STEFANO FAKE & THE FAKE FACTORY - IMMERSIVE ART EXPERIENCES (2001-today)

Stefano Fake is an Italian artist and video designer who creates installations using video projections, films, photographs, sculptures, computer graphics and interactive technologies. He is a pioneer and one of the main interpreters of the immersive digital art experience, a new form of artistic expression that consists of the use of audiovisual installations that aim to immerse the spectator in the work itself, through the use of digital technologies and monumental video projections.

In 2001 he founded The Fake Factory, a studio specialized in Immersive Art, Projection Art and Videomapping. In just a few years, this laboratory becomes a point of reference in the context of digital and immersive art at a national and international level, participating in the creation of numerous projects: immersive exhibitions, video mapping, architectural light installations, video production, video scenography for theatres, fashion, visual environments for museums, galleries and cultural events, production of multi-sensory works, video installations, video art works.

With over 20 years of career, Stefano Fake is a pioneer and one of the main creators of the immersive digital art experiences, those audiovisual installations that aim to immerse the viewer inside the work of art itself, through digital technologies and monumental video projections.
“TO BE A MEDIA ARTIST IS NOT A MATTER OF MAKING VIDEOS OR MULTIMEDIA ARTWORKS AT ALL. WHAT WE ARE REALLY DEALING WITH IS THE VISITORS STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE SHAPE OF THEIR PERCEPTIONS.” (STEFANO FAKE, 2015)

The Immersive art experiences created by STEFANO FAKE & THE FAKE FACTORY helped define the format, the language and the global success of the immersive digital art exhibitions, thanks to an unprecedented media exposure and a series of attendance records in Italian and international museums. (+ 5 millions visitors in 2012-2023). Many of The Fake Factory’s installations have become milestones of contemporary immersive digital art.
“An immersive art experience can be technically described as “a form of art which uses multimedia and sensory tools with the aim of immersing the viewer inside the artwork itself, which has a development in space and time determined by audio-visual storytelling.” (Stefano Fake, 2012) - In 2001 Stefano Fake was also the first artist to use video projections inside a mirror room, creating a unique and extraordinary mixed-media installation, which today has become one of the most iconic and widespread works of immersive art in many international exhibitions.

“From Andy Warhol’s point of view, Pop Art mostly meant “loving things”.
To reuse his words, I would love to describe Immersive Art as “loving people” since in the installations of immersive arts there’s always a very important and fundamental emotional relation between the artist and the audience. The fact itself of calling those exhibitions “Experiences” makes us better understand the paradigm shift. So, the audiovisual’s quality or the purely technological aspect fade in to the background. Before everything else, we put the experience of the audience and them being immersed in the light inside spaces, that thanks to a poetic use of technologies, the art enhancing the audiences senses. It’s not about surrounding the audience with big images, but it’s about taking it inside an audiovisual flow, modeling the shape of sensorial sensations. This is summarizing the distinctive aspect of the Immersive Art that we realized in the course of the last years.” (Stefano Fake, 2020)

Stefano Fake is the artistic director of the FARNESINA DIGITAL ART EXPERIENCE project, in collaboration with the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with the aim of producing, exhibiting and communicating Italian digital art in the world. Since 2019, Stefano Fake he has been the creator and artistic director of the FARNESINA DIGITAL ART EXPERIENCE project, supported the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with the aim of producing, exhibiting and communicating Italian digital art in the world.

Links:
stefanofake.com
thefakefactory.com
immersiveartexperience.com

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