n[ever]land :: digital paths
Year 2005 – fourth edition
Casa del Cinema in Rome - November 25th -27th
Free admittance
From the 25th to the 27th of november 2205 , the fourth edition of n[ever]land :: digital paths will take place in Casa del Cinema in Rome. This event – created and directed by Enzo Aronica and produced by Associazione Trio Alma Mahler with the kind support of IMAIE (the Institute for the Protection of Artists and Performers) – explores the implementation of digital technology in art and communication. This project, characterized by contamination and experimentation, tackles topical Italian and international trends and looks into the future developments (and into the contradictions) of a technology whose potential elaboration is infinite. As usual in the past editions, the admittance is strictly free this year too.
n[ever]land is a very successful event which has turned into a habitual Roman meeting point for experts in this field, journalists, filmmakers, students and fans from all over the world – and it has moved from its original location in the Sala Multimediale (Multimedia Room) of Palazzo delle Esposizioni, to the MACRO Museo d’Arte Contemporanea (Museum of Contemporary Art) in Rome, and it has finally reached its present location in the Casa del Cinema (House of Cinema) in Villa Borghese. Various institutions have showed sensitivity and much interest in this event from the very beginning. As it has happened in all previous edition, the 2007 edition will be sponsored again by Comune di Roma - Assessorato alle Politiche Culturali (Department of Cultural Policies), and by various Ministries, by three Universities of Rome (Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”, Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”, Università degli Studi di Roma “Roma Tre”) and by several Embassies, foreign academies and international cultural institutes.
Having hosted important previews as well as international events, workshops, screenings, projects and exotica from the world of digital art, this year n[ever]land presents a extensive programme, a branched and absolutely unpredictable path, where modern visual arts and the most ancient performing arts criss-cross, as well as traditional publishing and on line communication, arranged in the usual structure with four main theme areas into which the event is divided: DIGITAL SCREENS (the new frontiers of storytelling through images); DIGITAL CLASSROOMS (technologies as an aid to teaching and learning); DIGITAL ARCHIVES (a new way to preserve and enjoy large and small cultural patrimonies); DIGITAL SCENES (new technologies merging with performing arts).
