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!
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.