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Rudi Punzo creates artworks that combine sculpture, sound, video projections and performance into multi-sensory experiences. Animating recycled and discarded materials with renewable energy sources — most notably, solar energy — the sculptural elements in his works are transformed through his interactions with them, their own kinetic movements and the amplification and sampling of the sounds these elements create. He has exhibited his works in numerous galleries and museums, including the Haslla Museum in South Korea and the Kuandu Museum in Taiwan; and he has performed his works at such venues as Electro-Mechanica in Russia and FAD in Brazil. He also has presented his compositions and artworks at experimental music festivals and artist-in-residency programs through Europe, Russia, North and South America and Asia; and since 2009 he has collaborated with TransCultural Exchange as the master of its website.
2019
March 16, 2018 through March 17, 2019 When sound becomes form, The story of the Italian sonic avant-garde, group exhibition curated by Carlo Fatigoni, MAXXI, Roma
2018
November 10, The Sound of Light, @Generate!_lab Festival für elektronische Künste, Shedhalle Tübingen, (DE)
2017
October 9 through September 8, Keelung Ciao Festival, Artist In Residence Program, Keelung (Taiwan)
July 1 through 8, Pura Natura - Convivial Symposium of Land Art, S. Giacomo Entracque, CN (IT)
2016
November 17 through December 3, Meccaniche Melodiche Metropolitane/Mechanisch Melodisch Städtlich, solo exhibition at CSA Farm Gallery, Torino (IT)
July 4 through August 4, North Coast Art Field festival, Artist In Residence. program (Taiwan)
April 13, The Sound of Matter and the Matter of Sound, Workshop and Performance at RESONATE Festival, Belgrade (SERBIA)
February, 27 at THE GOETHE INSTITUT, New Music Concert: Rudi Punzo, Yannick Franck and Sandeep Bhagwati, Boston (US)
2015
May 22, Presto\Prestissimo for Urlaluci and Rudidrone, Lacking Sound Festival at Nanhai Gallery, Taipei (Taiwan)
May 14 through June 7, 2015 International Environment Art Project, A.I.R. program at the National Museum of Marine Science & Technology, Keelung (Taiwan)
2014
October 3, Presto\Prestissimoat roBot Festival, Bologna (IT)
June 2 through July 7: 22° International Art Residency, A.I.R. program, Haslla Art World Museum (South Korea)
May 22 through July 5, REAZIONI SONORE, solo show, Gallery Schloß Dryburg, Bad Langensalza, Thuringen (DE)
March 8 - 15, CICLI SONORI – In costante mutamento– solo show at Monumental Sacresty, S. Marco Church - Milan (IT)
January 24 through Feb. 24, Codici dell'Apocalisse – Group Exhibition and performance at Circolo Ufficiali, Bologna (IT)
2013
October 10 - 13, attending TransCultural Exchange 2013 Conference: Engaging Minds, at Boston University, Boston (US)
September 8, European Artists E-V 10 Years, Simposium, Screams of Light, live performance Essen (DE) May 16 through June 19: 21st International Art Residency, A.I.R. program, Haslla Art World Museum (South Korea)
May 9 through June 30: Tecnomedioevo, Group Exhibition, Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino (IT) January, Sound Residency at KHOJ International Artists' Association, A.I.R. program, New Delhi (India)
2012
September 24 through October 7 Spirituality and Materiality Sculpture Symposium, A.I.R. program at Taipei National University of the Arts (Taiwan)
August 28 Flussi Festival, Avellino (IT)
May 20 Robots against War, Peace and Art International Festival, Goseong - Demilitarized zone (SouthKorea) May 1 through June 10, 20th International Art Residency, A.I.R. program, Haslla Art World Museum (South Korea)
2011
September 21 through Oct. 17 "Full fellowship Artist" at 19th International Art Residency, A.I.R. program Haslla Art World Museum (South Korea)
May 22, MUM - LPM Live Performers Meeting – Roma (IT)
April 22, CYBERDRONYX - www.harvestworks.org NY (US)
April 15, MUM Generators - A/V performance along with Derek Hoffend, Mobius - Boston, MA (US)
March 10 – 13, ARTOUR-O, Exhibition and sound performance, Firenze (IT)
2010
September 4, CYBERDRONYX at FAD, Festival de Arte Digital, Belo Horizonte MG (Brazil)
August 28, Sound Cycles, Paderborn (DE)
June 14 - 15, Roboinsekts, Stadtbibliothek, Am Rothoborn, Paderborn (DE)
2009
CYBERDRONYX Scandinavian Tour:
July 11, Sound Performance at Alo Festivalen, Ranberg (NO)
July 1 at Babel, Trondheim (NO) June 28 at Sound of Mu,Oslo (NO)
April 15 - May6, Artist-in-residence - an event of Boston Cyberarts Festival at Boston, MA (US)
2008
November 13-15 RUDIMACHINES and THE FIREFLIES - Festival Electro Mechanica, Saint Petersbourg (Russia)
October 10 Installation Robot Insects at the Hardenberg castle pond Essen-Velberg (DE)
June 5th Here Comes the Sun (America calling) Mary Sherman (US) and Rudi Punzo (Italy), Shanghai's Zendai Museum of Modern Art/Jinshan Beach (China)
April - Die Rudimachines und Die Glühwürmchen - kunstverein-Paderborn (DE)
2007
June 17, Castello di Moransengo, CICALE di Rudi Punzo e Terri Gambarin Festival delle Colline Torinesi Torino (IT)
May 15, A Mechanical Universe at BOSTONCYBERARTS FESTIVAL Boston, MA (US)
2006
December, P.E.A.M.Pescara Electronic Artists Meeting (IT)
November, A=V experimental audiovisual festival in MUENCHEN (DE)
2005
November, Dimensions variable; Site fixed CCAC Gallery, Cambridge Arts Council, Cambridge, MA (US)
2004
October, Kunst ist Leben, Potsdam (DE)
2002
September, Contagi # 2, W. A. Mozart International Festival, Rovereto (IT)
2000
March, Tango Reverie, Ulm Stadthaus (DE)
