iMAM – Media Art MuseumPinciano
HyperMedia
MAM's opening show traces digital culture from 1990s Net Art and hacker culture to AI art, VJing and immersive environments.
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In V3RBO's Metamorphosis Insectorum, the letters of the alphabet come apart and reassemble until they become armour, somewhere between a machine and a living thing. V3RBO started out in graffiti, and the piece is one of 33 works by 48 artists in MAM's opening show.
The route runs in three parts. Net Art goes back to the hacker and Flash era, with Joshua Davis, Jaromil and GMUNK beside the Shockart.net archive. If your first website had a Flash intro nobody could skip, this section is its family tree. AI Art follows, including Francesca Fini's animations made from her personal archive. Then you walk into the 300 m² immersive hall, where projection covers walls, ceiling and floor, and at Pixel Orchestra vs FLxER you move the images yourself.
The museum says to allow about two hours. Entry is timed and booked through Fever, €20 full price, daily 11:00 to 19:00, with full access for wheelchair users. Metro A stops at Policlinico or Spagna.
Look for
Metamorphosis Insectorum
Look for V3RBO's letters of the alphabet breaking apart and rebuilding themselves into armour, a graffiti artist's take on where a machine ends and an organism begins.
Pixel Orchestra vs FLxER
Ultravioletto sets two pieces of software talking to each other, and you compose and manipulate the images they produce yourself.
Continuum
Kati Katona's immersive piece about space and time on a cosmic scale surrounds you until time, space and movement gradually dissolve.
Blood & Ink
Francesca Fini's series of AI animations, built out of her own personal archive.
Good for
- Locals Who've Seen It All
- Nerding Out
- Teenagers
About 120 min
Skip if
You want paintings and objects: nearly everything here is projected, coded or interactive.
With kids
Under-18s must come with an adult. The museum runs workshops for children and families in its education area, by reservation.
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Image credits
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- HyperMediaCourtesy of MAM – Media Art Museum
- Titian. Dialogues between the Sacred and the ProfaneCourtesy of Galleria Borghese
- Marina Bindella. CosmografieCourtesy of Museo Carlo Bilotti
- Hank Willis Thomas & Man Ray: Tomorrow I shall contradict myselfPhoto: Giorgio Benni
- Galleria BorgheseAlessio Damato, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Museo Carlo BilottiKrzysztof Golik / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Galleria Continua Romarandreu, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0
- MACRO - Museum of Contemporary Art of RomeAlbarubescens, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0