ELISA GIARDINA PAPA
   
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Elisa Giardina Papa is an Italian artist whose work concerns the role of collective image production, and dissemination in contemporary society. She often works with experimental film formats that merge Internet searching with montage. Her work has been exhibited and screened at the 54th Venice Biennial - Internet Pavilion, MoMA (New York), Haus für elektronische Künste (Basel), 319 Scholes (New York), New Gallery (London), and Link Center for the Art (Brescia), among others. She is adjunct professor at Brown University, and at Rhode Island School of Design. Giardina Papa received an MFA from RISD, and a BA from Politecnico of Milan.



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Born in Italy.
Lives and works in Rhode Island, USA and Milan, Italy.


EDUCATION

MFA - RISD (Rhode Island School of Design), Providence, RI, U.S.A. 2013.
BA - Politecnico di Milano, Facoltà del Design, Milano, Italy, 2007.


SELECTED EXHIBITIONS and SCREENINGS

2014

Landshape, Spazio Ultra, Udine, Italy.

2013

MoMA Modern Mondays, Millennium Film Journal, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA.
Back to The Reality, Projeckt722, Brooklyn, NY, USA.
Elisa Giardina Papa: Drawing from Life. Link Center for the Arts, Brescia, Italy.
Brush Stroke, The Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, Providence, RI, USA.
More and More, More Is More, Gelman Gallery, Chace Center, Providence, RI, USA.

2012

Pixilerations [v.9], Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
Trickle Down Electronics, CAVE Gallery, Detroit, MI, USA.
Collect the WWWorld, The Artist as Archivist in the Internet Age, Basel House for Electronic Arts, Basel.
Older then Bambi, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.

2011

BYOB Art Basel Miami, Grand Central, Miami, USA.
Internet Pavilion, 54° Biennale di Venezia, Venice, IT.
Open, New Gallery London, London. GB.
De-zer, web exhibition.

2010

Chinatown Temporary Art Museum, Milan.


TEACHING

2014/2013 - RISD, MFA Digital + Media, Providence, RI, USA; Adjunct Professor, From the Avant Garde to Youtube.
2013 - Brown University, Modern Culture and Media, Providence, RI, USA; Adjunct Professor, Art in Digital Culture.
2013/2012 - RISD, MFA Digital + Media, Providence, RI, USA; Research Group Coordinator, Re-framing the Real.
2009 - ENAIP, Milan, Italy; Adjunct Professor; Intangible Cultural Heritage.
2009/2007 - University Politecnico di Milano; Visiting Lecturer, Sound Design.


LECTURES and WORKSHOPS

2014 - Gender and Technology, Women's & Gender Studies Program, MIT, Cambridge, USA.
2013 - Dialogues on Feminism and Technology, Modern Culture and Media, Brown University, Providence, USA.
2013 - Archiving The Revolution Vol.1, Leaders In Software and Art Lightning Talks, New School, New York, USA.
2013 - Digital Archives and Hypertexts, Graphic Design Department, RISD, Providence, RI, USA.
2013 - Drawing from Life, Museum of Santa Giulia, Brescia, Italy.
2012 - Re-Framing The Real, Teatro Garibaldi Aperto, Palermo, Italy.
2013 - Pubblic Art, University Politecnico of Milan, Sede Distaccata di Piacenza.
2012 - Augmented Reality, Brera Academy of Fine Art, Milan, Italy.
2010 - Narrative Museums, Brera Academy of Fine Art, Milan, Italy.
2010 - Narrative Museums, History of Contemporary Art and Communication, University Politecnico di Milano, Italy. 2010/2009 - Unesco, Ramallah; Workshop.
2008 - Espace d’Art Actua, Attljarlwafa Bank, Casablanca, Morocco; Workshop.


BIBLIOGRAPHY

2013
Toward a New Social Cinema, Erica Levin, in Millenium Film Jornal, No. 58.
2012
Hunting + Gathering in the Digital Wilderness, Leila Christine Nadir, Furtherfield.
Collect the WWWorld: Attempts to Archive the Internet Through Art, Adrianne Jeffries, The Verge.
2011
Endless Archive, Joanne McNeil, in Collect the WWWorld. The Artist as Archivist in the Internet Age, LINK Editions.
Elisa, Giardina Papa, Domenico Quaranta, in Collect the WWWorld. The Artist as Archivist in the Internet Age, LINK Editions.

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