Caterina Davinio

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Full Name	Caterina Davinio
Occupation	Poet
Date Of Birth	Nov 25, 1957(1957-11-25)
Age	67
Birthplace	Foggia
Country	Italy
Horoscope	Capricorn

Caterina Davinio Biography

Caterina Davinio is one of the most popular and richest Poet who was born on November 25, 1957 in Foggia, Italy. Caterina Davinio (born Maria Caterina Invidia; 25 November 1957, Foggia) is an Italian poet, novelist and new media artist. She is the author of works of digital art, net.art, video art and was the creator of Italian Net-poetry in 1998.

Caterina Davinio participated in more than three hundred international art exhibitions in the world, among them: Biennale de Lyon (two editions), The Venice Biennale and collateral events (seven editions since 1997, where she collaborated also as a curator), Athens Biennial, Poliphonyx (in Barcelona and in Paris), Biennale of Sydney (Online Venue), Liverpool Biennial (Independents, Online Venue), ParmaPoesia, VeneziaPoesia (Nanni Balestrini curator), RomaPoesia, Biennale di arti elettroniche, cinema e televisione of Rome (Marco Maria Gazzano curator), Le tribù dell’Arte, Tribù del video e della performance (Rome, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Achille Bonito Oliva curator), Artmedia VII (University of Salerno, Mario Costa curator), E-Poetry Festival (University of Barcelona, University SUNY Buffalo, NY), Interactiva, New Media Art Biennial, Merida, Mexico, Hong Kong Artists’ Biennial, and many others.

Net-poetry project Karenina it (1998) was the first art-poetry-communication project presented on the web in an Italian context; the website was not a simple cultural on-line journal, but a “space of aggregation”, which hosted an ongoing discourse, involving emerging and established experimental artists, critics, and visual poets. The communication aspect was treated as an artistic medium that goes beyond the contents or the quality of the words: borders among art, critic, and communication, in Davinio’s own concept, were cancelled. The flow of words and information became art in itself, transcending the necessity to view art in traditional terms of form. The suffix “.it” present in Karenina.it title is a geographic locator for the origin of the website. The value of the site resides within the conceptual framework of the Fluxus art movement.” Karenina.it won MAD03 Award (section Net-Zin) in 2003, Madrid.

Davinio’s net-poetry participated in the Venice Biennale also in 2001 – Harald Szeemann curator – in the context of Bunker Poetico, which was a collaborative installation – involving 1000 international poets and artists – created by the architect Marco Nereo Rotelli in cooperation with Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici of Venice, Massimo Donà, I Quaderni del Battello Ebbro publisher, Caterina Davinio, Milanocosa cultural association, and others. Davinio engaged in this project renown avant-garde poets and organized a virtual happening on-line called “Parallel Action-Bunker”, simultaneous with real readings and performances at Orsogrill delle Artiglierie, a venue of the Venice Biennial.

From the early 1990s Davinio was a pioneer of Italian electronic poetry, in the experimental field among writing, visual art, and new media, using computer, video, digital photography and the Internet. She was the first woman artist who utilized the computer and Internet in literature and poetry in Italy. Author of visual and sound poetry, she also created works using traditional techniques, such as painting and photography. She is author of novels, books of poetry, essays, and has received literary awards and recognition in Italy and abroad. In 1997 she collaborated to [email protected], the first Italian interactive work for the web, by the composer Sergio Maltagliati. She also initiated Net-poetry in Italy, in 1998, with the website and network Karenina.it. The participants included Julien Blaine, Clemente Padin, Philadelpho Menezes, Mirella Bentivoglio, Lamberto Pignotti, Eugenio Miccini, and many other new media artists, critics, and experimental poets.

Caterina Davinio Net Worth

Caterina Davinio is one of the richest Poet from Italy. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Caterina Davinio 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Born in Foggia, Davinio grew up in Rome since 1961. She studied literature and art history (student of Giulio Carlo Argan) at Rome University La Sapienza, where, in 1981, she received a MA degree in Italian Literature. Davinio began to write poetry when she was fourteen years old. In Rome she came in contact with the international circuit of experimental poetry and art, resulting in a number of collaborations with renowned artists, critics and poets of the avant-garde. Since 1997 she has been living in Monza and Lecco, working at an international level.

Student at the Faculty of Humanities, University La Sapienza of Rome, in 1977, she participated in the Movement of 1977 and in the occupation of the faculty. Davinio lived a turbulent young life marked by heroin addiction and abuse of drugs and alcohol; this experience emerges in many of her literary works, particularly in Il libro dell’oppio 1975 – 1990 (The Book of Opium 1975 – 1990). In 1980 she married the Turkish entrepreneur Levent Muharrem Sergün in Rome, moving to Munich and Istanbul; in 1982 their son Leonardo was born in Rome. After the divorce in 1984, Caterina married Claudio Preziosi in Rome in 1986, giving birth, in the same year, to her son Riccardo Amedeo. Lover of travels, Davinio dedicated to India, Africa, and many other places, poetry and photography works. She has nine tattoos made in her travels, including some Sak Yant, traditional South East Asia tattoos, realized in Cambodia.

She exhibited animated digital poetry works – called “Terminal Videopoems” – in the 1997 Venice Biennale, in VeneziaPoesia, a project directed by the poet and writer Nanni Balestrini. In 1999 she participated, as a poet and a video artist, at the events organized by “Progetto Oreste” at the 48th Venice Biennale, where she also curated a video poetry exhibition.

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Caterina Ranked on the list of most popular Poet. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Italy. Caterina Davinio celebrates birthday on November 25 of every year.