Gianni Toti |
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 From left: Italian computer artists Gianni Toti, Caterina Davinio, Mario Sasso. |
| Born | (1924-06-24)June 24, 1924
Rome, Italy |
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| Died | January 8, 2007(2007-01-08) (aged 82)
Rome, Italy |
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| Occupation | poet, writer, journalist, video artist, electronic art |
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| Literary movement | Video art, Video poetry |
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| Notable works | Planetopolis, Tupac Amauta (electronic video poem opera) |
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Gianni Toti (Rome, 24 June 1924 - Rome, 8 January 2007) was an Italian poet, writer, journalist, and cineaste. In the early 80s he created "Poetronica" (poetry and cinema elaborated with electronic art).
Biography
Graduated in Law, he published poetry books, articles and novels. He was partisan against Nazism and Fascism in the Italian Resistenza and, for many years, journalist and correspondent for the political newspaper L’Unità. Editor-in-chief of "La voce della Sicilia", "Lavoro", and of the cultural review "Carte segrete".
In the early 80s he began an experimentation where he mixed poetry, cinema and electronic art, creating a new language, which he defined "poetronica" (video poetry and electronic poetry).[1] By realizing his works he collaborated with specialized cultural centers, such as CICV (Centre de Recherche Pierre Schaeffer, in Montbéliard-Belfort, France), that gave him the possibility to utilize technologies and equips of technicians for creating artistic projects.
In his works Toti mixes history, politics, legends, oral traditions, folk culture. His writing contains idiomatic expressions, neologisms, words taken from many languages.
Other works
Novels
- Gianni Toti, L'altra fame, novel, Milano, Rizzoli, 1970
- Gianni Toti, Il padrone assoluto, novel, Milano, Feltrinelli, 1977
Poetry books
Among his numerous poetry books we remember:
- Gianni Toti, Che c'è di nuovo, Premio Rapallo 1962
- Gianni Toti, L’uomo scritto, poems, Sciascia, 1961
- Gianni Toti, La coscienza infelice, poems, Guanda, 1966
- Gianni Toti, Penultime dall’al di qua, poems, Sciascia, 1969
- Gianni Toti, Per il paroletariato o della poesicipazione, Umbria Editrice, 1977
- Gianni Toti, Tre ucronie, 1970
- Gianni Toti, Chiamiamola poemetànoia, 1974
- Gianni Toti, Il leggibile figlio di Jakob, poems, Il Bagatto, 1984
- Gianni Toti, Strani attrattori, poems, Empiria, 1986
- Gianni Toti, La bellezza dell'enigma, Carlo Mancosu Publisher, collection of books + sound cassette, Roma 1992
Prose
- Gianni Toti, Tredici irracconti dell’anagnoste, prose, Artificina, 1981
- Gianni Toti, Racconti di palpebra, prose, Empiria, 1989
Theater
- Poesia e no (Piccolo Teatro di Livorno, 1965)
- La penultima caccia allo snualo (Pestival Santa Croce sull’Arno, 1985) Essays:
- Gianni Toti, Il tempo libero, Editori Riuniti, 1961,
- Gianni Toti, Erotismo, eversione, merce, Cappelli, 1974
- Gianni Toti, Mostri al microscopio, Marsilio, 1980
Collections
Director of poetry collections:
- "Sintagma", Sciascia Publisher
- "Officina di poesia", Edizioni dell'Ateneo
See also
