Corrado Morgana
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Name : Corrado Morgana
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Job Title : Programme Leader BA(Hons) Computer Games Design
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Email : corrado.morgana@newport.ac.uk
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Contact Telephone Number : 01633 432184
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Campus : City Centre
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Academic Faculty and School or Department : Faculty of Arts and Business, Film, Photography and Digital Media
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Biography : Corrado Morgana is an artist, electronic musician, curator and educator. He is currently programme leader for Computer Games Design at University of Wales Newport. His research project examines arts and videogames crossover practice, specifically transgressive and subversive production within existing game engines. Alongside HTTP/Furtherfield.org, an international media arts collective, he has co-curated 'Zero Gamer' and 'Game-Play', national touring exhibitions which explore game spectatorship and independent and experimental production.He has been involved in various large scale collaborative projects. These include Node.London a practical framework for media arts whose March 2006 season presented over 140 media arts events within London and also Open Congress at Tate which mapped free, libre and open source strategies onto general cultural production. He has produced video work, collaborative online projects and performed live electronica at various international venues, has dabbled in virtual reality research and has taught extensively about online practice. He has worked in a variety of digital guises from web developer to computer salesman. Most importantly he is an incorrigible gamer.
- Academic and Professional Qualifications :
- Currently Doctoral candidate at University of the Arts London
- PGCertHE, CLTAD, University of the Arts, London, 2005
- MA Fine Art (Media), Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, 1995
- BA(hons) Fine Art (sound and Image), Bath College of Higher Education, Bath,1993
- Professional Bodies and Memberships :
- Fellow of Higher Education Academy
- Member of UKIE
- Publications :
Selected publications and Public Presentations
2011
- Pecha Kucha, Chapter Arts Centre, Art and Videogames
- Wales@work, Radio interview, Independent Games Development in Wales
2010
- Artists Re:Thinking Games', publication, editor and contributor, collaboration with Furtherfield, FACT Liverpool and London Games Fringe festival. Book Launch at Birkbeck University Cinema, June 20
- Interviewed on Furtherfield Broadcast, art and videogames, ResonanceFM
2009
- Art and Videogames lecture, MA Digital Media department, Camberwell College of Art, London.
- Zero Gamer public lecture, Ffotogallery, Cardiff as part of the 'Vision On' programme
2008
- Ecoes project , Panel Presentation, Networks of Design Conference, Falmouth University, Falmouth
- 2007 Landscape Filming in a Toxic Wasteland, Paper, Play conference, Edinburgh University
2006
- Critical Gaming, Paper for Game/Play national touring exhibition catalogue , co-editor
Exhibitions, Screenings and Live Performances
2011
2010
- 4x4, Silencer (group show), Payne Shurvel Gallery, London
2009
- Zero Gamer, Ffotogallery, Cardiff
2007
- Zero Gamer, London Games Festival Fringe Lounge and HTTP gallery
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- Game/Play, HTTP gallery and touring.(co-curator)
- Escaping Space, Chelsea Futurespace, London, group show
2005
- Node.l March Season. A season of media arts events throughout London (voluntary organiser)
- OpenCongress, Conference at Tate Britain Oct 7, 8th , 05 (conference organiser and developer)
2003
- The Convertors -Live electronic music performance
- Summer Festival, Le Conforte Moderne, Poitiers and other London and international venues