53. BIENNALE DI VENEZIA Eventi Collaterali MHO_Save the Poetry
Event: 
Poetry Network / Net-Poetry Reading in Web Cam by Caterina Davinio
Info: 
e-mail: caterinadavinio@gmail.com
Audio/video events of poetry in networked live connection
 
The 
Italian digital artist and poet Caterina Davinio on October 9 will realize in 
San Servolo (Venice) - in the context of the Venice Biennale / Collateral 
Events  - a poetry video-reading in web cam, together with poets and 
artists from the world, who will bring their poetic presence in a participative 
event of global communication. 
 
NOTE: This collaborative 
performance is part of 53. Esposizione Internazionale d?Arte La Biennale di 
Venezia ? Eventi Collaterali 2009 / MHO_Save The Poetry /   Fondazione 
Mare Nostrum 
 
Opening: October 9 2009
Time: live 03:PM ? 04:00 
PM (Italian time) Get info, time could be changed. Recordings screening 
no-stop.
 
Curators: Fondazione Mare Nostrum, Marco Nereo Rotelli. 
Coordination: Elena Lombardi. Curator of virtual events on line (Planetary & 
Interplanetary Poetry Events): Caterina Davinio. Technical Assistance: Riccardo 
Preziosi.
 
Artists: 
Caterina Davinio, in connction with the 
poets and artists: 
Stefano Donno (Italy Lecce), Vincenzo Bagnoli (Italy 
Bologna), Ruth Lepson (USA), Phoebe Giannisi (Greece), Obododimma Oha (Nigeria), 
Nicole Mauro (USA), Mirona Magearu (USA), Matteo Fantuzzi (Italy Bologna), 
Massimo Mori (Italy Firenze), Lamberto Pignotti (Italy Roma), Italo Testa 
(France), Gabriele Montagano (Italy Napoli), Francesco Muzzioli (Italy Roma, 
audio), David Seaman (USA),Craig Saper (USA), Avi Rosen (Israel), Annamaria 
Ferramosca (Italy Roma), Alfonso Siracusa (Italy Siracusa), Cristina Vignocchi 
(Italy Sant'Andrea Pelago / Modena), Joseph Young (UK), Liliana Ugolini (Italy 
Firenze, audio), Philip Meersman (The Netherlands), Juan Diaz Infante (Mexico), 
Denis Belley (Quebec Canada), Annelisa Addolorato (Italy, Milan), Mariapia 
Quintavalla (Italy, Milan), Anna Balint (Hungary), Elif Sezen 
(Australia/Turchia), Mario Lunetta (Italy, Roma)
 
Genre: 
contemporary art/poetry, net-art, digital art, poetry, avant-garde 
 
The digital artist and poet Caterina Davinio will realize in San 
Servolo Island (Venice, Italia) a net-poetry reading by web cam, with poets and 
artists from the world, in the context of the project MHO_Save the Poetry, 
collateral event of the Venice Biennale, Marco Nereo Rotelli Curator. The poets 
- by software Skype and web cam - will bring their poetic presence in a great 
event of communication: the poetry word as individual instance, but also 
identity of people and global breath, by new media and communication 
technologies.
After the virtual installation ?Poetry Shuttle Landing on SL?, 
on the 40. anniversary of the Lunar Landing, for celebrating the Centenary of 
Italian Futurism, a new digital performance based on communication, as a virtual 
place for interchange and aggregation, opportunity of dialogue and presence. 
 
Mare Nostrum Foundation has developed other projects about the 
topic of cultural identities in danger: Isola della Poesia (installation by 
Marco N. Rotelli) collateral event of the Venice Biennale 2005, which included 
the virtual event on line Isola Virtuale by Caterina Davinio (500 involved 
poets). But the collaboration between Rotelli and Davinio started in 2001, when 
Bunker Poetico - special project by Harald Szeemann - was realized in the 49. 
Venice Biennale. More then 1000 poets participated In Bunker Poetico from many 
countries.  
 
LINKS - NETWORK POETICO - VMH Caterina 
Davinio Curator
These are some of the links of the "Planetary & 
Interplanetary virtual events" in the context of the 53rd Biennale di 
Venezia ? Eventi Collaterali 2009:
 
-The First Poetry Shuttle 
Landing on Second Life
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Face%20North/163/50/22
 
 - Special Event: Poetry Network ??Poetry Readings in Web Cam? 
(line/off line, live) on October 9 2009 in San Servolo (Venezia, Italia). After 
this date, recordings on the YouTube Channel (until November 22)
 - 
Network Poetico VMH / Welcome on Board. Virtual Happening in the Biennale 
Opening days and open call on line (Dead Line November 22 2009). The ?guest 
book? of the space-shuttle is linkable from the Internet and from Second 
Life. 
Submit a poem
http://xoomer.virgilio.it/cprezi/poetry-join.htm