Claudia D'Alonzo

Homage To Alberto Grifi

Claudia D'Alonzo
After a long desease, the film-maker, photographer craftsman-inventor Alberto Grifi left us this Sunday, on 22nd April. The definition of Grifi as the father of Italian underground cinema was useful to dismiss his case and turn his concept of deconstruction of the artist-director against him. At the same time it made his films cult objects though many never saw them, so that the memory of the collective experiences impressed on them could gradually wear out as their 30-year-old magnetic supports.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 24, May 2007

Alterated States Of Perception

Claudia D'Alonzo
The show managed by Richard Castelli called Sensi Sotto Sopra have been present at the Palladium in Rome since last 20 th October and included in the 2006 program of the Romaeuropa Festival. Through interactive and immersive works, Richard offered an experimentation of perceptive modalities with whom everyone rapports to art, movies and communications means, but also underline the distortion of the relationship work-spectator triggered by the use of digital, classic theme of the mix art-technology.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 20, December 2006 / January 2007

Abstracta 06: Cinema Astratto Remake

Claudia D'Alonzo
From the Twenties on authors coming from visual arts have started to manipulate the cinematographic language to snatch it to pure narration and reality reproduction: Eggeling, Ruttman, Léger, Picabia address their camera beyond the phenomenal reality, giving the cinema musical rules of rhythm and composition, experimenting the use of the film as material, made up of light and shade... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 18, October 2006

Viral Communication Hotbed

Claudia D'Alonzo
According to some scientists the word virus does not indicate a living being, but information contained in the DNA/RNA with a various alignment at some point of the genome. The virus enters into the organism and taking advantage of vital cycles and nutriment it infects it, it modifies the cellular morphology succeeding at times to prime modifications in the informative matrix of the host, represented by the DNA... READ MORE...
ActivismArticlesDigimag - Issue 14, May 2006