DOM BARRA - ALTERED_DATA

Imperfectionist. Multimedia artist. Digital atypical. White Page Gallery/s Firestarter. If you see a glitch, think of me.



"Creativity is not the measure of your talent but of your freedom".


My name is Domenico Barra, and Naples, where I was born and raised, is a constant source of inspiration—a place of wonder, drama, and undeniable imperfection. It enriched me with beauty and values and its share of "hiccups," thanks to Naples, I embrace imperfection as a core principle.


One of these "hiccups" was my academic path. I unconsciously graduated as a commercial technician and inexplicably found myself studying Business Economics—perhaps the very reason I eventually became a multimedia artist ;)


In my work, I use various technologies, but always in an unconventional way. I strive to do the wrong things in the best possible way; "Do the wrong things the right way" is my artistic creed. I specialise in glitch art, an artistic field where machine malfunctions acquire aesthetic and cultural value through the experimentation of unstable practices and atypical techniques. Since 2017, I've also incorporated Artificial Intelligence into my work. I believe it adds something new, complex, unexpected, stimulating, and undoubtedly interesting, even in its most unsettling forms.


At 19, after my first year of university studying to become a Business Manager, I fled to England, where I lived for eight years. I worked as a waiter, and every shift became also a study in humanities and social sciences. I attended Leeds College of Art and Design, where I finally found my true education calling. Here, I understood what I wanted to dedicate my time to on this planet. Creativity, in all its forms and nuances, has always fascinated me, especially graffiti and urban art, but the project that truly ignited my passion for art was an installation by Peter Greenaway and Saskia Boddeke, "The Children of Uranium," which I saw in Naples. This colossal multimedia installation interprets and narrates the impact of uranium's discovery on our society through characters from politics, science, and art—a theme that, unfortunately, is still relevant today. I've always been interested in social and political issues; for me, art is primarily a political choice, not just a personal existential condition or a survival path; it's a choice of freedom, to manifest myself as a free human.

One of my most profound artistic encounters has been with Surrealism. I consider it the highest achievement of artistic freedom, a true expression of what it means to be an artist because it shattered the rules of imagining and creating art without fear of producing imperfect works or appearing absurd.


In my work, I consistently address issues related to identity and self-awareness, focusing my observations through the lens of new technologies. Navigating the digital landscape with the curious eye of an avid explorer, I critically and provocatively tackle various topics, always aiming to speak my voice with freedom.

A recurring theme is the body and its image, explored through the spectrum of physical experience, from pleasure to pain and struggle. I examine how new media are sculpting a new dimension of the self and the collective, how tech innovations are shaping our relationships with ourselves and others, and what difficulties, but also opportunities, arise from this evolution.


Art has always been a necessity for me, driving me to engage with various artistic territories, including art collectives and art communities. I actively participated with dedication and passion, but I never exclusively tied myself to one group or artistic movement. This choice is always motivated by a single reason: to be a free artist, free to experiment, change, make mistakes, learn, and never lose interest in this imperfect journey through the uncanny valley that is life.





SHORT biO




I am a multimedia artist, and since 2012, I've explored the digital world through its instability, embracing the aesthetic of glitches, pixels, and machine failures. My current work challenges traditional beauty standards, critiquing the influence of the beauty industry, social media, and artificial intelligence in the perception and depiction of the human body. I aim to create art that is both thought-provoking and visually striking while also promoting inclusivity and awareness of the human body in all its forms. Inspired by my personal experience with rheumatoid arthritis, I am also delving into the complexities of the human body, its imperfect nature and its mutations/evolutions.


My works have been featured in prestigious publications, including Flash Art, Motherboard, Hyperallergic, and more. I am honoured to be listed in the second volume publication on art and technology endorsed by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Exhibitions at renowned galleries and cultural events worldwide, including DAM Gallery in Berlin, Media Center in New York, the State Hermitage Museum, and the World Intellectual Property Organization, have presented some of my AI and glitch art projects in their metaverse shows. Additionally, I have been invited to present academic talks and lectures at esteemed institutes and universities. In 2016, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago invited me to give a lecture and public talk on piracy practices and the impact of the internet and digital media on the production, distribution, and consumption of NSFW materials, marking their 150th-anniversary celebration. At the MACRO in Rome, I held a lecture about making art with glitches. Notably, I directed the organisation of Italy's first Glitch Art group show, "Tactical Glitches," curated by Rosa Menkman & Nick Briz.


I am actively involved in curatorial projects with Sedition Gallery, Artpoint, CIFRA, and Niio, and have collaborated with the MoCDA Museum, Hard Disk Museum, and The Wrong Biennale. Sharing my knowledge and passion, I held masterclasses on glitch art and dirty new media at Rome University of Fine Art [RUFA]. As the creator of the online art network and community, White Page Gallery/s, I foster connections and facilitate artistic exchange.


I collaborated with Snark.art and OG.Art, two companies specialised in producing and curating groundbreaking digital art projects on the blockchain. We worked with renowned artists Random International, Mat Collishaw, Michael Joo and Danil Krivoruchko and also partnered with Hermitage Museum, Pace Gallery, and Christie's.



WHO'S DOM BARRA aka ALTERED_DATA?
[extended bio]



I am an Italian artist of digital art and dirty new media.


My art aesthetics is to be found in the realm of machine failures where I interpret the glitches in various environments and digital styles strongly influenced by dirty new media & Internet cultures.

The error, the limit, the unexpected, the diversity, the fragility, the imperfection, and the vulnerability, are some of the meanings of the glitch in my works. Departing from these grounds of elaboration, I develop my research and practice on various topics related to temporality, functionality, accessibility, opportunity, and the influence of new technologies, design, and politics, have on human relations in terms of interactions and values, in related human and machine, with a focus on networks, community, intelligence, language, memory, identity and how those contribute in the critical evolution of a new world, society, human, their conception and perception through machines, individuals new self-awareness.


THE TECHNIC

I like to experiment and work with many different media preferring above all the creative misuse of hardware and software to generate images, gifs, videos, and installations. Databending is my preferred glitch art technique for working and approaching digital data and digital matter. This technique consists of altering the data saved within digital file formats forcing the machine to complete non-standard operations aiming at creating glitch artifacts to include in my projects.


WHO IS ALTERED_DATA?

In 2017 I adopted the artist nickname Altered_Data. I chose this name because I strongly identify with my art practice, databending because I evolve in this practice, it's biological. The choice is also supported by the belief that everyday online data alterations are shaping, manipulating, and influencing our identity, but also our behaviour, and thoughts casting our altered persona in the minds of others. We become while we are chased every moment by algorithms on social media "emotional scrollacoaster". I was also born with an immune system disorder, which triggered a series of physical glitches throughout my evolution. Imperfection is coded in my DNA. I was born this way. Altered_Data is for real.


PRESS AND PUBLICATIONS

My works have appeared on various sites and magazines such as Flash Art, Observer, Widewalls, The Creators Project, Motherboard, Bullet Magazine, Hyperallergic, Monopol Magazin, Espoarte, Digicult, Artribune, Exibart, La Stampa, Interartive, Widescreen, Cueva Gallery.

I am listed in the second volume publication about art and technology promoted by the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs among the artists influencing the state of the art of the new media art and digital culture scene in Italy. I am also featured in the Exibart volume "222 artisti emergenti su cui investire / 2021", a volume for art collectors.


THE SHOWS

I took part in numerous curatorial projects and my works have been exhibited at the DAM Gallery in Berlin, at the Media Center in New York, at the Galerie Charlot in Paris, at the Digital Art Center in Taipei, online at The Ethereal Aether by the State Hermitage Museum, at the World Intellectual Property Organization [WIPO], at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, at the MediaLAB of the University of Brasilia, online at the Wrong Biennale and with Arebyte, and in many other galleries and cultural art events worldwide, on the internet and the metaverse. I took part in NewHive's project Major Tendons curated by Molly Soda collaborating with US music producer Suicideyear.


COLLABORATIONS

I directed the organization of the first glitch art show in Italy, Tactical Glitches, curated by Rosa Menkman and Nick Briz. I collaborated with the first edition of The Wrong Biennale glitching the logo for the official website of the biennale. I am featured as Mighty Kongbot, together with Italian graphic designer and artist Luigi Console, in the 3D Additivist Cookbook curated by Morehshin Allahyhari and Daniel Rourke with the project “The Anti-Anthropocaliptic Set” to survive the Anthropocalypse. Since October 2018 I have been part of PPPATTERN, a commercial design project by art director Renato Fontana that features some of the most influential creatives of the Italian art scene.


MUSEUM AND ART COLLECTION

Since September 2017 I have been part of the Hard Disk Museum with the project 09|09.


ART GALLERIES

In November 2018 I became part of the Sedition Curated program. My works are also available with Elementum.art, Snark.art, Niio, and my digital art NFTs are on sale on Ethereum and Tezos.


ACADEMIC LECTURES AND TEACHING

I was a visiting artist at SAIC in Chicago in April 2016 for RE:MESH.WWWERK/s series curated by jonCates. The event was part of the 150th year of activities celebration of the world-famous institution where I gave a lecture and a public talk about piracy and pornography, the impact of the internet and digital media on the production, distribution, and consumption of NSFW.

I teach glitch art and dirty new media at RUFA - Rome University of Fine Art with workshops and a two-day course that takes place periodically. The course is coordinated by art historian Caterina Tomeo. In December 2018, I lectured at Museo Macro in Rome, Italy, during the digital art festival Fotonica 2018. The lecture was titled "Glitch_Art - Altering Image Data" where the databending technic I use to create my glitch artworks was applied as a metaphor to address other topics such as memory, obsolescence, vulnerability, surveillance, obfuscation copyright, and data framing glitch art as tactical media and not just an artistic movement and new aesthetic. In April 2019 I took part in the first edition of the LINEA Festival in Ruvo di Puglia, Italy, where I exhibited videos and gif works in the exhibition area and held a talk about Glitch Art Universe, defining glitch art beyond new media and proposing a philosophic and humanist approach to glitches in a matter of art teaching, social integration and reducing the gap between machines and human, presenting my experience working with glitches through the topics of temporality, accessibility, opportunity, and functionality. The same talk was also presented in Napoli, Italy for the DAF Digital Art Festival at the Ex Asilo Filangieri.


ART CURATING

In February 2019 I curated Spamm Philosophy, a video art exhibition event based on the concept of SuPer Art Modern Museum developed by French artist Systaime. The show took place at Mapils Gallery in Napoli, Italy. The show featured works by 32 international artists such as Carla Gannis, Nicole Ruggiero, Clusterduck, Rosa Menkman, Nick Briz, Matteo Zamagni, Render Fruit, Marco Cadioli, Martina Menegon, Miyo Van Stenis, Violette Bule, Haydi Roket, and other artists from various other new media art scenes and cultures. I am the creator and art director of the online project White Page Gallery/s. a distributed and decentralized art network and community.


SOCIAL AWARENESS

2019 started as a very busy year and on the 15th of March, my first solo show took place at Mapils Gallery in Napoli. The show title was The Beautiful Minds, a glitch art show depicting the story of two young autistic twins. This is a very important project for me because these two guys are my cousins, and their story is also my family's story. One more project with a focus on the social matter, beauty, and power, as a means of success wealth, and goodwill, in contrast with ugliness always associated with evil morals and failure. A project for inclusivity and diversity, the redemption of the atypicals. This is DISØRDINARY BƏAUTY 🥀 The thorn sense of beauty. Exploring the collective sense of ugliness and beauty in the biased mind of AI and beyond + a #glitchart collection.




EXHIBITIONS


SOLO SHOWS


2019: The Beautiful Minds - Mapils Gallery - Napoli, Italy.


2021: Disordinary_Beauty - Biffi Gallery - Produced by Fuori Visioni - Curated by Carolina Moncaleano, Carlotta Biffi, Mariangela Vitale - Piacenza, Italy.


GROUP SHOWS


2006: Final year show - Leeds College of Art and Design - Leeds, England (UK) - Group show - Work presented "Mea Patria Incolume Evadit".


2012: “The sketchbook show” - Branson College - Ross, California (USA) – Project presented “The Idiots”.
2012: “RE/Mixed Media Festival 2012 - 3rd edition” - Brooklyn Lyceum - Brooklyn, New York (USA) - Curated by Tom Tenney - Project presented “Biutifool Beastard vs The Great Masters of History of Art”.

2012: Oltre la Paralisi - Palazzo delle Arti Napoli - Napoli (Italy) - Curated by the art collective URTO - Project presented "Vitaliano Novello".


2013: The Wrong - New Digital Art Biennale - The Homeostasis Lab - Online – Project presented “RAN/dom RMX”.


2014: Trash Italy for Archivio Queer Italia and CUNTemporary – London (UK) – Work presented “teleVISIONE” - Participation as Mighty Kongbot.
2014: RE/Mixed Media Festival 4 - New York (USA) - - Curated by Tom Tenney - Work presented “I vs I Rmx”.
2014: Cloud Makers and Open Tech: An Open Exhibition - Vancouver (Canada) - Curated by Erik H Zepka - Work presented “teleVISIONE” - Participation as Mighty Kongbot.
2014: IN WALL WE TRUST - Street Art Exhibition - Airola (Italy) - Curated by NAF-MK - Work presented “P0P_D34T|-|_rmx”.
2014: #nfcdad Wroclaw: Biennale of digital & internet art - Wroclaw (Poland) - Curated by Małgorzata Rachańczyk & Dominik Podsiadły - Projects presented “T|-|3_G!FDR0/\/\3” && “\/!R0L0Gy”.


2015: Autotune MegaGIF Compilation 2015 - Online and at Ateliers Quatre Pourcent - Nancy (France) - Curated by GIFMATTERS - Various gifs presented.
2015: GIF Interactive Arts Festival - Rainbow Connection/Red Gate - Vancouver (Canada) - Curated by Gillian Zillion - Various gifs presented - Participation as Mighty Kongbot.
2015: 60 LEAP SECOND FESTIVAL 2015 - Norway - Curated by Bjørn Magnhildøen - Various works presented.
2015: GIF ARTS FESTIVAL - Los Angeles (US) - Curated by Gillian Zillion - Various works presented - Participation as Mighty Kongbot.
2015: PORN TO PIZZA – Domestic Clichés - DAM Gallery - Berlin (Germany) - Curated by Tina Sauerlaender - Project presented "Pirate Porno Material 2".

2015: "VIEWS" - New York Media Center - Manhattan Bridge - New York (USA) - Curated by Leo Kuelbs - Work presented "Our Journey" - Participation as Mighty Kongbot.
2015: “(In)exactitude in Science” pavilion - The Wrong Biennale - Curated by Kamilia Kard and Filippo Lorenzin - Project presented "Addle Eratat" - Participation as Mighty Kongbot.
2015: Pixxelpoint 2015: OBJECT – 16th International Media Art Festival, Nova Gorica (Slovenia) and Gorizia (Italy) - Curated by Igor Stromajer - Work presented "The Seed".
2015: Transnumeriques Awards - special Gif + GifWall with Haydiroket - Digital Art Festival Taipei / 台北數位藝術中心 Digital Art Center - Taipei (Taiwan) - Work presented "When the computer is ON".
2015: Form and Substance Miami: A Projection, Lighting, and Mapping Exhibition - InterContinental Miami (Miami Art Week) - Miami (USA) - Curated by Leo Kuelbs - Work presented "Our Journey" - Participation as Mighty Kongbot.


2016: OFF Biennale Cairo - (in)Exactitude in Science” - The Wrong Biennale Pavilion - Cairo (Egypt) - Curated by Kamilia Kard and Filippo Lorenzin - Project presented "Addle Eratat" - Participation as Mighty Kongbot.
2016: /././…../Peripheral Surveillance_/././…./ Pavilion - The Wrong Biennale Pavilion - The University of the Arts Sculpture Gallery - Philadelphia (USA). Curated by Tyler Kline - Various gifs presented.

2016: “(in)Exactitude in Science” - The Wrong Biennale Pavilion - Galerie Charlot - Paris (France) - Curated by Kamilia Kard and Filippo Lorenzin - Project presented "Addle Eratat" - Participation as Mighty Kongbot.
2016: “Nargifsus” - Transfer Gallery - Brooklyn, New York (USA) - Curated by Carla Gannis and Tina Sauerländer - Work presented "The artist's selfies".
2016: “Log in”, Darb 1718 - Cairo (Egypt) - Group show - Project presented "Addle Eratat" - Participation as Mighty Kongbot.

2016: free_art_-_source : [24.-26.4. 2016]: a code-themed meta-exhibition - Osijek (Croatia) - Curated by Dina Karadzic & Vedran Gligo - Project presented "Pirate Porno Material".
2016: This is not an Error - Milan (Italy) - Curated by Homemade Gallery - Project presented "V1R0L0Gy".
2016: r4w.EɌ̶Ɍ̶.b1t5! (A) RE:uɹnʇ TO: d1Ɍ+y̶ ̶N̶3WWWM3DI∆ - Chicago (US) - jonCates (curator/organiser) && Jon Satrom (curator/organiser) - Group show - Project presented "#DNMStreetArt".
2016: DADACLUB ONLINE - Online - http://dadaclub.online/ - Curated by Link Art Centre - Works presented "Believe your own eyes" and "Adad evar peels tae".

2016: 404Error.gallery - Online - Curated by Matthew Britton & Brett O'Connor - Work presented "OMG 404".
2016: Pivilion: ~ co-op ~ “25th Slavonian Biennale, Borders of visibility” - The Museum of Fine Arts - Osijek (Cro) - Curated by Dina Karadzic & Vedran Gligo - Various gifs presented.


2017: Additivist Cookbook - Transmediale - Berlin, Germany - Curated by Morehshin Allahyari & Daniel Rourke - Work presented The Anti-Anthropocalyptic Set by Mighty Kongbot.

2017: ϟℙ∀ℳℳ_POWER - Online (http://spammpower.fr) - Curated by Systaime and Ellectra Radikal - Work presented "Multiple Deja Vu at a party".

2017: ERRORE DIGITALE - MONK - Roma (Italy) - Curated by Manifesto delle Visioni Parallele - Various works presented.
2017: Dadaclub (The exhibition) - Spazio Contemporanea - Brescia (Italy) - Curated by Fabio Paris & Domenico Quaranta (Link Art Center) - Work presented "Adad evar peels tae".
2017: Mermaids & Unicorns - Online (http://www.mermaidsandunicorns.net/) - Curated by Carlotta Meyer, Benoit Palop, and Tina Sauerländer - Work presented "Vsnz".
2017: #NEWWWORLDISORDER - Online + Facebook live streaming - (https://thirdspacenetwork.com/newwworldisorder/) - Curated by Randall Parker and Systaime - Project presented "Open letter to Mr Big F."
2017: SPAMM POWER - Defibrillator Gallery’s [tiny garage] - Chicago (USA) - Hosted by Jon Satrom and curated by Ellectra Radikal & Michaël Borras A.K.A Systaime - Work presented "Multiple Deja Vu at a party".
2017: Dadaclub.online - Galerie Charlot - Paris (France) - Curated by Fabio Paris and Link Art Center - Work presented "Adad evar peels tae".
2017: 60Seconds Festival - Internet Yami-Ichi Brussels #2 - iMAL - Brussels, Belgium - Work presented "The Kiss (gif)".
2017: Roma Art Week - Errore Digitale - NVMEN Gallery - Rome (Italy) - Curated by Manifesto delle Visioni Parallele - Various works presented + project "Action Databending".
2017: Oh my, something in my eye – height | Something in the sky – sky(pe) - InDivenire Festival - Spazio Diamante - Rome (Italy) - Curated by Elena Giulia Abbiatici - Various works presented.
2017: GFXFreeError - The Wrong Biennale - Online and at Space Debris - Istanbul (Turkey) - Curated by Haydi Roket - Work presented "The artist as noise source".
2017: Your content is here - The Wrong Biennale - Online - Curated by TWT1 - Work presented "Il popolo dei NO!" - Participation as Mighty Kongbot.


2018: Transnumériques #6 - Écritures Numériques @ Musée L - Musée universitaire de Louvain - Louvain (Belgium) - Curated by Haydi Roket - Work presented "The artist as noise source".
2018: TRANSFER Gallery 5th Birthday - New York, (USA) - Curated by Kelani Nichole - Various works presented.

2018: Free_art_-_glitch/3 - rezidencijalni poziv - Zagreb, Croatia - Hosted by Inquiry Inc. and KA-MATRIX - Various works presented.

2018: #nfcdab valencia 2018 Near-Field Communication Digital Art Biennale - Parque de la Cultura (MUVIM) - Valencia, Spain - Curated By Noemata and BrowserBased - Work presented "Dead Drops Sea Level RMX.

2018: #nfcdab Düsseldorf 2018 Near-Field Communication Digital Art Biennale 10. – in front of NRW-Forum Düsseldorf, Germany - Curated By Noemata and BrowserBased - Work presented "Dead Drops Sea Level RMX.

2018: Free Art Glitch #3: TV wall - MalaScena HD - Karlovac, Croatia - Hosted by Inquiry Inc. and KA-MATRIX - Various works presented.

2018: Errore Digitale - Untold Wall [Manifesto delle visioni parallele] - Fotonica Festival - Museo Macro di Roma, Italy - Curated by Gianluca Del Gobbo - Various video works presented.

2018: DAF (Digital Art Festival) - Scugnizzo Liberato - Napoli, Italy - Curated by MAO New Media Publishing - 2 Video works presented, 3D0/\/\ and D0\/\//\/T0\/\//\/ NPLZ.


2019: Not Only Cigarettes - First video art show hosted on the screen of a cigarettes vending machine - Bar tabaccheria Marin - Viareggio, Italy - Curated by Luca Leggero for Green Cube Gallery - Work presented "Just Relax".

2019: SPAMM Philosophy at Mapils Gallery - Napoli, Italy - Work presented "D0\/\//\/T0\/\//\/_NPLZ" - I also curated this event.

2019: Free Vision of the Best Digital Sub/Culture focus on DIGITAL and VIDEO ART - Artrooms Fair - Rome, Italy - Curated by Gianfranco Valleriani and Systaime - Work presented D0\/\//\/T0\/\//\/_NPLZ.

2019: Tutto passa nelle cose senza contorno - LINEA Festival - Ruvo di Puglia, Italy - Curated by Alessandra Constantiello - Various video and gif works presented.

2019: #Women in Culture for Museum Week 2019 - Online and in Napoli (Italy) - Curated by Benjamin Benita - Work presented La Marescialla.

2019: /'fu:bar/ - @ AKC, Zagreb, Croatia - Curated by Dina Karadzic and Vedran Gligo - Work presented "Ephemeral - After Jeff Koons".

2019: Very Large Works pavilion - The Wrong Biennale - Curated by Noemata - Project presented White Page Gallery/s.

2019: Virtuaflex pavilion - The Wrong Biennale - Curated by Haydi Roket - Works presented Internet Graffiti.


2020: Light Year 59: "Fading into the New World" - Manhattan Bridge - New York, U.S.A - Curated by Leo Kuelbs - Work presented "Our Journey" by Mighty_Kongbot.

2020: There is no wind on the Moon - Contemporary Cluster - Rome, Italy - Curated by Giacomo Guidi & Visioni Parallele - World Premiere video art piece "Deus Ex Machina".

2020: Refraction Festival: Powered by Generate App, section curated by Hard Disk Museum. Work presented "Have you ever fucked the system?".

2020: Affective Prospective: In times of Pandemia - Online with MediaLab UNB, Department of Visual Arts of the University of Brasilia - World Wide Web - Curated by Artur Cabral Reis - Project presented White Page Gallery/s.

2020: Maker Art - The New Art Fest - Online - Project presented the White Page Gallery/s.

2020: The Other Side - Hosted by Anonymous Waves part of White Page Gallery/s - Project presented Witness of Madness.

2020: WIPO AI and IP: A virtual experience - hosted online by World Intellectual Property Organization [WIPO] - Works presented Erased Human, Artificialemente, SO[N]NO, Deus Ex Machina.

2020: Emmeio Team # 12.0 | MEDIALAB/UNB of the University of Brasilia, Brazil - Work presented Deus Ex Machina (2 set gifs).

2020: RTSM - Tearing and Regenerating - curated by the Central Academy of Fine Arts [CAFA] - Work presented "Deus Ex Machina".

2020: #NFT ART TECH MUSIC - Curated by Art-Tech Miami for Miami Art Week - Online at AltSpace - Work presented "Les Danseurs au Glitch".


2021: ART HOMEPAGE FAIR - Curated by Arebyte, hosted by IDPW (INTERNET YAMI-ICHI) - Online - Work presented "This is the most expensive artwork in the world".

2021: How to sell NFT? Art show & Art talk - Metaverse - Curated by The Nemesis.io - Various works presented from my crypto art NFT collection.

2021: Techspressionism 2021 - Curated by Colin Goldberg and Patrick Lichty - Online - Work presented The Blue Bucket.

2021: The Ethereal Aether by The State Hermitage Museum - Curated by Dimitri Ozerkov and Anastasia Garnova. Consultant Nadia Taiga - Metaverse - Work presented "EVA - A Mitochondrial Story" in collaboration with hex6c, Roberto Ranon, and Alberto Policriti.

2021: VIVATECH 2021 - Curated by Artpoint - VivaTech - Work presented "Keep in touch".


2022: a-slice-of-the-pie - Curated Silvio Lorusso and Sebastian Schmieg - DYOR Kunsthalle Zurich.


2023: FOR THE CULTURE - Curated by Artpoint, produced by NFT Factory, Artpoint and 6529 - NFT Factory, Paris - WorK presented "Crypto Nativity 3.0".

2023: EDIT ART: The Wanderer in Virtual Space - Curated by Domenico Esposito for CAFA Art - Online on CAFA's Exhibition page - Work presented "DIS/verse".


2024:

ecosynth - Curated by Matteo Campulla, Xristina Sarli, Augusto Calcada - Vorspiel, Berlin, Germany. Works presented "D. X. M. | Liquid Dream" + "D. N. Ai. | New Life".

2024:

“L’opera d’arte nell’epoca dell’Intelligenza Artificiale” - Curated by Chiara Canali, Rebecca Pedrazzi and Davide Sarchioni - Palazzo Pigorini, Parma, Italy. Work presented "D. X. M. | Liquid Dream".


PUBLICATIONS

2017: Week 64_Domenico Dom Barra - Antimateria curated by Doreen A. Ríos.

2020: Arte e tecnologia del terzo millennio. Scenari e protagonisti, I Quaderni della Collezione, Vol. II, by Cesare Biasini Selvaggi & Valentino Catricalà. Edited by Electa Editore for Collezione Farnesina, a publication by the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs.

2021: 222 ARTISTI EMERGENTI SU CUI INVESTIRE / 2021 - From an idea by Uros Gorgone, a project curated by Cesare Biasini Selvaggi with Silvia Conta. A pubblication by Exibart.

2024: “L’opera d’arte nell’epoca dell’Intelligenza Artificiale”, art show catalogue curated by Chiara Canali, Rebecca Pedrazzi and Davide Sarchioni. Published by Jaca Book.


AWARDS:

2015: Winner of the Transnumeriques Awards - Digital Art Festival Taipei / 台北數位藝術中心 Digital Art Center - Taipei (Taiwan) - Event curated by Haydiroket - Opera presented "When the computer is ON".

2020: Candidate for the Cinello Unlimited award in the artists' section for having distinguished oneself for the most interesting digital project or work conceived or disseminated in 2020.

2023: Candidate for the VDA Digital Art Award.


CURATORIAL PROJECTS

2019: SPAMM PHILOSOPHY - Video Art Night - Mapils Gallery - Napoli, Italy.

2019: KOONSTHALLE - Real Visual Luxury - co-curated and co-hosted show part of the White Page Gallery/s - Online.

2020: OUTBREAK (Let's make art viral) - Exhibition to collect donations to help institutions and organisations working on the COVID-19 and Coronavirus pandemic - hosted show part of the White Page Gallery/s - Online.

2020: Decompose_ImageElementz - A showcase of works made by my students at RUFA (Rome University of Fine Arts) - hosted show part of the White Page Gallery/s - Online.

2020: I[NFT]ALY - A community group show - Italian digital art in the age of blockchains - hosted show part of the White Page Gallery/s - Online.


ART DIRECTION

2019: White Page Gallery/s: Distributed art network and community of online webpage spaces for art.


ART LECTURES + TALKS

2016: A journey of porn, piracy and digital art - School of Art Institute Chicago - Chicago, USA.

2018: Glitch Art Experience Vol. 1 for Errore Digitale - Fotonica Festival - Museo Macro - Rome, Italy.

2019:

Glitch Art Experience Vol. 2 - Linea Festival - Ruvo di Puglia, Italy.

2019:

Glitch Art Experience Vol. 3 - DAF Digital Art Festival - Ex Asilo Filangieri - Napoli, Italy.

2024:

The Uncanny Valley: Digital Art in the Imperfect Era of Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence - Laboratorio del Digitale for the Corso di Studi in Filosofia e Trasformazione Digitale" of the University of Udine, Italy. Seminar coordinated by Prof. Massimo Franceschet.




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