Venice Biennale Review- La Biennale di Venezia 3/25

The third issue of the magazine published by La Biennale di Venezia addresses the tension between the digital and material reality. Text in English and Italian. Materia prima / Raw Material is the title of issue 3/2025 of the historic magazine published by La Biennale di Venezia, which has come back to life after 53 years of editorial silence. Printed to be ready for the 82nd Venice International Film Festival, the new issue addresses the tension between the digital and material reality. In the era of Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and virtual reality, the magazine focuses on res extensa, the extension of the body, the physical nature of experience, the genuine connection with the world. It features contributions by: philosopher Massimo Cacciari, who confirms how intelligence does not intend to dematerialise; choreographer Antony Hamilton, on the body as a map of space; director Massimo D’Anolfi on the pilgrimage to Fàtima as a physical act of faith; the science fiction author Bruce Sterling, on cyberpunk as a bridge between technology and pop culture; paralympic champion Daniele Cassioli, on the role of technology as an extension of the human being; poet Hugo Mujica, who calls for moving beyond the opposition between matter and spirit; the heart surgeon Gino Gerosa in a conversation with Vincenzo Milanesi on the body enhanced by science; artist Alberto Biasi on his artistic research between movement and expansion. The cover is designed by artist Mari Katayama with the work on the way home #005 (2016), while the back cover features leave-taking #013 (2021), also by Mari Katayama, who participated in the Biennale Arte 2019. Conceived and produced exclusively as a printed edition, the Magazine features a rich iconographic apparatus that draws largely from the…