Emilio Vavarella
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Emilio Vavarella (Monfalcone, 1989) – currently pursuing a PhD in Film and Visual Studies and Critical Media Practice at Harvard University – has exhibited his work at many of the most prestigious media art festivals, among which: EMAF – European Media Art Festival; JMAF – Japan Media Arts Festival; Stuttgarter Filmwinter – Festival for Expanded Media; BVAM – Media Art Biennale; and NYEAF New York Electronic Arts Festival. His works have also been exhibited at MAXXI – Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo_ Roma, MAMbo, Museo de Arte de Caldas; Villa Manin; Museo Nacional Bellas Artes in Santiago; National Art Center of Tokyo; Eyebeam Art and Technology Center; Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Fondazione Studio Marangoni and Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa. In 2015, his installation MEMORYSCAPES was awarded the prestigious First Prize for Emerging Art of the Francesco Fabbri Prize for Contemporary Art in 2015. He won the Italian Council call 2019 launched by MiBAC with a project in collaboration with Ramdom entitled “rs548049170_1_69869_TT (The Other Shapes of Me)”. A documentation of his work “Do You Like Cyber?” will be included in the retrospective exhibition “A Story for the Future. Il primo decennio del MAXXI”, curated by Hou Hanru MAXXI- Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome, Italy, from November 25, 2020 and as Italian artist well know internationally, he will present the visual identity of Giornata del Contemporaneo organizzata da Amaci – Associazione dei Musei d’Arte Contemporanea Italiani from December, 5.