Conference
Saturday 3 October 2026 17:30

THE SEA AS A MEDIUM Art, Technology and Mediterranean Imaginaries

Art, Technology and Mediterranean Imaginaries

Palazzo Lanfranchi, Matera
Free admission
This event is part of the series THE SEA IS CLOSER THAN YOU SEE
This event is part of the project Matera 2026 Capitale Mediterranea della Cultura e del Dialogo

Introduction by Rita Orlando, Director General of the Matera Basilicata 2019 Foundation.
Featuring artists Leonardo Sangiorgi (Studio Azzurro), Baris Gencel, Julius Horsthuis, Leonardo Avezzano, Valentinaki, Martin Romeo, and Andrea Crespi.
Moderated by Chiara Canali
(consecutive translation from English)

A gathering dedicated to the sea as a symbolic and imaginary Mediterranean space, explored through art and technology. A dialogue among the artists of the exhibition “The Sea is Closer than You See,” whose diverse perspectives examine the Mediterranean as a place of memory, identity, and transformation revealing, through a blend of digital languages ​​and poetic visions, new ways of representing an ancient landscape that is in a constant state of becoming.

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