The Italian Cultural Institute in New York and Cinello
in collaboration with GEI – Gruppo Esponenti Italiani
are pleased to present the panel:
Creativity and business in the digital world.
The future of imagination
Wednesday, January 18 at 3:30PM
IIC-NY 686 Park Avenue, NYC
Speakers:
Vittorio Sgarbi
Under-secretary in the Italian Ministry of Culture
(in video conference from Italy)
Fabio Finotti
Director of the Italian Cultural Institute in New York
Fabrizio Di Michele
Consul General of Italy in New York
Mario Calvo-Platero
President of Gruppo Esponenti Italiani (Gei) in New York and of Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi
Alain Elkann
Writer and President of the Foundation for Italian Art & Culture (FIAC)
Elio
Songwriter and lead vocalist of Elio e Le Storie Tese
(in video conference from Italy)
Franco Losi
CEO of Cinello and author with Elio of Uaired (La nave di Teseo, 2018).
The digital world is transforming reality and the way we consider it. Art, literature, business and even our life can be immaterial and yet real. Digital technology seems to fulfill the Platonic dream of ideas traveling without the need for matter.
What frontiers does the digital open to human creativity? How does it transform or renew the degree traditions of the past?
Read More on the panel HERE
The panel is organized on the occasion of the Exhibition currently on view at the IIC-NY:
MUSaEUM in NEW YORK Masterpieces from Pinacoteca Ambrosiana and other Italian Museums
Curator: Carlo Francini DAW® Digital Artworks
An exhibition of the greatest masterpieces of Italian Renaissance art. Unique opportunity to admire the works, in their digital guise, next to each other and outside the museum that houses them.
Masterpieces by Michelangelo, Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Caravaggio and other great masters exhibited thanks to DAW® technology, a worldwide patent that contributes to the digital diffusion and conservation of the artistic heritage. The digitized paintings offer to the public and international collectors an exciting opportunity to experience historic works of art in a new immaterial guise, and include the option of purchasing a limited-edition digital reproduction.
Reservation no longer available