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Domenico Barra
Italy
Title
09/09
Files
Files obtained thanks to a provoked bug in Instagram. (.jpg)
Category
Static Image
Date
October 10, 2017
Domenico Barra is an Italian artist working with new digital media. The critical, tactical and analytical approach to new technologies takes shape in an artistic production that exploits the error (glitch) both as a raw material and as a narrative key to research and suggesting a dialogue on different themes related to new media in terms of temporality, opportunity, functionality, accessibility and also a focus on failure, network, intelligence, language, memory and identity. Themes influenced and conditioned by new technologies and by the industries that control developments and processes. Barra's works have been published on various sites and magazines including The Creators Project, Motherboard, Bullet Magazine, Hyperallergic, Art F City, Monopol and Digicult. Furthermore, Barra took part in numerous curatorial projects and his 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 and in many other galleries and cultural art events. Barra's art projects have also been part of academic talks and lectures in various international institutes and universities. He has participated in every editions of The Wrong (New Digital Art Biennale). Barra directed the organization of the first Glitch Art exhibition in Italy, Tactical Glitches, curated by artists Rosa Menkman and Nick Briz. In 2016 Barra was one of the international artists invited to the School of Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) for the 150th anniversary of the important and famous American institution where he gave a lecture and a public talk about piracy and pornography, the rise of online communities about cyber sex and the critical sides linked to the exhibition of one's body online. Barra designed patterns for the Italian company PPPAttern and some of his digital works are part of the curatorial projects of the British Sedition Gallery and the Swiss Noow Gallery. Barra teaches glitch art and dirty new media at the Rome University of Fine Art (RUFA) and he gives lectures and presentations about glitch art and related topics at academies, schools and festivals. Barra is the creator of the White Page Gallery/s, a network and community of online art galleries hosted as web page on the websites of artists, curators and other cultural operators.