Federica Di Pietrantonio's 'Lost in Myst' video projected on Celleno ruins

On October 2, 2021, the video 'Lost in Myst' by Federica Di Pietrantonio will be projected onto the ruins of the church of Celleno, a ghost town in the province of Viterbo, Italy. The 39-minute work, funded by Regione Lazio through the Lazio Contemporaneo grant, features a first-person walk through a virtual landscape inspired by the 1993 video game Myst. The video includes dialogue, subtitles, and an immersive soundtrack, mirroring the real landscape of the Tuscia region. Di Pietrantonio, born in Rome in 1996, graduated in Painting from RUFA and was selected for the 2017 Mediterranea 18 Young Artists Biennale. She works at Spazio In Situ as an artist and web designer. In 2020, she won the Fondazione Cultura e Arte emerging artist prize at the XIII Talent Prize for 'Does the body know', a virtual experience based on Grand Theft Auto V. In 2021, she was selected for the Superblast residency at Manifattura Tabacchi in Florence by NAM – Not a Museum. The video's catalog is published by Vanilla Edizioni.