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I
was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, from a multicultural family of european
origins. When I finished high school studies at a French school, I moved
to Firenze, Italy. During my studies in communication and exhibition design,
I worked as a collaborator at the exhibition space of the Department of
Architecture, Università degli Studi di Firenze.
In 2002 I moved to Napoli and started a collaboration with the Cultural
Department of the Municipality of Napoli (Assessorato alla Cultura) to
different projects aimed at developing novel solutions for the management
of cultural structures. One of those projects led the Municipality to
the opening of the first center for contemporary art languages in Napoli
(PAN | Palazzo delle Arti Napoli) Currently I am the Production Coordinator
of the PAN | Palazzo delle Arti Napoli (www.palazzoartinapoli.net) a stable
structure of continuous studio and production activities. We develop projects
that are aimed at documenting the history of contemporary languages. The
result should be the ongoing construction of archives, services, tools
and products of information and communication for the public access. The
Center has collaborators that range from experts of new technologies to
curators, from galleries to foundations, and has scientific partners like
institutions and centers for contemporary arts. The Documentation Center
comprises the official web site of PAN, the library, the mediathèque
and all the audiovisual productions, and the digital archive presently
accessible on site.
So, I am interested in history, theory, and criticism of art and design,
innovative museum practice, creation and maintenance of exhibitions, strategic
museum management covering the full range of activities of contemporary
art centers.I am also interested in the problems of the documentation
of contemporary art: methodology, terminology, conservation and the possible
strategies and perspectives for the future by using digital technologies
in contemporary museums. In particular my personal research is directed
towards the possibilities of audiovisual media as a vehicle for exhibition,
promotion and communication, and as an interpretative tool in contemporary
art museums. I also wish to explore new business partnership models for
museums as producers of audiovisual materials and archives.
In an age of archival, institutional and social critique, to whom or what
is the artist, curator or archivist responsible? What would it mean to
establish the categories of artist, curator, archivist or artwork, to
define and delimit them in order to confer an identity upon them? How
is an artwork lost, destroyed, abandoned, and then perhaps restructured,
or rebuilt from its ruins, sometimes in other places, times and cultures?
What is the relation between an artwork and the culture that produced
it, between an artist herself and the public, or between an artwork and
all the people from which it perhaps withholds its protections?
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It
is tempting to wonder about the archival fate of documentation, beyond
the issue of its mutability, in an era which believes itself to be after
photography, after cinema, after television. It is even more tempting,
but difficult, to imagine how these documents will age, since they speak
so clearly to our present, a present haunted by the media-annihilating
possibilities of the digital. But, we can deal only with our "now,"
a now in which the documents are an eloquent witness to the crucial implications
of temporality, memory, and history in the technologies of representation
we think we know. Advances in technology are changing how we share knowledge
and altering how the individual actor is conceived, undermining the concept
of the individual genius creating art ex-novo.
We
experience that pulsing creative connection in our everyday lives—launching
websites, swapping files, mailing lists, search engines, making effective
use of new technologies. Recommended approaches and strategies for preserving
contemporary artworks or parts of artworks, should be a public shared
resource that is collectively and continuously updated. A museum for contemporary
art is an area that is between states of wet and dry and can be made of
decentralized pockets. It is a model for a distributed network of artists,
critics and theorists, integrating media production with training in theory
and research. A container for documenting the history of contemporary
languages, it is an ongoing construction of archives, services, tools
and products of information and communication for the public access.
Within exhibition spaces, visitors come and go through the artworks to
constitute temporary points of view. From there, they can look at the
signs of communication produced in the continuous experimentation of contemporary
arts: forms that are open or closed, regular or unusual, confirmed or
rejected, to meet in the complex development of suggesting impressions
about art today.
Each and everyone of these artworks is a proposal of different points
of view. Taken together, the paths followed by the authors and the public
inform a shared space that contribute to create a collective memory of
contemporary times. Each author shows her point of view through her artwork.
Each one of these conceptions takes place at a different level. The collection
of these points of view, as it is characterized by a multilayered structure,
informs a museum, a center for contemporary arts, a documentation center,
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