LUCA LEGGERO
www.leggerostudio.com
luca42 (AT) gmail (DOT) com
BIO
Luca Leggero does new media art and music.
With his works he has made a personal reading of art history by relating it to the web.
He has made alternative use of mobile phones, creating audio and video performances, music compositions and installations.
His recent interests revolve around the increasing influence dot-com corporations have on everyone’s daily life.
He is the founder of the multimedia collective MAIS and he is part of the editorial board of the artist books publishing house Atypo.org.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & PERFORMANCES
2017
- “Your Content is Here“, Greencube Gallery, The Wrong – New Digital Art Biennale, Internet
- “Segni Leggeri – Internet is not forever“, BAG Gallery, Parma
2016
- “LIVENEL Perfroming Arts Festival“, Palazzo ex Enel, Piacenza
- “(More) Google Art on Canvas“, City Art, Milan
2015
- “Google Art on Canvas“, ULTRA c/o eflux, Udine
- “Con desiderio e con timore“, Placentia Arte, Piacenza
2014
- “BAU A3D“, Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato
- “XXIV waves for piano solo – to David Lynch“, Lucca Film Festival, Lucca
- Music for “I Have a Dream” by Tatiana Villani, Vancouver Biennale, Vancouver
- “Contemporary Cities“, HOC/, Internet
2013
- “Airplane Mode“, Live Performers Meeting, Cape Town
- “Dieci volte BAU”, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice
- “this is our house / this is our rules / and we can’t stop“, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
- “It’s so A-typ(o)ical”, Galleria Studio Gennai, Pisa
- “Atypo.org: artist’s books in the post digital era“, transmediale, Berlin
2012
- “Do it improvisation”, Museo del Vetro, Empoli
- “Electro BAU”, Museo Villa Croce, Genova
- “BYOB MILANO“, Museo Pecci, Milan
2011
- “Over 425,000 ways to make noise with your smartphone“, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2008
- “AHA Camping”, S.a.L.E., Venice
2007
- “Allusions or: Histo/Reconstruction“, TAGallery, Internet
- “Fluctuate”, Reg Vardy Gallery, Sunderland
2005
- “Arte contro la Killer-Cola”, C.S.O.A Forte Prenestino, Rome
SELECTED PRESS
2018
- “Google Maps, Google Earth and Google Art. When software limits become strengths in online art practice” by Alessandra Ioalé, DigiMag Journal
2017
- “Radical noise! Dada tactics in a post-truth world” by Filippo Lorenzin, Furtherfield
- “Internet, materializzazione dell’effimero” by Alessandra Ioalé, #Aimagazine
2016
- “The Flaws in Iconic Paintings Get Exposed in ‘Google Art on Canvas’” by DJ Pangburn, The Creators Project
- “Quando l’arte catturata da Google torna su tela” by Federico Martelli, The Creators Project IT
2015
- “Libro d’artista moltiplicato: segno, oggetto, ambiente come forme di comunicazione” by Natalia Molchanova, Accademia di belle arti di Brera, Milan
2014
- “Understanding Software: Why Software Studies Matter” by Arthur Teutler, UvA New Media Studies Course, University of Amsterdam
- “Luca Leggero, Contemporary Cities” by Irene Panzani, Observatoirexpansé
- “ISSUE #2 Interview with Luca Leggero” by Giulia Daolio, HOC/
2013
- “Passaggi e atypici paesaggi“, Ministero dei beni e delle attività culturali e del turismo
- “Bau Una scatola di musica e arte” by Ilaria Sabbatini, COCU – Cultura Commestibile
- “Post-digital books ed editori atipici” by Simone Rebora, Artribune
- “It’ s so a-typ(o)ical” by Ilaria Sabbatini, COCU – Cultura Commestibile
2008
- “How to make a perfect Malevich using only basic HTML code (2006) – LUNK” by John Michael Boling, Rhizome.org
2007
- “Click and old.art“, Fluctuat
- “F L U X L I N E S” by Jo-Anne Green, Turbulence
- “Corti d’autore: dal 16mm all’Html” by Elena Giulia Rossi, L’Unità
- “Fluxlines“, Random
2005
- “Net Art loves Old Art” by Valentina Tanni, Random
2004
- “Sunday Laylines“, Dataisnature
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