Eleonora Maria Irene Oreggia

(alias xname)

Born: Milan 22/08/76
Doctor of Philosophy
Status: Single
Faith: Polytheist
Religion: Anarchist
Blood: Neg
Money: Zero
City: Amsterdam
Licence: BSD, GPL, CC, VE

http://xname.cc/


Xname is a media artist and performer born in Milan. 
After classical studies she moved to Bologna, where she studied painting at the Fine Art Academy of Bologna with 
pop/informal artist Concetto Pozzati. In Bologna she has been influenced by the mutoid tecno movement and the early 
italian pirate television network. She was also member of TPO/videoLab. She graduated with honor in Semiotics of Animation at 
University of Bologna with Professor Paolo Fabbri. Since September 2003 she has been based in Amsterdam, where she worked in 
the Netherlands Media Art Institute (Montevideo). She actively partecipated in the following projects: 
spring-alpha, dyne.org, ASCII, Streamtime, Illegitimate, s100kb, /ETC, Chequepoint, Radio Ubique, Digicult, 
The Ball in the Hole, Giss. She is currently developing: The Oracle Machine, a post-AI interactive software; 
Virtual Entity, a new metadata system for net-art and immaterial works, and a solo audiovisual interactive performance. 
She writes on various blogs and online magazines about new media, hacking, free software culture, art and technology. 
She is PhD candidate at Goldsmiths, London (supervisors: Matthew Fuller and Luciana Parisi) and researcher
at Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht (Imaginary Property project).


Her skills include fine digital art, radio, streaming, video-making, media art preservation and nsimple programming. 
Note: she is looking for interesting work, in Amsterdam and elsewhere.


<---! I am an electronic artist. I create interactive installations, video, radio, streaming, live performances
and happenings. I am interested in hacking and programming, DIY electronics and virtual life. 
I work as a researcher and writer on new media, hacking, free software culture, art and technology. 
I seek for analogue and digital media and explore their combinations, attempting to narrate a parallel poetical vision 
of current state. I think media art is the renaissance of contemporary art. 
Artists, philosophers and intellectuals can give consciousness to people and society through their visions and intuitions. !--->

<---! I am interested in researching the interstices between art and
technology, illusion and simulation, code and languages.  
I assume technology and computers can let us rediscover imaginative power 
and other subtile brain faculties.
My journey into development is a futuristic exploration of our 
roots and the hidden past of humanity.
Extreme rational tools are rendering visible the invisible. !--->