Triennale VisionLab, the laboratory of Triennale di Milano laboratories, which promotes creative cooperation between young artists and scientists, presents VIVENDI ContemporaryNaturalism – From Lassie to Pokémon a research-Work by Mauro Ceolin for Laboflabs 2011.

Curated by Alberto Pizzati Caiani, the project will make it possible to analyse the artistic proposition of the work by participating with the artist in the Art and Science Crossing laboratory, with its cross-fertilisation of codes and canons. The first results of the investigations carried out by Ceolin since 2006 on the trans-media characters, icons, and objects of the international intra-generational world of the imagination will be presented.
An explorer of landscapes, places, and electric/electronic/computer/digital universes, Mauro Ceolin, a latter-day Darwin, goes so far as to trace out the new frontiers of the concept of Nature. From it, he attempts to bring out and express an innovative range of meaning for a global society that is increasingly pervaded by virtual and immaterial dimensions.

The exhibition, which also includes docu-videos, sound-design and theatre performances, will be made even more dynamic by guided tours led by the artist and the project curator, and by open conferences with the participation of artists and scientists, composers, designers, video artists, filmmakers, and philosophers who will interact with the public.

Contributors
Mauro Ceolin and Matteo Scanni
A spatial-environmental analysis using cinema and television trailers from the 1930s to the present day: video

Mauro Ceolin, research and concept; Stefania Giannì processing and performance
Sound reinterpretation of 3/5 folk songs using search trends from the Google search engine as the musical score: sound performance

Mauro Ceolin, research and concept; Fattoria Vittadini analysis and performance
Study and formulation of a representative and performative body language for Vivendi forms in their un-natural environment. Research into the creatures of the famous “Spore” video game: contemporary-dance performance

Asmagita Darvinci
Sound cut-up of the greatest film and television products from the 1930s to the present day: sound composition

The exhibition has been made with the contribution of Intesa SanPaolo and the Politecnico di Milano, founding partners of Triennale VisionLab