MATTEO BITTANTI

EVENT: TOTAL REFUSAL (JANUARY 29 - FEBRUARY 11 2021)

FEATHERFALL Digital video (1920 x 1080), color, sound, 10’ 21”, 2019 (Austria) Created by Total Refusal VRAL January 29 - February 11 2021 Introduced by Matteo Bittanti Originally conceived as a video installation, Featherfall is presented on VRAL as a single channel machinima. Adopting the format of the video essay,... Read more →

EVENT: ISABELLE ARVERS (JANUARY 15 - 28 2021)

MER ROSE CLAIRE Digital video (1920 x 1080), color, sound, 17’ 39”, 2020 (France) Created by Isabelle Arvers, 2020 Introduced by Gemma Fantacci Mer Rose Claire is part of Arvers’ ongoing abstract machinima series La Mer (2016-) which depicts shapes and abstract landscapes created by the Moviestorm game engine. Evocative... Read more →

MENTAL NOTE: WEATHER BY JENNY OFFILL (2020)

I don't have a "favorite novel" of 2020, for a variety of reasons, including the fact that: a) I don't read enough fiction to begin with; b) I don't keep track of books I have read throughout the year with the same neurotic meticulousness that I apply to other cultural... Read more →

EVENT: BOB BICKNELL-KNIGHT (DECEMBER 31 2020 - JANUARY 14 2021)

ZO Digital video (1920 x 1080), color, sound, 7’ 21”, 2017 (United Kingdom) Created by Bob Bicknell-Knight, 2017 VRAL December 31 2020 - January 14 2021 Introduced by Matteo Bittanti An artist and an internet bot called Zo converse on the fictional social media app Kik. Their exchange is punctuated... Read more →

CHART: MY FAVORITE PODCASTS OF THE YEAR (NOT RANKED)

"I’ll admit that I have occasionally been gripped by false memories as a result of podcasts — been briefly sure that I’d seen a TV show I’d never watched, or convinced that it was a friend, not a professional producer, who told me some great anecdote. But on the whole,... Read more →