UPCOMING
March 19 - 26 2023: MILAN MACHINIMA FESTIVAL, Milan and online
ONGOING
December 2 - 18 2022: VRAL #58: Kamilia Kard
December 2 2022: Giocare alla politica in Brasile [LECTURE]
November 18 - December 1 2022: VRAL #57: Steven Cottingham [ART]
November 18 2022: A lezione di Pokémon Go, Università IULM, online lecture [LECTURE]
October 28 - November 10 2022: VRAL #56: Alix Desaubliaux [ART]
November 4 2022, Nuove immagini: intersezioni tra fotografia e videogame, Gallerie d’Italia, Torino, Sala Turinetti, 11.30 [LECTURE]
October 14 - 27 2022: VRAL #55: Christian Wright [ART]
October 20-21 2022: gameZ & ruleZ #8, Zurich, Switzerland [LECTURE]
September 30 - October 13: VRAL #54: Martina Menegon [ART]
September 16 - 29 2022: VRAL #53: Babak Ahteshamipour [ART]
September 27 2022: Interview on Swiss Radio (video gaming in the 1980s), in Italian [MEDIA COVERAGE]
June 23 - September 25 2022: How to Win at Photography, The Photographers' Gallery, London, England [ART]
September 2 - 15 2022: VRAL #52: Gina Hara [ART]
August 19 2022 - September 1 2022: VRAL #51: Zuza Banasińska [ART]
August 5 - August 18 2022: VRAL #50: Iain Douglas and Mark Coverdale [ART]
August 9 2022: Creative Review on How to Win at Photography [MEDIA COVERAGE]
July 22 2022 - August 4 2022: VRAL #49: Federica di Pietrantonio [ART]
July 8 - July 21 2022: VRAL #48: Letta Shtohryn [ART]
July 13 2022: MILAN IS POOR [ART]
June 24- July 7 2022: VRAL #47: Sebastian Schmieg [ART]
June 10 - June 23 2022: VRAL #46: Jason Rouse [ART]
June 2 2022: VRAL S02 is now available [ART]
May 27 - June 09 2022: VRAL #45: Elisa Sanchez [ART]
May 13 -May 26 2022: VRAL #44: Felix Klee [ART]
May 6 2022: Matteo Bittanti, Machinima. How a vernacular practice became a new artistic avantgarde, online [LECTURE]
April 22 - May 5: VRAL #43: Sjors Rigters [ART]
April 8 - April 21: VRAL #42: Jonne Hansson [ART]
April 1 2022: Game of the year, Università IULM, Milan, Italy [SCREENING]
March 21 - 27 2022: MILAN MACHINIMA FESTIVAL, Milan and online [ART]
March 26 2022: MMF MMXXII: Everything Must Change, MIC, Milan, Italy [ART]
March 4 - March 17 2022: VRAL #41: Sebastian Blank [ART]
March 11 2022: Camera Austria interview [MEDIA COVERAGE]
March 9 2022: COLL.EO's Silicon Valley [ART]
February 18 - March 3 2022: VRAL #40: Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga [ART]
February 4 - 17 2022: VRAL #39: Matthieu Cherubini [ART]
January 21 - February 3 2022: VRAL #38: Kadir Kayserilioğlu [ART]
January 7 - 20 2022: VRAL #37: Hillevi Cecilia Högström [ART]
December 1 - 23 2021: VRAL #36: Grayson Earle [ART]
November 26 - December 9 2021: VRAL #35: Chloé Desmoineaux [ART]
December 6 2021: Giocare a camminare is now available from Concrete Press [BOOK]
November 30 2021: A conversation about "crisis" with Martin Gurri, Social Change in the Digital Age (online)
November 12 - November 25 2021: VRAL #34: Benjamin Hall [ART]
November 14 2021: Jazz is a (video) game, Teatro Caio Melisso, Spoleto [ART]
October 29 2021 - November 11: VRAL #33: Benoit Paillé [ART]
November 7, Jazz is a (video) game, M9 – Museo del Novecento di Mestre [ART]
November 2 2021: A conversation about the "Apocalypse" with Srećko Horvat, Social Change in the Digital Age (online)
July 20 - October 31 2021: Homo Ludens, CaixaForum Madrid, Madrid, Spain [ART]
October 15 - 28 2021: VRAL #32: Jamie Janković and Deborah Findlater, online. [ART]
October 1 - 14 2021: VRAL #31: Amir Yatziv, online. [ART]
October 10 2021: A conversation about "failure" with Neta Alexander, Social Change in the Digital Age (online)
June 5 - October 10 2021: How to Win at Photography, Fotomuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland [ART]
October 9, 2021: Who Did It Better in In-Game Photography World Championship, 4 pm, Fotomuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland [ART]
September 17 - September 30 2021: VRAL #30: Kara Güt, online. [ART]
September 30 2021: "How To Win at Photography: Game Travel", online. [ART]
September 23 2021: "How To Win at Photography: Camera Play", online. [ART]
September 22 2021: Screen Walk: Total Refusal, online. [ART]
September 16 2021: "How To Win at Photography: Replay", online. [ART]
September 03 2921 - September 16 2021: VRAL #29: The Cool Couple [ART]
September 13 2021: "Influencers" and "Content Creators" in the age of playbor, Ph.D program in Visual and Media Studies, IULM University, Milan
September 09 2021: "How To Win at Photography: Role-Play", online. [ART]
September 02 2021: "How To Win at Photography: Gameplay", online. [ART]
August 16 2021: "Netflix and video games", Diderot, Swiss Radio (interview, in Italian) [MEDIA COVERAGE]
August 15 2021: A NEW AMERICAN DREAM update [ART]
August 12 2021: REMEMBER REMEMBER THE FIFTH OF NOVEMBER [ART]
August 11 2021: NERO [ART]
August 6 2021: VRAL Season One [BOOK]
July 23 - August 5 2021: VRAL #28: Theo Triantaphyllis [ART]
July 9 - July 22 2021: VRAL #27: Kent Sheely [ART]
July 15 2021: Neil Postman's Divertirsi da morire is now available [BOOK]
July 10 2021: METROPOLITAN, 14th MFFA ANIMATOR Festival, Poznań, Poland [ART]
January 11 2021 - July 9 2021: M.A. in Game Design, 4th Edition, IULM, Milan, Italy
June 25 2021 - July 8 2021: VRAL #26: UBERMORGEN [ART]
July 8 2021: The gamification of photography, Ph.D program in Visual and Media Studies, IULM University, Milan [TALK]
June 11 - June 24 2021: VRAL #25: Li Zhu [ART]
June 14 2021: Supermova episode #3 [MEDIA COVERAGE]
June 5 2021: How to Win at Photography: Exhibition Tour, Fotomuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland [ART]
May 28 - June 10 2021: VRAL #24: Gweni Llwyd and Owen Davies [ART]
May 27 2021: GAME TALK: Nick Crockett [ART]
May 14 - 27 2021: VRAL #23: Cassie McQuater [ART]
May 21 2021: Machinima tra arte e vernacolare, a cura della Prof.ssa Simonetta Fadda nell'ambito del corso di Fenomenologia dei media, Accademia G. Carrara di Bergamo [TALK]
May 20 2021: The Art of the Interface, GAIA 2021 [TALK]
April 30 - May 13 2021: VRAL #22: Florian Hofnar Krepčik [ART]
May 6 2021: GAME TALK: Mario Von Rickenbach [GAME DESIGN]
April 16 - April 29 2021: VRAL #21: Mateus Domingos [ART]
April 29 2021: GAME TALK: Stefano Gualeni [GAME DESIGN]
April 16- April 28 2012: GAME TALK: Alan Kwan [GAME DESIGN]
April 2 - April 15 2021: VRAL #20: Carson Lynn y [ART]
April 15 2021: GAME TALK: Verena Kyratzesy [GAME DESIGN]
April 8 2021: GAME TALK: Anthony Jauneaud [GAME DESIGN]
March 25 2021: GAME TALK: Florent Maurin [GAME DESIGN]
March 15 - 21 2021: MILAN MACHINIMA FESTIVAL, Milan, Italy [ART]
February 13 - February 25 2021: VRAL #19: COLL.EO [ART]
January 29 - February 12 2021: VRAL #18: Total Refusal [ART]
January 15 - January 28 2021: VRAL #17: Isabelle Arvers [ART]
December 31 2020 - January 14 2021: VRAL #16: Bob Bicknell-Knight [ART]
EVENT ARCHIVE
Below: a selection of past appearances, talks, lectures, and presentations:
SELECTED TALKS, LECTURES, AND PRESENTATIONS
SELECTED TALKS LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS
SELECTED SHOWS (AS AN ARTIST)
2021
Homo Ludens, CaixaForum Madrid, Madrid, Spain: July 20 - October 31 2021
2020
Now Play This: A Festival of Experimental Game Design, London, United Kingdom, April 3-5, 2020.
2019
SUPERNOVA, Denver, Colorado, September 19-21 2019.
FUNCTION, Mallorca, Spain, May 24-25 2019.
Milan Machinima Festival 2019, Milan, Italy, March 18 2019.
In a Gamescape. Landscape, Reality, Storytelling and Identity in Video Games, NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC] Gallery A, With Colleen Flaherty. Tokyo, Japan, December 15 2018 - March 10 2019.
2018
In a Gamescape Landscape, Reality, Storytelling and Identity in Video Games, Tokyo, Japan, December 2018 - March 2019
NextNewGames, Institute of Contemporary Art, San José, California, June 2018.
Sheffield Film/Doc Festival, Sheffield, UK, June 2018.
2017
RE/PLAY. Reenactment Practices in Video Games, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, November 14, 2017.
Simulacrum, De Altonale Art Festival, Greskewitz-Kleinitz, Hamburg, Germany. With Colleen Flaherty. June 17 - July 4 2017.
Simulacrum, Noorderlicht Photogallery, Groeningen, The Netherlands. With Colleen Flaherty. April 8, - June 25, 2017.
ART GAMES DEMOS. With Colleen Flaherty. Marseille, France. March 1 - 31, 2017.
Co-Existence Exhibition, Eastern Kentucky University, Kentucky, USA. With Colleen Flaherty. March 22 - 25, 2017
2016
TRAVELOGUE, Mantua, Italy, with Colleen Flaherty. September 7-11, 2016.
VECTOR 2016, Toronto, Canada, with Colleen Flaherty. July 14- 16, 2016.
Cool War. Game Art Across The Straits, Wifredo Lam Centro De Arte Contemporaneo, Havana, Cuba, with Colleen Flaherty, June 3 - 27, 2016.
How to Build a Universe Which Does Not Fall Apart Two Days Later. With Colleen Flaherty, La Maison Populaire, Paris, France. January 12 - March 26, 2016.
2015
International Festival of New Media Art and Video Transitio_MX, with Colleen Flaherty, Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico City, Mexico, September 25 - October 11, 2015.
Mirage, Casa De Cultura De Guanabacoa, Cuba, Collateral exhibition to the 12th Havana Biennial, Cuba, Havana, May 26 – June 22, 2015.
The Dissidents, the Displaced and the Outliers I, Random Parts Gallery, Oakland, California, May 2 - June 5, 2015.
The Dissidents, the Displaced and the Outliers (II, Incline Gallery, San Francisco, California, May 16 - June 19, 2015.
2014
October 10 - November 11, 2014: Private! Come in!, Spare Change Artist Space, San Francisco
August 28 - September 25 2014: 'If Elvis was the King, who was James Brown? Antagonizing The Social Through Humor and Irony', Cesar Chavez Gallery, SFSU
June 09 - July 10, 2014. SAMO© IS DEAD. PRESS PLAY, Widget Art Gallery, online show curated by Chiara Passa
2013
Games Reflexions, Carreau, Paris, France. October 18 - November 12, 2013
Working Title, CCA Faculty Exhibition 2013, San Francisco, California. September 4 - 26, 2013.
The Games of Art, The Block, QUT Creative Industries Precinct, Brisbane, Australia. July 23 - August 3, 2013.
Vector. Game + Art Convergence. Toronto, Canada. February 21-24, 2013.
2012
GAME, Science Gallery, Dublin, Ireland. October 26, 2012 - January 18, 2013.
Point of No Return, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, California. December 7 - 20, 2012.
PLAYING THE GAME, Milan, Italy. October 26-27, 2012.
2011
ATOPIC Machinima Film Festival, Paris, curated by Margherita Balzerani.
DRODESERA 2011 Video Art Festival, Centrale Fies, Trento, Italy. July 22 - 30, 2011
Game Arthritis, Matteo Bittanti & IOCOSE, Fabio Paris Art Gallery, Brescia, Milano. September 24 - November 11, 2011.
Speed Limits, Wolfsonian-Florida International University, Miami Beach, Florida. Curated by Jeffrey T. Schnapp. September 17, 2010 - February 20, 2011
2010
HERE IN MY CAR - Beyond Autopia and Autogeddon, ArtCyte, Art Gallery of Windsor, Canada. January 15 - February 6, 2010.
2009
IO NON SONO MARINETTI (I am not Marinetti), with Lynn Hershman Leeson, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California. January 15-18, 2009.
Speed Limits. Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), Montreal, Canada. May 19 - October 12, 2009.
SELECTED EVENTS (AS A CURATOR)
2022
How to Win at Photography with Marco De Mutiis, Photography's Gallery, London
VRAL, April 2020-
2021
MILAN MACHINIMA FESTIVAL, IULM, Milan, March 15 - 21 2021 (online)
How to Win at Photography with Marco De Mutiis, Fotomuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland, June 5 - October 10 2021
VRAL, April 2020-
2020
MILAN MACHINIMA FESTIVAL, IULM, Milan, May 25 - May 30 2020 (online)
VRAL, April 2020-
GAME TALKS, IULM, Milan, various dates (2 events)
2019
MILAN MACHINIMA FESTIVAL, IULM, Milan, March 15 2019.
GAME TALKS, IULM, Milan, various dates (9 events)
2018
MILAN MACHINIMA FESTIVAL, IULM, Milan, March 16, 2018.
GAME TALKS, IULM, Milan, various dates (6 events)
2017
RE/PLAY. Reenactment Practices in Video Games, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, November 14, 2017.
HYPE, Marco Mendeni solo show, AmyD, Milan, Italy, May 29 - June 17, 2017.
2016
TRAVELOGUE, Mantua, Italy, September 7 - 11, 2016.
ARTCADE. THE PLAYFUL CITY with Italo Rota, Milan, Italy, June 27 - July 3, 2016.
NEW DIRECTIONS, IULM University, Milan, May 25, 2016.
GAME/VIDEO ART. A Survey, with Vincenzo Trione, IULM University, Milan, April 4 - July 31, 2016.
2015
Critique of Technological Reason. With Gianni Canova, Triennale Museum, Milan, Italy, January 23-24 2015.
2014
GAMES PEOPLE PLAY: Marco Mendeni & Marc Vincent Kalinka, THECA Gallery, Off Fair Brussels, Belgium. April 24 - 28, 2014.
2013
DECEPTIVE PERCEPTIONS - DI/VISIONI PERSISTENTI, Marco Mendeni solo show @ Galleria Civica Campione d’Italia (Ita | Canton Ticino), Camera di Commercio dell’Uruguay (Saronno, Mi), .Box - Spazio internazionale per la video arte (Milano) in collaboration with Andrea Carlo Alpini, Alessandra Arno e Stefano Roberto Mazzatorta. September 24 - December 15, 2013.
2012
Teh Italians Do It Better, Exhibition at the 52nd Edition of the Venice Biennial of Art, with Domenico Quaranta. Venice, Italy.
2008- 2010
The Tech Silicon Valley Innovation Gallery, Curator, Tech Museum, San José, California.
2008
Avatar, Società e Cultura nei Nuovi Mondi Virtuali, Scientific Board, Museo Tridentino di Scienza Naturali. Trento, Italy.
Metaverse U Conference, Organizing committee, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California.
2006
GameScapes. Video Game Landscapes and Simulated Cities, with Rosanna Pavoni & Domenico Quaranta. Monza, Italy.
The Technoludic Art of Mauro Ceolin, exhibition, with Pierluigi Casolari, IULM University, Milan, Italy.
SELECTED INTERVIEWS
latest: August 9 2022: Creative Review on How to Win at Photography [MEDIA COVERAGE]