Gianni Toti
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Gianni Toti was an Italian
poet, writer, journalist
, and cineaste
. In the early 80s he created "Poetronica" (poetry and cinema elaborated with electronic art
).
and Fascism
in the Italian Resistenza and, for many years, journalist and correspondent for the political newspaper "L’Unità”. Editor-in-chief of "La voce della Sicilia", "Lavoro", and of the cultural review "Carte segrete".
In the early 80s he began an experimentation where he mixed poetry, cinema and electronic art, creating a new language, which he defined "poetronica" (video poetry
and electronic poetry). By realizing his works he collaborated with specialized cultural centers, such as CICV (Centre de Recherche Pierre Schaeffer
, in Montbéliard-Belfort, France), that gave him the possibility to utilize technologies and equips of technicians for creating artistic projects.
In his works Toti mixes history, politics, legends, oral traditions, folk culture. His writing contains idiomatic expressions, neologisms, words taken from many languages.
Italy
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poet, writer, journalist
Journalist
A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...
, and cineaste
Cineaste
Cineaste is a film magazine published quarterly. It has been publishing reviews, in-depth analyses and interviews since 1967. The magazine independently operates out of New York City with no financial ties to any film studios or academic institutions...
. In the early 80s he created "Poetronica" (poetry and cinema elaborated with electronic art
Electronic art
Electronic art is a form of art that makes use of electronic media or, more broadly, refers to technology and/or electronic media. It is related to information art, new media art, video art, digital art, interactive art, internet art, and electronic music...
).
Biography
Graduated in Law, he published poetry books, articles and novels. He was partisan against NazismNazism
Nazism, the common short form name of National Socialism was the ideology and practice of the Nazi Party and of Nazi Germany...
and Fascism
Fascism
Fascism is a radical authoritarian nationalist political ideology. Fascists seek to rejuvenate their nation based on commitment to the national community as an organic entity, in which individuals are bound together in national identity by suprapersonal connections of ancestry, culture, and blood...
in the Italian Resistenza and, for many years, journalist and correspondent for the political newspaper "L’Unità”. Editor-in-chief of "La voce della Sicilia", "Lavoro", and of the cultural review "Carte segrete".
In the early 80s he began an experimentation where he mixed poetry, cinema and electronic art, creating a new language, which he defined "poetronica" (video poetry
Video poetry
Video poetry is poetry in video form. It is also known as videopoetry, video-visual poetry, poetronica, poetry video, media poetry, or Cin-Poetry depending on the length and content of the video work and the techniques employed Video poetry is poetry in video form. It is also known as videopoetry,...
and electronic poetry). By realizing his works he collaborated with specialized cultural centers, such as CICV (Centre de Recherche Pierre Schaeffer
Pierre Schaeffer
Pierre Henri Marie Schaeffer was a French composer, writer, broadcaster, engineer, musicologist and acoustician of the 20th century. His innovative work in both the sciences —particularly communications and acoustics— and the various arts of music, literature and radio presentation after the end...
, in Montbéliard-Belfort, France), that gave him the possibility to utilize technologies and equips of technicians for creating artistic projects.
In his works Toti mixes history, politics, legends, oral traditions, folk culture. His writing contains idiomatic expressions, neologisms, words taken from many languages.
Film
- Ciné-tracts, cortissimimetraggi, Parigi-Roma 1968-1969
- Chi ha paura della Cecoslovacchia, 1969, Unitelefilm, Roma
- Cinegiornaliberi, cortometraggi (con Cesare Zavattini), 1968–69
- Lenin vivo, mediometraggio, Unitelefilm, Roma 1970
- E di Shaùl e dei sicari sulle vie da Damasco, lungometraggio 35mm. 1973, 119', Italia-Siria
- Alice nel paese delle cartaviglie, mediometraggio, 1980
Video
- La vita quotidiana durante la seconda guerra mondiale, 1980 50', Rai-DSE
- Per una videopoesia, 1980, 80', Rai-Ricerca e sperimentazione programmi
- Tre videopoemetti, 1981, 33' Rai-Ricerca e sperimentazione programmi
- "Trilogia majakovskiana": Valeriascopia, 26';
- Incatenata alla pellicola, 60';
- Cuor di Tèlema, 83', 1982–83, Rai-Ricerca e sperimentazione programmi
- "L'immaginario scientifico": L'arnia cosmica, 9';
- Alla ricerca dell'anticoda, 14';
- I raggi cosmici e l'odoscopio, 4'45";
- Dialogo digitale del corpo umano, 27';
- L'ordine, il caos, il phaos, 24'30";
- La terra vista dal cielo, 5';
- Conversazione sulle grandi sintesi, 50', 1986,
- Cité de la Science et de l'Industrie, La Villette, Paris
- SqueeZangeZaùm, 1988, 100', Rai-Istituto Luce. Dedicated to Velimir KhlebnikovVelimir KhlebnikovVelimir Khlebnikov , pseudonym of Viktor Vladimirovich Khlebnikov , was a central part of the Russian Futurist movement, but his work and influence stretch far beyond it.Khlebnikov belonged to Hylaea,...
(Gold Laser Award, Locarno, 1988) - Terminale Intelligenza, 1990, 60', Università degli Studi, Pisa
- Monteveritazione op. 000?, 1991, 17', Festival Videoart Locarno
- Tenez Tennis, 1992, 15', Rai Lombardia, Università degli Studi, Bologna, Etabeta, Roma. For Valeria Magli's ballet with music by John CageJohn CageJohn Milton Cage Jr. was an American composer, music theorist, writer, philosopher and artist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde...
- Planetopolis, 1994, 126', CICV-Centre International de Création Vidéo Montbéliard-Belfort
- L'origInédite, 1994, 18', Atélier Brouillard Précis, Marseille
- Tupac Amauta-premier chant, 1997, 53', CICV Montbéliard-Belfort. Trilogy inspired to Tupac Amaru, Inca king murdered in 1572 by the conquistadores, and to Tupac Amaru II, who fought against the Conquer with his Quechua indios.
- Acà Nada, 1998, 27', PRIM, Montréal, Canada.
- Gramsciategui ou les poesimistes-deuxième cri, 1999, 55', CICV Montbéliard-Belfort
- Trionfo della morte et mort sans triomphe avec danses macabres, 2002, 23', CICV Montbéliard-Belfort
Novels
- Gianni Toti, L'altra fame, novel, Milano, Rizzoli, 1970
- Gianni Toti, Il padrone assoluto, novel, Milano, Feltrinelli, 1977
Poetry books
Among his numerous poetry books we remember:- Gianni Toti, Che c'è di nuovo, Premio Rapallo 1962
- Gianni Toti, L’uomo scritto, poems, Sciascia, 1961
- Gianni Toti, La coscienza infelice, poems, Guanda, 1966
- Gianni Toti, Penultime dall’al di qua, poems, Sciascia, 1969
- Gianni Toti, Per il paroletariato o della poesicipazione, Umbria Editrice, 1977
- Gianni Toti, Tre ucronie, 1970
- Gianni Toti, Chiamiamola poemetànoia, 1974
- Gianni Toti, Il leggibile figlio di Jakob, poems, Il Bagatto, 1984
- Gianni Toti, Strani attrattori, poems, Empiria, 1986
- Gianni Toti, La bellezza dell'enigma, Carlo Mancosu Publisher, collection of books + sound cassette, Roma 1992
Prose
- Gianni Toti, Tredici irracconti dell’anagnoste, prose, Artificina, 1981
- Gianni Toti, Racconti di palpebra, prose, Empiria, 1989
Theater
- Poesia e no (Piccolo Teatro di Livorno, 1965)
- La penultima caccia allo snualo (Pestival Santa Croce sull’Arno, 1985) Essays:
- Gianni Toti, Il tempo libero, Editori Riuniti, 1961,
- Gianni Toti, Erotismo, eversione, merce, Cappelli, 1974
- Gianni Toti, Mostri al microscopio, Marsilio, 1980
Collections
Director of poetry collections:- "Sintagma", Sciascia Publisher
- "Officina di poesia", Edizioni dell'Ateneo
External links
- La Casa Totiana
- Gianni Toti's text (1993)
- http://www.cinemavvenire.it/articoli.asp?IDartic=5516 it
- http://web.tiscali.it/aclabor/monogra/gtoti.htm it
- interview it
- Gianni Toti, information in Spanish by ATA
See also
- Electronic artElectronic artElectronic art is a form of art that makes use of electronic media or, more broadly, refers to technology and/or electronic media. It is related to information art, new media art, video art, digital art, interactive art, internet art, and electronic music...
- Digital PoetryDigital poetryDigital poetry is a form of electronic literature, displaying a wide range of approaches to poetry, with a prominent and crucial use of computers...
- Video artVideo artVideo art is a type of art which relies on moving pictures and comprises video and/or audio data. . Video art came into existence during the 1960s and 1970s, is still widely practiced and has given rise to the widespread use of video installations...
- Computer artComputer artComputer art is any art in which computers play a role in production or display of the artwork. Such art can be an image, sound, animation, video, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, videogame, web site, algorithm, performance or gallery installation...
- FuturismFuturismFuturism was an artistic and social movement that originated in Italy in the early 20th century.Futurism or futurist may refer to:* Afrofuturism, an African-American and African diaspora subculture* Cubo-Futurism* Ego-Futurism...
- Russian FuturismRussian FuturismRussian Futurism is the term used to denote a group of Russian poets and artists who adopted the principles of Filippo Marinetti's "Manifesto of Futurism"...