Domenico Barra

I am an Italian artist and I work with new digital media. The critical, tactical and analytical approach to new technologies takes shape in an artistic production that exploits the error (glitch) both as a raw material and as a narrative key to research and suggesting a dialogue on different themes related to new media in terms of temporality, opportunity, functionality, accessibility and also a focus on failure, network, intelligence, language, memory and identity. I also design art cover for music projects and I love to design graphics for t-shirts. My works have been published on various sites and magazines including The Creators Project, Motherboard, Bullet Magazine, Hyperallergic, Art F City, Monopol, Observer, Artribune, Exibart, Widewalls and Digicult. I took part in numerous curatorial projects and my works have been exhibited at the DAM Gallery in Berlin, at the Media Center in New York, at the Galerie Charlot in Paris, at the Digital Art Center in Taipei, online at World Intellectual Property Organization and the Wrong Biennale and in many other galleries and cultural art events. My works have also been part of academic talks and lectures in various international institutes and universities. I have participated in several editions of The Wrong (New Digital Art Biennale). I directed the organization of the first Glitch Art exhibition in Italy, Tactical Glitches, curated by artists Rosa Menkman and Nick Briz. In 2016 I was among the international artists invited by the School of Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) for the 150th anniversary of the important and famous American institution where I gave a lecture and a public talk about piracy and pornography, the impact of the internet and digital media on the production, distribution and consumption of NSFW. I design patterns for the Italian company PPPAttern and some of my digital works are part of the curatorial projects of the British Sedition Gallery and the Swiss Noow Gallery. I teach glitch art and dirty new media at the Rome University of Fine Art (RUFA) and I give lectures and presentations about glitch art and related topics at academies, schools and festivals. I am the creator of the White Page Gallery/s. White Page Gallery/s is a decentralized and distributed art network born in June 2019: it is an online network for artistic sharing composed of artists, curators, academies, festivals and cultural operators who host independently on their website and without the aim of profit art projects made and curated by others.