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VIDEO 2 from Francesca Fini on Vimeo.

Sharing with you my new project of poetry, storytelling and AI on a new dedicated Instagram account @realityscrambled. Please check it out and follow if you like it!

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BINARY BLUES from Francesca Fini on Vimeo.

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Tu Sei Qui ( You Are Here), 2023 from Francesca Fini on Vimeo.

"YOU ARE HERE" is an artistic installation that explores the convergence of technology, art, and architecture. Using the advanced technology of Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF), the installation seeks to capture and reinterpret my daily experience within the architecture studio where I spend my long days, a place where creativity and structure blend into a continuous flow.

The installation is based on the capture of Radiance Fields through neural networks, a process that paradoxically brings real-world scanning closer to the practices of impressionist painting. Just as the impressionists sought to capture light and color rather than the physical form of objects, "YOU ARE HERE" seeks to capture the very light that informs the space of everyday life, transforming it into an artistic experience.

The result is not a simple mesh or geometry, as in the traditional photogrammetry process I have long experimented with, but rather a point cloud of light and color. This cloud of points is then reprocessed and altered by me in 3D, transforming the precise and impeccable digital recording of the volumes of the physical world offered by NeRF technology into a dreamlike journey.

In "YOU ARE HERE," objects and walls dissolve, becoming an intangible, luminous, and evanescent material. It reminds me of the landscape observed from the window of an airplane crossing the clouds, where physical form is replaced by a play of light and color, of emptiness and fullness. A world suspended, quite literally, in void, where we experience that strange and dual sensation of the viewer who scrutinizes, unnoticed, the shipwreck of the physical world, from their protected and private cocoon.

The installation represents my attempt to push the limits of NeRF technology, leveraging its precision to create not an accurate representation of the physical world, but an artistic and subjective reinterpretation of it. A journey through light, an experience that challenges our perceptions of the real world and invites us to see beyond the surface of things.

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DEAD GOSSIP from Francesca Fini on Vimeo.

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A Dream In Stone (2022) from Francesca Fini on Vimeo.

This is the cinematic version assembling the eight premium video works of a digital art collection produced by Rocca Sinibalda Castle and launched on the Sedition Art Platform in September 2022. Inspired by a key SciFi theme, the film and the digital collection tell about the Earth after the vanishing of humanity. The Rocca Sinibalda Castle stands out as an intact and silent survivor to the catastrophic reversals of History. Still there to testify what we were and open a chasm into a maybe future. Italian frescoes become a relic, carefully preserved inside the womb of futuristic, self-sustainable and self-powered devices, which keep functioning unaware of their surrounding void and of the disappearance of their makers. The Castle as an Ark, a densely written stele that merges with the rock and crosses time, transforming it and self-transforming. digitalartcastle.com/theproject

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New Teaching Project from Francesca Fini on Vimeo.

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Sedition Digital Art Platform is delighted to release A Dream in Stone, Francesca Fini's stunning new project that turns the amazing Renaissance frescoes of the Medieval castle, the Rocca Sinibalda Castle near Rome, into a cutting-edge digital art collection. The project consists of 8 video works in 3D animation inspired by a dystopian theme: the Earth after the disappearance of humanity.

DIGITAL EDITION TO NFT Each work is in a very limited edition. Each edition, once traditionally purchased on the platform with paypal or credit card, can then be minted to the blockchain and transferred to the collector's cryptowallet. The collector can then relist the edition as NFT on the Opensea Sedition Art market.

And there is a collector reward! Check it out on: https://www.seditionart.com/francesca-fini/collection/a-dream-in-stone

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A DREAM IN STONE from Francesca Fini on Vimeo.

I am pleased to announce a very special event: the launch of A dream In Stone, a new digital art collection for Sedition Art, a pioneering curated platform for collecting exclusive digital art.

The collection was produced during a long residency at the medieval castle of Rocca Sinibalda (Rieti), and consists of eight short 3D films inspired by the precious frescoes by the Renaissance painter Girolamo Muziano.

The drop will go live on 22 September, while on 21 September those interested will have access to a pre-sale room with a private preview of the collection. Anyone wishing to be included in this whitelist can book by sending an email to: [email protected].

** Press Release **

A DREAM IN STONE Digital Castle Project Collection By Francesca Fini Produced during art residency at Rocca Sinibalda Castle Curated by Cristina Cenci and Enrico Pozzi

OFFICIAL RELEASE 21 SEPTEMBER 2022 Sedition Art Platform digitalartcastle.com/

A THOUSAND YEAR OLD ITALIAN CASTLE. ITS RENAISSANCE FRESCOES. OVID’S METAMORPHOSES. A TOP INTERNATIONAL VIDEO ARTIST. A DIGITAL PHILANTROPIC PROJECT.

An avant-garde yet Renaissance architectural achievement in its own right, the Rocca Sinibalda Castle has always hosted over the centuries highly innovative artists, architects, saints, writers, poets, performers, film makers, utopians, and patrons of the arts.

Some name dropping. The Renaissance and Mannerism painters of its frescoes: Perin del Vaca, Polidoro da Caravaggio, Giovanni da Udine, Girolamo Muziano. More recently: Caresse Crosby, Peggy Guggenheim, Ezra Pound, Salvador Dalì, the Living Theater, Allen Ginzberg and Gregory Corso, Gregory Markopoulos, Lilian Lijn, Tachis, Marcos Cei, Claudio Silvestrin, Martin Amis, Francesco Dimitri.

Spearheading modernity, the Castle has now turned digital. The four editions of its art residency and festival Endecameron have been steering towards digital art.

This is when Francesca Fini gets into it. An internationally known video artist, Francesca has become a protagonist and the curator of both Endecameron and the Castle’s current artistic identity: digital humanism through digital video art.

Francesca is the driving force behind the 2022 project. Focus on Girolamo Muziano’s depiction of some episodes from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, the overall visual theme of this zoomorphic castle. Morphing as the digital path to metamorphosis.

THE DIGITAL ART COLLECTION - A DREAM IN STONE 2022 8 video works inspired by a key SciFi theme, Earth after the vanishing of humanity. The Rocca Sinibalda Castle stands out as an intact and silent survivor to the catastrophic reversals of History. Still there to testify what we were and open a chasm into a maybe future. The frescoes become a relic, carefully preserved inside the womb of futuristic, self-sustainable and self-powered devices, which keep functioning unaware of their surrounding void and of the disappearance of their makers. A collection of premium short high-definition 3D films. Due to be published on the Sedition digital arts platform. The Castle as an Ark, a densely written stele that merges with the rock and crosses time, transforming it and self-transforming.

ART PHILANTROPY AND PATRONAGE The sale proceeds from the collections will concur to the long-awaited restoration of the Girolamo Muziano’s 1553 frescoes. A fraction of the proceeds is due to remunerate the artist for her July 2022 residence at the Castle while creating the collections.

THE CASTLE A powerful standing monolith. The only full-bodied form surviving in a formless time/space blue hole. Only fragments of past forms are left fluctuating in its vacuum. Relics. Chaotic testimonials of a disjointed by-gone reality. Bizarre entities. Splitters. Parts. Disembodies limbs. Formless, but living. Unendingly absorbed in their quest for new forms. Always unsuccessful, and always trying. They haphazardly assemble and disaggregate, producing nameless transitional entities and meaningless signs. Due to quickly fall apart through space and time. Striving to last and somehow live. Pursuing former identities nested in confused and unreliable memories. Morphing new identities in search of would-be definitions in dictionaries to come.

The Castle is there. A reminder that forms can still exist if a new gaze can reinvent or conjure them up. A fertile nostalgia breeding desire, fragile ghosts of reality, amd dreams eager to become maybe true.

The Castle as a repository of wonder, a Metamorphoses agent, an Arch of forms waiting for an Artist’s eye and ear to pull them out of their dystopian dissolution into the boundless liquidity of a pre-birth amniotic deep blue ether.

The Artist brought back to her most primordial function, extracting forms – old and new – from the all-encompassing maternal womb of Chaos and the Moon. Giving birth.

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PARADISE LOST (2022) from Francesca Fini on Vimeo.

Francesca Fini, 2022

An alien creature wanders in a dreamlike and mysterious landscape that seems on the verge of collapsing at the first breath of wind.

This film was born from the artist's desire to tell a recurring dream. In this dream, the unpleasant sensation of falling into the void - which we have all experienced at least once - fades into the feeling of precariousness and uncertainty characterizing our times. From the pandemic to the war in Ukraine, current events seem to mark a kind of countdown to nowhere. This alienating and dreamlike scenario is inhabited by strange and fantastic creatures who seem entrusted with the task of preserving the very essence of our animal nature.

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NEBRIS (2022) from Francesca Fini on Vimeo.

NEBRIS an augmented reality performance by Francesca Fini

For the exhibition: IL VIDEO RENDE FELICI / Videoarte in Italia, Curated by Valentina Valentini. GALLERIA D’ARTE MODERNA, ROMA Tuesday 5th July 2022 7-9 pm

Nebris is an interactive multimedia costume-based augmented reality performance. The costume I wear contains AR TAGs hand-drawn and attached to magnetic buttons, which are gradually hidden and revealed during the interaction with the audience, activating sounds, voices, shapes, and 3D animations: an archive of digital images that spring from the Metaverse and come to life on my body.

Augmented reality adds a level of digital information to the physical reality: a shell invisible to the naked eye, represented by images, videos, animations, and digital sound. This additional level of information can be used through dedicated applications that can be downloaded on personal devices (tablets and smartphones). The physical world becomes a container and placeholder for other, additional, dynamic content, transforming itself into an 'augmented' place.

THE SKIN OF GOD In figurative art and classical Greek poetry, Nebris (goat skin) is one of the attributes of Dionysus and his followers: Satyrs, Sileni, and Maenads. The attribute of the Nebride is proof of the primitive character of the Dionysian cult, a reminder of a remote civilization when the skins of killed animals were the only garments of man. In a more advanced stage of civilization, the skin of the animal does not cease to dress the simulacrum of the god, the legacy of an ancient cult. My Nebris is a new generative and augmented skin, which transforms the artist into a living avatar.

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RE-FLUO from Francesca Fini on Vimeo.

Video artwork for project RE-FLUO, a photogrammetry installation for Share Festival 2022.

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RE-FLUO from Francesca Fini on Vimeo.

Video artwork for project RE-FLUO, a photogrammetry installation for Share Festival 2022.

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FRANCESCA FINI - PERFORMANCE ART SHOWREEL from Francesca Fini on Vimeo.

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Dopo tanta nebbia (2021) from Francesca Fini on Vimeo.

In the great show of the new health emergency, the acrylic shield has become a new fourth wall, but it is also a screen where our daily dreams and fears are projected. Acrylic screen, light, shadow, red and black paint, and the words of Ungaretti, are the materials of the new performance by Francesca Fini, an absolute preview for Ibrida Festival 2021.

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Parnasus (2010) from Francesca Fini on Vimeo.

PARNASUS written, directed and animated by Francesca Fini starring Pierre Brival, Illy Bandeira second camera Federico Trimarchi organization Gloria Saya music: "I'M Rune'd" by Welcome Wizard and "Focus" by Derek Piotr (Jhom Repetes remix) actors bodypaint Francesca Tariciotti logistic Andrea Brunitto filmed at CINEARS, Cinecittà

Parnasus is a video that tells a dream. And like all dreams, it comes from a small image nested in the mind. The image is a marble statue white as snow. I've never been driven by the fantasy of Winckelmann that still subdues our imagination. All that white marble disorients me. I feel lost, I need color spots as if they were signs on a map. A misunderstanding, that of Winckelmann, that becomes the metaphor for an even deeper and more dangerous mistake: the illusion that the past, crystallized into a kind of noble and abstract projection, is always better than us, it is always perfect. So in my dream, I return to the statues the color denied. The color is erased by the passage of time as you cancel the losers of history and forget the evils of the world. I return the blood to the ancient statues, and the ferocity and the violence that always pervade human history, in an infinite loop of death and delusion. Absolute and unbearable violence that with their unreal perfection those white icons had perhaps to exorcise. A dream that serves to abstract from the dream, to return to talk about the real world. The video was shot in Cine Ars, the famous laboratory in Cinecittà Film Studios managed by a family that from generations creates props and scenographies for movies. But the growing use of CGI in movies is putting their work in danger, narrowing their field of action and transforming their work into modern archeology. An image of a Time that is already the Past. So I thought to treat the fake statues as 3d graphics, cutting them out from the video frame, rigging them with a 3d skeleton, and animating them. The hand-made Analogic fake but real becomes even more fake while recycling itself to survive the Digital Age.

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SCONFINAMENTO (trespassing) | full performance (2020) from Francesca Fini on Vimeo.

During the COVID-19 LockDown, the Italian squares, always so full of life and rowdy, were suddenly silent and deserted, while life was hidden invisibly inside the houses, inside the silent buildings that harmoniously surround them. Daily life, once feverish, has become a fleeting and ephemeral circumstance: the squares were controlled by police vans, enlivened by the flight of a seagull, by a flag in the wind, by a runner's bicycle, by a couple wearing masks while walking the dog.

And so the loners adventuring in the confined city were narrative elements of a dystopian and cinematic story, which I started spying on avidly, through the dense system of tourist and surveillance webcams, accessible via the web, which I have discovered oversee almost every city in Italy. While I was locked in my studio, it gave me relief to look 'outside', to spy those beautiful airy and sunny squares - the places where I would have had an aperitif and a nice dinner, under normal conditions, through this virtual window on my computer screen. I also came to project these images, on the wall of my room, as in a new panopticon urged by the discomfort of the quarantine. At that point, being an artist working with live media and interaction design, I decided to take the next step.

Through motion tracking technology, I grabbed the webcam feed and passed it to a software, specially compiled for this project, which records and visually tracks the movement of people, vehicles, and animals, processing all the data flow and turning it into a concert for synth: movements generate sounds, modulations, graphic visualizations, digital effects. Finally, I returned everything back to the network, through a series of live streaming on Facebook, in a creative ring of real-time manipulations and interpretations.

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Shows SHIFT Biennale, Uk - 2020 Lockdown Diaries online festival - 2020 Quarantine Exhibition @ Space52, Athens - 2020 'Chaos and Cosmos' @ CYLAND (winner), Russia - 2020 La Pan Caput, Chile - 2020 Zealous Stories: Digital Art 2020 (winner first prize) - 2020 Proyector Festival @ Medialab- Prado, Madrid - 2020 WRO Media Art Biennale 'Reverso', Poland - 2021 ADD + ART Conference, Barcelona - 2021 Credits Concept, art direction, animation, editing - Francesca Fini Website of the project sconfinamento.tumblr.com/

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A very interesting review about my video PLANET PINK / PANOPTICON 1 by artist Jasmina Tesanovic! https://bit.ly/3n93yCj