Chiara Passa (born 1973) is a visual artist working in

media art New media art includes artworks designed and produced by means of electronic media technologies, comprising virtual art, computer graphics, computer animation, digital art, interactive art, sound art, Internet art, video games, robotics, 3D prin ...

since the second half of the 1990s. Her artistic research analyses differences in virtual spaces through a variety of techniques - often using

augmented reality Augmented reality (AR) is an interactive experience that combines the real world and computer-generated content. The content can span multiple sensory modalities, including visual, auditory, haptic, somatosensory and olfactory. AR can be de ...

and

virtual reality Virtual reality (VR) is a simulated experience that employs pose tracking and 3D near-eye displays to give the user an immersive feel of a virtual world. Applications of virtual reality include entertainment (particularly video games), educ ...

technologies. She works with

animation Animation is a method by which image, still figures are manipulated to appear as Motion picture, moving images. In traditional animation, images are drawn or painted by hand on transparent cel, celluloid sheets to be photographed and exhibited ...

and interactive video-installation, digital art in public space as site-specific artworks and

Projection mapping Projection mapping, similar to video mapping and spatial augmented reality, is a projection technique used to turn objects, often irregularly shaped, into display surfaces for video projection. The objects may be complex industrial landscapes, s ...

video sculpture A video sculpture is a type of video installation that integrates video into an object, environment, site or performance. The nature of video sculpture is that it utilizes the material of video in an innovative way in space and time, different from ...

, art-applications and Widget (GUI) for mobile platforms.

Main artworks

In 1996, Passa began her work in animation and video-installation, which has been described as a constant study of the figure, geometric and essential, combined with a three-dimensional and dynamic vision of the virtual space. In 1999, Passa coined the term "Super Place" as a reference for "Extens(z)ion Projects" and later for "Live Architectures" - a series of digital artworks developed over time and based on the concept of "super place" where the site is self-performing and moves beyond its capabilities, reflecting on the idea of the virtual/unreal and how human bodies, in real space, are related to this kind of dimension/experience. Passa's artistic research mainly explores architecture as interface, for example in the virtual reality series "Dimensioning" that aims to create a multi-dimensional extension of the space, allowing visitors to navigate into a moving 360¬∞ area. The net-art series "Extemporary Land Art on Google Earth" aims to create an extemporary-temporary virtual land-art through augmented reality technology, constructing and re-constructing a sort of "mise en abyme" or "droste effect" in which an element shifts the other in depth. The Google earth environment merges with the augmented area in order to create a new space. "Live sculpture" is an interactive software-artwork where the body of the viewer is fully involved and becoming a three-dimensional marble sculpture constituted by variable virtual meshes. In 2005 Passa created the blog-art project "ideasonair.net-blogging as an open art project" (2005-2012 online archive). This was a conceptual net-artwork in progress that put into practice the concept of "open artwork", creating and sharing many artistic ideas in various fields between artists, curators, critics and art lovers. In 2009 (ongoing) Passa created and developed "The Widget Art Gallery", a web-app as virtual gallery, which every two months hosts a solo digital art exhibition (supporting digital artists) related to and inspired by its dynamic site-specific context. The "Widget Art Gallery" works both as a gallery showing temporary exhibitions and as a permanent collection museum, conserving all the past exhibitions inside an online archive.Elena Giulia Rossi (11 October 2013
"Widget Art Gallery. A Gallery Between Worlds"
, Arshake. Retrieved 30 January 2017.

* David England, Thecla Schiphorst, Nick Bryan-Kinns (June 2016). Curating the Digital: Space for Art and Interaction. Book Widget Art Gallery, pages 10,11 Edition Springer * Insideart Magazine n.107 - 9771974190004 60107 (10/2016). Focus: The second space, the virtual one (pg. 78-83). By Francesco Angelucci.

* TRECCANI - Enciclopedia Italiana di scienze, lettere ed arti. Nona appendice, Internet art; Net art; Web art (Roma 2015). .
Elena Giulia Rossi (30 June 2016) "Michael Andrews, A Fiber Artist at the Widget Art Gallery". Arshake
* Corinna Kirsch (25 December 2015) "GIF of the Day: Chiara Passa
GIF of the Day: Chiara Passa

Nara Shin (6 May 2015), From Cool Hunting Magazine
- Net-Art “Flashcrash at the Widget Art Gallery”. * EVA: Electronic visualization technologies and the arts (July 2015, London). BCS book

* J. Potts (2014) "The Future of Writing." Editions Palgarve Macmillan. eBook . Hardcover * Antonello Tolve (2013) Ubiquità - Arte e critica d'arte nell'epoca del policentrismo planetario’ ed. Quodlibet. ; includes a chapter on the Widget Art Gallery.
Silvia Scaravaggi "SUONI E IMMAGINI NELLO SPAZIO interview on Chiara Passa"
(issue-040, 2009). Digicult Magazine * Vito Campanelli, (2011) “Culture and New Media: 5 Questions by

Lev Manovich Lev Manovich ( ) is an author of books on digital culture and new media, and professor of Computer Science at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Manovich's current research and teaching focuses on digital humanities, social computin ...

”. Mao Editions .
Filippo Lorenzin (September 23, 2013) Gallerie d’arte online. Intervista con Chiara Passa, Artribune

Rob Myers (1 September 2013) "A Symbol" Bill Miller at The Widget Art Gallery. Furtherfield
* Andrea Bruciati, Antonella Crippa (2004) "On air" editions Silvana (English/Italian)

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External links

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Ideasonair-Blogging as an open art project

Video presentation of the solo show at FurtherField gallery, London 2016

Talk/presentation of "Live sculpture" at EVA-Electronic Visualization Arts, London 2015

Talk/presentation of "The Widget Art Gallery" at Media Art Histories Conference, Riga 2013
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