Daniela De Paulis

Space Metropoliz

WithDaniela De Paulis:MAAM and the Third Paradise soon on the Moon!Curated by Giorgio de Finis.This ismy photo that wentand came back to the moonwith the travel glitch

Bio Daniela De Paulis

Since 2009, she has integrated radio technologies and philosophies into her artistic projects. Currently, she holds the position of Artist in Residence at the SETI Institute (California) and Artist in Residence at the Green Bank Observatory (West Virginia), supported by the Baruch Blumberg Fellowship in Astrobiology.

She collaborates with several significant research institutions, including the European Space Agency, INAF (Italian Institute for Radio Astronomy), the Donders Centre for Neuroimaging, and the University of Cambridge. Employing advanced radio telescopes such as the Green Bank Telescope (West Virginia), the Allen Telescope Array (California), the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory (United Kingdom), the Medicina Radio Telescope, and the Sardinia Radio Telescope (Italy) for her projects. Previously, she collaborated with radio operators based on historical antennas, such as the Bochum Radio Observatory (DE).

In 2009, she pioneered the Visual Moon bounce technology in collaboration with international radio operators. Over the past fourteen years, she has been actively involved in innovative projects that combine radio technologies with live artistic performances and neuroscience. From 2010 to 2019, she collaborated with Astronomers Without Borders as the founder and director of the Arts program. She has also worked with various organizations, including the Human Space Program, led by space philosopher Frank White, and the Space and Society working group led by philosopher Jayme Schwartz. She is a member of the IAA SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Permanent Committee and a member of the UK SETI Hub. Additionally, she is part of the organizing committee for the Electronic Visualization in the Arts conference in London and the editorial committee for the Springer Space and Society series.

Beyond her artistic practice, she has authored academic articles published in the Leonardo MIT Journal, Routledge, Springer, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Inderscience, and RIXC, among others. She was awarded the Art of Neuroscience Prize 2022 for the project “Mare Incognito,” selected in various international festivals and published in Scientific American. Her project “A Sign in Space” was chosen for the Billingham Cutting Edge Lecture at the 2022 International Astronautical Congress and gained international media coverage, including the New York Times, CNN, CBC, ABC Australia, Wired, Scientific American, as well as radio and television programs. She won the Europlanet Prize for Public Engagement 2023.

Bio Giorgio de Finis

Anthropologist, Artist and Indipendent Curator

Creator and curator of the MAAM Museo dell’Altro e dell’Altrove di Metropoliz – città meticcia, and of the DIF, the widespread museum of the Municipality of Formello (RM). In 2018-2019, director of the MACRO Asilo, the experimental project that rethought the Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome, he is currently the director of Museo delle periferie (Museum of the Outskirts) in Rome, dedicated to the suburbs and Urban studies. Former creator and curator of the 1 Art Gallery (Casa dell’Architettura) and Architecture Festival of Rome. The Biennial of Viterbo and the Apai awarded him the 2014 International Award for Independent Culture in Movement. For his work at Metropoliz he received the 2015 Luisa Giorgetti International Award and the Social Design Price of the Curry Stone Foundation. He is part of the scientific committee of the MARCA, the Museum of the Arts of Catanzaro. Author of books and scientific contributions, he has always collaborated with the cultural pages of newspapers and periodicals. Member of the Order of Journalists since 1988 (list of publicists). He founded and directed “Il Mondo 3. Journal of the theory of human and social sciences”. He carried out research and teaching activities at numerous Italian and foreign universities and from 1991 to 1997 he conducted ethnographic researches among the Batak of Palawan as Visiting Research Associate of the University of Manila University. For over 20 years he has been dealing with the urban phenomenon. For television, as director and author, he has made over four hundred documentaries and reportage. Among others, the TV series “The great masters of architecture”, “Metropolis”, “Videoarchitecture”, “Atelier” (Sky – Cult Network Italy) and “L’Era Urbana”, the program of Radio 3 and Rai Educational special event at the Venice Biennale. With his documentary film “Diari dalla megalopoli. Mumbai” won the “Zevi Prize for Architectural Communication”. He is the author, with Fabrizio Boni, of the documentary films “Once upon a time… Savorengo Ker, the House of All”, and “Space Metropoliz”, a project that has received numerous awards, both Italian and foreign. His videos and photographs were presented at the IX, X and XI International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, at the National Museum of China in Beijing, the Triennale of Milan, the Biennale of Athens, the Biennale of Rotterdam, the Biennial of Buenos Aires, the Shanghai Universal Exposition 2010 and as part of the FotoGrafia International Festival of Rome (editions 2008, 2009 and 2011). His recent publications include: Umani, Urbani & Marziani (2010), Urban Diaries (2010, afterword by Marc Augé), EXPLOIT. How to turn the world upside down. D-instructions for use (2015), Atlantide (2015), Rome. Plural name of city (2016), MAAM Museo dell’Altro e dell’Altrove (2017), R/home. Living Right Capital (2018), MACRO ASILO DIARY (2019- 2020), Same vs Different. Universalism and relativism in anthropology (2020), Mork calls Ork. Microethnographies of the pandemic (2020), CLOSED. The world of humans has stopped (2020), Museum. Theories, practices, policies (2021). From January 2024 he is also artistic director of the Colonna Museum in Pescara.