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Mario
Canali (Monza,1952) began his artistic work in
1975 as a painter, subsequently devoting himself
to electronic and digital art, of which he has
been a pioneer and a leading exponent in Italy.
Since 1985, together with Flavia Alman, Sabine
Reiff and Riccardo Sinigaglia, he has been an
active member of the research and electronic art
group "Correnti Magnetiche".With this
group he has produced audiovisual works that have
received awards at the leading national and international
exhibitions in the sector. Since 1992 (with the
collaboration of the psychologist Elio Massironi,
the computer expert Marcello Campione and the
woodworker Leonardo Aurelio) he has been involved
in research in the field of virtual reality, producing
interactive installations experienced by tens
of thousands of people. Satori (1993) was
one of the first installations in Europe to use
immersion in virtual reality for expressive purposes.
In his subsequent Oracolo-Ulisse (1995)
Canali started experimenting with interactivity
using body parameters which, joined to the intentional
activity of the participant, generate images,
sounds, scenarios. This research, which is ongoing,
also comprises the installations Ritmi and
Neuronde (1997), whilst EmX (1999,
presented at Techne 01) uses motor recognition
patterns, and Scribble Test (2002, present
at Techne 02) gives a psychological interpretation
of the participant's graphic production. Since
1998 he has been promoting social interaction
projects characterized by the use of technology,
as well as the performing arts and the circulation
of a digital philosophy. In 1999, in a disused
industrial area of Sesto San Giovanni, he designed
a Centre for Cultural Activities which promoted
the exhibition Fragments. From 2000 to
2002 he created and directed Ludialydis,
a psychobar meeting place and centre for the experimentation
and production of events. In 2003 he brought to
life the Arcnaut project,which links
the production of installations and interactive
objects to the conceptual investigation of the
interaction between art, science and philosophy.
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