Biography
Mattia Casalegno is a visual artist, sculptor and live media performer able to connect fields and disciplines so distant as neurosciences, fashion, biology, chemistry, electronic music and architecture to produce works dealing with notions of perception, intimacy, and audiovisual improvisation.
His aesthetics are driven by the research in the relationships between the fields of information (in-forms, to give form), biology (bio-logos, discourse on living) and ecology (in the Batesonian term), pointing on the centrality of code as tools and metaphor of his poetic.
He exhibited in various festivals and museums such as Mutek festival in Canada, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts in Taiwan, MADRE - Museum of Contemporary Art in Italy, Rome Fashion Week 2010, Cimatics Festival and Media Façade Fesival in Belgium, Optronica in UK, Le Cube - Contemporay Art Museum in France, OFFF in Spain, AVIT in Germany, Wight gallery and LACMA - Los Angeles County Museum of Arts in US
He taught classes on Live Media and Mediatecture at UCLA and Art Center College of Design, and writes regularly on the online platform Digicult. He also curates a series of international workshops on Brain-Computer interfaces for Media Art, called Tangible-Feelings, initiated by the Belgian iMAL-Centre for Digital Cultures & Technologies- in 2010.
