Antonio Daniele

Antonio Daniele is an Italian visual and media artist living and working in London, UK. His experience cuts across art and commercial. Antonio has been working in the digital industry between Italy and the UK as director and motion graphic designer, for well-known brands such as Nike, Samsung, Nokia among others. His personal works have been shown at film and art festivals around Italy and UK. His focus as an artist is on the human being and the processes of cognition, behaviour and the perception of reality. He is interested in exploring the modes of existence of the self in relation to the “other” and to the collective by using different media: from painting and drawings to coding and machines. As an artist he sees art and technology as a powerful instrument to understand reality, and it is definitely a precious tool to explore those mechanisms of our nature which still are in the shadow such as cognitive or creative process,emotions, instinct, intuition, intelligence in a wide sense.These are in fact some of the most important subjects that catch his attention and on which his art practice revolves.

Antonio is currently a PhD student in Media Art and Technology at Queen Mary University of London. He holds an MA with merit in Computational Arts from Goldsmiths, University of London where he graduated in 2015 with a thesis project “This Is Not Private”. The work has been defined by Antonio as an interactive empathic portrait which uses cutting edge technology such as face tracking and affective computing, to explore the phenomenon of empathy as a meta-language. The installation was featured on some influent magazines and blog such as WIRED US, WIRED Japan, The Creators Project Italy and Prosthetic Knowledge. In 2016 his work has been selected for the XXI Triennale di Milano and for the CHI2016 Art Exhibition in San Jose, CA.

A selection of exhibitions and collaborations
• 2016
• "This Is Not Private" interactive empathic portrait - at XXI Triennale di Milano - Milan, IT
• “Let It Brain” - live drawing performance at XXI Triennale di Milano - Milan, IT
• "This Is Not Private" interactive empathic portrait - at CHI2016 Art Exhibition - San Jose, CA, US
• 2015
• "This Is Not Private" interactive empathic portrait - at Except/0n Show - St. James Hatcham Space - London, UK
• “Surrounding Sounds" by Christian Marclay - Motion Graphic Artist for Immersive video installation at Whitecube Gallery - London, UK
• 2014
• "Through and Through" - solo show - ASC Gallery - London, UK
• 2013
• “ENIG” - video installation at The Flying Dutchman - Untouchable curated by Franko B. - London, UK
• 2012
• "Integration between the Generative and Human Generative Processes" - diptych "Luna/Moon (in) - Sole/Sun (out)" - sumi & drawing diptych at Occupy my time Gallery - London, UK
• "Deh" - Visual for “Paolo Spaccamonti” - digital HD, 3’25’’ - Turin, IT
• 2010
• "Esterno Notte Interno Giorno" short movie, digital HD 19’ - 28° Torino Film Festival - Turin, IT
• 2004
• "Per Colpa Del Frutto" - audiovideo installation, digital SD 10’ 00” - Malafestival - Turin, ...