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Biography
Adriano Abbado made his first experiments with photography and ambient sounds in 1972. In 1977 he got the degree of Electronic Music Composition at the Milan Conservatory. In 1981 he began to work with digital images and sounds.
In 1985 he co-authored the book Immagini con il computer, published by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore.
In 1986 his work was shown at the Venice Biennale.
In the same year he received a Fulbright scholarship to study at the MIT Media Laboratory, where in 1988 got a M.S. degree with the thesis MAT - University of California - Santa Barbara.
He lives and works in Milan and Bali.
Life
Born in Milan, March 16th, 1958, @ 05:55 am
Trips to Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Brasil, Cambodia, Canada, Colombia, Ecuador, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Nederlands, Pakistan, Peru, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, Uruguay, USA. Photos.
Education
1988
Received M.S., The Media Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. Thesis on Perceptual correspondences of abstract animation and synthetic sound
1977
Received diploma of Electronic Music Composition, Conservatory “G. Verdi”, Milan
Grants
1987
Grant from the Council for the Arts at MIT for the creation of Dynamics
1986
Grant from the Fulbright Commission for studying at The Media Laboratory
Commission from Commodore Italiana for the creation of isomorfismi suono luce
Awards
1992
First International QuickTime Film Festival, San Francisco
Events
2009
Italian Experimental Cinema, Ancona
Digital Fringe, Melbourne
Seeing Sound, Bath Spa University, UK
Visual Music Marathon, New York
2008
Italian Experimental Cinema V.1 ‘08, Nuovo Cinema Aquila, Rome
HERE COME THE ROLLING BONES, STUDIO MATTEO BOETTI, Rome
2006
V-Art, Cagliari
Sapienza Cinema, Rome
The Jerusalem Music and Dance Academy
2005
BizArt Gallery, Shanghai
Iannis Xenakis Festival, La Triennale, Milan
Festival International Cinéma Méditeranéen Montpellier
Goethe-Institut, Rome
Teatro Maddalene, Padua
NYU Frederick Loewe Theater, New York
Sarah Lawrence College, Boronxville, NY
Segnali Luminosi, Pesaro
Animaction2, Rome
2004
Independent Film Show, Naples
2003
Digitalyart, Inter-American Development Bank, Washington D.C.
Italian Cultural Institute, New York
Bridges, Merkin Concert Hall, New York
CREATE, University of California, Santa Barbara
MiArt, Milan
European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany
2002
Villette Numérique, Paris
Italian Cultural Institute, Strasbourg
Not Still Art, New York
Creativity and Cognition 4, Loughborough University, United Kingdom
Synthetic Worlds (with Momi Fujiki), Mountain Box Gallery, Karuizawa
2001
Visible Sound, University of California, Santa Barbara
Entre Imaginación y Utilidad, Barcelona
Brera Fine Arts Academy, Milan
DAMS, Bologna
2000
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
CREATE, University of California, Santa Barbara
Esplorazioni Digitali, Meeting Rimini 2000
Galeria Zero, Barcelona
1999
Audiovisual Art in the Year 2000, Institut Universitari de l’Audiovisual, Barcelona
Opera Totale 5, Venice
Eurographics’99, Milan
Color is Music, Atelier Mendini, Milan
1998
Der Freischutz, Santa Cecilia, Rome
1994
Milia, Cannes
1993
Design Miroir du XIX Siècle, Grand Palais, Paris
La fabbrica estetica, Italian Technology and Design for quality of life, Seul
1992
Domus Academy, Milan
First International QuickTime Film Festival, San Francisco
1991
Domus Academy, Milan
1990
Il ritmo colorato, Bergamo
1989
Ircam, Paris
Video Biennale, Fukui
Nuove immagini e formazione, Venice
1988
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
MIT Media Laboratory, Cambridge
First International Symposium on Electronic Art, Utrecht
1987
Ericsson’s Galerie/Atelier, Zürich
1986
La Biennale, Venice
Luciano Inga-Pin Contemporary Art Gallery, Milan
Teatro del Collegio San Giuseppe, Turin
1985
Videoart Festival, Locarno
Digital Art, Maastricht
5 x 5 Gallery, Rome
Il Diagramma Gallery, Milan
Computer Style, Florence
Elettrica, Ferrara
Fine Arts Academy, Macerata
1984
Palazzo Reale, Milan
Festival Arte Elettronica, Camerino
1983
L’immagine Elettronica, Bologna
SICOF, Milan
1982
Filmmaker, Milan
Italian Cultural Institute, Bogotà, Rio de Janeiro
Antidogma Musica, Turin
1979
Italian Cultural Institute, Bogotà, Guatemala City, Guayaquil, Lima, Mexico City, Montevideo, Quito, Tegucigalpa
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