IMAGOMARE 2026 · Relational Media Art Festival
MAB – Contemporary Art Centre of Bari Sardo · 25–29 July 2026
IMAGOMARE 2026 is the second edition of the relational media art festival promoted by the cultural association EIA Factory, based at MAB in Bari Sardo. Under the artistic direction of Nicoletta Zonchello, the programme includes installations, performances and walks guided by artificial intelligence, exploring the relationship between body, technology and territory. The festival is supported by Fondazione di Sardegna.
Venue: MAB – Centro d'Arte Contemporanea, Vico III Trento, Bari Sardo (NU).
Opening: Saturday 25 July, 9:00 PM.
Artistic direction: Nicoletta Zonchello.
Permanent Installations · 25–29 July
Felice Colucci — The Distance Touches
A light installation that responds to the audience’s presence: the luminous threshold changes according to the distance and movement of those approaching it.
Riccardo Mantelli — The Absent Reflection / Speculum Nullum
An interactive mirror-sculpture that refuses to reflect. Instead of returning an image, it presents an absence, transforming the mirror from a surface of recognition into a threshold of contemplation.
Programme
Saturday 25 July · Opening at 9:00 PM
Rhythmic Convergences in Typewoven Texture
by Davide Tocco
Venue: MAB courtyard
The artist works live on a typewriter. The sound of typing is captured, amplified and transformed in real time, while the audience follows the visual and material composition of the work.
22:00 Khem
by Naim Al-Khidr
Venue: MAB courtyard
An algorave live-coding and mapping performance in which images and sounds are generated and transformed through code, conceived as a dynamic perceptual passage.
Sunday 26 July
18:30 PhAI – Drifting Version
by Riccardo Mantelli
Departure from MAB, route from the Wall to the Sea
A walk guided by the gaze of an artificial intelligence that observes the landscape on behalf of the audience. Along the route, short receipt-like prints present visions generated by the neural network and shared via Telegram. Part of the Disobedient Objects project.
21:00 Urbiquity — Book presentation and projections
by and with Lorenzo Tripodi / ogino:knauss
Venue: MAB courtyard
Presentation of the book Urbiquità. La città ovunque (Agenzia X, 2024), accompanied by projections. A navigation diary through a changing urban landscape, between theory and artistic practice: the city as a device for producing images.
Monday 27 July
21:00 Pressure Threshold
Collettivo Kairigai
Venue: MAB courtyard
Three performers inhabit a stage area traced on the ground, which progressively fragments into increasingly narrow geometries. An artificial voice inspired by satellite navigation systems guides the performances, staging the crisis between body and spatial control.
Wednesday 29 July
21:00
Floredumal — Elisa Flore - Live Painting on Live Coding
Venue: MAB Courtyard
A performance that translates sound into painterly gesture. Starting from sound frequencies created by Riccardo Mantelli, the work unfolds as a dialogue between vibration, body, and surface. In a space immersed in darkness, a single fluorescent pigment responds to variations in sound frequency and intensity, gradually revealing luminous marks from the shadows. The painted surface becomes a record of time and listening, creating an immersive experience where sound takes visible form through light, colour, and movement.
22:00
Kinetic Atlas, for Clavius and False Movements
by Daniele Ledda
Venue: MAB Courtyard
A sound and visual performance in which the musician's body becomes an integral part of the composition. Physical action and sound production merge into a unique generative ecosystem.
Artist Profiles
Urban planner and filmmaker, he develops an ongoing practice of urban exploration as an artist and activist. In 2011 he co-founded Tesserae Urban Social Research in Berlin. His transdisciplinary work brings together academic research, urban policy and experimental art within the ogino:knauss collective, producing films, video installations and graphic works.
Artist and curator, she investigates the relationships between art, technology and perception. She conceived and co-directed EIA – Exploring Artificial Intelligence in Art at CRS4 and later founded the EIA Factory association. Since 2024 she has directed MAB in Bari Sardo and serves as artistic director of IMAGOMARE.
An artist and researcher from Cagliari, he combines technological innovation and performing arts. An electronic engineer with more than twenty years of experience in computer vision and generative AI, he develops advanced models for immersive digital works and interactive environments.
Born in Iglesias in 1981, he lives and works in Villamassargia. He studied Architecture at the Politecnico di Milano and Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. His practice crosses architecture, calligraphy and visual composition, finding in the typewriter a material point of convergence.
Artist and creative technologist, he explores the encounter between ancient spirituality and digital languages through sacred geometry and artificial intelligence. He pursued further studies in London and at FORTH in Greece. He exhibits internationally and teaches at Domus Academy and NABA Milan.
Sound and visual artist, professor of Electronic Music at the Conservatory of Cagliari and artistic director of the Ticonzero Association. He investigates the relationship between visual arts and music by integrating gesture, word and listening, particularly through the recent Clavius project.
A contemporary dance collective founded in Turin in 2025 by Giada Zilio, Martina Aliceto and Francesca Ghiano. It explores the relationship between body and space through an interdisciplinary choreographic language integrating visual stimuli and theoretical reflection.
A visual artist exploring the boundary between painting, performative gesture and generative technologies. Through live painting, she investigates the metamorphosis of the image and the relationship between control and chance, the human body and the algorithm.
Information
Venue: MAB – Centro d'Arte Contemporanea di Bari Sardo, Vico III Trento, Bari Sardo (NU).
Contacts: info@mabcentroarte.org · +39 328 1659901
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