Premio Combat Prize

FRANCESCA FINI live media performer, videoartist, documentarist.
Born in Rome in 1970.Trained as a digital artist, she has been working for 15 years as a filmmaker for TV and independent productions. In 2000 she met the American artist, Kristin Jones, and they collaborated on the “Tevereterno” (Eternal Tiber) project, creating multimedia installations for the City of Rome. Among these works was “Trilogy”, for the Natale di Roma (Birth of Rome) celebration at the Capitoline Museum, and “Solstizio d’Estate” (Summer Solstice) with monumental giant images of the She-wolf created by removing part of the smog stains from the embankment walls of the Tiber River. In 2008 she participated, with Kristin Jones, Kiki Smith and others, to the River to River Festival in New York, projecting her animation “Moon Loop” onto the trees along the Hudson River.She presently participates as a video-artist and live media performer to numerous happenings in art galleries, museums and underground sites, and also takes part in festivals and international events such as the Videoholica (Bulgaria); Experimental Art Festival Biennale Baltica (Russia); LowLives (NY); Cologne Off & New Media Art Festival; Currents Santa Fe’; Moves - Movement on Screen (UK); 700is Videoart Festival (Iceland); Genoa Film Festival; Tribeca Underground; Arcipelago Film Festival; Portobello Film festival (UK); WRO New Media Art Biennale (Poland); Directors Lounge (Berlin); and Contravision Film Festival (Berlin).In 2010 she was one of the winners at the Magmart Videoart Festival (Video Under Volcano), with her CRY ME videoperformance. Also, two of her works won the on-line vote in the Celeste Prize section: “Live Media & Performance”. She also exhibited at the “Invisible Dog” gallery in Brooklyn.During the same year she was selected by the Premio Termoli for her digital painting works; by the Art Shake Festival (exhibiting at the Galleria Mondo Bizzarro and Hybrida Contemporanea, in Rome, and immediately after at the 91mQ Art Project Space in Berlin).She was invited by the Fondazione RomaEuropa to present her work at the Teatro Palladium in Rome, as part of the videoart exhibition, “Cantieri Temps d’Images”. She also directed “TEN” Performance Art Festival, a marathon of live art whose first edition took place on October 2010 in Rome.In march 2011 she was at the Nappe dell’Arsenale in Venice as a finalist in the Performance Art section of the Premio Arte Laguna. On April she was in Lisbon as a guest of the Anthropology Faculty of the local University, presenting her performance in an academic setting, as part of the “No Performance’s Land?” exhibition.In May she was guest of the WRO Art Center in Poland, for the WRO 2011, the noted Biennale devoted to New Media.In June she presented, during four days, her new performances at the Macro Contemporary Art Museum in Rome, on invitation by the ADD Festival.She also has been invited by “Omissis Contemporary Performance Festival”, in July 2011.In September she has been at Macro Museum again, with all her videoart pieces, for “Visioni Acustiche” videoart Festival.Between October and November 2011 she has been in Bologna and New York, to perform her more recent pieces as a finalist of the Celeste Prize International.In 2012 she partecipated to “Norme per la Rivoluzione”, curated by art critic Bruno Di Marino at Volksbühne of Berlin and at Cinema Massimo in Turin, in collaboration with Goethe Institut and Museo Nazionale del Cinema.In march 2012 she was among the winners of Magmart Videoart Festival with the video “Blood”.She was recently invited to take part to the “Venice International Performance Art Week”, featuring Yoko Ono and Hermann Nitsch among the others (http://www.veniceperformanceart.org).2012- Venice International Performance Art Week - Venice, Palazzo Bembo 2012 - FAD Festival de arte digital, Belo Horizonte, Brasil2012 - Cyberfest, St. Petersburg, Russia2012 - Simultan Festival, Romania2012 - File - Electronic Language International Festival, Sao Paulo, Brasil2012 - Festival of Migrant Film, Slovenia2012 - Sardinia Film Festival, finalist with videos "Mediterraneo" and "Parnasus", experimental section.2012 - Athens Videoart Festival, Athens, Greece2012 - LPM Live Performers Meeting, Rome, Italy2012 - Magmart Videoart Festival, Naples, Italy - 2012 winner with the video "Blood"2012 - “Cinema Perpetuum Mobile Film Festival”, Minsk.2012 - "Norme per la rivoluzione". Volksbühne” (Berlin) 2012 - "TakeS", Bernardo Museum, Portugal2012 - "Berlin Directors Lounge 2012", Berlin, Germany2012 - “Oslo Screen Festival”, Oslo, Norway2012 - “LOW LIVES:OCCUPY!”, The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, New York 2011 - "Centro de Arte y Nuevas Tecnologías (CANTE), Mexico2011 - “Women’s glance”. PAN (Palazzo delle Arti di Napoli), Naples, Italy2011 - "Pixelpops 2011", Paris, France2011 - "Celeste Prize" - Invisible Dog Art Gallery, New York, Usa2011 - "RobotFestival 2011", Bologna, Italy2011 - "Visioni Acustiche", Macro Testaccio, Rome, Italy2011 - "Alterazioni 2011", Castello Aldobrandesco di Arcidosso, Italy2011 - "NOW & AFTER 2011", Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia2011 - "Proyector", Madrid, Spain2011 - "Miden Film Festival 2011", Miden, Greece2011 - "Omissis 2011 festival dello spettacolo contemporaneo", Gradisca D'Isonzo, Italy2011 - "ADD Festival", Macro Testaccio, Rome, Italy2011 - LPM (Live Performers Meeting), Rome, Italy2011 - "Fonlad digital art festival 2011", Portugal2011 - WRO Biennale "Alternative Now 2011", Wroclaw, Poland2011 - “No Performance’s Land?”, Lisbon, Portugal2011 - "Premio Internazionale Arte Laguna", Venice, Italy2010 - “Sguardi Sonori - Infinite Spaces”, Rome, Italy2010 - “Temps d’Images”, Rome, Italy2010 - "Contravision Film Festival", Berlin, Germany2010 - "Premio Termoli 2010", Museo Civico di Termoli, Italy2010 - “Art Shake Festival”, Mondo Bizzarro Art Gallery e Hybrida Contemporanea, Rome, Italy2010 - "CROSSTALK videoart Festival", Budapest, Hungary2010 - "CURRENTS 2010", Santa Fe', USA2010 - "MAGMART", Naples, Italy2010 - "MOVES10 - Movement on screen". 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