. His research into the intersection between art and technology continues through the publication of several articles in Digicult magazine and the curation of events dedicated to Media Art and the impact of digital on culture and society. Since 2007 he has taught Phenomenology of Contemporary Arts at IED-Milan.
STEFANO LAZZARI
For over twenty years he has been involved in digital media innovation, from the first archiving and content management processes, to web project management, social media selling and web journalism. ICT specialist, collaborates in the creation of digital culture events and web projects for various bodies and organisations.
Since 2008 he began a long and continuous research and experience in virtual reality in all its aspects: technologies, graphic environments and above all the activities and communities of virtual social worlds. In 2018 he founded the network of digital professionals Digitalguys.it.
REBECCA PEDRAZZI
Born in Milan in 1982, she graduated in History and Criticism of Art at the University of Milan with the thesis Il Mercato dell’Arte Contemporanea, she began working at a very young age as an Art-Advisor in an art management company, also developing an in-depth knowledge of the Old-Masters market. In 2017 he founded the online art and culture magazine NotiziArte.com, and in 2018 he became a freelance journalist. Since then he has written over 3,500 articles on national and international art and culture events, today with a targeted focus on the most current issues of the latest technologies applied to the world of art. In 2021 she published the book “Possible Futures. Art Scenarios and Artificial Intelligence” – Publisher Jaca Book. She currently teaches courses and master’s courses on AI and the world of Art and is active, on the educational side, with publications, conferences and dedicated webinars. She is responsible for projects dedicated to art at the Iulm AI Lab, Milan and coordinator of the “AI Creator Lab” courses.
GIORGIO SANCRISTOFORO
Artist, musician and programmer born in Milan in 1974.
He teaches new technologies at the NABA Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, IED Istituto Europeo di Design and at the IES Abroad in Milan and is an Expert Artist of the European Commission.
His research work on innovative computer music tools has earned the respect and admiration of numerous composers, musicians and professors in the academic field. Since 2006, he has developed software used by artists and academic institutions in over 40 countries, including Curtis Roads, Ben Frost, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Richie Hawtin, Robert Lippok, CCRMA Stanford, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, the Royal College of Music of Stockholm, Tufts University, City College of San Diego and the National Center of the Arts in Mexico City.
In 2010 he became a member of the AGON Contemporary Music Center, founded by Maestro Luca Francesconi and Maestro Pietro Pirelli. Furthermore, since 2015 he has been a member of the Prisma Group of International Composers.
He has also developed two new sound synthesis techniques: the TAMS Tri-Axis Modal Synthesis and the Tropical Additive Synthesis in collaboration with prof. Cristiano Bocci of the Department of Mathematics of the University of Siena.
Giorgio’s artistic practice focuses primarily on the intersection between science and art, in particular the relationship between sound art, particle physics and genomics.
GIOVANNI ABELLI
From manager in consultancy for big multinationals to entrepreneur and investor. He founded his first company in 2001. He supported top managers, entrepreneurs and companies in the strategic redesign and incubation of start-ups. Expert in Retail, Technology and Business model, he promotes digital and sustainable innovation through vertical vehicles (ADAGIO23 srl, POETRONICART srl and INNOVAZIONE CIRCOLARE srl). He was Managing Director for innovation for the AISOM industrial association. He is a strategic advisor in international Decentralized Finance projects. He taught at the University of Trieste and in master programs in Catania, Trieste, Turin. He has written for general and specialized national media.
