Mattia Casalegno

Mattia Casalegno is a visual artist working in video, performance, immersive installations and mixed reality. His work explores the physical and sensory perceptions of its viewers, evoking experiences that are fully immersive, sensorially embodied and psychologically heightened. His art practice draws from such disparate disciplines as anthropology, ecology, biology, neurosciences and informatics and focuses on the relations and tensions between nature, society and technology.

Casalegno has won multiple prizes and received various grants and fellowships including the Lumen Prize and New Technological Art Awards, and his work has been funded by such organizations as NEW INC, the Center for Cultural Innovation, Young Italian Artists Network, NYFA, the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Eyebeam, Chronus Art Center and the Asia Culture Center.

Casalegno has exhibited in more than 100 international venues and institutions including Siggraph Asia, ISEA - International Society of Electronic Artists, Ars Electronica Animation festival, Mutek festival, Untitled Art Fair, Superblue Museum, MACRO Museum, Cini Foundation, RomaEuropa Festival, Cimatics festival, Festival de la Imagem and Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts. His work has been featured in such publications and catalogues as A Touch of Code (Gestalten Books), Tactics of Interfacing (MIT Press), Deleuze and Audiovisual Art (Manchester Metropolitan University), The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, CNN, Art Tribune, Exibart, the Creators Projects, Hyperallergic, Digicult and e-artnow.

In addition to teaching at RISD, he serves as an assistant professor in the department of Digital Arts at Pratt Institute in New York.