==welcome to xname== Phantasmata and illusions :: ART MUSIC AND PERFORMANCE =Activities= 1_ Creating original art work[1] and performing live electronic music. 2_ Curating festivals, exhibitions, catalogues, art and music events. 3_ Teaching, lecturing, moderating, conferencing on art, science, new media and critical theory. 4_ Consulting in the field of art, film, video, software[2] and experimental electronic media. 5_ Designing electronic interactive systems (software and hardware). 6_ Writing[3] and eventually translating (English to Italian, and viceversa). 7_ Editing and archiving films and videos. =Ethics= Our research aims at being inventive, critical, socially relevant and of public (in)-utility. It is conducted with intellectual integrity, responsibility and substantial study. We use mixed techniques to explore the relation between social and individual identities, and their interfacing with reality and imagination. =History= Our work has been funded, purchased or requested by, among others: Arts Council (London, UK), Union Chapel (London, UK), V&A (London), Voice Gallery (Marrakesh, MA), the Barbican centre (London, UK), BBC R&D (London, UK), APO33 (Nantes, FR), Queen Mary University (London, UK), Platform7 (London, UK), Goldsmiths College (London, UK), Furtherfield Gallery (London, UK), Mindbrowser inc (LA, USA), Pernod Ricard UK, Yoodoo Media Ltd (London, UK), Future Everything (Manchester, UK), Mute Publishing (London, UK), Access Space Network (Sheffield, UK), Planetart (Amsterdam, NL), Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera (Milan, IT), Steim (Amsterdam), Jan van Eyck Academie (Maastricht, NL), Transmediale (Berlin, DE), goto10 (Poitiers, FR), Bergen Electronic Art Institute (Bergen, NO), Faceculture (Amsterdam, NL), Piksel Ltd (Bergen, NO), Waag Society (Amsterdam, NL), Netherlands Institute for Media Art (Amsterdam, NL), Marina Abramovic (Amsterdam, NL), University of Bologna (Bologna, IT), Nadine (Bruxelles, BE). As of today (Spring 2015): Please contact us if you have a gallery and would like to represent *xname*. However, we can accept exclusively very selected and special commissions. Notes: [1] This includes exhibiting, performing, displaying, renting and selling artistic operae, including digital and physical objects expressing artistic and aesthetic content. This production intends to be of interest for galleries, collectors, musea, festivals, institutions, schools or any other private or public entities or personae (including, maybe, no one). [2] Software here is intended as a practical tool or as (abstract and symbolic) conceptual device. [3] Articles, papers, essays, manuals, blogs or eventually books about ethics, aesthetics, art and technology, politics, critical theory, scientific research, but also writing fiction, literature, poetry, narrative story-telling and other experimental text.