FLASH Opera
To reconstruct a whole universe made of sighs, interferences, deep fractures, revelations, and silences. These scattered fragments of the spirit form a language that explores new forms and multiplies their meaning.
No one ever talked about "intermedial writing" before. It's about combining different materials in a creative process. Many artists have explored "multimediality," blending various artistic disciplines.
Think about the cinema: in over a century, it has involved many artists in close and long-lasting collaborations.
However, in the peak of the cinema's development as the most representative art form of the 20th century, each art form served the other with different timelines, mediations, techniques, and individualities.
The vertigo of multiple visions, born from a complex design where different materials converge and transform into an integrated reality, was envisioned by the futurists and sought after by almost all historical avant-gardes of the 1900s.
Hermes Intermedia's creations navigate this realm of freedom, in the whirl of a versatile and unifying wisdom that multiplies its forms through an organic compositional structure.
«Hermes Intermedia theorizes Flash Opera, advocating for the integration of different creative processes and "non-linear" compositions. […]
Flash Opera is the explosion of diversity, shedding light on the concept of intermediality: breath, words, live voice, animated images, sound, music, dance... all embody the same essence, thoughts of the same soul. […]
Flash Opera is the result of a single creative process. It asserts its autonomy by organizing only the elements within the project's core structure. It is not a combination of different writings, images, and music. Flash Opera stands alone, distinct from multimedia works.[…]
It moves through the swirling present of memory, unfolding its multiple times and enhancing its fantastic visions by expanding their connections […]».
Visione Molteplice,
a collection of essays edited by Marco Maria Gazzano,
Armando Editore 2018
Videography
1999
Seme del Tempo
2000
Syrinx
2001
Spazio, Segno, Suono
Sogno di pietra
2002
Opera arsa
Rimembrare
Jack Kerouac Opera
2003
Ponte di luce
Apple poem
2004
Nuvolari
2006
Coppi
Cuori di vetro
2007
Les Machines Spirituelles
Aino
Visez au Coeur
Chernobyl
2008
Diavolo Figura
Sirene e Incanti
Danza Pitagorica
2009
Flamma inveniat
Piedigrottesco 2009
Berruti
Marinetti Volante
Decollarsi
Penumastolfo
Le Souffle et la Machine
Fotodina(ni)mismo
iCaroBalla
2010
Piano Shadows
Tango
Habeas Corpus
2011
Ailo
Bocca di Rosa
2012
Meine Heimat
2013
Vertigine
2014
Fecero un deserto e fu chiamato pace
Un profumo che non so definire
Fino all'ultimo fuoco
Al Signore delle Ombre
Sguardo per Adolfo Loreti
Leuchstuck
Nodi del tempo
2015
Gentiluomo affetto da malinconia
Emozione verticale
HeArt Nuda
HeArt Vento di rose
HeArt Blu
HeArt Perfezione dell'oro
2016
Mastroianni
2017
Amen dell'alba
Don Chisciotte
2019
A Journey to Rome
2023
La pietra e il destino
Performance
2005
ICMC 2005 International Computer Music Conference, Barcellona (Spagna)
Concours International de Musique et d’Art Sonore Electoacoustiques, Bourges (Francia)
EXiS International Competition Experimental Film and Video Seoul (Korea)
A.I.A.C.E. INVIDEO, Mostra internazionale di video d'arte e cinema oltre Milano (Italia)
One Minute Film & Videofestival, Aarau (Svizzera)
Les Instants Video numériques et poétiques Marsiglia (Francia)
Verkligheten "BORDERS", Umeå (Svezia)
Asolo International Art Film Festival, Festival Internazionale del Film sull’Arte e d’Artista, Asolo (Italia)
Metu Video Festival, Ankara (Turchia)
Romapoesia, Doctor Clip, Primo festival italiano di videoclip di poesia, Roma (Italia)
Impakt Festival, Utrecht (Olanda)
2006
ICMC 2006 International Computer Music Conference, New Orleans (Louisiana)
European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück (Germania)
Galarie 13 Sévigné, Art Channel Exhibition, Parigi (Francia)
Concours International de Musique et d’Art Sonore Electoacoustiques, Bourges (Francia)
Traverse Video, Toulouse (Francia)
Zebra Poetry Award, Berlino (Germania)
VISIONARIA Video Festival Internazionale, Siena (Italia)
International Short Film Festival, Tehran (Iran)
VIDEOFORMES, Clermont-Ferrand (Francia)
Druskomanija, Lituania
Exibart Festival, Teatro della Luna, Milano (Italia)
OMV Festival, Oulu (Finlandia)
2007
IRCAM Ensemble Intercontemporain, Parigi (Francia)
VIDEOFORMES, Clermont-Ferrand (Francia)
Western Washington University, "Minifest" Old Main Theater Washington (USA)
Wicker Park, Chicago, Illinois (USA)
Romeoville, Illinois. EMM Festival, Lewis University, (USA)
Oakland, California. Thursday Night Special - Mills College, (USA)
Berlin Germany, International Sound Art Festival Berlin (Germania)
Karlsruhe, Germany. Ton:art/Gallery “Margit Haupt” (Germania)
ictoria University Campus; Nelson School of Music, Wellington (New Zealand.)
University of Wolverhampton (Walsall Campus) theatre; Wolverhampton (England)
Murray Art Guild Art Gallery; Murray, Kentucky (USA)
Athens Video Art Festival, Atene (Grecia)
EcoVisionFestival, Palermo (Italia)
FilmVideo 2007, Montecatini (Italia)
Stuttgart Filmwinter ’07, Stoccarda (Germania)
One Minute Film & Videofestival, Aarau (Svizzera)
EXiS International Competition Experimental Film and Video, Seoul (Korea)
A.I.A.C.E. INVIDEO, Mostra internazionale di video d'arte e cinema oltre Milano (Italia)
Digital Video Art Exhibition Pechino (Cina)
Asolo International Art Film Festival, Asolo (italia)
Fe.V.E. Festival de Vidéo Expérimentale Marsiglia (Francia)
VISIONARIA Video Festival Internazionale, Siena (Italia)
Les Instants Video numériques et poétiques Marsiglia (Francia)
Toronto One Minute Film & Video Festival Toronto (Canada)
Bigscreen International Film Festival, Kunming (China)
Culture Video Festival, Soleto (Italia)
OI FUTURO, Rio de Janeiro (Brasile)
2008
ICMC 2008, International Computer Music Conference, Belfast (Irlanda)
Stuttgart Filmwinter ’08, Stoccarda (Germania)
New moving images, Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts Sin el Fil (Libano)
LOOP 8 Barcelona, Barcelona (Spagna)
BFF, New York (USA)
I'VE SEEN FILMS, Milano (Italia)
ABSOLUTE POETRY, Monfalcone (Italia)
Concours International de Musique et d’Art Sonore Electoacoustiques, Bourges (Francia)
Film and Art Festival, Two Riversides, Kazimierz Dolny (Polonia)
Isola Tiberina, Roma Cinema Abstracta Festival 2008, Roma (Italia)
Living Theatre; Cairo, Egitto.
Columbia College, Chicago (USA)
MacPhail Center for Music, Minneapolis (USA)
The Vine Theatre, Los Angeles (USA)
The Victoria Theatre, San Francisco (USA)
nstitute of Contemporary Art, Boston (USA)
Seco Lounge, The Ball Room, Tokyo, (Giappone)
Londra, Gran Bretagna. Barbican Cinema;
Helsinki, Finlandia. Loikka Festival 2008;
International Cycling Video Festival, Secondo Premio, Bochum (Germania)
One Minute Film & Videofestival, Aarau (Svizzera)
Zebra Poetry Film Festival, Berlino (Germania)
ComputerArtFestival, Padova (italia)
Les Instants Video Festival, Marsiglia (Francia)
VISIONARIA Video Festival Internazionale, Siena (Italia)
Nuova Consonanza, Roma (Italia)
RomaPoesia, Roma (Italia)
Museo Hermann Nitsch, Napoli (Italia)
Sagra Musicale Malatestiana 59ª edizione, Audiovisioni Rimini (Italia)
Séquence Court Métrage, Carte blanche par Simone Dompeyre, Tolosa (Fancia)
Culture Video Festival, Lecce (Italia)
2009
ICMC 2009, International Computer Music Conference McGill University, Montreal (Canada)
ZKM, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe (Germania)
Traverse Video, Toulouse (Fancia)
Quattro passi nella videoarte, Milano (Italia)
Antologia corti InVideo, Milano (Italia)
One Minute Film & Videofestival, Aarau (Svizzera)
Les Instants Video numériques et poétiques Marsiglia (Francia)
Emufest Festival Internazionale di Musica Elettroacustica Roma (Italia)
The SCIENTIST III Edition International Videoart Festival Ferrara (Italia)
Visionaria, Siena (Italia)
Museo Archeologico Nazionale Napoli (italia)
Performances Verona, Biblioteca Civica di Verona (Italia)
Festival du film italien, Images passages présente, Annecy (Francia)
Moulins Albigeois. Le centre d’art le LAIT Albi (Francia)
Festival Exitime, Bologna (Italia)
2010
ICMC 2010 International Computer Music Conference, New York (USA)
ZKM, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe (Germania)
Electronic Music Foundation, New York City (USA)
Roma MACRO Video Drink, Roma (Italia)
Zebra Poetry Film Festival, Berlino (Germania)
New York University, New York (USA)
The 6th Berlin International Directors Loung Berlino (Germania)
Fiera dell’Editoria di Poesia, Nettuno (Italia)
Misticanze Teatro San Marco, Trento (Italia)
Musidora avec le CRR au Conservatoire Annecy (Francia)
Festival International du Film d'Animation d'Annecy, Annecy(Francia)
Festival Le Bruit de la Neige Annecy (Francia)
2011
Biennale di Venezia (Italia)
Cinema come Poesia casa della Letteratura Roma (Italia)
Università Roma Tre - DAMS, Roma (Italia)
Cinema come Poesia, Verifiche incerte, Roma (Italia)
NYU Steinhardt University, New York (USA)
ROMATRE FILM TEATROFEST 011, Roma (Italia)
Potreonics, La parola al Centro, Onna (Italia)
Treviglio Poesia Zebra Poetry, Treviglio (Italia)
Museo di Arte Contemporanea Pecci, Prato (Italia)
2012
ICMC 2012 International Computer Music Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Spatial Concepts, Works by Giga-Hertz Prize-Winners, ZKM, Karlsruhe (Germania)
Sounds. GRM Akusmonium and Sound Dome, ZKM, Karlsruhe (Germania)
Traverse Video, Toulouse (Francia)
VideoFormes, Clermont Ferrand (Francia)
Zebra Poetry Award, Berlino (Germania)
Poezijos Festivalis TARP, Vilnius (Lituania)
Poezijos Festivalis TARP, Klaipeda (Lithuania)
Les Instants Video numériques et poétiques Marsiglia (Francia)
Festival International de Video Poésie Pour la Terre Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Oslo Poesifilm Litteraturhuset, Oslo (Norvegia)
Madatac, Madrid (Spagna)
L'immagine alla parola, Sala S. Rita, Roma (Italia)
Uno Sguardo sulla Videoarte: dieci anni e oltre dall’archivio di INVIDEO Milano (Italia)
2013
ZKM, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe (Germania)
Traverse Video Tolosa (Francia)
Proxima Centauri Tolosa (Francia)
Videoformes Clermont Ferrand (Francia)
9th Berlin International Directors Lounge Berlino (Germania)
Kosmopolis Festival Barcelona (Spagna)
Leipzig Book Fair Leipzig (Germania)
Short Waves Festival Poznan (Polonia)
POETRY 2013 18° Internationales Lyrikertreffen Münster (Germania)
World Prague, 19th International Book Fair and Literary Festival Praga (Repubblica Ceca)
Copenhagen International Poetry Festival, Copenhagen (Danimarca)
Festival Novelum, Tolosa (Francia)
Doctorclip, Romapoesia, Roma (Italia)
2014
Milano Film Network, acquisizione in Archivio dell’opera “Nuvolari”, Milano (Italia)
Traverse Video, Tolosa (Francia)
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington (USA)
ZEBRA Screening, The 2nd Long Night of the Film Festivals in Berlin, Berlino (Germania)
Liberated Words Poetry Film Festival, Bristol (Inghilterra) 2014.
CologneOFF X, 10th Cologne International Videoart Festival, Colonia (Germania)
Onomato Künstverein, The 10th Anniversary of CologneOFF, Düsseldorf (Germania)
DoctorClip2014, The best of DoctorClip 2005-2013, Roma (Italia)
The best of DoctorClip 2005-2013, Il Cosmonauta, Viterbo (Italia)
Torrance Art Museum Los Angeles, Los Angeles (USA)
Visiones Sonoras X 2014, CMMAS, Centro Mexicano para la Musica y las Artes Sonoras Morelia (Messico)
2015
Installation by Holly Herndon for the ZKM_Sound Dome ZKM, Karlsruhe (Germania)
GLOBALE: Virtual Sound Gallery, Installation for the ZKM (2015- 2016), Karlsruhe (Germania)
Generazione Y, RAI 5 trasmissione a cura di Annalisa Spogli, (Italia)
TraverseVideo, Due performances intermediali, Tolosa (Francia)
Fondazione Bonotto e Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa Venezia (Italia)
Shoah film Collection acquisizione in Archivio dell'opera di "Fecero un deserto e fu chiamato pace" Köln (Germania)
Culture Video Festival Soleto (Italia)
FIU Wertheim Performing Arts Center Concert Hall, New Music Miami (USA)
Festival Internacional de la Imagen Universidad de Caldas Manizales (Colombia)
2016
GLOBALE: Virtual Sound Gallery, Installation for the ZKM (2015- 2016), Karlsruhe (Germania)
Fondazione Umberto Mastroianni, Frosinone (Italia)
Lublin Festival 2016, Lublin (Polonia)
Festival Internacional de la Imagen Universidad de CaldasManizales (Colombia)
2017
Museum of Music Tehran (Iran)
ISOA Islamic School of Art Università Teologica Qom (Iran)
Traverse Video Tolosa (Francia)
MA/IN 2017 Matera Intermedia Festival Matera (Italia) 2017.
2018
ISOA Islamic School of Art Università Teologica Qom (Iran)
Festival Internacional de la Imagen Universidad de Caldas Manizales (Colombia)
NYCEMF - New Yorrk City Electroacoustic Music Festival
2019
Brandeis University, Boston, USA
2021
NYCEMF 2021 - New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival
2023
ICMC 2023, International Computer Music Conference, Shenzhen (Cina)
Traverse Video, Touluse
Zebra Poetry Festival, Berlino