LAMPO

Simone Zaccagnini
(Pescara, Italy, 1982).

Lives and works in Berlin.

“I chose the discipline of drawing as the only possible form of prayer and strenght. When I play music – with Canti In Asociale and Overknights – my name is Low’N’Zac.”

“I don’t like talking about my work, it’s as if I was spoiling the sense of it, or changing its nature and dynamics. Parcelling it up politely but uselessly.
I know for sure that I do everything whit my drawing. It’s my vitamin, my detective’s office, it enables me to give dignity, “enter into contact” with what I encounter. It’s the map of my life – as inexact as it is accurate.Drawing is a private/cosmic/comic/ethical/epic/erotic/poetic/ pathetic/ prophetic/ public affair.The voice that makes me a spokesman.
Drawing is building an image without having to explain it, or put sub-titles to it, it saves you from slipping into the total, mortal boredom of the principles of knowledge; it keeps you out of the bigoted logic of information, taboos, the arrogance of social system. It’s being suspended in the room before you enter it. Before you’re born.
I think that art is a white magic, it is irreversible and lives outside the framework
of language, beyond rhetorical mental associations.
A “jamais-vu”. An amnesia.

It continually register events and experiences
It codifies received information
It retrieves archived information
It is seeing what we know about things without the filters.
Really.”

www.simonezaccagnini.com

Born in 1979. Davor Sanvincenti is a multimedia artist from Croatia, also known by monikers such as Messmatik and Gurtjo Ningmor.

He is specifically interested in the field of audiovisual research and anthropology of visual culture, particularly focused on the conditions and forms of human senses and perceptions. His artistic practice takes shape in a variety of media – film and video, photography, physical light and sound installations and live media performances. His work plays with the concept of illusion, exploring the possible boundaries of perception and the construction of experience.

Davor Sanvincenti’s work has been exhibited and presented internationally, including festivals Rencontres Internationales (Paris, Berlin, Madrid), LOOP (Barcelona), 25FPS (Zagreb), World Film Festival (Bangkok), VideoEX (Zurich), CineMed (Montpellier) and venues including Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), Lincoln Center (New York), MoCA Zagreb, Joanneum Museum (Graz), NIU (Barcelona), HB Galerie (Rotterdam), La Triennale (Milano), MoCA Vojvodina (Novi Sad), Filmoteca EspaÒola (Madrid), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin). He is the 2010 recipient of the Radoslav Putar Award for the best Croatian artist under 35. His physical video installation 1001 takes part in the AV collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb.

http://www.messmatik.net/

Born in 1969 in Zagreb. Graduated from The School of Audio Engineering in Amsterdam in 1994. His field of interest includes fine arts (light installations and kinetic objects), music and sound for theatre, film and television, set design (theatre, film and television) and performance art. In last few years he started working with computers – mostly in the field of multimedia programming, interactive video and problems of interfacing computers with the real world. Exhibited and performed in Holland, Germany, Denmark, Italy, Poland, Macedonia and Croatia. Teaches multimedia and installations at the Multimedia department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb.

http://boo.mi2.hr/~klif/

10 – 10 – 1966 – born in Croatia
1988 – 1990 Architecture – University of Zagreb, Zagreb
1990 – 1992  Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten – Art Media dept., Amsterdam

Darko Fritz is artist, independent curator and researcher and graphic designer. He was born in 1966, in Croatia, and currently he lives and works in Amsterdam, Zagreb and Kor?ula. His work fills the gap between contemporary art practices and media art culture.

His artworks make use of various materials and mediums: architectonic, organic [horticulture], public transport, electronic, traditional art mediums, communication [TV, radio, newspapers, internet, fax] … In his artworks he often using electronic / communication / digital techniques:  photocopys and slide projections since 1984, film loops since 1987,  video since 1988, digital photography since 1990;  fax since 1991, Internet as artistic medium since 1994. In many projects or single works various disciplines get overloped, as in Cathedral project – an interactive computer- generated environment from 1988. His work is often organized in long-term projects [each made of several parts or phases], but he produces independent art objects as well. He published and edit several printed and electronic publications and portfolio of prints. He wrote a first overview of media art in Croatia (since 1960s) as editor for culturenet.hr web portal (from 2002).

Fritz was a founding member of the artist collectives Cathedral [1988], Imitation of Life Studio [1987 – 1990], Young Croatian Electronic Films [1991], The Future State of Balkania [1999] and the association and gallery gray) (area – space of contemporary and media art in Kor?ula [since 2006].

He has curated numerous exhibitions and edited related printed and electronic publications, including I am Still Alive (early computer-generated art and recent low-tech and internet art), Zagreb, 2000; CLUB.NL – contemporary art and art networks from the Netherlands, Dubrovnik, 2000; Bit International – Computers and Visual Research, [New] Tendencies, Zagreb 1961—1973, Neue Galerie, Graz, 2007 and ZKM, Karlsruhe, 2008; Reconstruction: private=public=private=public=, Belgrade, 2009 and Angles and Intersections (co-curated with Christiane Paul, Nina Czegledy, Ellena Rosi and Peter Dobrila), Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, 2009.

Member of Arti et Amicitiae, AICA – International Association of Art Critics, HDLU – Croatian Association of Artists, HZSU – Croatian Freelance Artists’ Association, ULUPUH, VvK [Voorzieningfonds voor Kunstenaars. 

www.darkofritz.net