Francesca Fini

Francesca Fini is an Italian interdisciplinary artist mainly focused on new media and performance art. She lives and works in Rome. The focus of her work is always the body and its own narrative power. inserted into this is an exuberant ‘multimedia pot’ wherein live video art pieces are mixed with generative audio, lo-fi technologies, and homemade interaction design devices, handicraft masks, bizarre costumes and steam-punk props.

Fini has participated in the 2011 WRO Biennale in Poland, the River-to-River Festival in New York, the ADD Digital Art Festival in Rome, the finals of Laguna International Art Prize in Venice, the Venice International Performance Art Week, the FILE Festival in Brazil, the Berlin Directors Lounge, the Ikono Tv Festival, and the Rapid Pulse Performance Art Festival in Chicago, among others. In 2014, she was selected for the Margaret Guthman Musical Instrument Competition organized by Georgia Institute of Technology. She was also invited to Kolkata where she lectured and performed at the Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute.

In 2014, she participated in The Watermill Center’s International Summer Program. In 2015, she directed the first edition of HI> DANCE Festival in Rome, dedicated to contemporary dance and technology. In that same year she won the Prix Université Blaise Pascal des étudiants and the Prize Conseil Général du Puy-de-Dome during Videoformes Festival in Clermont-Ferrand. She is currently working on a new experimental feature film in collaboration with Cinecittà Istituto Luce.