TALKS

GAMEPLAY
GAME AND TECHNOLOGY: FROM GAME PRODUCTION TO GAME AS A DEVICE FOR PRODUCING REALITY

Foto/Industria artistic director Francesco Zanot talks with the artists Ericka Beckman, Cécile B. Evans, Danielle Udogaranya, the curator of the exhibition Andreas Gursky. Visual Spaces of Today Urs Stahel and the curators of the exhibition Automated Photography Milo Keller and Marco De Mutiis.

SPEAKERS
Ericka Beckman
Cécile B. Evans
Danielle Udogaranya
Urs Stahel (curatore della mostra di Andreas Gursky), Milo Keller e Marco De Mutiis (curatori della mostra Automated Photography)

TALKS

ERIK KESSELS
FOUND PHOTOGRAPHY: NARRAZIONE E RIAPPROPRIAZIONE IN FOTOGRAFIA

In conversation with Francesco Zanot
Over the course of his career, Kessels has come to the fore as a main and unquestionable reference in the field of so-called ‘found photography’. Instead of shooting new images, for most of his projects he brings together pre-existent photographs and reuses them as tiles to form his own mosaic. He is an artist without a camera or even a lens: in his practice, photography is a ready-made element to be sampled and re-contextualised. The result is a sort of eco-system of images, through which nothing is added to the enormous quantity of imagery which now crowds out the world and grows exponentially day by day, but which on the contrary merely recoups and recycles that which is already there.

BIOGRAPHY
Erik Kessels is a Dutch artist, curator and communication designer, with great interest in photography. Since 1996, he is Creative Partner of communications agency KesselsKramer in Amsterdam/London.
As an artist and curator Kessels published over 75 books of his ‘re-appropriated’ images, he was editor of the alternative photography magazine Useful Photography and wrote the international bestseller Failed It! He taught at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy (Amsterdam), Écal (Lausanne), Raffles and NABA (Milan) and at the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture.
He curated numerous exhibitions and co-curated From Here on together with Martin Parr, Joachim Schmid, Clement Chéroux and Joan Fontcuberta. His works were shown in many international institutions such as SFMOMA.

SPEAKERS
Erik Kessels
Francesco Zanot

TALKS

DANIELLE UDOGARANYA
CREATING A DIGITAL REFLECTION

In conversation with Francesco Zanot

Danielle Udogaranya, aka Ebonix, is a content creator, gaming expert and 3D artist focuses on groups of still faceless people in order to give them an identity. Only this time rather than photographs, she uses digital avatars. And the context is no longer the real world, but its alternative in virtual space. Essentially, the simulated universe reproduces the same stereotypes as the tangible one, paradoxically distinguishing between the norm and the exception. Ebonix overcomes this distinction and creates avatars that allow those belonging to categories excluded or neglected by the developers to finally be able to recognise themselves in the game.

BIOGRAPHY
Danielle Udogaranya (London, UK, 1991)—best known as Ebonix—is a content creator, DE&I Games Consultant and 3D artist. Fuelled by a frustration with the lack of diversity in The Sims 4, she decided to take matters into her own hands by teaching herself 3D modelling and creating hair, clothes and accessories that she felt represented her. Her content quickly led her working directly with The Sims on the addition of over 100 skintones and afro hair, ushering in a generational change for new Simmers.
Through her content creation projects create space for black, POC, women, femmes and non-men, Udogaranya has since become an advocate for diversity and representation in gaming and has been featured on Apple, BBC, Vice, The Verge, The Guardian, and many more.

SPEAKERS
Danielle Udogaranya
Francesco Zanot

CINEMATOGRAPHY

FILM PROGRAM
MBM. MAST BEST MOVIES

WARGAMES
JOHN BADHAM, USA, 1983, 110’, O.V. WITH ITALIAN SUBTITLES

A young computer geek tries to break into the computer of the Protovision game company to get a preview of the latest games on release. He manages to hack into the computer he thinks is the right one, but David finds only a list of strategy games. Soon, he realises he has connected to NORAD, the North American Aerospace Defence Command, which monitors and programmes the US nuclear defence against possible Soviet attacks.

FAMILY TOUR DAY

Maximum of 15 children aged 7 to 12. Each adult may accompany up to 2 children.

3 PM – 3.45 PM: Workshop
3.45 PM – 4.30 PM: Guided tour of the exhibition Andreas Gursky. Visual Spaces of Today
4.30 PM – 4.50 PM: Snack in the Cafeteria
5 PM: Screening of Wreck-It Ralph from the film program Future Film Kids (optional)

CINEMATOGRAPHY

FILM PROGRAM
FUTURE FILM KIDS

WRECK-IT RALPH
RICH MOORE, USA, 2012, 100′, Italian

For years, Ralph has played the role of the villain in a famous 1980s arcade game, ‘Fix-It Felix’. Tired of being the villain, one day he goes on an adventure to prove to everyone that he is a genuine good hero. When an evil enemy threatens their world, Ralph realises that the fate of the entire video game community is in his enormous hands.
Winner at the Annie Awards in 2013

CINEMATOGRAPHY

FILM PROGRAM
MBM. MAST BEST MOVIES

THE TERMINAL
STEVEN SPIELBERG, USA, 2004, 128′, O.V. WITH ITALIAN SUBTITLES

Viktor Navorski, who originally comes from Krakozia, arrives at the New York airport just in time to discover that his passport is no longer valid. Due to a civil war in his country, the man is stuck in limbo because he cannot return back home or cannot enter the United States. Viktor is therefore obliged to live inside the airport terminal and during the following weeks becomes a sort of Mascotte for those passengers in transit. However, he also has a mission to fulfill before it’s too late.