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On the occasion of Festivalfilosofia 2022 and within the framework of the Camera Ludica installation, presented on the Digital Video Wall of Metronom, on Saturday, September 17th at 4:00 PM, Marco De Mutiis will engage in a conversation with Matteo Bittanti about the spread of video games and accessibility to the virtual world. Marcella Manni will moderate and lead the discussion.
With Attention Economy, the aim is to explore – both collectively and individually – aspects of the production and consumption of visual content that are part of the video game experience, with a particular focus on their influence within the artistic context. How does the relationship between the digital and analog environment unfold? What are the consequences of the exponential spread of video games in recent years? De Mutiis and Bittanti will address these and other questions to go beyond stereotypes that stigmatize the gaming world as mere entertainment, highlighting its social and political value, such as its influence on notions of the body, gender issues, and environmental emergencies.
Marco De Mutiis works as a Digital Curator at the Winterthur Museum of Photography. He is currently a PhD researcher at the Center for the Study of the Networked Image at London South Bank University. His research focuses on the relationship between video games and photography. He is also the co-creator, together with Jon Uriarte, of the Screen Walks project, a biweekly live streaming collaborative project that investigates online visual culture and digital images on the web.
Matteo Bittanti is an artist, curator, and academic who studies the curatorial, social, and aesthetic aspects of emerging technologies. He is an Associate Professor of Media Studies at IULM University in Milan and has taught and conducted research at Stanford University, the University of California, Berkeley, and the California College of the Arts in San Francisco.
The press kit is avaible here.
Marco De Mutiis, Camera Ludica – A video Game Photography Walkthrough, 2022
