FOTO by GIOVANNI SAINI (1999)

 

 

 

 

SERGIO MALTAGLIATI is an Italian Internet-based artist, works as a visual music composer and new media artist.

 

Born in 1960, Sergio Maltagliati is a composer and new-media artist. His education in both music (Luigi Cherubini Conservatory) and visual arts, has placed him in the position to incorporate sign, colour, and sound into a unique artistic work. His catalog includes traditional instrumental compositions, performance, digital paintings and interactive web-based art works. He is the component of the Florentine artistic current, which has been described as Music of Art (Visual Music and Fluxus) with contamination between experimentation and tradition, including Sylvano Bussotti, Giuseppe Chiari, Giancarlo Cardini, Daniele Lombardi, Albert Mayr, Marcello Aitiani, Pietro Grossi. These artists have experimented the interaction among sound, sign and vision, a synaesthetics of art derived from historical avant-gardes, from Kandinsky to futurism, from Scriabin to Schoenberg and the Bauhaus. Maltagliati often collaborated with a pioneer of computer music Pietro Grossi. In 2021 the Luigi Dallapiccola Study Center made him in the Music Archive of the 20th century, recognizing him as one of the most significant composers active in Florence.


Maltagliati has always been deeply interested in a multimedia concept of art. His education, in both music and the visual arts, has placed him in the position to incorporate sign, colour, and sound into a unitary concept of multiple perception, through analogies, contrasts, stratifications, and associations.

In 1985 he made (with the painter Edoardo Salvi) a work for music, art of mime and zoo-anthropomorphous pictures entitled "Musica intorno alla Gabbia" (Music around the cage) whit 170 performers-actors.Aftewards, the visual and sonorous environment has been rebuilt at the "Spedale degli Innocenti" in Florence.

In 1986 he prepared an art exhibition called "Veder Sentire" (Seeing hearing), and following year at the Public Library of Monsummano he made "Viaggio tra suoni a colori" (Trip between sound and colours).

In 1989 he raised (with the painter Andrea Dami) "Revolution" a gigantic collage-score with a size of 96x48 m. involving 240 childrens as painters.

In 1990 at the "Teatro Manzoni" in Pistoia the first night of "K1-626M" for chorus-orchestra-tape and objects had place, transforming Mozart works in words-sounds-noises and colours. In 1991 he meets John Cage.

 

Since 1996 he is involved also (as a teorician and as an artist) in visual/music interactive webbased project.

 

Work in updating from 1997 and 2002: netOper@ e neXtOper@, netOper@ is online from 1997. The opera is an audio and visual work, with real and virtual on-line performaces. You are invited to participate by contributing original audio/visuals... netOper@ is based on flash interactivity audio/visual that you can play, to interact, you should position your mouse pointer over various parts of the drawing. NeXtOper@ It is “in progress” for the Web and GSM networks with cellular phones.

Now he uses a personal computer to set up interactive works, and programming new automated and generative visual-music software.

 



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2022

Attraverso l'arte – galleria Il Gabbiano 1968-2018 Cinquant'anni di ricerca artistica

CAMeC Centro Arte Moderna e Contemporanea La Spezia

exhibition
2018/19
2017

P. Grossi: ARTE e/o COMPUTER

Centro per l'Arte Contemporane PECCI - Prato (Italy)
generated live Visual Music exhibition
2016

Music...for Romano Rizzato's painting

performance
2015

SGUARDI SONORI SOUNDART ITALIA

exhibition
2014

Topología

Onassis Cultural Center, University of Athens, Institute for Research on Music & Acoustics
publication/exhibition
2013

Synaesthesia 3 History of the Senses

generated LIVE performance
2012
Inquietudini nella modernità Conservatorio di Musica "Luigi Cherubini" - FLORENCE
video/performance
2011
Collage JukeBox 4.04 Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Villa Arson, Nice - France
Listening Post
COLOR SEQUENCER < Live Performance Quantum Bit Netlabel, Cuneo / London
performance
SGUARDI SONORI 2011 Palazzo Orsini Bomarzo - ( VITERBO) ITALIA
exhibition
Oper@pixel < Live Performance Quantum Bit Netlabel, Cuneo / London
performance
PNEM SOUND ART FESTIVAL * Sound** Video*** Live act ///Uden / Paesi Bassi
exhibition
Verde Bianco Rosso happening for the 150 years of the Unity of Italy Genova (Italy)
exhibition
2010
Sguardi Sonori 2010 "infinite spaces" - Museo della Civiltà Romana - Roma (Italy)
exhibition
TWEAK - digital art festival Church Gallery Space - Limerick School of Art and Design (Ireland)
Listening Post
C - MiniVideoArt Festival C - MiniVideoArt Festival Eyedrum Art & Music Gallery - Atlanta (USA)
exhibition
NewMediaFest'2010 Global Heritage of Digital Culture - Cologne (Germany)
review
MAGMART Magmart the full screening_PAN Palazzo delle Arti Naples (Italy)
participation
2009
The Lower Manhattan Project "Figura" Université du Québec à Montréal (Canada)
review
Art in Mobile Gallery Galerie De Meerse" - Hoofddorp (Amsterdam)
exhibition
2007
Improvvisazioni del software MAXXI_National Museum of the XXI Century Arts Rome (It)
exhibition
Ad Libitum. Musica da vedere Interazioni tra musica e arte, Bayreuth (Germany)
exhibition
2006
Universitat Oberta Catalunya-Spain
review
COMM 328 Bethany College Dept. of Communication, Bethany, West Virginia USA
interview
awcr.org art and net.art Javamuseum: Germany
participation
2005
NO-ORG.NET Jerusalem art experimental projects
exhibition
MEETING CLUB Pescia (PT) Italy permanent exhibition
performance/exhibition
Sound Art Museum Sound Projects Roma (It)
installation
WB05 Contemporary Art Museum - Istanbul
exhibition
Libretto Digitale Galleria di Palazzo del Carmine, Caltanissetta - Italy
exhibition
2004
A C C A CreazioniDinamicheDigitali"_STUDIO14 show-room, ROMA
exhibition
Ad libitum- Musica da vedere Venezia Italy
exhibition
collective jukebox 4.03 Museo Fotografia Contemporanea, Villa Ghirlanda, Italy
installation
File Script /// FILE SCRIPT MAGAZINE-Brazil
review
VPAR.VPNA 04 Montreal Canada
participation
2003
PEAM Pescara Electronic Artists Meeting - Italy
performance
FILE 2003 hipersônica - Electonic Language Festival Sao Paulo Brazil
exhibition
1st International Symposium Interactive Media DesignYeditepe University - ¡stanbul
review
InteractivA 03 Museum of Contemporary Art Merida Yucatan - Mexico
exhibition
V-Noise Cina
review
MAD'03 2nd meeting of experimental arts in Madrid - Spagna
participation
Suono_Segno_Gesto_Visione Presidenza Consiglio Comunale of Florence Palazzo Vecchio - Italy
exhibition
Ad libitum Palazzina delle Arti “Lucio R. Rosaia” - La Spezia (It)
exhibition
2002
Manifesta 4 Frankfurt Project FREE MANIFESTA" (curator Sal Randolph) - Germany
exhibition
Reload Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum iS.CaM
exhibition
Rhizome.org the New Media Art Resource - New York
review
Digital Pocket Gallery Helsinki - Finland
participation
DIDA WEB San Sebastián -Spain
review
A Virtual Memorial WTC 9_11_01 Germany
participation
U N b E h A G E N . C O M gallery search art - (France)
exhibition
Italian Net Art JavaMuseum curated by Agricola De Cologne
review
2001
Digitalsouls.com San Francisco - USA
exhibition
c o l l e c t i v e j u k e b o x3.1 Salons de Musique Strasbourg - France
installation
Donkey Net Tijuana - Mexico
review
GA2001 Politecnico di Milano University - Italy
installation
2000
WDAMA Word Digital and Multimedia Art - Australia.
review
JukeBox collective Version 3.0 - Zürich
installation
GRASCH-Quadroteca
Associazione Culturale-Lissone(MI) Italy
installation
1999
Interactive Artwork Donkey Net - Web Gallery
review
ShOcKArt Perdido en el Camino - Web Arts
review
HyperArt Web Gallery - New York
exhibition
Z I N E n new media Canada
review
weak blood artists against war and violence Germany
installation
<.net art>:<anywhere>........ Modena - Italy
participation
Il Palato in sib (...)
performance
DENTRO IL SUONO percorsi musicali del '900-Centro Allende (La Spezia) Italy
exhibition
1998
Arte in Scatola Studio Gennai - Pisa (IT)
exhibition
Tracce Centro Ricerche Artistiche Mestre - Venezia (IT)
exhibition
Questione di Etichette Studio Gennai - Pisa (IT)
exhibition
iNCONTRI mUSICANICI discussion corner by Francesco Michi
review
1997
Prod8 Garantito museo Nuova Era, Bari (IT)
exhibition
L'Enigma del Tempo Galleria il Gabbiano - La Spezia (IT)
exhibition
Libretto Digitale Biblioteca Nazionale Firenze.Florence (IT)
exhibition
Partiture per Floppy Disk Galleria Il Gabbiano, La Spezia (IT)
performance/exhibition
1996
Arte in Scatola Galleria il Gabbiano - La Spezia (IT)
exhibition
Libretto Digitale Melbourne - Fringe Festival
exhibition
O Mesmo Som Omaggio a Giacinto Scelsi - Galleria Leonardi, Genova (IT) e Galleria il Gabbiano.
exhibition
Partiture Accademia d'arte Montecatini Terme (IT)
exhibition
Sinfonia Montevettolini Montevettolini (IT)
installation
1990
K. 1-626 M. Teatro Manzoni Pistoia (IT)
performance/opera
1989
REVOLUTION Monsummano Terme (IT)
performance
Sintassi in Rosso e Nero Mac,n – Museo di arte contemporanea e del Novecento
concerto
1987
Viaggio tra Suoni a Colori Biblioteca Comunale Monsummano Terme (IT)
exhibition/performance
1986
Veder Sentire (...)
exhibition
1985
Musica intorno alla gabbia Spedale degli Innocenti - Florence (IT)
performance/opera
1984
L'Autobus dei Fumetti (...)
publication/score
1980
Fogli di Diario Ente Concerti Castello di Belveglio - Asti (IT)
concerto
1979
Scherzo - For four brass instruments Conservatory of Music “Luigi Cherubini”- Florence (IT)
concerto
1974
First musical experiences.... Gialdino Gialdini Musical Band”
concerto