Giovanni Fontana

Achitect, artist, writer, performer, sound and visual poet, he has been dealing for 40 years with multicode languages, intermedia techniques and synaestesiae. He is interested in the relationships between arts, starting from sound & visual matrices. With regard to the dramatic field he has been active as a playwriter and occasionally as a director; he is interested in electronic arts and audiovisuals and has particularly paid attention to the different aspects and ways of cultural communication, especially taking into account the problems concerning the technological field. He has published books and records. During the last 40 years he has carried out his performances in hundreds of festivals of New Poetry and Electronic Arts in Europe, in America, in Asia. He is the founder of the review "La Taverna di Auerbach" and of the sound poetry review "Momo", he belongs to the editorial staff of "Doc(k)s" (France), "Inter-Art actuel" (Canada) and he is the editor of "Territori".