Mediaterrae Vol.1: an electronic project for Irpinia territory

Nature and technology, tradition and vanguarde, past and future, local and global. The Mediaterrae project is an encounter and comparison moment between local traditions of Irpinia and contemporary experimental creativity.

Conceived as a yearly meeting where the art of audio/video production is the main focus, Mediaterrae is a project created in order to offer for each year new topics, new territorial visions, new volumes.

Its first edition sees the creation of:
-an artist in residence project (from 19th to 23th of February 2007)
-a live event (Theater Carlo Gesualdo of Avellino, 23th of February 2007)
-the production of a DVD

Eighteen international artists will be hosted in Irpinia for a period of five days. The residential project aims at the constitution of a creative base among the selected artists which will be the starting point for the production of seven audio/video tracks that will eventually be part of the “Mediaterrae Vol.1 - Irpinia Electronic Landscape” dvd, including a documentary film. This dvd will then be produced and freely distributed (10.000 circulation copies) with the July-August issue of the magazine Blow-Up.

The participants will spend few days in the little town of Montemarano during its suggestive and peculiar carnival, while MediaTerrae Crew will follow the artist in order to facilitate the video, audio and text documentation of the carnival itself, necessary to the later audio and video productions.

The locking up of this first phase of the project will see the creation of a live event, aka “Mediaterrae Night” that will take place Friday 23rd February in the Teatro Carlo Gesualdo in Avellino.
During this free event, it will be possible to assist to live sets of some of the artists involved in the project; these performances will give anticipation on the artists’ own reading of Montemarano’s Carnival and on their own experience in the Irpinia territories.

“Mediaterrae Vol.1 - Irpinia Electronic Landscape” is produced by Gal Verde Irpinia in collaboration with Media Terre film commission.
The artistic production of the project is entirely devolved upon Interferenze, the international festival of new arts in collaboration with Soundabbast- booking and management together with the authorial and executive production of Ufficio Bifolco. Curator for the project video section is Valentina Tanni.

Mediaterrae Night will give space to several artists:

Rechenzentrum (audio/visuals)
Deadbeat (audio) + Niko Stumpo (visuals)
Burnt Friedman & Jaki Liebezeit (audio) + Anders Weberg & Robert Willim (visuals)

The artists that will participate to Artist in Residence project are:

AUDIO:
Burnt Friedman + Jaki Liebezeit
Rechenzentrum
Deadbeat
Zavoloka
Populous
Retina.it
Marco Messina

VIDEO:
Bianco-Valente
Anders Weberg & Robert Willim
Niko Stumpo
Alex Dragulescu
Riccardo Arena
Jeffers Egan

Further info on: www.mediaterrae.com