Marta Di Francesco is a new media artist based in London, exploring new aesthetics, merging poetics with code.
She investigates digital identity and its fragmentation, exploring and questioning it through digital bleed, time displacement, video processing, and the sculptural quality of time in volumetric aesthetics.
The poetics in her practice refers to an existential and critical approach, that is both intimate and radical. Through her practice she is preoccupied with the right to time, slowness and time consciousness as a form of resistance, in times of speed, acceleration and distraction. In her work, she explores liminality, as the physical and virtual world merge and fade into one another through moments of transition and displacement, creating new thresholds and temporalities.
Latest screenings and exhibitions include IXX Festival Internacional de la Imagen, Manizales, Colombia (2022), THE WRONG New Digital Art Biennale (2022), Vidéoformes Clermont-Ferrand, France (2022), Synthetic Media Art Festival Taipei (2021), New Media Art Biennale Kiev, Ukraine (2021), ADAF Athens Digital Arts Festival, Greece (2021), CADAF NYC #DigitalArtMonth (2020), THE WRONG New Digital Art Biennale (2020), ADAF Athens Digital Arts Festival, Greece (2020), MADATAC XI Biennial, Madrid (2020), MANA Contemporary Chicago, U.S. (2019), XVIII Festival Internacional de la Imagen, Manizales, Colombia (2019), THE WRONG New Digital Art Biennale (2018), FILE Festival Exhibition, SESI Gallery of Art, Sao Paulo, Brazil (2018), FIVA Festival, San Martín Cultural Centre, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2018), CODAME Art + Tech Festival, San Francisco, U.S. (2018), ADAF Athens Digital Arts Festival, Greece (2018), Back to the POSTFUTURE Exhibition curated by ADAF, Venice, Italy (2018), POOL Internationales TANZFilmFestival, Berlin, Germany (2017), VECTOR Festival Toronto, Canada (2017), The Third Culture Film Festival, Hong Kong, China (2017), ADAF Athens Digital Arts Festival, Greece (2017) and ADAF #PostFuture Journey Digital Art Exhibition at Athens International Airport, Greece (2017), RETUNE Festival, Berlin, Germany (2016), NEW AESTHETIC: Future Bodies programme at Film Festival, Cologne, Germany (2016) and KFFK Cologne, Germany (2016).
Marta's work has been featured in Taschen, WIRED, VICE Magazine, The Creators Project, Prosthetic Knowledge, POSTmatter, CLOT Magazine, NOWNESS and VOGUE.
Marta advances her research through a collaborative framework, working as a consultant for fellow artists and practioners on projects’ research and development.
She is currently an associate lecturer at the University of Arts of London (UAL) and maintains an active role in mentoring and facilitating workshops across various international academic institutions.
She investigates digital identity and its fragmentation, exploring and questioning it through digital bleed, time displacement, video processing, and the sculptural quality of time in volumetric aesthetics.
The poetics in her practice refers to an existential and critical approach, that is both intimate and radical. Through her practice she is preoccupied with the right to time, slowness and time consciousness as a form of resistance, in times of speed, acceleration and distraction. In her work, she explores liminality, as the physical and virtual world merge and fade into one another through moments of transition and displacement, creating new thresholds and temporalities.
Latest screenings and exhibitions include IXX Festival Internacional de la Imagen, Manizales, Colombia (2022), THE WRONG New Digital Art Biennale (2022), Vidéoformes Clermont-Ferrand, France (2022), Synthetic Media Art Festival Taipei (2021), New Media Art Biennale Kiev, Ukraine (2021), ADAF Athens Digital Arts Festival, Greece (2021), CADAF NYC #DigitalArtMonth (2020), THE WRONG New Digital Art Biennale (2020), ADAF Athens Digital Arts Festival, Greece (2020), MADATAC XI Biennial, Madrid (2020), MANA Contemporary Chicago, U.S. (2019), XVIII Festival Internacional de la Imagen, Manizales, Colombia (2019), THE WRONG New Digital Art Biennale (2018), FILE Festival Exhibition, SESI Gallery of Art, Sao Paulo, Brazil (2018), FIVA Festival, San Martín Cultural Centre, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2018), CODAME Art + Tech Festival, San Francisco, U.S. (2018), ADAF Athens Digital Arts Festival, Greece (2018), Back to the POSTFUTURE Exhibition curated by ADAF, Venice, Italy (2018), POOL Internationales TANZFilmFestival, Berlin, Germany (2017), VECTOR Festival Toronto, Canada (2017), The Third Culture Film Festival, Hong Kong, China (2017), ADAF Athens Digital Arts Festival, Greece (2017) and ADAF #PostFuture Journey Digital Art Exhibition at Athens International Airport, Greece (2017), RETUNE Festival, Berlin, Germany (2016), NEW AESTHETIC: Future Bodies programme at Film Festival, Cologne, Germany (2016) and KFFK Cologne, Germany (2016).
Marta's work has been featured in Taschen, WIRED, VICE Magazine, The Creators Project, Prosthetic Knowledge, POSTmatter, CLOT Magazine, NOWNESS and VOGUE.
Marta advances her research through a collaborative framework, working as a consultant for fellow artists and practioners on projects’ research and development.
She is currently an associate lecturer at the University of Arts of London (UAL) and maintains an active role in mentoring and facilitating workshops across various international academic institutions.