Italia Media Art Festival 2024: "Artificial Intelligence: a tool for peace" - Italia Media Art Festival 2024: "Intelligenza Artificiale: uno strumento per la pace"

L'evento vedrà la partecipazione di Marinellys Tremamunno, fondatrice e direttrice dell’IMAF, insieme agli artisti internazionali Silvia De Gennaro (Italia), Mariia Plekhova (Russia), Victoria Thomen (Repubblica Dominicana) e Maria Korporal (Germania).

Marinellys Tremamunno, founder and director of IMAF. Marinellys is a professional journalist (ODG Lazio No. 0516) and an Italo-Venezuelan videomaker, with a degree in Social Communication from the Central University of Venezuela (2002) and a journalist title recognized in Spain. She also holds a Master's in New Journalism from the International University of Valencia (Spain, 2011) and has completed several specialized communication courses at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome. She has over 20 years of experience in the news sector and as a communication consultant. She currently collaborates with Uno TV in Mexico, Diario Las Américas, Cubanet, Canela News, and TVV Network in the United States. In Italy, she writes for “Alleanza Cattolica”, “Il Mondo”, and “Messaggero di Sant’Antonio”. Additionally, she is a communication consultant for various institutions, including the Embassy of the Republic of Taiwan to the Holy See and Rome Art Week, and serves as the representative in Italy for the hyperrealist artist Christian Escobar (Guatemala). More information can be found on her website: www.tremamunno.com.

Silvia De Gennaro (Italy). She lives and works in Rome. For over twenty years, she has been involved in digital art, video art, and animation. Her work has garnered recognition in both the visual arts and the experimental short film sectors. In 2017, with her animated short film “Home,” she was a finalist for the Nastri D'Argento awards for short films. Her videos have been exhibited in group shows at various contemporary art museums, such as MAXXI, the Macro Museum in Rome, the Pan Museum in Naples, the CCCB in Barcelona, and the Technopolis in Athens, as well as in major international video art festivals, including Video Formes (France), Current New Media (USA), F.I.L.E. (Brazil), Madatac (Spain), Invideo (Italy), Magmart (Italy), Asolo Art Film Festival (Italy), and the International Image Festival (Colombia).

Mariia Plekhova (Russia). She is an artist who has developed her own abstract style based on two fundamental concepts: color and movement. Impulsiveness, speed, and calm are transformed into luminous reflections and take shape. Mariia believes that the union of technology and art has a great future. She explores the possibilities of virtual reality and creates hybrid paintings at the intersection of two realities. Mariia studied sculpture and painting at an Art School in Sicily. She is currently continuing her creative development in Rome, where she is a student at LUMSA University and studies contemporary art online at the University of Oxford. She also organizes creative workshops for children and adults. Her motto is "Creativity in the present, success in the future!" More than 500 people of various nationalities have participated in her workshops.

Victoria Thomen (Dominican Republic). She is a visual artist, photographer, architect, and cultural manager with Dominican-Italian nationality. In the late 1990s, while studying at the University of New Mexico, Victoria discovered her passion for photography by helping friends develop film. She deepened her photography skills while earning a degree in architecture from the Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña (UNPHU) in Santo Domingo, where she also obtained a postgraduate degree in Project Management in 2004. In 2005-2006, while residing in Barcelona, Victoria continued her education by earning a master’s degree in Interior Design, a postgraduate degree in Urban Planning, and completing a specialization course in silversmithing. This training allowed her to develop a new facet as a jewelry designer. She is currently exploring conceptual art, installations, videos, collages, and other forms of visual art. She divides her time between Madrid, Spain; Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; and Rome, Italy, where she lives and works.

Maria Korporal (Germany). She studied graphic design and painting at the Academy of Fine Arts St. Joost in Breda. During her studies, she started working with photography and film and graduated with a video installation. After her studies in 1986, she moved to Italy, where she lived until 2013, in Sant'Oreste (Rome). She later relocated to Berlin, where she now lives and works. Maria Korporal’s artistic production includes video art, interactive projects, and installations. Her multimedia work is designed using a wide range of techniques. Most of her projects address social and environmental issues. She is an active member of the Verein Berliner Künstler (Association of Berlin Artists) and the artist group Global 3000 - Art and Other Sustainability in Berlin. Her videos are distributed in Italy by VisualContainer, Milan. Her works have been exhibited and awarded at numerous exhibitions and festivals worldwide.