Silvia Bianchi, Artist and Co-Director at VjCentral.it
Silvia Bianchi co-directs the web portal VjCentral.it and has been working in the field of vj-ing and Live Media for years. She has curated various events and the publication of several collection and productions having to do with audiovisual art and vj-ing.
In summer 2006 she has collaborated with Valentina Besegher, Mattia Casalegno, Claudio Sinatti e Antonio Zavagli towards the production of a compilation album dedicated to Italian vj-ing and entitled “Mixing Identities”. The compilation has been released on the label ‘Minus Habens’ with the collaboration of the summer festival Elettrowave. In winter 2007, Silvia Bianchi has worked alongside Marco Mancuso in curating the project ‘Italians Do It Better’ – which was created particularly as part of the London festival Optronica. She has taught workshops at IED, LABA and Istituto Marangoni. She has graduated in a three-yearly BA on Semiotics and New Media (controlla qui come si chiama il tuo corso di laurea all’estero) with a dissertation on Live Media, and is about to get a postgraduate degree in Semiotics of Architecture with a thesis on Media Architecture.
