Martina Stella is a multimedia artist. Graduated in photography and contemporary art, she specializes in Architecture and scenographies at ENSA-PB. Her theoretical research focuses on the role of video mapping as a symbolic form, questioning the role of projection in exhibition and public spaces. For her, research and creation are intrinsically linked to technical knowledge, which she acquired while working as an audiovisual technician at the Atelier des Lumières. Her artistic practice focuses on writing as a visual arts tool, questioning the relationships between text, image, and space established by new technologies and digital scenographic devices. Editor of Revue AS and the Video Mapping European Center, she teaches in the « Création Numérique » master’s program at Sorbonne Paris Nord University.

Exhibitions

• _ Nopalco / Multimedia festival / DAS / Bologna / 27.10.2023
• _ Sei trame asemiche / Collective exhibition / Villa Mondragone / Rome / 11.10-01.12.2023
• _ Alingue e apostrofi / Collective exhibition / Stecca 3 / Miano / 07 – 10.09.2023
• _ Cheap Festival “Agitatevi” / Collective exhibition in public space / Bologna / from 02.09.2023
• _ Avant la lettre / Collective exhibition / K.L.8. Gallery / Bruxelles / 29.10 – 13.11.2022
• _ Terra in trasformazione / Collective exhibition / Magazzino 26 – Porto Vecchio / Trieste / 03 – 24.09.2022
• _ Wopart International – Drawing on paper fair / Personal exhibition / Represented by Rizomi Arte gallery / Lugano / 18-21.11.2021
• _ Semico Asemico / Collective exhibition / Galleria Rizomi Arte / Parma / 02.10-02.11.2021
• _ L’Orizzonte negativo / Personal exhibition / Co-produced  by OGS, Oceanography Institute and Gruppo 78 / Trieste / 04-14.11.2021
• _ Précipité / Collective exhibition / Mains d’Oeuvres / Paris / 25-29.03.2021
• _ Art Verona / Personal exhibition / Represented by Rizomi Arte gallery / online / 11-13.12.2020
• _ Écrire en dessinant / Collective exhibition / Centre d’Art Contemporain de Genève / Ginevra / 29.01.2020 – 03.05.2021
• _ Scritture Asemiche / Collective exhibition / Collection of artist’s books from the Academy of Fine Arts / Palermo / 12.2020 – 01.2021
• _ Media Art Festival Friesland / Collective exhibition / Leeuwarden / 22.11-08.12.2019
• _ SeeDjerba Media Art Biennal / Collective exhibition in public space / Houmt Souk / Djerba / 19.08-03.09.2019
• _ CONCRETA. Festapoesia / Collective exhibition / Accademia d’Ungheria / Rome / 19.04-05.05.2018
• _ Déambulation urbaine / Collective exhibition / Centre Altissimo / Metz / 06.2017
• _ Horizons / Personal exhibition / Galerie la Confrérire / Paris / 05.2017
• _ Inventaire / Collective exhibition / Galerie Mémoire de l’Avenir / Paris / 04.07-29.08.2015

Residencies and awards

• _ Interference / Art residency / Supported by Culture Moves Europe / Tunis / 26.05-21.06.2024
• _ Nongyuan International Yishucun / / Art residency /Chengdu / 20.02-20.03.2024
• _ Residenza Poietica / Intermedia art residency / Fondazione Merz / Supported by Intesa San Paolo Torino / 03.05 – 03.06.2021 
• _ L’Orizzonte negativo / Award / See the sea change international contest / OGS, National Institut of Oceanography / Trieste / 09.2020 
• _ See Djerba International Media Art Residency / Supported by iPortunus Creative Europe Djerba / 08.2019

Publications

• _ Scénographier la ville, Fête des Lumières 2.0 / Revue AS n°253 / 2024
• _ Sous Dôme, Le planétarium illuminé par les arts numériques /  Revue AS n° 250 / 2023
• _ How many different things can a screen be? On Water Light Festival LAB / Published in Ars Photonica / 2023
• _ Experiment Licht, BTR 3 2023 / Rubrik: Produktionen / Der Theater Verlag / 2023
• _ Mise en Lumières ! Itinéraire artistique au parc de la Villette / Revue AS n° 248 / 2023
• _ Entre projection et mapping, intensités lumineuses au festival Scopitone / Revue AS N°246 / 2022
• _ Le vidéo mapping: une nouvelle forme symbolique? / dans L’image au-delà de l’écran,  le vidéomapping / ISTE Editions / 2019 

Conferences and workshops

• _ Focus on women working in Video mapping / Working Group Moderation with Tokyo Blue / Image Beyond the Screen International Conferences / Video Mapping European Center / Lille / Edition 2023
• _ Les espaces immersifs / Round table / Colloque « Pour d’autres espèces d’espaces Penser, produire, pratiquer l’espace en arts numériques » / ESAM Caen – Cherbourg / 14.05.2024 
• _ Image Beyond the Screen International Conferences / Moderator / Image Beyond the Screen International Conferences / Video Mapping European Center / Lille / Edition 2024
• _ Réalité augmentée et vidéo mapping: des objets-frontières aux frontières de la création artistique et des industries de conception / Conference with Pascal Bué / Doctoral Seminar « Actualités de la notion de frontière dans les industries culturelles et créatives » / Labex ICCA / Université Sorbonne Paris Nord / Paris / 28.06.2023
• _ Focus on women working in Video mapping / Working Group Moderation with Julia Shamsheieva / Video Mapping European Center / Lille / Edition 2023
• _ Le mapping vidéo, un outil au service de l’art contemporain / Conference / Doctoral Seminar  « Métamorphoses des images » / Centre Interlangues Texte, Image, Langage / Université de Bourgogne / Dijon / 20.05.2022
• _ Image Beyond the Screen International Conferences / Moderator / Video Mapping European Center / Lille / Edition 2022
• _ Le mapping vidéo et l’écriture / Visiting professor / Workshop / École Préparatoire des Beaux Arts / Beaune /17.04.2021
• _ IPortunus Policy / Workshop on Cultural Mobility / Creative Europe /Brussels / 14/15.10.2019
• _ Projection mapping as a tool serving contemporary arts / Conference / Image Beyond the Screen International Conferences / Video Mapping European Center / Lille / 28.03.2019 

Others

• _ Jury member / GOLDSTUECKE Light Art Projects Gelsenkirchen / 2024
• _ Women working in Video mapping / Residency and workshop organized with Bettina Pelz @kunstpelz / Supported by Video Mapping Festival / Lille / 01-04.04.2024
• _ Mapping Stories web series / Content Manager / Video Mapping European Center / 2022-2024
• _ Video Mapping Ressources / Web editor / Video Mapping European Center / 2022-2023