Urlo

Urlo it's an installation of 20 paintings and 4 videos. It's opening has been in 1993 at the French Insitute Grenoble of Napoli. The all work was made with photocopies of paintings from Ribera, Rubens and Michelangelo. Each painting was enlraged with a xerox machine and the all copies were captured with a camcorder and then animated in a video. 

Remix the Classic

Remix the Classic it’s an installation of Mapping video, proposed for the first time in Napoli in 2009. 20 minutes of digital storytelling installation. A visual poem animated in motion graphic. Remix the Classic. The Classic exist in terms of Re interpretation of the Classic. Re made. Re think. Remix The Classic it’s the Manifesto of the Digital Classic. Thousands of spheres runs around the perimeter of the building creates the suggestion of an old fiesta from the ’50. The language of Remix the Classic, through the technology of the mapping video, recreate the emotions of historical building remixing old forms into new images.

Digital Faces - Miss Digital

Digital Faces it's my new digital installation and it's exposed at the Museo della Scienza of Napoli until the end of january. The theme pf Digital Faces is the intersection between beauty and identity, digital beauty and digital identity; on second life I found an incredible platform where thousands of human experiments it. The idea of beauty on second life comes from the classic idea of beauty, the idea of beauty that we find in the Metamorphosis of Ovidio: the actors of Second Life are half human and half animals, can wear wings, can be transformed into fire. What is the classic ideal of beauty? Salvatore Settis says that the "Classic" is the reinterpretation of the classic, let's say, with a contemporary words, the remix. So, on second life, on virtual wordls in general, we assist to remixes of the old idea of beauty, remixes that most of the times surprise for the interesting results. My works Digital Faces are an investigation through Second Life on the remix of classic beauty in the digital worlds.

Light Your Blue

Light your blue is the new installation by Franz Cerami, that has been presented for the first time at Naples during the event Monumedia Light & Vision. The installation has been placed on the cliff in front of Castel dell’Ovo, in Naples, from the 21th untill the 25th of october 2009. The shade Of blue of the installation has been determined everyday by the choice made by users of the site www.lightyourblue.com. Blue is the colour of the sea, the colour of the sky, the color of soul. 
Everyone has his own blue. 
 Light Your Blue intercepts these emotions, these pictures, making everyone participate with his own blue to create a collective blue, a global blue. The application permits the lighting system to work in total automation,without the intervention of an human operator. The system is based on a Apple computer with a custom software created specifically for this installation. The software switches on the computer at 9.00pm, providing also to turn on the light system with a power interface. Next, the "Light Your Blue" site is contacted through the Internet retrieving the selected tone of blue, and this value is transmitted to a light console through a Ethernet link. The console reads the value and calls one of several light scenes programmed in its memory, one for every tone of blue. At last, at 11.00pm, the software switches off the computer and the light system. Derrick de Kerkhove said, in connection with Light Your Blue, that is a collective and interactive art work, a global art work. This is not to illuminate an object, but to evoke its meaning, to communicate with this object.

Monumedia Borgo Light & Vision

After the 1997 to 1999 success, within the "Creativity Journey ,"(project of the Region of Campania Tourist Department), the Monumedia Festival returns, the event which, since its creation, proposed to valorize cultural and historical sites in Naples, assembling digital innovation, design and Cultural Heritage. Monumedia is the annual appointment with the multimedia production concerning Art and Culture, which seeks to combine Digital Innovation, Design and Cultural Heritage. The festival is animated by the use of lights and moving images applied to cultural heritage through installations, interactive light gardens , projections of three-dimensional images on “Castel dell'Ovo”, light installations created by Internet, lunar atmospheres inspired by lightning revisiting of satellite dishes. The 2009 edition of the Festival Monumedia - Borgo Light & Vision intends to propose a rereading of “Castel dell'Ovo” and the whole “Borgo Marinari a Santa Lucia”; this place is from centuries a symbol of Naples and Monumedia wants to come back with a vision enhancing the beauty and uniqueness. Protagonists of the entire event will be the technology, light projections and wall digital images, real three-dimensional

sculptures, beautiful architecture in motion. The event, bring held from October 20th to November 6th,

is promoted by the “Regional Direction of the Minister of Cultural Heritage”and realized with the partnership of the Consortium “Antico Borgo Marinari” . The art director will be Franz Cerami – Digital Artist – who is the ideator as well. For this edition of “Borgo Screen”, there will be three artworks of

Video Mapping realized by Giorgio Rinolfi – Digital Artist (October 22nd), by Franz Cerami (October 23rd) and by Till Nowak – Digital Artist (October 25th), also visible from a distance between 9 pm and 11 pm : old charms of history and legend will be blended with bright and engaging dialogues on the artist’s lit masterpieces.

Digital Ports

Digital Ports is a digital map shared by contemporary Flaneur of the Mediterranean.  I presented the project Friday 12 of December at the Mav of Ercolano, Italy, during the Event Arte Globale created by the Professor Derrick de Kerckhove. The idea of Digital Ports is to develop Maps of Barcellona, Napoli and Nizza starting from the personal identities and feeling of the tourists. They will portraits themselves in a green box and after will post their pictures and their feelings of the town. Digital Ports is a place to share Maps, to feel Maps, to tell Maps. Each person, rappresent the place that he visited.

White Airports

White Airports is my new digital installation. Two screen, on the left and right side of the room,
projects images of different airports: Rio de Janeiro, Napoli, Athens, Paris. White Airports in a white room. In the central screen are projected frases that I wrote about the body and its relations with the space: the white space of the airport, the empty space of a hall in the Rio the Janeiro Airport, a cafe in Paris, a waiting list room in Athens. All the ambient is sourrounded by digital sounds token from these airports and remixed.

Moving Architectures

Moving Architectures in a Digital installation that I created for the Regional Neapolitan Council. It's about the local transportation system and the station realized by international architects in Napoli. The installation has been presented the first tine at the Annali della Architettura in Napoli. The Digital installation consist of 3 video wall projection in a dark room. This is one of the three videos. The music was elaborated by the musician Paolo Pagnani.

Metropolis Portraits

Metropolis Portraits it's a new kind of portrait that I started in 2007 in this huge club out of Napoli, the Metropolis. I was invited by Mc Massi, dj and art director f the Angels of Love, to portraits the public of the club: many many different boys and girls, dressed up in a hot funny beautiful strange kind of fashion. I couldn't lose this occasion. I went there with Mara, Gennaro and some others and they installed a big green screen in the hall of the club: suddenly a lot of people started to ask and wanted to be portraited.

It was fun.

Miss Digital World

I created Miss Digital World in 2003 as a collaborative international art project on digital identity and digital beauty. Miss Digital has been the first contest of digital beauties. Every age has its ideal of beauty, and every age produces its visual incarnation of that ideal from the Venus de Milo in ancient Greece to Marilyn Monroe in the 1960s. Miss Digital World is the search for the contemporary ideal of beauty seen through the language of virtual reality. Many artists from all the world partecipated to the project: from Mexico, Chile, Italia, Usa, Iran, China, Brasil, France, United Kingdom, just to name a few countries. The first edition, that attracted about 3600 digital artists from around the world, was won by the chilean Katty Ko, a digital clone of the real Katty Kowaleczko, very known in Chile because actress of the south american soap opera Passion.