Roberto Pugliese (Naples, 1982)

Roberto Pugliese was born in Naples in 1982, where he lives and works.  After having taken his Master degree in electronic music at the Conservatorio San Pietro a Majella in Naples, with M° Agostino di Scipio, he divides his time between teaching at the same institution (musical sistems and electroacustic- and informatic laboratory), playing music and realising sound installations.

His research primarily derives its energy from two artistic currents, that of sound art and that of kinetic and programmed art. Using mechanical tools controlled by software that interact among themselves, with the environment that surrounds them, and the observer, he aims to examine new areas of research in sound phenomena, to analyze the processes that the human psyche uses to differentiate structures of natural origin from artificial ones (acoustic as well as visual), to discover the relationship between man and technology and the relationship between art and technology without ever losing sight of the visual aspect. The sound thus becomes the object of research as well as a means of acoustic and visual expression, a vital energy that animates the inanimate, a guide that analyzes and stimulates the human psyche and human perception.

Studies
2008
Degree in Electronic Music at the Conservatorio San Pietro a Majella, Naples

Solo Exhibitions
2011
Inside/Outside, in collaboration with Tamara Repetto, Guidi&Schoen, Genova
Unexpected Machines, Galerie Mario Mazzoli, Berlin
Soniche vibrazioni computazionali, Studio la città, Verona
2010
Ivy Noise, IED, Madrid
Critici ostinati ritmici, Galleria V.M.21, Rome
Soaopera (interactive sound installation), Castello di Rivara, (To)
2009
Linfa sintetica (interactive sound installation), Ciocca Arte Contemporanea, Milano
Ivy noise (interactive video and sound installation), Akneos Gallery, Naples
Entanglement 2, le decisioni delle particelle (sound installation), Fondazione Idis, Città della Scienza, Naples
2008
Entanglement, le decisioni delle particelle (installazione sonora e video interattiva), M.Ar.E Contemporary Art, Capri

Group Exhibitions
2012
"(R)EXISTENZ. 3D2D Tridimensional Today" Fondazione Centro Arti Visive, Pietrasanta, Italy
Data Deluge, Ballroom Marfa, Texas
Sound Art. Klang als Medium der Kunst, ZKM, Karlsruhe
2011
Derive. Variazioni qualitative del quotidiano. CIAC Museo castello di Genazzano(RM) 
Contractions. L´opera tra implosione energetica ed espansione di senso, curated by Daniele Capra, Dolomiti Contemporanee-Edificio Schiara, Sospirolo (BL)
And like this you keep them alive/on love, Neu Berliner Räume, Berlin
Nel Frattempo, curated by Lucio Pozzi, Mercato della frutta, Valeggio sul Mincio(VR)
Senso Orario, artistic residence curated by Valentina Tanni, Voltaggio (AL)
L´immagine del suono, Villa Bottini, Lucca
2010
Galaxia Medicea, Palazzo Mediceo, Seravezza(Lucca)
Il respiro della Città, Villa Maiuri, Ercolano Naples
Rumore bianco, Galleria Quattrocentometriquadri, Ancona
VOLTA Basel, Galleria V.M.21 Artecontemporanea, Rome
MIART, Galleria Pio Monti Artecontemporanea, Rome
2009
Airswap, Not Gallery, Naples
Disembedded. Terremoto Invisibile, Museo Archeologico la Civitella, Chieti
Ivy Noise variant, Sant’Apollonia-Kirche, Salerno
Biennale d’Arte dei Giovani, Fabbrica, Gambettola (FC), curated by Universitá e l´Accademia di Belle Arti di Bolgona
Step09 Mailand, Galleria Akneos Gallery, Naples
2008
Seconda Biennale d’Arte dei Giovani, Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna
VROOM: Mobile Video Art Room, Milano, curated by Videoart Yearbook
Videoart Yearbook, curated by Renato Barilli and the Bologna University
Limmaginecontinua, Videofestival, Centro Arte Contemporanea Bannata, Enna
Audiovisiva 5.0, Milano, curated by Esterni.org
ViDea2, F.R.A.C., Salerno
D’impulso (interactive sound installation in collaboration with M° Agostino Di Scipio), MLAC Museo Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea, Universitá la Sapienza, Rome
Emu Fest 2008,, Conservatorio S.Cecilia, Rome
Dissonansen.08 Settimana Di Musica Contemporanea, Basilica Santa Maria Maggiore alla Pietrasanta, Naples
2007
Videoart Yearbook, curated by Renato Barilli and the University in Bologna

Music compositions
2009
Dissonansen’09 Settimana Di Musica Contemporanea, Presentation of the video Anamorphosis, Conservatorio San Pietro a Majella, Naples
Opus 9.2, Saison de la création musicale, Elektromusik-Festival, Bordeaux
2007
Futura ‘07, Festival International D’art Acousmatique, Elektromusik-Festival, Paris
 37° Festival international Synthèse 2007, Musique et Créations Electroniques, Elektromusik-Festival, IMEB, Bourges
2006
I Venerdì Musicali, Festival della musica, Conservatorio San Pietro a Majella, Naples.