Marco Manray 2009 ingl

MARCO MANRAY CADIOLI
"REPLICA"

Galleria Overfoto sede di Second Life:
Dal 07 maggio al 07 luglio 2008

Marco Manray Cadioli, who’s been exploring the evolution of virtual worlds through photography for several years, introduces his first personal exhibition, "REPLICA", for the opening of Overfoto Gallery a real life gallery who will open an exhibit space in Second Life. (http://slur.com/secondlife/OVERFOTO/119/133/22)
Two series of photographies will be displayed: black and white landscapes from the series "Why is there something rather than nothing?", photographies taken in Second Life wild areas still untouched by man, where Manray roams, wearing Ansel Adams’ shoes in a metaphorical West, achieving hyperrealistic and abstract results at the same time; and the series "Replica", which gives the title to the exhibition, taken into an avatars’ clones illegal factory , with portraits of a crowd of clones that seems to walk towards us as a "Fourth Estate of Second Life."
With “REPLICA”, Marco Manray Cadioli opens a new look on the world of Second Life, after the 2007 reports, published by various international magazines, such Libération, Elle, La Repubblica, and shortly after the book “Io, Reporter in Second Life”, recently published by Shake Editions from Milan, focused on his adventures as a net-reporter.

“Marco Cadioli is a photographer who drives his lens to the pixels that give life to the images that materialize on the computer screens. He takes pictures of landscapes, faces, gestures, what one would call everyday life; the peculiarity and the originality of this work is in the fact that the subjects of his pictures live inside the Web. Cadioli himself lives – in a way – in a metaworld. Although he resides in a precise physical place – Milan – some of his extensions have developed a self identity and have built some social relationships that we would call independent.
To evidence through photography the places of the Web and the entities that fill it is a process that needs a true melting between the photographer and the object of his research. So it was for Cadioli, who has never lingered in a far and detouched point of view but has literarly deeply immersed himself in that world: he has interfaced himself, to use a word proper of the technological language.
The artist does not judge the phenomena that catch his view, he rather interpret and represent them; each artistic creation becomes a window, wide open on the realities and an invitation to overlook at them. Cadioli’s pictures are an invitation to get over the weak boundary of the computer screen and to discover that what we persist in calling virtual is often more real than what is around us and of which we can feel the materiality. It is an invitation to tear the veil of virtuality, to discover how behind each shape that takes place on our screen it is possible to recognize a new display of the personality of people for whom the world, as we know it, has become an insufficient habitat.

”Exerpt from : Internet landscapes Shapes and places of the Web in the work of Marco Cadioli, Editor Vito Campanelli, Edizioni MAO - Media & Arts Office ONLUS (to be published soon).

BIO

Marco Cadioli has been documenting the evolution of the virtual worlds through photography since 2003. He begins travelling through the Web for the project “Internet Landscapes”, then enters War Games as a photographer embedded for AREANAE (2005), a black and white reportage from Network wars, made in Multi-shot games. In 2006 he realizes the video "Interview with the Robot" , a 7 minutes interview with Lucy, artificial intelligence. Net Reporter in Second Life, with the avatar Marco Manray, his reports were published on international magazines and newspapers such as Liberation, Elle, Repubblica. Author of the book: "I, REPORTER IN SECOND LIFE" Shake Editions, Milan 2007. He teaches Communication at Milan and the Academy of Fine Arts SantaGiulia Brescia. He lives and works in Milan, as well as on Second Life. www.marcomanray.com

Exhibits

"Replica" - Overfoto Gallery, Second Life, 2008
"Shooting Pixels" - Overfoto Gallery, Naples, dec 2007 - February 2008
"NetSpace: Travel Network in art" - MAXXI - National Museum of the arts of the twenty-first century Rome, 2007
PEAM- Pescara Electronic Artists Meeting, 2006
SuperNeen, Galleria Pack (Milan), 2006.
PEAM- Pescara Electronic Artists Meeting, 2005
Award Michetti - Museum Michetti - Francavilla al Mare (CH), 2005
Summary Electronic Art Festival - Naples, 2004

Images


				MARCO MANRAY CADIOLI Der Neue Wanderer edited by Vito Campanelli e Francesco Quarto september 11 > october 10 2009 opening: friday september 11 2009, 18:00-22:00 Galleria Overfoto opens the exhibition season with Der Neue Wanderer, video-photographic work by Marco Manray Cadioli edited by Vito Campanelli and Francesco Quarto, in conjunction with MAO, Media and Arts Office. The net artist and reporter, already guest of the Gallery in 2007 with the collective Shooting Pixels, ventures on a journey through Chinese virtual world HiPiHi. Like a modern traveler, he gets across a metaverse in which he has no references: "The impact is hard, the interface is in Chinese characters, the line is slow with difficult downloading. Walking and swimming for days through the dark, on a ground just separated from the water, strange fires all around. My name is Marco Manray here too, and my name on the head is the only identity that remains of my representation in 16 pixels. When people ask me where I come from, sometimes I I answer "Italy" sometimes, "Second Life", other times "Lost in the metaverse". " (Marco Manray Cadioli). Flowers and dragons, ancient symbols and traditional architectures, tazebao and icons of Maoism, these are the coordinates of a journey that Cadioli tells through a video and some paper prints taken from the pages of his Moleskine, in which - compared to his recent artistic production - there is a recovery of gestures and techniques related to manual dexterity. A constant in and out of digital, which occurs by overlapping and continuously grafting new media and traditional ones. BIO Marco Cadioli has been documenting the evolution of the virtual worlds through photography since 2003. He begins travelling through the Web for the project “Internet Landscapes”, then enters War Games as a photographer embedded for AREANAE (2005), a black and white reportage from Network wars, made in Multi-shot games. In 2006 he realizes the video "Interview with the Robot" , a 7 minutes interview with Lucy, artificial intelligence. Net Reporter in Second Life, with the avatar Marco Manray, his reports were published on international magazines and newspapers such as Liberation, Elle, Repubblica. Author of the book: "I, REPORTER IN SECOND LIFE" Shake Editions, Milan 2007. He teaches Communication at Milan and the Academy of Fine Arts SantaGiulia Brescia. He lives and works in Milan, as well as on Second Life. www.marcomanray.com Exhibits "Replica" - Overfoto Gallery, Second Life, 2008 "Shooting Pixels" - Overfoto Gallery, Naples, dec 2007 - February 2008 "NetSpace: Travel Network in art" - MAXXI - National Museum of the arts of the twenty-first century Rome, 2007 PEAM- Pescara Electronic Artists Meeting, 2006 SuperNeen, Galleria Pack (Milan), 2006. PEAM- Pescara Electronic Artists Meeting, 2005 Award Michetti - Museum Michetti - Francavilla al Mare (CH), 2005 Summary Electronic Art Festival - Naples, 2004





		MARCO MANRAY CADIOLI "REPLICA" Galleria Overfoto sede di Second Life: Dal 07 maggio al 07 luglio 2008 Marco Manray Cadioli, who’s been exploring the evolution of virtual worlds through photography for several years, introduces his first personal exhibition, "REPLICA", for the opening of Overfoto Gallery a real life gallery who will open an exhibit space in Second Life. (http://slur.com/secondlife/OVERFOTO/119/133/22) Two series of photographies will be displayed: black and white landscapes from the series "Why is there something rather than nothing?", photographies taken in Second Life wild areas still untouched by man, where Manray roams, wearing Ansel Adams’ shoes in a metaphorical West, achieving hyperrealistic and abstract results at the same time; and the series "Replica", which gives the title to the exhibition, taken into an avatars’ clones illegal factory , with portraits of a crowd of clones that seems to walk towards us as a "Fourth Estate of Second Life." With “REPLICA”, Marco Manray Cadioli opens a new look on the world of Second Life, after the 2007 reports, published by various international magazines, such Libération, Elle, La Repubblica, and shortly after the book “Io, Reporter in Second Life”, recently published by Shake Editions from Milan, focused on his adventures as a net-reporter. “Marco Cadioli is a photographer who drives his lens to the pixels that give life to the images that materialize on the computer screens. He takes pictures of landscapes, faces, gestures, what one would call everyday life; the peculiarity and the originality of this work is in the fact that the subjects of his pictures live inside the Web. Cadioli himself lives – in a way – in a metaworld. Although he resides in a precise physical place – Milan – some of his extensions have developed a self identity and have built some social relationships that we would call independent. To evidence through photography the places of the Web and the entities that fill it is a process that needs a true melting between the photographer and the object of his research. So it was for Cadioli, who has never lingered in a far and detouched point of view but has literarly deeply immersed himself in that world: he has interfaced himself, to use a word proper of the technological language. The artist does not judge the phenomena that catch his view, he rather interpret and represent them; each artistic creation becomes a window, wide open on the realities and an invitation to overlook at them. Cadioli’s pictures are an invitation to get over the weak boundary of the computer screen and to discover that what we persist in calling virtual is often more real than what is around us and of which we can feel the materiality. It is an invitation to tear the veil of virtuality, to discover how behind each shape that takes place on our screen it is possible to recognize a new display of the personality of people for whom the world, as we know it, has become an insufficient habitat. ”Exerpt from : Internet landscapes Shapes and places of the Web in the work of Marco Cadioli, Editor Vito Campanelli, Edizioni MAO - Media & Arts Office ONLUS (to be published soon). BIO Marco Cadioli has been documenting the evolution of the virtual worlds through photography since 2003. He begins travelling through the Web for the project “Internet Landscapes”, then enters War Games as a photographer embedded for AREANAE (2005), a black and white reportage from Network wars, made in Multi-shot games. In 2006 he realizes the video "Interview with the Robot" , a 7 minutes interview with Lucy, artificial intelligence. Net Reporter in Second Life, with the avatar Marco Manray, his reports were published on international magazines and newspapers such as Liberation, Elle, Repubblica. Author of the book: "I, REPORTER IN SECOND LIFE" Shake Editions, Milan 2007. He teaches Communication at Milan and the Academy of Fine Arts SantaGiulia Brescia. He lives and works in Milan, as well as on Second Life. www.marcomanray.com Exhibits "Replica" - Overfoto Gallery, Second Life, 2008 "Shooting Pixels" - Overfoto Gallery, Naples, dec 2007 - February 2008 "NetSpace: Travel Network in art" - MAXXI - National Museum of the arts of the twenty-first century Rome, 2007 PEAM- Pescara Electronic Artists Meeting, 2006 SuperNeen, Galleria Pack (Milan), 2006. PEAM- Pescara Electronic Artists Meeting, 2005 Award Michetti - Museum Michetti - Francavilla al Mare (CH), 2005 Summary Electronic Art Festival - Naples, 2004 Images