Herman Mendolicchio

The “OVNI” Project. Video As A Critical Experience

Herman Mendolicchio
The 2011 edition of OVNI (Observatory de V'deo no Identificat: Unidentified Video Observatory) is dedicated to the concept of dis-reality. In an age where the show business, too many times mistaken for the culture world, has risen as model of real life, where fiction and reality melt into one solution and where physic and mental solidity dissolve into a constant flow of images and appearances, in this intricate and complex mutation of reality the OVNI work shows itself as an antidote to the poison of contemporary information and communication... READ MORE...
ActivismArticlesDigimag - Issue 62, March 2011

Tv/arts/tv – Beyond The Screen! An Interview To Valentina Valentini

Herman Mendolicchio
The combination is hot, at first sight. In the exhibition at Arts Santa Monica in Barcelona - in this beginning of autumn 2010 - we think, reflect and make questions on the convoluted and controversial relationship between Art and TV. TV / ARTS / TV is a multi-directional path that starts from the '60s and ends to the present day: works that are now part of art history and current trials of young artists / researchers straddling art and new technologies, give life to a project that provides multiple points of view concerning TV medium... READ MORE...
ArtArticlesDigimag - Issue 59, November 2010

Loop Barcelona. Transversal Video Art

Herman Mendolicchio
Once upon a time there was a peripheral artistic practice scarcely considered called video art. This could probably be the incipit of any dissertation on artistical practices tied to technology developments. As we know, the world of arts shares since ever a long common boundary with the world of technologies, but nowadays video art - though maintaining some innovative features - has departed from this frontier positioning itself among the artistic disciplines currently most demanded, valued and practiced.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 56, July / August 2010

A Year Of Arts Santa Monica. An Interview To Vicenc Altaio’

Herman Mendolicchio
The new Arts Santa M˜nica of 2010 in Barcelona began with new stimuli for creativity and discussion. Fresh with new mentalities, a new spirit and new aspirations, Arts Santa M˜nica, an old convent situated on the emblematic Rambla and just a stone's throw from the sea, now passes on to a new stage in its history, which is dedicated to interdisciplinary issues connected to art, science and communication.... READ MORE...
ArtArticlesDigimag - Issue 53, April 2010Science