Rome, 7 May. (askanews) – Now in its seventh edition, Videocittà returns to Rome from 5 to 7 July, the festival created by Francesco Rutelli, with the creative direction of Francesco Dobrovich, who on the sidelines of the presentation of this year’s program, explained to us in videos like the Roman three-day event will investigate the most innovative audiovisual and digital codes. Majestic installations, video art, immersive experiences, live and DJ sets, talks, AV experiences and much more will light up, again this year, the largest area of industrial archeology in Europe, the Gazometro in Rome. With 20,000 attendees in the last edition alone for 3 evenings which were all sold out, in six years the festival has hosted over 400 names, including Oscar winners, winners of the Golden and Silver Lion at the Venice Biennale, talents and performers all avant-garde, positioning itself as a futuristic platform of reference in the sector and as a dynamic crossroads for artists, visionaries, creators, makers and digital leaders, for the public and enthusiasts. For the 2024 edition, early bird tickets and first release season tickets have already been sold out, with almost half sold to a national (outside Rome) and international audience. With Eni, Main Partner, the contribution of the Ministry of Culture, Municipality of Rome, with the support of RegioneLazio and in collaboration with Anica, three days of contamination to add, in the 2024 season, a piece to the quadrilogy that will be completed in 2025 on the theme of the Transition , digital and ecological. A reflection on the connection between man and nature and on the concrete dialogue between environmentalist thought and new technologies as an essential path to building a new world where digital, inclusion and sustainability coexist. After the lunar element (2022) and that of the Earth (2023), 2024 has the Galaxy as its theme. As is now tradition, Videocittà will be opened by the imposing site-specific work that will invest the largest metal cylinder of the Gazometro, a symbolic monument of the Ostiense district and contemporary Rome. For 2024, the installation, entitled Nebula, is designed by Quiet Ensemble and Giorgio Moroder. Leading creative studio in the panorama of visual arts and new media in Italy, leader in the creation of immersive digital arts installations, the Quiet Ensemble, through the use of interactive techniques and attention to the smallest details such as the sounds of nature or movement of insects, create works that mix art, science and technology. Nebula will be an impressive, unexpected audiovisual experience, a luminous intervention in close connection with the music, created specifically for Videocittà, by the pioneer of the use of the synthesizer, master of soundtracks, Oscar winner and David di Donatello Lifetime Achievement winner Giorgio Moroder, recognized throughout the world as one of the most influential figures in electronic and disco music. The metal lattice will transform into a very dense constellation that will completely envelop the audience from every direction: a unique immersive experience in which you will become part of a night dotted with stars with sounds coming from distant galaxies. The installation, created by Eni, curated by Videocittà with the scientific support of INAF and the Astronomical Observatory of Rome, and with the executive production of Eventi Italiani, will be presented on Friday 5 July at the opening of the festival with a talk and a speech on the Quiet Ensemble and Moroder themselves. Videocittà will redesign the light of the dusk of the Capitoline summer, not only on the cylinder of the main Gazometer, but on the entire complex and the numerous spaces that inhabit this new audiovisual district on which Eni is carrying out an important redevelopment work. Anica, chaired by Manuela Cacciamani, will open the evening of July 5th with the show of the most appreciated and followed talents and creators: millions of followers ideally on the same stage. On Sunday 7 July there will be a talk show on the G3 terrace, hosted by Prof. Vincenzo Schettini “The Physics we like” to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Guglielmo Marconi, the Italian genius who made the world talk. Among the novelties of the seventh edition, the immersive and VR experiences, curated by Anna Lea Antolini, increase, the number of viewers, over 60, located in the test areas where the public will be able to experience virtual journeys. Thanks to the collaboration with Rai Cinema, a VR room will also be set up with 30 viewers and 30 stations for the synchronized use of virtual reality content selected from the Rai Cinema Channel VR library, the Rai Cinema platform dedicated to the creation of original productions in virtual reality . The jewel in the crown of the three days is Le Bal de Paris – Golden Lion at the 78th Venice International Film Festival in the “Venice VR Expanded” section – immersive, participatory and interactive experience created by the extraordinary French-born Andalusian choreographer Blanca Li to discover virtual reality in a spectacular way through dance and music, with an eye on fashion thanks to the collaboration with Chanel for the avatar costumes. Also on stage is Peaceful Places, by and with Margherita Landi and Agnese Lanza, a duo whose poetics move between dance and performance art in a happening that directly involves the public. Videocittà presents the national premiere, on Friday 5 July, of the first VR experience of the Rome Opera House, inaugurating a new season: ODE corporis, conceived and curated by Anna Lea Antolini herself with Giuliano Danieli directed by Guido Geminiani. Produced by the Teatro dell’ Opera di Roma in collaboration with Videocittà, it is a journey through the body, in the known and lesser-known, accessible and inaccessible spaces of the Costanzi Theater and its scenographic laboratory, the Cerchi, where the preview will be held on June 24th . Between the Terrace of the G3 cylinder and the Opificio 41, the exhibition dedicated to Video art curated by Damiana Leoni and R di Martino will take shape. To inaugurate, on July 5, the interactive installation by Sahej Rahal, a storyteller from Mumbai whose installations, films and performances intertwine fact and fiction, local legends and science fiction to create counter-mythologies in the making. The following day, 6 July, two internationally renowned guests arrive at the G3 Terrace: Camille Henrot in partnership with the Embassy of France, Silver Lion at the 55th Venice Biennale, moves seamlessly between films, painting, drawing, bronze, sculpture and installation, combining art and everyday life to question what it means to be a private individual and a global subject; and in collaboration with Villa Massimo, Bjorn Melhus, an internationally renowned visual artist whose career spans 3 decades, with exhibitions in institutions such as the Tate Modern in London, the Center Pompidou in Paris and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The appointments are preceded by a talk moderated by Luca Lo Pinto, Artistic Director of the MACRO – Contemporary Art Museum of Rome.
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