The Kiss

2016-17
Single-channel video, sound, 1m 11s

A contact between two bodies. An intense sharing of information. A chemical cocktail in the brain.

The Kiss is an audiovisual work that explores a simple gesture acted out between two lovers.
An intense coming together of two bodies in the digital space.
The work was created using motion capture, particle systems and real time randomization techniques.


A work by APOTROPIA
Performed by Antonella Mignone, Cristiano Panepuccia
Music: Cristiano Panepuccia


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SCREENINGS:

2023
- VI Biennal de València, CCCC Centre del Carme + IVAM Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Valencia, Spain

- IMAGE PLAY International Video Art Festival, curated by Hernando Urrutia, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal


2021
- Ukrainian Biennale of Digital and Media Art, curated by Iury Lech, Kiev, Ukraine

- “Lo Sguardo sospeso” - Ca' Foscari Short Film Festival,  curated by Elisabetta Di Sopra, Fondazione Bevilaqua La Masa + Museo Archeologico Nazionale + Fondazione Ugo e Olga Levi + Concilio Europeo dell’Arte, Venice, Italy
- Šiluva Art Biennial, Šiluva, Lithuania

- Share Festival @ The Others Art Fair, Torino Esposizioni, Turin, Italy
- Transborda III International Video Art Exhibition, curated by Alberto Guerreiro, Alcobaça, Portugal
- PRJ Digital Art, RKH Studio, Turin, Italy

- BORN TO BE ONLINE - Share Project, Italy

2020
- INTERFERENZE, curated by Pasquale Fameli, CAOS – Centro Arti Opificio Siri, Terni, Italy
- Los hijos de Melusina, curated by Humberto Valdivieso, AWA Cultura, Caracas, Venezuela
- NewMediaFest2020, curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne, TAM - Torrance Art Museum, CA, USA

2019
- Festival Internacional de la Imagen, Manizales, Colombia
- Hot STEAM II: A Science/Video/Art Film Screening @ MIT Museum, Cambridge Science Festival, Massachusetts, USA
- Tribute to the 15 years of Athens Digital Arts Festival, Athens, Greece

- Videoart Yearbook 2019, Bologna, Italy
- Synthetic Mediart - Athens Digital Arts Festival presents: “PostSynthetic Interactions through Digital Aesthetics”, Tapei Expo Park, Taiwan
- Muestra: Festival Internacional de la Imagen / Cine(y)Digital, Festival de Cine Experimental de Bogotá / CineAutopsia, Bogotá, Colombia
- Athens Video Dance Project, Athens, Greece

2018
- ACM SIGGRAPH DAC Exhibition The Urgency of Reality in a Hyper-Connected Age, curated by Dena Eber
- Back to the POSTFUTURE, curated by Athens Digital Arts Festival, Spazio Ridotto, Venice

- VIDEOFORMES - Focus Athens Digital Arts Festival, Curated by Eirini Olympiou, Clermont-Ferrand, France
- The W:OW Art Film & Video Festival @ Now&After International Video Art Festival, WOW animateC curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne, ARTPLAY Design Center, Moscow, Russia

2017
- Share Prize X Edition 'Sincerity' - XII Share Festival, Turin, Italy
- On Site Impromptus curated by Yun-Ting Tsai, Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai, China
- Athens Digital Arts Festival - Post Future, Athens, Greece
- Espacio Enter International Festival of Creativity, Innovation & Digital Culture, Canary Islands
- interfilm - 33rd International Short Film Festival Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- DepicT! - Encounters Short Film & Animation Festival, Bristol, UK
- GENERATE!° - Festival für elektronische Künste, Tübingen, Germany
- Patchlab Digital Art Festival, Postfuture – selected works from the 13th Athens Digital Arts Festival, curated by Ilias Chatzichristodoulou, Krakow, Poland
- Fonlad Digital Art Festival, Coimbra, Portugal
- Videomedeja, Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia
- MIBArt Multimedia Festival curated by Piero Deggiovanni, Busto Arsizio, Italy
- Proyector Festival de Videoarte, BEST OFF 2017 curated by Fonlad Digital Art Festival, Madrid, Spain
- ARTSevilla 360°, Sevilla, Spain
- Blue Magpie Experimental Film Series, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
- Escape ARTfest, Milton - Ulladulla, Australia [Highly Commended Mention]
- MUCES Muestra de Cine Europeo Ciudad de Segovia, “Videoarte - Paisajes posthumanos. Nuevo arte audiovisual digital europeo” curated by MADATAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia, Spain
- MADATAC 08, Madrid, Spain

2016
- FutureFest Art Prize, London, United Kingdom


APOTROPIA (Antonella Mignone + Cristiano Panepuccia) 2021