Computer & Net Artist/Performer/Poet

Name CATERINA

Surname DAVINIO

Organization: Davinio Art Electronics - Karenina.it

http://space.tin.it/arte/cprezi

Address VIA SASSI 10

City LECCO (LC)

Zipcode 23900

Country ITALY

Tel. 0341 282712

Fax 0341 282712

Email davinio@tin.it

URL (homepage) http://xoomer.virgilio.it/davinity/

Download of video work is available for curators and gallery owners. Contact the artist for request. Images of other work are available in jpeg format on CD or can be sent through secure web file or as printed matter on various supports.

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Exhibitions: 1995-1999 2001-2002 2003 2004 2005 Prizes/Awards Venice Biennials

General Artist's Statement

I use since 1990 digital media to make art and poetry, my poetic has evolved during the 90s touching video, computer, web and net experiments.

I tried a not conventional approach to the video and computer art language in the cycle "Terminal Videopoems", video-actions realized in 1996-97, so called because I considered them an extreme phase of dissolution of the linear poetry language, and because they appeared on the "Terminal", in the meaning of "monitor" (in Italian also said "terminal", when connected in a computer net). They are actions in real time on the computer keyboard, based on linear poems and on a non published novel, which pages run on the monitor, so fast that they became not readable. The word was used in its iconic dimension, in the tradition of the historical Italian Futurism, with different typographical characters and sometimes with an enlargement of them (I began computer animated poems experiments in 1990-92), sometimes joined to black and white images found in books and used as ready made. The sound of the video mixes: text read by the artist, sounds, music and noise electronically elaborated.

Another cycle was, in 1999, "UFOp (Unidentified Flying Poetry Objects)", digital animations based on celebrated works of the avant-garde (by Duchamp, Magritte, Munch, and also by living experimental poets, as Julian Blaine, Bartolome Ferrando). Electronic "moustaches" of animation were put on avant-garde symbols in an ironic game, which also alludes to the mysterious relationship among virtual and real: Ceci n'est pas un pas, on Magritte's work, alludes to the fact that the electronic image, as data file, is an "object", whose objectuality is deeply bounded with the language (thing codified in machine language); among the desecrated icons also some of the most famous works by Marcel Duchamp, the artist who declared art, objects taken from the common life (See i.e. Nude That Falls Down The Stairs, published in Docks, Bolle, Psychedelic Fountain, etc).

Since 1998 my art is based in Internet with some collaborative projects, as Karenina.it (MAD 03 Award), as the happening realized on line for the Poetry Bunker in the contest of the 49th Venice Biennial (2001), or Global Poetry (World Day of Poetry UNESCO, 2002), in which I explore the concept of communic/a(c)tion as material of art.

I am trying to make virtual art/poetry in a different way: virtual, but in a strong relationship with the reality, not by producing/reproducing images, objects or events (even if digitally), but by letting the voices of the net to speak, by reducing the egocentrisms of the artist as "creator", by making also a discourse about the languages and the structures of the art-work in the new media scene. I often use digital materials found on the web (as ready made) or material given from other artists/persons, to produce "things" made of communication, which make the people meet together, to reflect, which provoke a reaction.

Internet brings in discussion not only the role of the artist, his identity, but also the identity of the reality, and these concepts (identity, reality, copy, nature, original, presence, performance, role, space-time) result disintegrated but also reconstructed. My net-art performances are contemporaneously made of e-mail interaction, real action/performances, creation of real objects and real remote installations with "copies" of something that exists somewhere else (in the real or in the virtual world), copies realized with technologic instruments which are in hands of an artist today (identical with the original, but that finally concretize in an unique not-reproducible remote experience, performance, installation, i. e. in Global Poetry). This kind of work, made of communic/action, and self-generating (with a low control by the original artist) while the communication runs, do not falls under the categories that the traditional art and critic put at disposal.

In "Global Poetry", remote performances/installations - with e-materials (e-photos, digital poems, poetry e-mail) received and re-sent to decentralized nodes in the world - were made contemporaneously in Rome, Milan, New York, Los Angeles, Saint Petersburg, Cologne, Montevideo and other cities in California, Brazil and Italy (in cooperation with 122 artists). The spirit of this project is resumed in the words by Friedrich Nietzsche: "Against the art of the art-works I want to teach a superior art: the art of invention of fests" (Fragments, 1881). The idea is a collective creation which runs in the net as communication, made of communication, which brings people, who live very far, in contact; but also to play on the semiotic limit between real and virtual; so we realized this collaborative performance as concrete thing out of the net, in remote places of the planet, and then we bring it again in the virtual world, as web site, video clip, digital photo, e-mail flux, etc. The same idea was explored in GATES (2003), dedicated to Pierre Restany.

In my more recent works I am developing these concepts by experimenting a new kind of net-performance in which materials arrived through e-mail are re-elaborated in real performances using video. Some realized works are: Fluxus Trilogy (2002), which contains: Movember 16th, Movember 20th, and Other Fluxes and Small Decadence, 2002 (with text by Charles Dreyfus), Fried/Refrigerated events (paper materials and project by Alan Bowman, performance and video by Caterina Davinio).

Net based projects

1. GLOBAL POETRY NET-ACTION (virtual&real) Texts & Pictures (various languages) http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/kareninazoom/; Year: March 2002, technology: digital experimental poetry and images by 122 artists, web site, html, gif, jpg, e-mail and web communication, installations in real time contemporaneously in new New York, Los Angeles, Lecco, Milan, Rome, Cologne, Saint Petersburg, Montevideo and other cities in California, Brazil, Russia, Italy. Collective creation which runs in the net as communication, art made of communication, which brings people, who live very far, in contact; to play on the semiotic limit between real and virtual, this collaborative performance was also a concrete, "real" thing out of the net, contemporaneously in remote places of the planet, as installation, performance, exhibition; all created events were then brought again in the Internet, in a web site. The virtual action took place March 21st 2002; the real performances happened contemporaneously March 21st-23rd, still on line. (Selected for the Rhizome database NY, presented in numerous international sites, among them 50th Venice Biennial - Bolgwork Project, and in the essay Techno-Poetry and Virtual Realities, Mantova 2002).

2. PARALLEL ACTION - BUNKER (49th Venice Biennial, general director Harald Szeemann, virtual happening for the Bunker Poetico). Year: June 7th, 2001, technology: e-mailed poems and visual poetry, web site, html, gif, jpg, e-mail and web communication. In the context of the Poetry Bunker. 60 poets and artists connected with Karenina.it On Line, sent their contribution by e-mail, which were published in real time during a real happening at the Orsogrill delle Artiglierie (A Net of Voices). Presented in numerous international sites, in the essay Techno-Poetry and Virtual Realities, Mantova 2002)

3. PAINT FROM NATURE / COPIA DAL VERO ("Nature" as media landscape and telemathic passage) http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Lights/7323/paintfromnature.htm; Year: February 4th 2002 (Florence) and June 8th 2002 (Eglise Anglicane, Cours General Leclerc, Ajaccio, F); used technology: 78 e-mail, 77 arrived September 11-15 2001, remote action and installation, e-mail and web communication, html, gif, jpg files.

"Paint From Nature" is made of e-mails chosen among hundreds arrived at Karenina.it office on September 11(until 15) 2001. In a non-iconic way this work describes the tragedy of the Twin Towers as it appeared in the telematic flux. In the "copy from nature" voices from the rhizome, from the telematic "truth" - which actuates its "reality" in the continuous passage from the real to the virtual and back - came from an every-place, from a no-place, from a texture of contacts, which is also a "thing", space where to enter, to wander, to look for. This space, in the performance "Paint from nature", is copied down, or, with a metaphor, photographed, after it was framed in the monitor, together with some questions about what a net-performance "really" is, what a "copy from nature" and the "nature" self is in the net, in the media universe, how Internet brings in discussion the role of the artist, his identity, and these concepts (identity, reality, copy, nature, original, presence, performance, role, space-time) result disintegrated but also reconstructed. (Selected for the Rhizome database NY, published in the journal "Doc(k)s", France 2002, presented in numerous international sites, among them NY Art Magazine, BolgWork Project of the 50th Venice Biennial, in the essay Techno-Poetry and Virtual Realities, Mantova 2002).

4. KARENINA.IT http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Lights/7323/kareninarivista.html; Year: the web project began in 1998, is still active; technology: web site, html, gif, jpg, e-mail and web communication; international meeting point for debate around new media poetry and avant-garde, concrete, video, visual, sound poetry and experimental arts. By Jakobson, phatic is the use of the language which has the finality to maintain open and operative the communication channel among the interlocutors. On the limit between art and critic, happening and net performance, Karenina.it is a virtual meeting place around the theme of writing and the new technologies, in which experiences of international artists, curators, theoreticians converge, in a net that counts thousands of contacts in the world.

5. GATES - Beyond Net.Art / Real Things Across the Cyberspace

Featured in BolgWork project of the 50th Biennale di Venezia

By Caterina Davinio & Karenina.it, in collaboration with 150 artists (visual artists, performers, poets).

Gates is dedicated to Pierre Restany

Part 1: July 4 - September 30, 2003

Part 2: October 1 - December 31, 2003

http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/davinio/GATES/gatesindex.htm
(For Internet Explorer 6).

Collaborative planetary network event. Contribution from: Belgium, Lebanon, Chile, Amazzonia, USA, Greece, UK, Brazil, Germany, Spain, and from other countries. Gates is a total new collaborative art experiment, a non-conventional exhibition; one can participate not by sending video or digital work on the topic "doors", but creating a circulation of action-communication, between real and cyberspace, between visual and word, related to the icon of the Gate, with its metaphoric, symbolic, of computer science, and telematic, implications. Gates as ways of transit, as dimension of open, of passage in every direction, at every level. Creating a new form of art that uses as matter e-communication, relationship among persons, art debate, our real/virtual body, voice, gesture. The call for entries was directed to experimental artists, poets, critics, theoreticians, e-post-Fluxus casseurs, e-post-post-duchamp-ists (?)... An open gate for what they think, and for what they do. Gates is dedicated to Pierre Restany.

BIO

Caterina Davinio ( davinio@tin.it ), Italian artist and writer, curator, lives in Rome, Milan, and Lecco (a small city near Como Lake, in the north of Italy).

She is one of the first artists who experimented in Italy new technologies (as video, computer, and Internet) in literature since 1990; as curator she created a bridge between experimental poetry and electronic art, by organizing, since the beginning of the 90s, itinerant festivals, which put in contact new media artists, performance poets, video/net artists, critics, and theorists, active in this field. She participated in experimental literature projects in the Venice Biennial, editions 1997, 1999, 2001. Among the organized exhibitions: Electronic Poe(try)visions (Perugia, Rimini, Rome, Genova, Palermo, Cagliari 96-97, Bergamo 98, Chieti 2000, Cheti and Rimini 2001), After the Electronic Arts: the New Experimentation (Pecci Museum, Prato 95), Art Electronics and Other Writings (Rome, Milan, Florence, Bologna, and other cities, 94-95, Cagliari 97), Virtual Words (Turin 98, Cagliari 98, Rimini 99, Roma 99, 48th Venice Biennial 99), Techno-Poetry (Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome 2001), TechnoPoetry for Peace (Milan, Florence, Venice 2003). She is actually consultant for international video/new media festivals in Italy, and in other countries.

As an artist Caterina Davinio has made computer art, audio-visual digital poems, computer printings exhibitions, Internet performances and projects, Fluxus video-performances, digital visual poetry. Her works were showed in universities, galleries and museums, in more than 80 exhibitions, in Italy, Spain, USA, UK, France, Germany, Thailand, Canada, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Greece, and in other countries.

Among the exhibitions:

1995 -2000

• Oltre le arti elettroniche la nuova sperimentazione (AFTER THE ELECTRONIC ART THE NEW EXPERIMENTATION, meeting and video-computer art exhibition, Pecci Museum, Prato 95)
• International VideoArtFestival (Buenos Aires 95)
• Vidensemblematique (Italian Culture Center), video exhibition, Paris 1995
• Metamorphosi. Animation and Visual Art from Cine-Painting toComputerart (Museum of the La Sapienza University of Rome, 1995)
• La parola e lo sguardo: Palazzo delle Esposizioni, (Rome 1995) video-installation Dialogìe al metroquadro and computer prints solo exhibition: Apoteosi di Justine
• Virtual Light (Palazzo Fizzarotti), video exhibition, Bari (I) 96
• La coscienza luccicante. L'arte nell'età elettronica (The Brilliant Conscience. Art In The Alectronic Age), she took part and cooperated to the videopoetry section, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, 1998
• Mediaterra 99, meeting and new media festival, web section (Athens 99)
• VII Festival Latinoamericano de Poesia (17-19 Novembre 1999) Centro Cultural Bernardino Rivadavia, Rosario, Videobardo (sezione videopoesia), Argentina
• Poesia Viva (sezione videopoesia), Cuarta Feria Integral de Poesia (26-30 settembre e 1 ottobre 2000) Centro Cultural de Recoleta, Argentina
• Rencontres d'Art Contemporain web-art section (Aix-en-Provence, France, 1999)

2001 - 2002

• XI International Poetry Festival of Medellin (Colombia), 2001 (she curated a video-poetry compilation)
• Le tribù dell'arte I - Fluxus Continuity and Developments: Progetto Oreste, Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea of Rome (general curator Achille Bonito Oliva), Rome 2001
• Le tribù dell'arte II (in the section: "The Tribes of Video and Performance"; she curated a video, CD and web poetry compilation), Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea of Rome (general curator Achille Bonito Oliva), Rome 2001
• 2ND INTERPOETRY EXHIBITION, Prof. Wilton Azevedo Curator, Salão Cultural João Calvino, Mackenzie University, Sao Paulo, Brazil, CD ROM and web section
• VII Biennial Of Experimental Poetry, 2001, Mexico City (CD ROM and web section)
• PERFORMANCESX6, poetry/performance festival, Eglise Anglicane, Ajaccio (F), net-art performance Paint from Nature
• Free Manifesta, curator Sal Randolph, Frankfurt 2002
• ELECTRONIC ART & TELEVISION BIENNIAL of Rome (editions: 1997, 1999, 2001).
• 8th Poetry Festival in Genoa (Poetry in the net), 2002
• 1ª BIENAL INTERNACIONAL DE POESIA 2002 - Portugal - "IMAGINÁRIOS DA RUPTURA - POÉTICAS VISUAIS" "RUPTURES OF IMMAGINARY - VISUAL POETRY" (May-June 2002).
• Violence Festival, NewMediaArtprojectNetwork and CESTA, arts organization in Tábor (Czech Republic), August 22-26, 2002
• Polyphonix 2002, Paris, France (digital work)
• Italian Net Art (On line Exhibition), 2002
• IMAF 2002 - 4th INTERNATIONAL MULTIMEDIAL ART FESTIVAL, 05 - 06. October 2002. MAS Gallery & Multimedial Art Studio, Odzaci, Yugoslavia
• Art in Transit / Art and the Arts, University Rome III, Rome 2002.

2003

• Digitalis II, Vancouver (BC), Canada, January/February 2003
• CHIANGMAI UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM AND FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE. Exhibited work: Fluxus Trilogy, video by Caterina Davinio, Chiangmai New Media Art Festival, Thailand
• Mudima Foundation, Milan, TECNOPOESIA PER LA PACE Technopoetry for Peace, curated by Caterina Davinio. Video, digital images, visual poetry against war, for peace, created by artists from the world, March 31 2003.
• Digital Visions, juried exhibition on line, Chair of the committeee: S. Borda, Department of Art History, Studio Art and Theory University of British Columbia, Canada.
• Centro de Arte Moderno, Quilmes, Argentina Digital art by Caterina Davinio, CD ROM Sala Apta 3 and collective exhibition of digital art at. Opening: April 26.
• Creazione audio-visiva e narrazione 2003, Torre della pace (15 - 18 maggio), Urbino: Piazza della Repubblica, Aula Clemente XI dell'Università degli Studi di Urbino. Pesaro: Ipercoop, Biblioteca centrale S. Giovanni, ex Carcere minorile di Pesaro (a cura di Marco Gazzano).
• Wandering Library, Markers IV, artists book, artists poster and video exhibition to "mark" the 50th Venice Biennial, Jewish Museum, Venice, Opening June 14-15, until August 28. Patronage UNESCO National Italian Commission, World Book Day, International Artists' Museum, Venice Municipality.
• Web Biennial 2003, Istanbul (With Project Free Manifesta by Sal Randolph and Violence by Agricola de Cologne).
• New Media Art Biennial Interactiva 2003. Museum of Contemporary Art Merida (Yucatan/Mexico), July 10 2003 - September 20 2003. One of the curators in RFF Festival, New media Biennial of Yucatan.
• Independence. Participation in the fax project of the artist Christian Boltanski. South London Gallery (UK).
• Cultural Center Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 17, and 24, VideoBardo Exhibition, created and organized by the poetry review Bardo. Video poetry with: Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Fabio Doctorovich, Philadelpo Menezes, Bartolomé Ferrando, Richard Kostelanetz, Caterina Davinio, others.
• Changing Channels - London Biennale Pollination, Berlin, various spaces and Galleries, 22nd of August, and the 7th of September 2003 (Video-performances, digital photos).
• IMAF 2003 Fifth International Multimedial Art Festival August 22 - 24 2003. MAS Gallery & Multimedial Art Studio, Odzaci, Serbia, in" Nature of Performance - Performance in Nature  project.
• MUSEO DE ARTE MODERNO - CICLO DE ARTE ELECTRÓNICO, Graciela Tarquini curator, Buenos Aires, Argentina,Domingo 6 de setiembre 2003; with: Antoni Muntadas, Richard Kostelanetz, Bartolomé Ferando, Jorge Perednik, Clemente Padín, others (Video: Dialogie al metroquadro).
• SIKB (r), Söders Internationella Konst Biennal (r), Opening: Saturday 6 of September 2003, Intercult's Annexet, Nytorsgatan 5, and in the area between the streets, Söder's neighbourhood, Stockholm (digital images).
• The San Francisco Performance Cinema Symposium, 27 September 2003, Dimension7 video gallery, San Francisco, CA - USA (Video and papers).
• Re:<o><o>   The e-mail art project- Comme des Congres Gallery 924 17 ave. Calgary Alberta, CANADA. Sept. 19 / Oct. 19 (digital images).
• Nth Art Exhibit 001, 17th October until 2nd November. At OLS&CO, 56 Mountgrove Rd, London, N5 near Arsenal tube.
• Observatori'03 Museo de las Ciencias Principe Felipe, Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias de Valencia.
• MAD '03 2 ENCUENTRO INTERNACIONAL DE ARTE EXPERIMENTAL DE MADRID, 30 Octubre - 20 Noviembre (digital video and web projects, on line).
• MAD 03 Award, section NET_ZIN, for on line project Karenina.it.
• Interfacce 03, Meeting, University Rome II Tor Vergata, Facoltà di Scienze, Aula Magna Edificio Sogene, November 6-7 (lecture, video-performance, and net.art).
• GA 2003 International Generative Art Conference, digital art poster, exhibited work: Il grande tutto, 2003. Politecnico di Milano University.
• CINEMA AND ELECTRONIC ART, IX Meeting of Cinema Studies 10-14 Decembr 2003, University Roma III. Computer art and Lecture in Session V, dedicated to visual art and communication: "Expression Languages and New Technologies Between Research and Communication". Panel discussion.
• 20th Oscar Signorini Prize. Interview in D'Ars Art Journal, Milan.

2004

• 404 - FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE ARTE ELECTRONICO / INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ELECTRONIC ART, Rosario, Argentina, Museo Castagnino. Other locations of the festival: Sala de Conferencias C.C. Parque de Espagna, “Teatro Principe de Asturias” C.C. Parque de Espagna, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Rosario. 7-12 de Diciembre. In the context of:  “[R][R][F] 2004 > XP - experimental global networking project” by Agricola de Cologne (Net-Art Section)
• FILE - Electronic Language Festival Sao Paulo/Brazil, 23 November - 12 December, in the context of: [R][R][F]2004--->XP VideoChannel -  "Memory Channel 5". Agricola de Cologne general curator of RRF Project. Video by Caterina Davinio: "A Story", presented in VideoChannel section, Alex Haupt curator. 
• GALERIE LES CONTEMPORAINS, Brussels, Anne Marie RONA, 18, rue de la Croix, Kruisstraat 18, 1050 Brussels, visual poetry, mail art. Exposition curated by Luc Fierens, from 19 november until 18 december 2004.
• WSCA - FM of Portsmouth, NH:"The Birdwatchers Corner", hosted by Eryk Salvaggio, thursday Nights: Midnight to Two AM, on 09.17.2004 presented the sound "concrete" poem by Caterina Davinio "Non contrariate Bach", done using electronic rumors,verses, voices from the telephon answering machine, and music by J.S.Bach played at reverdse... A pioneer experiment in low fi (Italy 1994).
• V Festival of contemporany art of Gov. celso Ramos, Santa Catarina, from 28 september to 2 october, then in museum in Florianópolis. Flavia Fernanzez curator.
• FIELD OF VISION: NEW YORK. The Lab Gallery, 501 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10017, September 13 - 18 2004. Field of Vision is a series of events organized by DIGITAL ART PROJECTS with support from: artistsprinting, London / UK, Faculty of Art and Design, University of Hertfordshire / UK, Greenwood Global Media Corp, New York / USA, Institut für Neue Medien, Frankfurt a.M. / D, Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim, Neuenhaus / D. Curator: Dominick Lombardi, Art Director: Matthew Semler.
• "Portrait of SecretFluxus" project, by The Freeformfreakout Organisation, Alan Bowman (Davinio's exhibited works:  "Fluxus Sex Appeal", and "Still Waiting you to Become a Prince", digital elaborated photos.
• LONDON BIENNALE 2004, David Medalla Project. May-August 2004, London, various locations.
• Eros – Arrows Exhibition (Marisol Cavia curator) – The Foundry, 84-86 Gt Eastern Street, EC2A 3JL, Old Street Tube, Exit 3. Dates: 21st - 28th August (presented Davinio's digital elaborated prints on the topic). 
• Closing Event of the London Biennale at The Foundry, on Saturday 28th August 2004, presented Caterina Davinio's  video works: "A Story", "Short Season of Color", and "Gates" (Marisol Cavia curator).
• Precipitations NYC>LONDON>LIVERPOOL - a London Biennale 2004 event , Adam Nankervis curator, Mai Ghoussoub, The Gallery, 26 Westbourne Grove, London W2 5rh England UK.
• Draw Drawing, Gallery 32, London, 32 Green Street, Giacomo Picca Curator. August 10 to 24, 2004 (Davinio's work: "The Boss", portrait of Bruce Springsteen, drawing on paper). Exhibition in the contesxt of the London Biennale 2004.
• IMAF 2004 - SIXTH INTERNATIONAL MULTIMEDIAL ART FESTIVAL, "The Future of Performance Art" exhibition (curator Nenad Bogdanovic): 05.08. - 08.08.2004. Multimedial Art Studio & MAS Gallery, Odzaci, Serbia. GATES (video and digital photo).
• West Coast Numusic & Electronic Art Festival Stavanger/Norway
  18-22 August 2004. In the context of RRF 2004 - Agricola de Cologne curator
• public_media_space_festival Yerewan (Armenia)
  23 JUly - 03 August 2004. In the context of RRF 2004 - Agricola de Cologne curator.
• SOUND POETRY FESTIVAL, Portland, Oregon, USA. August 28 2004. Presented Davinio's electronic sound-poetry work: "Non contrariate Bach" (1994).Mark Owens Curator. 
• Intheconversation Project, conversation space/Blog dedicated to experiential, situational, and participatory social architecture, NYC, USA, Sal Randolph curator. Presented projects: GATES, Global Poetry.
• International Festival of the 5 Cultures. A Colloquium on Art/Science/Spirituality Reconnections Within Emerging Planetary Cultures. Camara de Comercio, Calle Cervantes, n° 7, bajo IZ, Melilla 52001. Spain. Morocco Enclave. Presented: Davinio's posters, papers, video-intervention. Curators: olats, Leonardo/ISAST (S. francisco, USA), LEA, Roger Malina, Julien Knebusch, City of Melilla, Al Andalus Foundation, and othres. Colloque Melilla / Melilla Symposium 18-20 July 2004.
• BDP [BIENNALE DE PARIS] 2004 (various locations).
• How beautiful we are! Collaborative project created and curated by Tamara Lai. May 1st - June 30 2004, on line. Exhibited: two digital elaborated visual poems.
• Safety Exit, mostra nel contesto CREATIVA 2004, 29-30 maggio, Comune di Rignano sull'Arno, a cura di Piri Focardi (opera esposta: stampa di foto digitale).
• MILANO LIVE: LA CITTA’ CHE VIVE - POETI-POETI ARTISTI-ARTISTI POETI, a cura di Silvia Venuti. Lettura di poesia nel contesto della mostra “CHE LIBIDINE”, 19/06/2004, Studio D'Ars Milano, Via Sant'Agnese, 12/8 Milano 20123 (Italia), 
• 2004 - THE YEAR OF THE FOUR - AT ARTPOOL. The Telematic Society: art in the 'fourth dimension'. Artpool Art Research Center, H -1277 Budapest 23, Pf.52. materials, after having been displayed at the exhibition/event in Artpool P60 and on the website are stored in the Artpool Archives.
• POESIA FATTA A MANO (Hand-Made Poetry), SPAZIOIKONOS Gallery - Via E.Carafa,49 - Bari Italia, June 9th - until 26th 2004 (hand-elaborated computer printings).
• ART ACTION 2, Sala “Bellini” Teatrino della Villa Reale di MONZA, 27-29 May 2004 (Presented the book  essay "Techno-Poetry and Virtual reality, and the Net-Performace Project GATES, video of the Italian node).
• Unreadable, Language Harm, poetry exhibition at Eyedrum, John Lowther curator, 290 MLK JR Dr, SE, Atalanta, GA, 30312 USA, May 16th - May 23rd 2004 (digital visual poetry files).
• T-deus :: Pour faire un portrait de Dieu / To make a portrait of God Mixed spiritualities+Internet Clone de Dieu ? / Internet Clone of God ? Collaborative project, Tamara Lai creator and curator. 14.05. 2003, Chapelle St-Roch, Liège Belgium. T-Deus off line show v0.2: 06.11.2004 - 20h30, Dexia Art Center, Rue de l'Ecuyer 50, Bruxelles 1000. A partir d¹un projet Web art  ALSO IN : Cinema ZED (Louvain, BE)  / ZED LOUNGE V1.0 : 5 octobre 2004 à 21h30: présentation par Tamara Laï; T-deus: To make a portrait of God was selected for the NFF04 Net Art Gallery: Self and Society of Tomorrow. New Forms Festival 2004 : TECHNOGRAPHY, held in Vancouver, BC, from October 14 to 28/ 2004. C. Davinio's contribution in T-deus: digital elaborated photos:  "Apollo", "Il grande tutto",
• Thailand New Media Art Festival - Bangkok 20th-28th March 2004 (Srinakarinwirot University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Imaging Department, Sukhumvit 23, Bangkok) - GATES Project (2 video and files), other digital images.
• 2004 Dudley Literary Visual Poetry Exhibition at Harvard University (digital visual poetry files). "Errata and Contradiction" (visual poetry at Harvard) open to the public from Feb 5th until Feb 29th, 2004 in Cambridge, MA. Opening on Feb 5th 2004, at 7pm
• Re:<o><o>, Access Artist Run Centre. 206 Carral Street Vancouver BC V6B 2J1 Canada, January 24 to February 14, 2004, Reception: January 23, 2004 at 8pm (computer art files).
• Serial Phenomenologies. Digital video, computer printings, net.art. Solo Exhibition: Studio D'Ars - Oscar Signorini Foundation, Via sant'Agnese, Milano. December 18 2003 - January 12 2004.

2005

· The Third International Film & Video Festival, Museum of New Art (MONA),Detroit (USA), from January 15 to February 24, 7 North Saginaw,Pontiac. (Digital Video: A STORY, SHORT SEASON OF COLOR).

· [R][R][F]2005--->XP
global networking project (A. De Cologne Curator).

Participations the Venice Biennial:

• 47th Venice Biennial (VeneziaPoesia/Videopoetry Section, participated with computer art work), 1997
• 48th Venice Biennial (experimental poetry meeting in the contest of Oreste Project, she curated international videopoetry compilation and presented a videpoetry work), 1999
• 49th Venice Biennial (she collaborated to the Poetry Bunker by selecting 100 international experimental poets) and by realizing a virtual happening on line June 7 2001
• 50th Venice Biennial (Featured in BlogWork Project with GATES and other net.art projects, in Violence Project (as an artist), and in RRF Festival (as a curator); participation in Fried/Frozen Events 2003 - Surprise the curators sub-event, by the Fluxus artist A. Bowmann, Venice and Reg Vardy Gallery, UK).

AWARDS

1992 Premio Art Gallery for Computer art, MC Microcomputer Magazine, Roma, Italia (2nd prize). Review in the magazine and presentation at Milan Fair SMAU 1992.

2003 XX Oscar Signorini Prize for work as artist and critic in new media poetry, Milano, Italia. Review in D'Ars Art Journal (founded and directed by Pierre Restany and Grazia Chiesa) and solo exhibition.

2003 MAD 03 Section NET_ZIN, for web based project Karenina.it.

Selections

1998 Final selection in Feronia Prize (Roma) with the novel Color Color, Capanotto Publisher, Pasian di Prato (UD), 1998.

2003 Final selection in Feronia Prize (Roma) for the essay TechnoPoetry and Virtual Realities, Sometti, Mantova 2002.

Other numerous recognitions and prizes for painting and poetry during the 80s and early 90s.

PUBLICATIONS: Caterina Davinio has published the novel Còlor Còlor (Pasian Di Prato-Udine, Italy, 1998), the essay Techno-Poetry and Virtual Realities, Mantova, Italy, 2002 (bilingual Italian / English), which presents 130 artists, the international landscape in writing related to new media in the 90s.

Articles, interviews, poems (also translated in English), links, and digital visual works/animations appeared in numerous international catalogues, books and magazines on paper, CD an Internet: BoXon (F), Doc(k)s (F), Generatorpress (Cl. OH, USA), Art on Line (Brazil), Karenina.it (I), many others.

Among them:

AAVV, La coscienza luccicante, Gangemi Editore, Roma 98, ISBN-7448-862-9 

AAVV, Un notre web, "Doc(K)s", serie 3 - 21/24, (rivista e CD ROM), Ajaccio F 1999,  (computer animation: Nudo che cade dalle scale - Omaggio a Marcel Duchamp), ISSN Doc(k)s 0396/3004, commission paritaire  52 841

AAVV, What's your War?, "Doc(k)s", serie 3 - 25-28, rivista e CD ROM, Ajaccio F 2001  (net-art performance Paint from Nature), ISSN Doc(k)s 0396/3004 commission paritaire  52 841

AAVV, Action, "Docks" (rivista e DVD), serie 3 - 29-33, Ajaccio F 2004 (digital video: Fried/Frozen Events 2003, essay: Net-Performance: Processes and Visble Form), ISSN Doc(k)s 0396/3004 commission paritaire  52 841

AAVV, Scritture/Realtà, atti del convegno, A cura di A. Vaccaro e R. L. Porta, Prefazione di G. Ferri. Milanocosa, Milano 2002 (testo d'intervento nel convegno)

AAVV, Veneziapoesia 97, 47ma Biennale di Venezia, catalogo a cura di Nanni Balestrini, Edimedia, Venezia 97 

Massimo Mori, Il circuito della poesia, Piero Manni, Lecce 97  

AAVV, Virtual Light. Nuove frontiere nella comunicazione e nell'arte, Multilink, Bari 96 

AAVV, Round Videofestival, Rimini, edizioni del 95, 97, 99, 2001 (presentazioni delle sezioni curate)

AAVV, V-Art, Cagliari, cataloghi edizioni del 98 e del 99 (presentazioni delle sezioni curate)

"Alphacentauri Estate" Estate III, catalogo del festival, 26 giu.-1 lugl. 1998, sezione Parmapoesia, a cura di Daniela Rossi, video-arte a cura di Manuela Corti.

AAVV, L'immagine leggera, catalogo del festival, Palermo 97 (presentazione delle sezioni curate)

AAVV, Caterina Davinio (Monografia sulla pittura di Caterina Davinio) Parametro, Roma 1990 (testi di Dario Micacchi, Renato Civello, Berenice)

AAVV, Oreste At The 48th Venice Biennale, Ed Charta, Milano 1999 ISBN 88-8158-279-1

AAVV, 49ma Esposizione internazionale d'arte Platea dell'umanità (La Biennale di Venezia), Electa 2001 

AAVV, Imaginarios de ruptura /Poéticas visuais, Instituto Piaget, Bairro Anchieta, Porto Alegre, RS-Brasil, ISBN 972-771-556-7 (foto digitale "Street Vertigo", 2002)

Marco Nereo Rotelli, La poesia come opera, I Quaderni del battello Ebbro, 2001, ISBN - 88-86861-49-4 Pubblica poesia telematica esibita nel Bunker Poetico della 49ma Biennale di Venezia e presentazione del progetto Karenina.it nel contesto del Bunker (Orsogril delle Artiglierie).

Voce dell'enciclopedia Treccani sull'arte elettronica

AAVV, Wandering Library, 2003, catalogue of the exhibition at Venice Jewish Museum, Projective, Israel.Pubblica riproduzione dall'opera esposta.

"Risvolti" Marjnalia continjentia (I), antologia, Edizioni Riccardi, Napoli 2002; pubblica poesia della serie "Fenomenologie seriali" 

"Risvolti" "Translation" n 10, Edizioni Riccardi, Napoli, 2003. Recensione sul saggio Tecnopoesia di A. Contiliano.

AAVV, Compagni di strada caminando, antologia/progetto collettivo di A. Contiliano, Edizioni Riccardi (NA) 2003 (pubblica poesia e poesia visiva).

"D'Ars", anno 43, n. 175-176, Dic. 2003, Premio Oscar Signorini, servizio illustrato di dieci pagine, con intervista di Silvia Venuti, ISSN 0011-6726, Milano

AAVV, "Kairan 8", Mail Art Forum, Spiderweb Prods (Japan) (pubblica poesia)

AAVV, Observatori 03, Valencia, Spain (Paper Catalogue and CD)

"Info Brésil", 15 nov. - 15 déc. 2003 ISSN 0980 (recensione saggio sulla technopoesia)

AAVV, "Tellus" 24-25, Antologia "Scritture celesti, poesie in cerca di Dio", Ed. Labos, Sondrio, 2003, ISSN 1124-1276 (dieci poesie della serie "Fenomenologie seriali".

CD "Sala Apta", Centro de Arte Moderno, Provincia de Buenos Aires, associaciòn declarada Entidad de Bien Público registrada bajo el número Nº 4091-16503-C-99 por la Dirección de Entidades de Bien Público de la Municipalidad de Quilmes, Argentina

Lavatoio Contumaciale, I Trenta Anni del Centro 1974-2004, Edizioni IL Filo, Roma 2004, ISBN 88-88797-87-4

In "Tellus 26. Rivista di Arte, geofilosofia e letteratura. Vite con ribelioni rinomate e sconosciute", Dicembre 2004, Editrice LABOS (elaborazioni digitali e presentazione della ricerca in net-art).

Uscita di Sicurezza, catalogo della mostra, Comune di Rignano sull'Arno, 2004 (foto digitale).

La bottega dell'inedito, antologia poetica su CD ROM; Edizioni Il Filo, Roma 2004 (poesie).

AAVV, Navigando nelle parole Vol 14, antologia poetica, Edizioni Il Filo, Roma 2005, ISBN 88-7842-079-4 (poesia dalla serie "Squeeze")

AAVV, Ti bacio in bocca, antologia di poesia erotica al femminile a aura di Monica Maggi, LietoColle, Faloppio (CO) 2005. ISBN 88-7848-135-1 (poesia della serie: Fatti deprecabili, 1991)

ARCHIVES

Web based projects and art works by Caterina Davinio have been selected for: Rhizome net-art database (NY), ArtistBase Java Museum (D), Manifesta 4 (The Room), Italian Net-Art Database (D), ASAC - La Biennale di Venezia, Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (Roma), Electronic Literature Organization (USA), Galleria Spazioikonos (Bari - I), Artpool Art Research Center, (Budapest - H). Video-Archives: Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza (Rome), Veneziapoesia (video), Videobardo (Argentina), E. Minarelli's Archives, and others.

DOWNLOAD REAL PLAYER VIDEO:

CATERINA DAVINIO FOR CHARLES DREYFUS' PROJECT - FLUXUS 1962-2002

(video-performance ).

From Fluxus Trilogy: Movember 16th - Fluxus Walk, 2002, 3.29MB:

http://xoomer.virgilio.it/davinio/Movember 16web.rm

A STORY, 3:00, 2003,

Video: Caterina Davinio.

Sound poem, voice, performance: Julien Blaine.

Music: Etienne Brunet.

http://space.tin.it/arte/cprezi/AStory.rm
The book as object, the book as writing, the book as story. The writing as visual and sound. With a sound poem written and performed by Julien Blaine, dedicated to the female sex, and music by Etienne Brunet. This video was created for the Wandering Library Project in Venice. UNESCO - National Italian Commission - World Book Day.

CATERINA DAVINIO FOR ALAN BOWMAN'S FRIED/FROZEN EVENTS 2003 (event in the context of the 50th Venice Biennial)

(video-performance): http://xoomer.virgilio.it/kareninazoom/fried.htm

Download low definition Real Player video 3.44 MB:

http://xoomer.virgilio.it/davinio/Fried-Frozen.rm

Digital works:

SERIAL PHENOMENOLOGIES, with: TRANSLATIONS, TRIBUTE TO JOSEPH KOSUTH.

Artist's book, unique piece, 16 pages, 2003; exhibited in The Wandering Library Project, Venice June 15-August 28.

http://xoomer.virgilio.it/kareninazoom/wanderingdavinio.htm

INTERVIEW WITH CATERINA DAVINIO (DIGITALIS II, Canada BC)

http://meta.insinc.com/citysoup/digitalis/CATERINA_DAVINIO_interview.ram