Valentino Catricalà
We are thrilled to announce the second juror of the 2020 MILAN MACHINIMA FESTIVAL: Valentino Catricalà!
A scholar and curator of contemporary art, Valentino is interested in the relationship between art, technology, and media. He is the Director of the Art section of the European edition of Maker Faire, Europe's largest fair of creativity and innovation and also a Consultant at Paris Sony CS Lab and principal investigator for London Serpentine Gallery’s STAR LAB. Valentino was previously in charge of the Media Art Festival of Rome (MAXXI Museum) and Program Manager of Fondazione Mondo Digitale’s art programs.He is also the curator of the Kunstraum Goethe (Art Space) for the Goethe Institut in Rome and a member of the Hyphen Hub Community in New York.
He received a Ph.D. from the Department of Philosophy, Communication and Performing Arts - University of Roma Tre. He has been PostDoctoral visiting scholar at ZKM-Center for Arts and Media (Karlsruhe, Germany), University of Dundee (Scotland), Tate Modern (London). He has been a PostDoctoral Research Fellow at University of Roma Tre and adjunct professor at Mercatorum University.
He founded and was artistic director of the Rome Media Art Festival (MAXXI Museum) and Art Project Coordinator at Fondazione Mondo Digitale. Valentino is also the curator of the Kunstraum Goethe (the art space of the Goethe institut Rome). His most recent publications are Media Art. Prospettive delle arti verso il XXI secolo. Storie, teorie, preservazione (Mimesis, 2016) and Art as Inventor (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019).
Valentino’s curatorial practice includes exhibitions in major museums and international institutions. Among others, Minnesota Street Project (San Francisco), Ermitage (St. Petersburg), Palazzo delle Esposizioni (Rome), MAXXI (Rome), Museo Riso (Palermo), Media Center (New York ), Stelline (Milan), Istituto Italiano di Cultura Nuova Dheli (India), Manchester Metropolitan University (UK), Ca’ Foscari (Venice), Centrale Idrodinamica (Trieste), Museo Centrale Montemartini (Rome).
