Marta di Francesco
Artist & educator
Marta Di Francesco is a London based artist, 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.
Through her practice she is preoccupied with the right to time and time consciousness as a form of resistance and action, in times of distraction.
She merges a conceptual, critical approach with a search for metaphysical correspondences between the self and the metaverse, writing and creating radical visual pieces which inhabit and cross over poetry, dance and code, and working through multidisciplinary collaborations to explore new expressions and conversations.
Di Francesco’s latest screenings and exhibitions include MANA Contemporary Chicago (2019), THE WRONG New Digital Art Biennale (2018), FILE Festival Exhibition, SESI Gallery of Art, Sao Paulo (2018), FIVA (2018), CODAME Art + Tech Festival, San Francisco (2018), ADAF Athens Digital Arts Festival (2018), Back to the POSTFUTURE Exhibition curated by ADAF, Venice (2018), POOL Internationales TANZFilmFestival, Berlin (2017), VECTOR Festival Toronto (2017), The Third Culture Film Festival, Hong Kong (2017), ADAF Athens Digital Arts Festival (2017) and ADAF #PostFuture Journey Digital Art Exhibition at Athens International Airport (2017), RETUNE Festival, Berlin (2016), NEW AESTHETIC: Future Bodies programme at Film Festival, Cologne (2016) and KFFK Cologne (2016), EEF Festival Psych Space screening, Norman McLaren retrospective at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (2016), the Dream:ON Digital Art screening at the Göethe-Institut curated by Alpha-ville, London (2014), the RGBD screening at the New York Museum of Arts and Design for NY Makers: MAD Biennale, New York (2014), the Echoes AV Installation commissioned by Mother for Digital Shoreditch, London (2012). Her work has been featured in Taschen, WIRED, The Creators Project, Prosthetic Knowledge, POSTmatter, CLOT Magazine, NOWNESS and VOGUE.
