Difference between revisions of "Tommaso Tozzi"
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attended the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Siena and Florence. | attended the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Siena and Florence. | ||
| − | He teaches Mass Media Theory and Method and Net Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence and Net Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Turin. | + | He teaches Mass Media Theory and Method and Net Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in [[Florence]] and Net Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in [[Turin]]. |
He has taught various other subjects, including "Multimedia Screenplay" and "Cinema, Photography, | He has taught various other subjects, including "Multimedia Screenplay" and "Cinema, Photography, | ||
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alternative cultures. | alternative cultures. | ||
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(1993), [[Strano Network]] (1993), Virtual Town TV (1994) and the [https://www.strano.net/ Strano Network website] (1995). | (1993), [[Strano Network]] (1993), Virtual Town TV (1994) and the [https://www.strano.net/ Strano Network website] (1995). | ||
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[[Series:Hacktivism]] [[Series:Hacker culture]] [[Series:Net culture]] [[Series:Net art]] | [[Series:Hacktivism]] [[Series:Hacker culture]] [[Series:Net culture]] [[Series:Net art]] | ||
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Latest revision as of 19:25, 29 May 2025
Tommaso Tozzi (1960, Florence) graduated in Scenography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence and attended the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Siena and Florence.
He teaches Mass Media Theory and Method and Net Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence and Net Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Turin.
He has taught various other subjects, including "Multimedia Screenplay" and "Cinema, Photography, Television and Digital Media" at the University of Florence; "Net art", "Digital Cultures" and "History and Theory of New Media" at the Academy of Fine Arts in Carrara, where he was also coordinator of the "School of New Art Technologies" (Three-year course in "Multimedia Arts" and Two-year Specialistic Course in "Net Art and Digital Cultures") and director of "uCAN - Centre for Research and Documentation on Art and Network Cultures".
Since the second half of the 1970s, he has been carrying out musical, artistic and countercultural projects and has participated in group and solo exhibitions in some of the leading national exhibition institutions. Since 1982, he has participated in happenings with the Fluxus musician Giuseppe Chiari.
In the 1980s, he made computer graphics contributions for some of the major national television networks. Since the 1980s, he has made multimedia productions in different professional roles: director, scriptwriter, programmer and graphic designer
Always interested in the field of underground movements and self-productions, he has created fanzines, self-management and self-production projects and since the late 1980s has been one of the founders of a number of independent artistic and social telematic networks and on-line sites aimed at art, culture, the construction of independent virtual communities, as well as archiving and mapping projects of alternative cultures.
He is the author of Hacker Art BBS (1990), co-founder of the Cyberpunk network (1991), Cybernet (1993), Strano Network (1993), Virtual Town TV (1994) and the Strano Network website (1995).
In 1995, he conceived the worldwide Netstrike organised together with Strano Network to protest the French nuclear tests in Mururoa.
He conceived and realised the Hacker Art website (2000), and the Hacker Art Archive (2002). In 2004, he conceived and initiated the project Wikiartpedia - The free online encyclopaedia on art and network cultures (2004) (Honorary Mention Prix Ars Electronica 2009 - Digital Communities), which later took the name EduEDA - The EDUcational Encyclopaedia of Digital Arts (2012).
He has published several articles, interviews and essays on digital art, telematic networks and hacktivism, including Happening Interattivi Sottosoglia (Florence, 1989), Opposizioni '80 (Amen, 1991), Happening Digitali Interattivi, cd-rom and book (Wide Records, 1992), Arte di Opposizione (Shake Edizioni, 2008), Le radici dell'HACKTIVISM in Italia 1969-1989 (Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze, 2019). With Strano Network he published Net strike, no copyright, etc. (AAA Edizioni, 1996), Nubi all'orizzonte (Castelvecchi Editore, 1996) and with Arturo Di Corinto he published Hacktivism. La libertà nelle mesaglie della rete (Manifesto Libri, 2002).
He organised with Strano Network the conference and exhibition entitled Diritto alla comunicazione nello scenario di fine millennio (1995, Centro di Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato) and with Alessandro Ludovico the conferences Storie dell'Arte delle Reti (2005, Accademia di Belle Arti, Carrara), the exhibition and conference Mappe Resistenti (2006, Museo di Arte Contemporanea Villa Croce, Genoa), the conference New Media Art Education (2007, Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato) and the conference Eternità presente. Senso ed esperienza del tempo nella società digitale (2008, Civica Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Gallarate). He was co-curator of the conference Researching the future: aspects of art and technoetics (Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci di Prato, 2007). (2019)
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