Panel Statement n.a.

Panel: Electronic Art and Audience

• Maria Grazia Mattei (Italy) is a journalist and specialist in new technologies and communication who has organized and covered numerous multimedia, communications and cultural industries, trade shows, and conferences around the world such as the Triennale (Milan), Palazzo Fortuny (Venice), Biennale (Venice), Interactive Multimedia Festival (Los Angeles), Imagina (Montecarlo), Siggraph (U.S.A.) and the publications Virtual and Gulliver, and II Sole 24 Ore. A curator of the exhibit “Beyond the Global Village” at this year’s Triennale of Milan, she is responsible for Mediatech, the Forum ofthe International Broadcasting Telecommunication Show on new communication technologies and is presently working on a book on special effects in film and curating ARS LAB taking place in Turin in October 95.