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The selected projects of the Digital Residencies 2025 call<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The four winning projects, selected from 72 submissions, are:<\/strong> SPOOKY INTERNET STORIE per non dormire. Buonanotte <\/em>By Mara Oscar Cassiani<\/strong>, who explores digital legends born on the web through workshops aimed at transforming grandmothers and grandfathers into streamers or YouTubers; Screenvestigation <\/em>by Albert Figurt<\/strong>, which turns the desktop (or its absence) into a true performative space; in an environment dominated by algorithms and apps, our digital habits thus become artistic material.
Molka <\/em>by Benedetta Pigoni<\/strong>, directed by Giammarco Pignatiello<\/strong>, is an interactive performance inspired by Korean pornographic spy cams that questions the boundary between observation and violation;
Eburnea <\/em>by Boris Pimenov<\/strong> is an interactive performance in which the audience becomes co-creator of the fate of Alice, an artificial intelligence trapped in an imaginary institute.

\u201cWe are thrilled by the landscape that emerged from the selections of this sixth edition of Residenze Digitali. The project is increasingly recognized as a key reference point for all performing arts artists who want to explore the phygital <\/em>space, at the intersection between in-person creation and online performance,\u201d say Lucia Franchi <\/strong>and Luca Ricci<\/strong>, directors of Associazione CapoTrave\/Kilowatt and coordinators of the project together with Armunia. \u201cThe network has grown with new members who have brought skills and energy that were essential for the best possible evaluation of the artists\u2019 projects.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Residenze Digitali, already a finalist at Premio Rete Critica 2021<\/strong>, <\/strong>is a project ideated in 2020 by the Artistic Residency Centre of Tuscany (Armunia <\/strong>\u2013 CapoTrave\/Kilowatt<\/strong>) which has since extended the partnership to theMarche Association for Theatrical Activities AMAT<\/strong>, partner of R.A.M. Artistic Residencies of the Marche Region, ZONA K<\/strong> in Milano, partner of the Artistic Residency Centre of Lombardia Region IntercettAzioni <\/strong>and other venues that have been part of the network in the various editions; new partners in the sixth edition are NABA<\/strong>, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti<\/strong> Triangolo Scaleno<\/strong> Association \/ Festival Teatri di Vetro<\/strong>, IdeAgor\u00e0<\/strong> Association \/ Festival Mirabilia<\/strong> and Quarantasettezeroquattro <\/strong>Association (In\\Visible Cities \u2013 Festival urbano multimediale) in Gorizia.
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The residency process is supported by the 8 project partners and three expert mentors in digital creation: Laura Gemini<\/strong>, Full Professor at the Department of Communication Sciences, Humanities and International Studies at the University of Urbino Carlo Bo; Federica Patti<\/strong>, <\/strong>art historian, lecturer, and independent <\/strong>curator; and <\/strong>the artist Marcello Cualbu.<\/strong>
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SPOOKY INTERNET STORIE per non dormire
Buonanotte by MARA OSCAR CASSIANI<\/mark><\/strong> <\/mark><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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concept , visuals and tech support Mara Oscar Cassiani<\/strong>
storytelling on-demand users and local communities (Susanna Calandrini, Claudia Caraffini, Marcella Flenghi, Laura Galli, Susan Manfroni, Franca Neri, Vilma Valloni) + redditors<\/strong>
production Super Bubble Ass.Cult<\/strong>
Thanks to the Entertainment and Digital Liveness course, part of the Master’s Degree in Digital Communication for Culture | CoDiC at the University of Urbino Carlo Bo<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SPOOKY INTERNET STORIES for sleepless nights. Goodnight explores digital legends born on the web \u2013 unsettling stories spread across forums, social media, and platforms like Reddit and 4chan \u2013 as a contemporary form of collective orality. Starting from real or imaginary stories, these tales have transformed into modern fables, passed down not by word of mouth, but through keyboards and screens.
The project proposes an intergenerational meeting: workshops with elderly people \u2013 grandmothers and grandfathers \u2013 to explore these online narratives together, symbolically returning them to the role of custodians and mediators of oral tradition. The final presentation sees these new \u201cdigital shamans\u201d interpreting creepypasta as streamers or YouTubers, amidst dreamlike scenarios generated by artificial intelligence and virtual video game worlds.
SPOOKY INTERNET STORIES for sleepless nights. Goodnight reflects on the transposition of folklore from local to global, on the collective imagination of contemporary fears, and on the cathartic power of storytelling in an era that is connected but often excluding. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mara Oscar Cassiani<\/strong><\/mark> is a wifi-based artist working across performance, choreography, and digital languages, blending clubbing rituals, online subcultures, and avatar imaginaries. Her practice builds a contemporary iconography inspired by the internet and brutal capitalism, through live acts in both physical spaces and open-source virtual environments. Her performances are visual streams that intertwine digital folklore, pop culture, and social critique, offering a \u201cvisual fast food\u201d that moves between kitsch, rituality, and apocalyptic visions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SCREENVESTIGATION by ALBERT FIGURT<\/mark><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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author, director, facilitator Albert Figurt<\/strong>
technical coordination Edo Egoless<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How much does our desktop reveal about us? And what if we no longer had a desktop, and simply wandered the web with ever more miniaturized and convergent smartphones or tablets? Is getting lost in the unstoppable contemporary multimedia hypertext a Borgesian nightmare or a kind of lucid dream, in which everything we desire eventually materializes (if only translated into fleeting pixels)? And finally, what happens when the user\u2019s screen becomes the frame, and multitasking the new grammar of storytelling? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCREENVESTIGATION transforms the desktop (or its absence) into a true performative space; in an environment dominated by algorithms and applications, our digital habits thus become artistic material. It is an investigation into surpassing the traditional point of view and the hypothesis of an immersive happening conceived from the very visual flow in which we live. A participatory, real-time performance that blends interfaces, bodies, and personal archives, inviting the audience to share the screen \u2013 and themselves \u2013 in a highly interactive experience (straddling confession, exploration, and self-representation). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Albert Figurt<\/strong><\/mark> is a video craftsman, multi-instrumentalist, and independent researcher. After studying semiotics and film, he worked extensively in the audiovisual world, alternating between screenwriting & directing for television and ventures into video art and experimental documentary. In recent years, his artistic practice has embraced a strong performative and theatrical component, positioned at the crossroads of post-cinema and new media landscapes. His current theoretical-creative focus <\/em>is on \u201cscreencast storytelling\u201d: that carousel of potential hybrid narratives\u2014both ubiquitous and unnoticed\u2014that bloom daily on the screens interposed between us and the so-called \u201creal\u201d world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n