Margherita Landi

Biography

Choreographer, performer, media artist, graduated in Cultural Anthropology.

From 2010 her artistic work began to focus on practical and theoretical studies on perception and attention, and then extended, from 2014, to a reflection on the body and technology, on the transformation of rituals and emotional processes implemented by digital interaction.

Over time she has explored Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), Projection mapping and various social media. In recent years she has focused on VR for the embodiment potential that this technology offers, studying choreographic transmission techniques through the VR headset.

In 2020 she is selected for the VR workshop offered by Biennale College Cinema VR. Her work aims at a reflection on the conscious use of technology as an experiential and creative tool, eliminating the human / artificial dichotomy that tends to attribute a negative value to the technological tool, interpreting it instead as a possible extension of the body itself, therefore capable of “augment” the experience that can be made of it.

Among her projects: “Dance for Smartphone”, “The vulnerable technology inside of us”, “Improvisation in dance as a liminal space”, “The world behind us”, “P2P, From Person to Profile – new forms of mourning in the digital age”. She has worked with artists such as Iraqi Bodies, Makiko Ito, Katie Duck, Dance Elixir, MonoCollective, Yumiko Yoshioka, Company Blu, Zoya Sardhashti, Virgilio Sieni, TSKrypton.

Winner of the Auggie Award 2021 for BEST ART with the virtual reality project “Peaceful Places”.