Marco Cadioli
1960 born in Milan, lives and works in Milan (IT)
His practice investigates the permeable boundaries between digital and physical realities, exploring how emerging technologies reshape human perception and experience. Graduated in Cybernetics, he has traced the evolution of new media since the early 2000s pioneering the use of net photography and virtual world documentation. His research methodology involves deliberate misuse of software systems—pushing beyond their intended functions to reveal hidden structures and alternative possibilities.
This approach of “forcing the limits” has evolved across multiple phases—from documenting the birth of virtual worlds in Second Life, through formal research in Google Earth’s satellite imagery examining human intervention in natural landscapes and signs of the Anthropocene, to recent explorations of artificial intelligence’s visual learning processes. Each phase examines different layers of the interface between human and machine vision.
He has exhibited in personal and collective exhibitions including:
Back to the Metaverse (Solo Show at SMDOT Contemporary Art, Udine
2022), Interfacce del presente (BASE Milano 2019), #LAYERS Contemporary Art in the Digital Era (iMAL, Brussels 2018) DADACLUB.ONLINE (Brescia, 2017) Necessary Lines, LinkArt Center (Solo Show, Brescia 2014) Abstract Journeys, Gloria Maria Gallery, (Solo Show, Milan 2012), InterAccess (Toronto 2013), Neoludica (54th Venice Biennale 2011), AFK (Casino Luxembourg, 2011), FotoGrafia Festival of Rome (MACRO Testaccio, 2010), Reality Festival (Paris 2008), PEAM Pescara Electronic Artists Meeting (2006).
He is currently Professor of NetArt and Digital Culture at Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara.
