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Prizes and Exhibitions

  • Francesca Fini at work on her masks

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    2026 - Budapest Smart Film Fest - best AI Music Video
    2020 - Share Art Prize XIII, Italy- 1st prize

    2020 - Zealous Digital Art, Uk - 1st prize

    2020 - CYLAND ‘Chaos and Cosmos’ 1st prize / video art

    2016 - DigitalBigScreen 1st prize / videoart section

    2015 - Szczecin European Film Festival (SEFF) - first prize for most innovative language awarded by the Polish Film Institute - Poland

    2015 - CCCB Cultural Innovation Prize finalist - Barcelona

    2015 - (Id)art_Festival of videoart in Belforte del Chienti, "White Noise" winner of first prize - Italy

    2015 - Prix Videoformes 2015 - Prix Université Blaise Pascal and Prize Conseil Général du Puy-de-Dome - Clermont Ferrand 

    2013, 2012, 2010 - Magmart Video Festival - Naples - 1st prize

    2012 - Cinemed Montpellier Film Festival (finalist)

    2012 - Sardinia Film Festival (finalist)

    2011 - Celeste International Art Prize - Bologna (finalist performance art section)

    2011 - Celeste International Art Prize - New York (finalist performance art section)

    2011 - Arte Laguna Prize - Venice (finalist performance art section)

  • AI film LOVE by Francesca Fini

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    screening - Mix Festival, Brasil (finalist)
    screening - Split Film Festival, Croatia

    screening - Paper World at Budapest Smart Fest (winner)

    screening - New Ras Al Khaimah Biennale UAE
    screening - Image Play Video Art Festival, Portugal
    screening - The Wrong Biennale, online exhibition
    screening - Miami Art Tech Summit
    screening - The Chroma Awards (honorable mention)
    screening - AI Film Awards, Cannes

  • The Final Drop of Water, AI film by Francesca Fini

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    screening - CineTech Future Fest, Poland
    screening - AI Artist Festival, China
    screening - Türkiye International Artificial Intelligence Film Festival (T-AIFF), Turkey
    personal exhibition - Fondazione Zoli, Forlì

    exhibition - The Arts House, Singapore
    screening - Ibrida Festival 2024, Italy (winner)

    exhibition - Digital Mirages / Miraggi Digitali. Designing the 365 daily covers for the online magazine ReWriters Magazine

    commission - Designing a full Virtual World interactive Art Metaverse for Takeda Italia

  • Francesca Fini performing her award-winning piece Fair & Lost

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    exhibition - File Festival Sao Paulo, Brasil

    exhibition - Photopia Festival, Hamburg

    exhibition - Tecnologie Urbane, Palazzo Merulana, Rome

  • A Dream In Stone, a digital collection by Francesca Fini

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    production residency - A Dream in Stone, Rocca Sinibalda Castle, Italy
    screening - Varia 90, videoart program x Il Video Rende Felici, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome
    performing - Il Video Rende Felici exhibition, Galleria d'Arte Moderna (GAM), Rome
    installation - Share Art Prize and Festival, Turin
    screening - Désencadré Film Festival, Paris (winner Hors du cadre Prize)

    screening - Cerveira International Art Biennial, Portugal
    screening - Ribalta Experimental Film Festival, Italy (winner Freccia Freak Prize)
    performing - UnArchive Found Footage Festival, Rome

  • Sconfinamento, networked performance under lockdown by Francesca Fini

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    performing and screening - Ibrida Festival 2021, Forlì
    group exhibition - Les jours de lumière, 63 biennale d'arte contemporanea di Saint Saturnin

    screening - Moscow Shorts

    group exhibition - Continuum, for Saatchi Art, online

    screening - CADAF Crypto and Digital Art Fair, Paris
    screening - WRO Biennale, Poland
    video and installation - NordArt 2021 Art Fair, Germany
    AR installation - Festival Videoformes, Clermont-Ferrand

  • Sconfinamento, networked performance under lockdown by Francesca Fini

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    screening - PERFORMANCE ART FILM PROGRAM at MoCA Belgrade
    performance - Share Art Prize, Turin, Italy (winner) 

    screening - Proyector Festival @ Media Lab Prado Facade, Madrid

    performance - PerformAzioni Festival Bologna
    screening - Athens Digital Arts Festival 2020 / 16th Edition Technotribalism

    art direction - ENDECAMERON20 digital residency, Italy

    screening - CYLAND ‘Chaos and Cosmos’ video program 2020, Russia (winner video art section)
    group exhibition - Quarantine Exhibition, Space 52, Athens

    performance - SHIFT Biennale 2020, UK
    screening - GOLEM / To be generative in solidarity rather than be creative in solitude, curated by Francesco Kiais
    screening - Maratona di Visione, online

  • The Paperwall, a robotic performance by Francesca Fini

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    performance - "The Call center" @ Macro Art Museum, Rome
    screening - Simultan Festival, Romania
    screening - exhibition Un_Real Desires @ Somos Art House Berlin
    performance - T*Danse Festival, Aosta

    screening - Epicentroom Fest, St. Petersburg, Russia

    group exhibition - Le Dame Art Gallery, London
    performance - Miss America @ T*Danse Festival in Aosta
    screening - FILE Electronic Language Festival, Brasil
    screening - "Ophelia did not drown" @ Silencio Club, Paris

    performing and screening - Ibrida Festival, Forlì

    personal exhibition - Other Identity Biennale, Genova

    personal exhibition - Cyborg Fatale @ Narkissos Contemporary Art Gallery in Bologna (1-28 February 2019)

    personal exhibition - Art residency @ Macro Museum in Rome (8-22 January 2019)

    group exhibition - Mana Contemporary - Body + Camera 2019: The Un/Certain Body

  • Francesca Fini performing Skin/Tones at Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

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    screening - Thessaloniki International Film Festival 2018, FILM FORWARD section

    screening - Szczecin European Film Festival 2018, European Competition

    screening - Fuorinorma Extra experimental program @ MACRO Museum Rome

    screening - exhibition UN-BECOMING @ SomoS Art House Berlin

    performing - SKIN/TONES @ MACRO Museum Rome

    performing - BORDER CROSSING, collateral event @ MANIFESTA12, Palermo

    screening - Isola di Roma (Isola del Cinema), Rome, Italy

    performing - Casa Internazionale Delle Donne (International Women's House), Rome, Italy

    performing - TF18 - London Biennial of Performance Art and Noise

    screening - ASOLO ART FILM FESTIVAL, special projection, Asolo

    screening - DOUBLE SCREEN, curated by Bruno Di Marino @ CAFA Art Museum, Beijing

    performing - BODY QUAKE, performance @ Nuovo Cinema Palazzo, Rome

    personal exhibition - RED /// Francesca Fini Solo Show, curated by Arianna Forte and Human Ecosystem Relazioni, Rome

  • TYPO#3, a performance by Francesca Fini

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    performing - Les Instants Vidéo, Marseilles

    performing - MEM FESTIVAL @ Guggenheim Bilbao

    screening - FUORINORMA Experimental Cinema Festival, Rome

    personal exhibition - T*DANSE - Dance & Technology, Aosta, Italy

    performing and screening - PROYECTOR Festival 2017, Madrid

    screening - DOUBLE SCREEN - curated by Bruno Di Marino @ MAXXI Museum Rome

    performing and lecturing - INVE Vortice, Chile

    screening - Donne di Colore, curated by Giorgio De Finis, Torre dei Lambardi, Magione, Italy

    screening - Weaving Europe: the World as Meditation, European Capital of Culture PAFOS 2017, Pafos, Greece

    screening - JAPAN MEDIA ARTS Festival, Tokyo

    screening - Lishui Photography Festival "Images in an Era of Hypermedia", Lishui, China

    performing and screening - Fonlad Digital Art Festival, Portugal

    screening - NordArt Fair, Büdelsdorf, Germany

    performing - KALA GHODA Festival, Mumbai, India

    performing and screening - BIKANER HOUSE, New Delhi, India

    performing - KIPAF Performance Art Festival, Kolkata, India

    screening - FLUX FACTORY, “ The Endless and Mobile Beautiful Collapsible Labyrinth” exhibition, New York

  • Ofelia Non Annega, a performance-based art film by Francesca Fini

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    performing - Submerge Festival, performance art Festival, Bristol, Uk

    screening - Live Cinema Festival, Museo Macro, Rome

    screening - “Mother, I have reached the land of my dreams” exhibition @ RADIALSYSTEM V, Berlin

    screening - FILE 2016 Electronic Language International Festival, Sao Paulo, Brasil

    screening - Official Italian premiere of the movie "Ophelia did not drown", Museo Macro, Rome

    screening - "Puertas Cambiantes" videoart exhibition, Valparaiso, Chile

    screening - Special projection of "Ophelia did non drown" at IVAHM New Media Art Festival, Madrid, Spain

    screening - Proyector Festival, Madrid, Spain

    residency - Art Residency @ The Naggar School of Art, Jerusalem, Israel

    performing - SAVE THE BEAUTY 2016 @ Mondrian Suite Contemporary, Rome, Italy

    performing and screening - Art Residency at Bob Wilson's Watermill Center, with "La Masca" project, New York

    screening - VIDEOFORMES 2016, the world premiere of "Ophelia did not drown", Clermont Ferrand, France

    screening - official release of "Ophelia did non drown", long-feature performance-art based experimental movie, distributed and produced in association with Istituto Luce Cinecittà

  • Blind, a live media performance by Francesca Fini

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    screening - Instants Vidéo Festival 2015, Marseille, France

    screening - Robot Festival 2015, Bologna, Italy

    screening - Videomedeja Festival 2015, "Dadaloop" (special mention), Novi Sad, Serbia

    screening - Szczecin European Film Festival (SEFF), my video "Mother-Rythm" (winner) as most innovative language

    screening - Linoleum Animation Art Festival, Kiev, Ucraine

    screening - (Id)art_Festival of videoart in Belforte del Chienti, "White Noise" (winner), Italy

    screening - Food Project for Magmart Videoart Festival, Naples, Italy

    residency - Copycat Academy artist in residence 2015 @ Luminato Festival, Toronto, Canada

    screening - AVIFF Art Film Festival Cannes, France

    screening - NOW&AFTER Videoart Festival @ Schusev State Museum of Architecture, Moscow, Russia

    screening - Anthropologie numérique / 3ème édition, Paris, France

    screening - VIDEOFORMES 2015, "White Sugar" (winner) of Prix Université Blaise Pascal des étudiants

  • Fair & Lost, award-winning performance by Francesca Fini

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    screening - MusicVideoArt 2014 @ PALAIS DES BEAUX ARTS, Lille, France

    screening - 27th edition of the Festival Instants Vidéo Numériques et Poétiques, Marseille, France

    screening - VIDEOPLAY CELEBRATION, Worldwide

    screening - SCREENGRAB New Media Art Prize, International Competition, Queensland, Australia

    screening - 5h edition of Samples Videoart Festival 2014, Mexico

    performing - 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art, FADO and Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Toronto

    screening - 16th edition of Paris Festival for Different and Experimental Cinema, Paris 

    performing - Milano Triennale @ Illy Art Lab, for the "Illy Red Night" curated by Bob Wilson

    residency - Bob Wilson's Watermill Center Summer Program, New York

    screening - Videoart Yearbook, curated by the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Bologna

    personal exhibition - "Mother-Rythm" @ Mondrian Suite Contemporaryartspace, Rome

    personal exhibition - Circle1 Gallery Berlin: Francesca Fini, Michal Helfman & Olaf Kühnemann

    screening - Instantes entre el Placer y el Dolor @ Galeria Santafé, Bogotá

    personal exhibition - Public Art Screens, i/ o / lab @ Center of Future Arts, Norway

    screening - A.M.A. Art & Music Around Festival Brescia (winner) with the video "Touchless"

    performing - Rapid Pulse Performance Art Festival 2014, Chicago

    screening - FILE Electronic Language International Art Festival 2014, Sao Paulo, Brasil

    screening - Miden Festival 2014, Kalamata, Greece

    screening - Berlin International Directors Lounge 2014, Germany

    screening - Videoformes Festival, Clermont-Ferrand, France

    performing - Margaret Guthman Musical Instrument Competition 2014, Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta

  • Francesca Fini performance The Shadow in Kolkata

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    performing - Modern Panic IV @ Apiary Studios, London
    performing and screening - Gallery Week Santander, Spain

    screening - Video Remakes, curated by Carlo Montanaro and Elisabetta di Sopra, AplusA Gallery, Venice, Italy

    screening - Simultan Videoart Festival, Timisoara, Romania

    performing - Dimanche Rouge Performance Art Festival @ Helsinki Art Museum, Filnand

    screening - CINEMED Film Festival Montpellier (finalist), France

    screening - IKONO TV on-air video art Festival, Berlin
    performing - 9th International Festival of Digital Arts and New Media (Athens Digital Arts Festival), Athens

    performing and screening - Il Corpo e I Media, personal lecture and performance @ Bologna Fine Arts Academy

    performing - Rapid Pulse Performance Art Festival, Chicago

    personal exhibition - Five actions with red gloves solo exhibition @ Opera Unica Art Gallery, Rome

    screening - 100X100=900 International Video Art Project @ Cinema Aquila, Rome

    screening - Visioni d’Arte Video Art Program @ Auditorium Santa Margherita, Venice

    performing - Save the Beauty @ Mondrian Suite Contemporaryartspace, Rome

    screening - Magmart Video Art Festival (among winners of  2013  edition with the video “Wombs”), Naples

    screening - Time is Love 6, International Video Art Program @ Mori + Stein Gallery, London

    screening - XII Festival Internacional de la Imagen, Colombia

    screening - Fonlad Best Off 2005-2012, Coimbra, Portugal

    screening - Voci di Arte Contemporanea @ MLAC Museo Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea, Roma

  • Francesca Fini performing Oasis in The Desert

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    screening - Venice International Performance Art Week @ Palazzo Bembo, Venice

    screening - Cyberfest At Heaven’s Door, St Petersburg, Russia

    performing - FAD Festival De Arte Digital, Belo Horizonte, Brasil

    screening - File Electronic Language International Festival, Sao Paulo, Brasil

    screening - Festival of Migrant Film, Ljubljana, Slovenia

    screening - Cinemed Montpellier (finalist with the video “Parnasus”), France

    screening - Sardinia Film Festival (finalist with the videos “Mediterraneo”  and “Parnasus”), Italy

    performing - LPM Performers Meeting @ Teatro Valle Occupato, Rome

    performing - Athens Video Art Festival, Greece

    screening - Norme per la rivoluzione Video Art Program, Volksbühne Berlin and Cinema Massimo of Turin

    screening - Digital Marrakech @ Centre Culturel Atlas, Marrakech

    screening - TakeS Video Art Program @ Bernardo Museum, Portugal

    screening - Berlin Directors Lounge Video Art Festival, Berlin

    screening - Oslo Screen Festival, Oslo

    performing - LOW LIVES:OCCUPY! @ Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, New York

    screening - Women’s glance Video Art Program @ PAN Palazzo Delle Arti, Naples

  • Francesca Fini performing her award-winning piece The Shadow

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    screening - I Care, per Art White Night @ Casa Bolognini, Bologna

    screening - Pixelpops 2011, Paris

    performing - Celeste Prize 2011 (finalist in the Live Media and Performance Art Section) @ Invisible Dog Art Gallery, New York

    performing - RobotFestival 2011, Bologna, Italy

    screening - Visioni Acustiche @ MACRO Contemporary Art Museum, Rome

    screening - Alterazioni 2011 @ Castello Aldobrandesco di Arcidosso, Italy

    screening - Now & After 2011 @ Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow

    screening - Proyector Festival, Madrid

    screening - Miden Film Festival 2011, Greece

    performing - OMISSIS Contemporary Performing Arts Festival, Gradisca D’isonzo, Italy

    performing - ADD Digital Art Festival @ MACRO Contemporary Art Museum, Rome

    performing - LPM Live Performers Meeting @ Cinema Aquila, Rome

    performing - WRO Biennal Alternative Now 2011, Wroclaw, Poland

    performing - Arte Laguna International Art Prize (finalist in the Performance Art Section), Arsenale di Venezia, Venice

    performing and screening - Temps d’Images Video Art Program @ Palladium Theatre, Rome

    screening - Contravision Film Festival, Berlin

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