With installations, live audio-video performances, electronic music, video mapping, workshops, artistic residencies and symposia, Fotonica divides its time between the Accademia d’Ungheria in Rome and the Alessandrino district in a futuristic, state-of-the-art location: the Chromosphere Dome, a huge dome, usually used in astronomy and particularly in planetariums, that envelops the public with sounds and images from every direction, guaranteeing them a real and rare 360-degree immersive experience.
The jewel in the crown of FOTONICA are the live audio videos of eight internationally renowned artists opening and closing the Festival: Lydia Yakonowsky (Canada), VJ Spetto (Brazil), Ployz (Germany) Monocolor (Austria), Damiano Simoncini | Levi & Cristina Angeloro (Italy) Kati Katona (Hungary), Milian Mori (Switzerland), Touchy Toy Collective (Italy) Konx-om-Pax (UK).
From 13 to 21 December, every day from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., the Chromosphere Dome will host video works for children. From 5 p.m. onwards, the outside of the dome will host video mappings by artists such as DeRe from Michigan and the final works of the artistic residencies and workshops for adults and children curated by Naba, FLxER and Fusolab, while inside the dome, in parallel, video works by international artists will be projected: from Japan Yuri Urano and Manami Sakamoto, from China Te-Hsing Lu and Calvin Sin, from Poland Ari Dykier, from Germany Sergey Prokofyev, from Greece and the United Kingdom Uncharted limbo Collective, and finally from France Milkorova, Sandrine Deumier, François Vautier, Flore and Sébastien Labrunie.
Fotonica inaugurated on Friday 13 December at the Hungarian Academy in Rome with Modulator V3, an installation by renowned Hungarian artist Dávid Ariel Szauder, inspired by the iconic ‘Light Prop for an Electric Stage’ (1930) by leading Bauhaus figure László Moholy-Nagy.
The work conceived by László Moholy-Nagy and designed by architect István Sebők was originally intended as an ‘experimental light painting device’. Drawing on the original prototype, Szauder created an interactive performance enriched by an auditory experience that responds to the environment of light and shadow created by the sculpture’s movement.
The Festival continued, and still continues, between the Hungarian Academy and the Chromosphere Dome until 21 December, 2024 with live performance events, talks and workshops. Check the website here for the latest calendar of events and tickets.
Fotonica Festival, Hungarian Academy in Rome, Chromosphere Dome (Alexandrine district), 13.12 – 21.12.2024
The project, promoted by Roma Capitale – Department of Culture, is the winner of the two-year Public Notice ‘Culture in Motion 2024 – 2025’, realised in collaboration with SIAE and with the support of the European Community – Creative Europe. FOTONICA is produced by Flyer srl, which in 2004 created LPM Live Performers Meeting, the biggest event in the sector, now in its twenty-fifth edition. The Festival is part of the AVnode network, an international network with over 60 members promoting more than 200 projects including festivals, meetings and workshops.
images: (cover 1) MONOCOLOR, Entangled Structures (2) Kati Katona, Continuum (3) Touchy Toy Collective
