“[…] Duelling with that whistle is the long, sharp wail of a violin note escaping from the room on the right belonging to the peasant woman’s convalescent son.

Then, silence for a moment. Then, two minutes of chick peas in oil and vinegar. Then, seven capers. Then twenty-five liqueur cherries. then twelve fried potato chips. Then a silence of a quarter during which the mouth continue to chew the vacuum. Then, a sip of Barolo wine held in the mouth for one minute. Then a roast quail for each of the guests to look at and inhale deeply the smell of without eating. Then four long handshakes with the peasant woman cook, and off they all go into the darkness-wind-rain of the forest.”

From The Futurist Cookbook, F.T.Marinetti

Mattia Casalegno is an Italian artist working in installations, sculpture and mixed reality.

His multidisciplinary practice is influenced by both post-conceptualism and digital art, and has been defined relational, immersive, and participatory. Casalegno exhibited in numerous international galleries and institutions, among others: MACRO Museum Rome, Civic Museum of Bassano del Grappa, Auditorium, Hadrian Temple, RomaEuropa Festival, Sant’Arcangelo dei Teatri, Netmage festival (Italy), Mutek Festival (Canada), Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts (Taiwan), Chronus Art Center (China), UPDATE Biennial, Cimatics Festival, Nuit Blanche Brussels (Belgium), Optronica Festival (UK), Le Cube Contemporary Art Museum (France), OFFF Festival (Spain), The Satellite Art Fair, AxS Festival, YAA Museum, LACMA in US.

Nominated to the New Technological Art Awards in 2014 and artist in residence at Eyebeam in 2015, he received various grants and fellowships from NEW INC, the Center for Cultural Innovation, Young Italian Artists Network, NYFA, the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts and the Chronus Art Center, among others. In 2018 he is recipient of the Lumen Prize People’s Choice Award. He is currently adjunct faculty at department of Digital Arts, Pratt Institute in New York, and the Design+Media department at Rhode Island School of Design.