For one month, Johanna Bruckner (Austria), Merve Sahin (Turkey) and Riccardo Tesorini (Italy) will be hosted on theIsland of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, where they will collaborate with the Centro Digitale team in the development of their artistic projects. During 2026, the three artists will carry out their research at the Giorgio Cini Foundation, after being selected as part of the third edition of the D.A.I.R. - Digital Artist in Residence call, promoted by the Digital Center - ARCHiVe.
Forty candidates from fourteen countries took part in this edition of the program, with different backgrounds in terms of age, education and disciplinary fields. The final selection was entrusted to a committee composed of Chiara Casarin for the Giorgio Cini Foundation, Veronika Liebl of Ars Electronica in Linz, independent curator and researcher Ennio Bianco, Valentino Catricalà of SODA Gallery in Manchester, and Luca Ponzio of Haltadefinizione.
D.A.I.R. represents an innovative art residency program dedicated to digital creativity, conceived by the Giorgio Cini Foundation to expand the traditional residential fellowships of the Vittore Branca Center. The initiative offers artists, creatives, developers and specialists in new technologies applied to art and culture the opportunity to live and work for a month on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore.
The project aims to foster the encounter between art, science and technological innovation, promoting interdisciplinary practices developed from the digital data produced through the digitization activities of the Giorgio Cini Foundation’s archival fonds and collections.
Born in Switzerland in 1984, she lives and works in Austria. She is a multimedia artist whose works have been exhibited in major institutions, including the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt, the Berlinische Galerie - Museum of Modern Art, Photography and Architecture, the ZKM | Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, the HEK - House of Electronic Arts in Basel, as well as at the Venice Biennale. Her work has received numerous awards. She is currently a visiting professor at Hochschule Luzern.
Johanna Berkner’s project will focus on the archives of glass art. Combining cutting-edge animation and 3D printing processes, the artist will work on the boundaries between 2D and 3D, natural and artificial, craft and industrial.
Born in Turkey in 1994, she lives and works in Austria. She is an architect and researcher. She runs an independent studio that combines architectural thinking with art, science and emerging media. Her work focuses on digital environments, immersive experiences and the creation of imaginary worlds, exploring how technology, ecology and media shape contemporary public space. Through the analysis of maps, photographs and documentation of the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, produced and preserved by the Digital Center - ARCHiVe, the artist will explore archival representations of the Venice Lagoon to transform them into an immersive spatial experience.
Merve Sahin will have the opportunity to collaborate with Haltadefinizione, the Franco Cosimo Panini Editore tech-company that supports the D.A.I.R. program. The company is engaged in new technologies applied to cultural heritage and digital preservation of ultra-high resolution digital images of artworks.
Is an Italian composer, sound designer and multimedia artist (1991) who lives and works in Bologna. His activity ranges from electroacoustic composition to live performances, from sound installations to audiovisual projects and theater productions. A graduate in electronic music from the Conservatory of Perugia and Bologna, he also studied at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki and UCLA in Los Angeles. His performances have been presented at international festivals and institutions including Ars Electronica (Linz), WESA Festival (Seoul), Forum Wallis (Münster), NYCECM (New York), Tempo Reale (Florence), Sound/ Image (London), Spatial Audio Week (Helsinki), In-Sonora (Madrid), Festival Imersivo (Lisbon).
Riccardo Tesorini’s project will try to creatively reactivate archival musical materials through analysis, transcriptions and sound transformations.
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| Three digital artists in residence on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, at the Giorgio Cini Foundation |
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