ArteScienza Festival 2025 - Immaterial Planet

The 2025 ArteScienza Festival - which runs from July 1st to September 25th in Rome, with events also in Rieti, Latina, Piacenza, and Trieste— under the title of Immaterial Planet and focuses on the creativity between real and virtual, the artificial intelligence and the new technologies applied to music and the arts, and the research and innovation.

The Festival therefore focuses on musical and dance works and artistic installations that trace the boundaries or relationships between the imaginary and the concrete, between the virtual and the real, seeking to encourage the broadest possible reflection on the relevance of ecological issues, humanity's relationship with nature and technology, and the macroscopic contradictions and excesses of consumer society.

This year's edition, organised as in previous editions by the Centro Ricerche Musicali, is inspired by the thought of Jean-Jacques Wunenburger (1946), a French philosopher who studied the role of the imagination, symbols and myths in their relationship with contemporary philosophical, scientific, political and cultural rationality.

The Festival at MUSA – Museum of Musical Instruments of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia, which takes place from July 9th to 20th, includes, in addition to the concerts scheduled during the days in which the Festival is at MUSA, also the listening of acousmatic works – in collaboration with MA/IN Festival – and numerous installations created in an immersive listening space with Giuseppe Silvi's S.T.ONE spherical sound diffusion system.

The Festival at the Teatro Spazio Rossellini and the Goethe-Institut Rom from 13 to 25 September, includes the resumption of the Festival after the summer break at the Teatro Spazio Rossellini with two new dance productions, productions by the Excursus-PinDoc company for the ArteScienza 2025 Festival.

On Monday, September 22nd and Thursday, September 25th, the Festival will be at the Goethe-Institut Rom for its final events: on Monday the 22nd, the concert/installation Lazzaro (at 9 pm) featuring works by Mario Bertoncini, with Alice Cortegiani, Marco Di Gasbarro, Giuseppe Silvi, Davide Tedesco, and Leonardo Zaccone, and on Thursday the 25th, the tribute to Giacinto Scelsi, the latter in collaboration with the Isabella Scelsi Foundation. È il suono quello che conta (It's sound what matters), instead, explores the work and thought of Giacinto Scelsi, with contributions from Sebastiano D'Ayala Valva, Sandro Marrocu, and Gianni Trovalusci; at 8.30pm the short concert with her music by pianist Beatrice Cori and at 9pm the screening of the documentary film Il primo moto dell'immobile (2018) by director Sebastiano D’Ayala Valva, which investigates the sound and spiritual landscape of a visionary and invisible artist such as Scelsi, her ancestor.

The complete program is available on the official website: www.artescienza.info

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