Roberto Bocci

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Bocci
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Roberto

Roberto Bocci is a multimedia electronic artist born in Siena, Italy. Over the past twenty years his work has evolved from painting through photography to computer-driven interactive multimedia installations. His artistic concerns encompass multiple points of view and questions of personal and social identity. He has shown his work in America, in Europe, in Japan and Australia. Roberto has been awarded fellowships and grants including a Fulbright Fellowship in 1987 and a Woodstock Photography Grant among others. Roberto's work includes multimedia sound and video installations, single channel videotapes, photographic images and interactive CD-ROMs for desktop computers. His work can be considered a hybrid form of multimedia art in which he merges his background in traditional Fine Arts (photography, painting, sculpture and music) and Electronic Arts (video, digital imaging, sound). MFA Electronic Arts, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. MFA Painting and Photography, University at Albany. Has taught at Georgetown University (Washington, DC), Studio Art Centers International (Florence). Currently Roberto lives and works in Washington DC. http://www.boccir.com/