MATTEO BITTANTI

EVENT: KADIR KAYSERILIOĞLU (JANUARY 21 - FEBRUARY 3 2022, ONLINE)

WOLFPATH.EXE digital video (1920 x 1080), color, sound, 4’ 04”, 2017, Turkey Created by Kadir Kayserilioğlu January 21 - February 3 2022 Introduced by Matteo Bittanti vral.org Updating a traditional origin myth through video game aesthetics, Wolfpath.exe is a meta-commentary on contemporary Turkey from the perspective of a young artist... Read more →

EVENT: HILLEVI CECILIA HÖGSTRÖM (JANUARY 7 - 20 2022, ONLINE)

A HAND IN THE GAME digital video, color, sound, 35’ 08”, 2017, Sweden Created by Hillevi Cecilia Högström January 7 - 20 2022 vral.org introduced by Matteo Bittanti A hand in the game is a video essay documenting the artist’s experience with SimPark (1996), a simulation published by Californian game... Read more →

CHART: 2021_MY FAVORITE CINEMATIC EXPERIENCES

TL;DR: One masterpiece, Michel Franco's New Order, a few very good movies (2-6), the rest was more or less average. Disclaimer: for the very first time since I started these lists, I have not watched a single entry in a movie theatre. My 2021 cinema viewing is, therefore, non existent.... Read more →

CHART: 2021_MY FAVORITE TV STUFF OF THE YEAR

...Death, more death, even more death, some poverty porn, a dash of entitlement porn, a bit of pandemic porn, bleakness galore, and some hedge fund horror. As I reach senility, I find it increasingly hard to invest time and energy for tv. It's too much work. It's just not worth... Read more →

EVENT: A CONVERSATION ABOUT "POLLUTED INFORMATION" WITH WHITNEY PHILLIPS AND RYAN M. MILNER (DECEMBER 21 2021, ONLINE)

Whitney Phillips and Ryan M. Miner You Are Here A Field Guide for Navigating Polarized Speech, Conspiracy Theories, and Our Polluted Media Landscape (MIT Press, 2021) How to understand a media environment in crisis, and how to make things better by approaching information ecologically. Our media environment is in crisis.... Read more →