Giuseppe Lo Schiavo: bridging traditional art and NFTs
Giuseppe Lo Schiavo, an Italian crypto artist born in 1986 in Calabria, pursued his studies in Architecture at Sapienza University of Rome, focusing on Visual Design. Relocating to London, he delved into the intersection of science and art, serving as an artist-in-residence at UCL's microbiology labs. In 2021, he clinched the European BioArt Challenge award. Embracing NFTs as a transformative force in digital art, his creations, such as Orgasmica, merge classical artistic elements with concepts of technology and mortality. In April 2022, he held a solo exhibition at Museo Luzzetti, showcasing NFTs alongside Renaissance masterpieces. His recent endeavors include Antropogenica in Times Square and Dicotomica at the Videocittà festival, along with developing a high-resolution digital NFT and collaborating on synthetic biology projects with MUSE and CIBIO.
Key facts
- Giuseppe Lo Schiavo (b. 1986) is from Calabria, studied Architecture at Sapienza Rome, specialized in Visual Design.
- He moved to London, worked as artist-in-residence at UCL microbiology labs.
- Won European BioArt Challenge in 2021, organized by MUSE Trento.
- Started with photography and surrealist project Levitation (computer graphic + photography, inspired by Magritte).
- Embraced NFTs in 2021, seeing them as a revolution for digital art.
- Solo show at Museo Luzzetti, Grosseto, April 2022, curated by Alessandro Corina with MOCDA.
- Press conference at Grosseto town hall had over 300 attendees.
- Recent project Antropogenica displayed on Times Square panels until July 10, 2022, part of Urban Pixels by MOCDA with EssilorLuxottica.
- Collaborated with Lenovo Italia for new laptop line, creating work Henosis.
- Presented Dicotomica at Videocittà festival in Rome, July 20-23, 2022.
- Working on highest-resolution digital NFT using 130 networked computers.
- Solo show at Spazio Nuovo gallery, Rome, planned for November 2022.
- Continuing projects with MUSE and CIBIO on synthetic biology, part of EU project ACDC.
- Creating digital entities that live on web, respond to external conditions, can reproduce, infect, and die.
Entities
Artists
- Giuseppe Lo Schiavo
- Magritte
- Dimitris Papaioannou
Institutions
- Sapienza University of Rome
- University College London (UCL)
- MUSE – Museum of Science in Trento
- MOCDA (Museum of Contemporary Digital Art)
- Museo Luzzetti
- SuperRare
- MakersPlace
- Bombay
- EssilorLuxottica
- Lenovo Italia
- Reasoned Art
- Videocittà
- Spazio Nuovo
- CIBIO (University of Trento)
- European Union
- ACDC (Artificial Cells with Distributed Cores)
Locations
- Calabria
- Italy
- Rome
- London
- United Kingdom
- Trento
- Grosseto
- New York
- United States
- Times Square