Leonardo Dellanoce

About

Cultural entrepreneur + gamer + art historian + digital strategist

Current:

Co-founder at Memory Gems

Guest studio-advisor to Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam

Previous:

Co-founder and creative producer at Digital Earth

Editor of Vertical Atlas book ( w/ Nieuwe Instituut and Digital Earth )

Director of Trust in the Blockchain Society (interactive documentary w/ Submarine Channel and Archis)

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Contact

leonardo[dot]dellanoce[at]gmail[dot]com

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Initiated

Art in the Age of the Metaverse, in collaboration with Rijksakademie and Hartwig Art Foundation

Memory Gems, together with Arthur Steiner

Digital Earth, a project by Hivos (creative production)

Trust in the Blockchain Society interactive documentary, together with Francesco Degl'Innocenti. In collaboration with Archis and Submarine Channel

Vertical Atlas, together with Benjamin Bratton, Arthur Steiner and Klaas Kuitenbrower. In collaboration with Het Nieuwe Instituut and Digital Earth

Architecture After the Internet, together with Francesco Degl'Innocenti. In collaboration with Archis

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Spoke

at Rijksakademie in Amsterdam about blockchain, NFTs and crypto art (2021)

at Digitalne Umenia in Bratislava about Death Stranding, videogames and climate futures in conversation with Lukas Likavcan (2021)

at ARKO Art Center in Seoul for the Nothing Makes Itself symposium (2021)

at Castello di Rivoli in Turin on Abitare lo Sprawl in conversation with Metahaven (2019)

at the Architectural Association visiting school in Melbourne about Digital Earth and vertical cartographies (2019)

at Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design on Research and Experimentation in the Technological Reality (video) (2018)

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Curated

(03/23) Art in the Age of the Metaverse (conference + exhibition + workshops) at De Balie and Rijksakademie in Amsterdam

(12/19) China.ai (talk) at Het Nieuwe Instituut with Chen Qiufan and Shuang Lu Frost

(11/19) DIGITAL EARTH X JAMEEL ARTS CENTRE (conference + exhibition) in Dubai, UAE. w/ James Bridle, Federico Campagna, Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga, Arianne Conty, Wael Eskandar, Vladan Joler, Jean Katambayi Mukendi, Brendan McGetrick, Nanjala Nyabola, Nishant Shah and Maarten Vanden Eynde,Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Nadia Christidi, Nada Raza and Nishant Shah

(09/19) Futurism.gcc (talk) at Het Nieuwe Instituut with Amal Khalaf and Marc Owe Jones

(09/19) DIGITAL EARTH x CENTRE POMPIDOU (conference) in Paris, France. w/ Maya Indira Ganesh, Yuk Hui, Chakanetsa Mavhunga, Mi You, Francois Knoetze, Emo de Medeiros, Tricky Walsh, Nishant Shah and Tabita Rezaire

(06/19) DIGITAL EARTH X KËR THIOSSANE (conference) in Dakar, Senegal. w/ Tegan Bristow, Dilman Dila, Jonathan Dotse, Oulimata Gueye, Francois Knoetze, Lionel Manga, Laman Mbaye, Bado Ndoye, Rukki Bukki, Maya Varichon, and Tabita Rezaire.

(05/19) DIGITAL X KHOJ WORKSHOP (conference + exhibition) in New Delhi, India. w/ Sajjad Anwar, Heba Y. Amin, Valia Fetisov, Internet Democracy Project, Sepideh Majidi, Padmini Ray Murray, Pallavi Paul, Mohammad Salemy, Nishant Shah, Ishita Sharma & Khyati Saraf, and Ala Younis.

(04/19) DIGITAL EARTH X ASHKAL ALWAN (conference) in Beirut, Lebanon. w/ Haig Aivazian, Hisham Awad, Diann Bauer, Heather Davis, Cheng Guo, Geocinema, Monika Halkort, Helene Kazan, Jessika Khazrik, Suhail Malik, Reza Negarestani, Bahar Noorizadeh, Susan Schuppli and Adham Selim.

(03/19) Africa.networks (talk) at Framer Framed + Het Nieuwe Instituut with Nanjala Nyabola, Gbenga Sesan, Moses Serubiri, Tegan Bristow and Oulimata Gueye

(12/18) DIGITAL EARTH X STRELKA INSTITUTE (workshop) in Moscow, Russia. w/ Xenia Adjoubei, Tekla Aslanishvili, Nicolay Boyadjiev, Leonardo Dellanoce, Halima Haruna, Lukáš Likavčan, Umber Majeed, Khyati Saraf, Ishita Sharma, Arthur Steiner and Ivan Polissky

(11/18) Infocosm.ru (talk) at Stedelijk Museum + Het NIeuwe Instituut with Benjamin Peters, Svitlana Matviyenko, Ksenia Tatarchenko, Ksenia Fedorova, Anton Vidokle and Katia Krupennikova

(09/18) Island.eu (talk) at Het Nieuwe Instituut w/ Benjamin H. Bratton, Victoria Ivanova and Martin Kaevats

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Edited

Vertical Atlas book with Amal Khalaf, Klaas Kuitenbrouwer, Nanjala Nyabola, Renée Roukens, Arthur Steiner and Mi You

Volume #53 Civic Space with Arjen Oosterman and Francesco Degl’Innocenti

Volume #52 The End of Informality with Arjen Oosterman

Volume #51 Augmented Technology with Arjen Oosterman

Volume #50 Beyond Beyond with Arjen Oosterman

Plan and Play, Play and Plan by Jan Willem Schrofer (editorial assistant)

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Interviewed

Metahaven in Comp[h]ost, Immaginari Interspecie

Lukas Likavcan for Sonic Acts x Jajajaneeneenee Radio

Femke Herregraven and Ana Maria Gomez Lopez in Migrant Journal #5 Micro Odysseys

Jason Adams in Volume #53 Civic Space

Max Hampshire, Stefan Heidenreich, Keller Easterling in Volume #52 The End of Informality

Benjamin H. Bratton, Nicolay Boyadjiaev in Volume #51 Augmented Technology

Ute Meta Bauer, Timothy Moore, Jose Munoz-Villers in Volume #50 Beyond Beyond

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Wrote

Playing [Against] Extinction with Lukas Likavcan in Tank Magazine

Terraforming via the Digital Twin of Everything in Comrade Animal: the Human Habitat Beyond Anthropocentrism

Digital Earth on Broken Nature: XXII Triennale Milano 2019 website

Skyrocketing Paranoia in Volume #51 Augmented Technology

(Un)Foreseen Subversion in the Neoliberal (Public) Space in Kunstlicht #38

Beyond Definition in Volume #50 Beyond Beyond

School of Knocks in Volume #45 Learning with Nick Axel

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Art in the Age of the Metaverse
Memory Gems
Vertical Atlas
Trust in the Blockchain Society
Digital Earth