| Gianni Toti |

From left: Italian computer artists Gianni Toti, Caterina Davinio, Mario Sasso. |
| Born |
June 24, 1924
Rome, Italy |
| Died |
January 8, 2007
Rome, Italy |
| Occupation |
poet, writer, journalist, video artist, electronic art |
| Literary movement |
Video art, Video poetry |
| Notable work(s) |
Planetopolis, Tupac Amauta (electronic video poem opera) |
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Gianni Toti (Rome, 24 June 1924 - Rome, 8 January 2007) was an Italian poet, writer, journalist, and cineaste. Events 972 - Battle of Cedynia, the first documented victory of Polish forces takes place Year 1924 ( MCMXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Rome ( Roma ˈroma Roma is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city with more than 2 Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest Events 871 - Battle of Ashdown - Ethelred of Wessex defeats a Danish invasion army Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Rome ( Roma ˈroma Roma is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city with more than 2 Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest Employment is a Contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. Video art is a type of Art which relies on Moving pictures and is comprised of Video and/or audio data Electronic art is a form of art that makes use of Electronic media or more broadly refers to Technology and/or Electronic media This is a list of modern literary movements: that is movements after the Renaissance. Video art is a type of Art which relies on Moving pictures and is comprised of Video and/or audio data Video poetry is Poetry in Video form It is also known as videopoetry video-visual poetry poetronica poetry video media poetry or Cin(E-Poetry depending "Russian Futurists" redirects here For the band see The Russian Futurists. Video poetry is Poetry in Video form It is also known as videopoetry video-visual poetry poetronica poetry video media poetry or Cin(E-Poetry depending Rome ( Roma ˈroma Roma is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city with more than 2 Events 972 - Battle of Cedynia, the first documented victory of Polish forces takes place Year 1924 ( MCMXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 871 - Battle of Ashdown - Ethelred of Wessex defeats a Danish invasion army Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest A journalist (also called a newspaperman) is a person who practices Journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events trends In the early 80s he created "Poetronica" (poetry and cinema elaborated with electronic art). Electronic art is a form of art that makes use of Electronic media or more broadly refers to Technology and/or Electronic media
Biography
Graduated in Law, he published poetry books, articles and novels. He was partisan against Nazism and Fascism in the Italian Resistenza and, for many years, journalist and correspondent for the political newspaper "L’Unità”. Nazism, which was a short name for National Socialism (Nationalsozialismus refers primarily to the Ideology and practices of the National Socialist German Fascism is a totalitarian nationalist and corporatist ideology The Italian Resistance movement was a partisan force during World War II. Editor-in-chief of "La voce della Sicilia", "Lavoro", and of the cultural review "Carte segrete".
In the early 80s he began an experimentation where he mixed poetry, cinema and electronic art, creating a new language, which he defined "poetronica" (video poetry and electronic poetry). Video poetry is Poetry in Video form It is also known as videopoetry video-visual poetry poetronica poetry video media poetry or Cin(E-Poetry depending Digital poetry is a form of Electronic literature with a wide range of approaches to Poetry that all have in common prominent and crucial use of Computers By realizing his works he collaborated with specialized cultural centers, such as CICV (Centre de Recherche Pierre Schaeffer, in Montbéliard-Belfort, France), that gave him the possibility to utilize technologies and equips of technicians for creating artistic projects. Pierre Henri Marie Schaeffer ( August 14, 1910 &ndash August 19, 1995) was a French
In his works Toti mixes history, politics, legends, oral traditions, folk culture. His writing contains idiomatic expressions, neologisms, words taken from many languages.
Film and Video Poem Opera
Film
- Ciné-tracts, cortissimimetraggi, Parigi-Roma 1968-1969
- Chi ha paura della Cecoslovacchia, 1969, Unitelefilm, Roma
- Cinegiornaliberi, cortometraggi (con Cesare Zavattini), 1968-69
- Lenin vivo, mediometraggio, Unitelefilm, Roma 1970
- E di Shaùl e dei sicari sulle vie da Damasco, lungometraggio 35mm. 1973, 119', Italia-Siria
- Alice nel paese delle cartaviglie, mediometraggio, 1980
Video
- La vita quotidiana durante la seconda guerra mondiale, 1980 50', Rai-DSE
- Per una videopoesia, 1980, 80', Rai-Ricerca e sperimentazione programmi
- Tre videopoemetti, 1981, 33' Rai-Ricerca e sperimentazione programmi
- "Trilogia majakovskiana": Valeriascopia, 26';
- Incatenata alla pellicola, 60';
- Cuor di Tèlema, 83', 1982-83, Rai-Ricerca e sperimentazione programmi
- "L'immaginario scientifico": L'arnia cosmica, 9';
- Alla ricerca dell'anticoda, 14';
- I raggi cosmici e l'odoscopio, 4'45";
- Dialogo digitale del corpo umano, 27';
- L'ordine, il caos, il phaos, 24'30";
- La terra vista dal cielo, 5';
- Conversazione sulle grandi sintesi, 50', 1986,
- Cité de la Science et de l'Industrie, La Villette, Paris
- SqueeZangeZaùm, 1988, 100', Rai-Istituto Luce. Dedicated to Velimir Khlebnikov (Gold Laser Award, Locarno, 1988)
- Terminale Intelligenza, 1990, 60', Università degli Studi, Pisa
- Monteveritazione op. Velimir Khlebnikov (Russian Велими́р Хле́бников first name also spelled Velemir last name also spelled Chlebnikov Hlebnikov Xlebnikov pseudonym of Viktor 000?, 1991, 17', Festival Videoart Locarno
- Tenez Tennis, 1992, 15', Rai Lombardia, Università degli Studi, Bologna, Etabeta, Roma. For Valeria Magli's ballet with music by John Cage
- Planetopolis, 1994, 126', CICV-Centre International de Création Vidéo Montbéliard-Belfort
- L'origInédite, 1994, 18', Atélier Brouillard Précis, Marseille
- Tupac Amauta-premier chant, 1997, 53', CICV Montbéliard-Belfort. WikipediaWikiProject Composers#Lead section --> John Milton Cage Jr Trilogy inspired to Tupac Amaru, Inca king murdered in 1572 by the conquistadores, and to Tupac Amaru II, who fought against the Conquer with his Quechua indios.
- Acà Nada, 1998, 27', PRIM, Montréal, Canada.
- Gramsciategui ou les poesimistes-deuxième cri, 1999, 55', CICV Montbéliard-Belfort
- Trionfo della morte et mort sans triomphe avec danses macabres, 2002, 23', CICV Montbéliard-Belfort
Other Works
Novels
- Gianni Toti, L'altra fame, novel, Milano, Rizzoli, 1970
- Gianni Toti, Il padrone assoluto, novel, Milano, Feltrinelli, 1977
Poetry books
Among his numerous poetry books we remember:
- Gianni Toti, Che c'è di nuovo, Premio Rapallo 1962
- Gianni Toti, L’uomo scritto, poems, Sciascia, 1961
- Gianni Toti, La coscienza infelice, poems, Guanda, 1966
- Gianni Toti, Penultime dall’al di qua, poems, Sciascia, 1969
- Gianni Toti, Per il paroletariato o della poesicipazione, Umbria Editrice, 1977
- Gianni Toti, Tre ucronie, 1970
- Gianni Toti, Chiamiamola poemetànoia, 1974
- Gianni Toti, Il leggibile figlio di Jakob, poems, Il Bagatto, 1984
- Gianni Toti, Strani attrattori, poems, Empiria, 1986
- Gianni Toti, La bellezza dell'enigma, Carlo Mancosu Publisher, collection of books + sound cassette, Roma 1992
Prose
- Gianni Toti, Tredici irracconti dell’anagnoste, prose, Artificina, 1981
- Gianni Toti, Racconti di palpebra, prose, Empiria, 1989
Theater
- Poesia e no (Piccolo Teatro di Livorno, 1965)
- La penultima caccia allo snualo (Pestival Santa Croce sull’Arno, 1985) Essays:
- Gianni Toti, Il tempo libero, Editori Riuniti, 1961,
- Gianni Toti, Erotismo, eversione, merce, Cappelli, 1974
- Gianni Toti, Mostri al microscopio, Marsilio, 1980
Collections
Director of poetry collections:
- "Sintagma", Sciascia Publisher
- "Officina di poesia", Edizioni dell'Ateneo
References
- "Immagine & Pubblico. Video", numero speciale dedicato alla Videoarte, a cura di Marco Maria Gazzano e Gianni Toti, suppl. n. 2/3, aprile - settembre, Ente Autonomo Gestione Cinema, Roma (I) 1990
- "Immagine & Pubblico. Arti elettroniche", numero monografico, a cura di Marco Maria Gazzano e Gianni Toti, a. IX, n. 1, gennaio-marzo, Ente Autonomo Gestione Cinema, Roma 1991
- "Tendenze. Videoarte e cinema elettronico", in "Cinema d'Oggi", quindicinale di informazioni cinematografiche, audiovisive, tecniche e multimediali dell'ANICA, Roma (1997-1999)
- "Gianni Toti. Il tempo del senso", in "Internet Catalogue", XVIII VideoArt Festival, Locarno (CH) 1997
- "Poietica cinematografica e cinegrafia elettronica in Gianni Toti", in Catalogo de "L'immagine leggera. Videoart + Film + Media Festival", Comune di Palermo, Palermo 1997
- Caterina Davinio, Tecno-Poesia e realtà virtuali (Techno-Poetry and Virtual Realities), Mantova (I), Sometti, 2002
- Sandra Lischi, "Gli ottantaToti. Piccolissimo viaggio a ritroso negli ottanta(mila) universi del "poetronico" Gianni Toti" in Stati Liquidi. Invideo, video d'arte e cinema oltre, pp. 27-32, Simonetta Cargioli e Sandra Lischi, 2004
- Sandra Lischi, "Elettronica, videoarte e poetronica" in Storia del cinema italiano, 1977-1985, pp. 457-471, Vito Zagarrio, 2005
External links
See also
| Persondata |
| NAME |
Toti, Gianni |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION |
Italian poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH |
1924-06-24 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH |
Rome, Italy |
| DATE OF DEATH |
2007-01-08 |
| PLACE OF DEATH |
Rome, Italy |
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