About

Leandro Summo, born in 1990, is a visual artist. His research is focused on the realms of computer art and electronic art, leading him to rework and experiment with the expressive and communicative potentials of new media and devices borrowed from other languages, such as sound and live music, also operating on the intersection between art and science. The result is that in his works, it’s not possible to identify boundaries between space and time, between author and audience, between music and architecture, but one is teleologically led to reach a unique perceptual experience: creating an interactive overcoming of digital expressiveness in which subject, object, and the materiality of the works or performances merge in the continuum of an aesthetic-sensorial multitasking.
From the outset, he has pursued a consistent research focused on international electronic art projects, always following two essential reference categories for this device: metamorphosis and metaphor. The production of video installations, immersive spaces, and interactions with the public highlight the artist’s full intention to transmigrate from immobility to movement, from object to immateriality, from the accomplished to the modifiable, from silence to sound, from physical data to fluidity, from matter to event, from contemplation to participation, from visible to invisible. This coherence and quality of research have led him to earn important recognitions, thanks to collaborations with iconic figures in the electronic music scene and hybrid experiences that since 2014 have earned him the Coge and Vezer critics’ award for the GlowFestival. This is the year in which he founded “DualBit,” a studio and multimedia production company, for him a brief parenthesis because, from 2017, he will concentrate again and exclusively on research in the field of contemporary visual and performative arts, sealing this return with a project born in collaboration with the Archaeological Superintendence of Puglia and the Puglia Public Theater for the MArTA Museum in Taranto, entitled “Ode To Taranto,” and another – “Sounds and lights from the sacre” at Palazzo Lanfranchi in Matera – commissioned by the Superintendence for Architectural and Landscape Heritage of Basilicata in line with the experience “Lands and territories” installation for the Cathedral of Sant’Angelo dei Lombardi (Av) commissioned by the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities.
Among the international experiences, noteworthy are the “Fiumano Fine Art – Four” in London in 2016 and participation in “The Wrong-New Digital Art Biennale” in San Paulo (Brazil) at the Homeostasis Lab Pavilion. In 2018, he will be at the LPM Festival at the ex Mattatoio in Rome and at the European edition of the Maker Fair with his works generated by the electroencephalographic impulses of the users. The most recent participation is in 2019, in Matera for “Apollo Soundtrack,” an immersive video installation titled by the same name for Brian Eno, Roger Eno & Daniel Lanois with Icebreaker, produced thanks to the contribution of the Leonardo group and the company e-GEOS (Telespazio and Italian Space Agency) in collaboration with the Matera 2019 Foundation: a mix of electronic art, science, and music that seem to seal Leandro Summo’s stylistic signature and that love for symbiosis with theater and classical music. Already revealed in 2015 with the symbiotic design of digital sets for Madama Butterfly for the “Traetta Opera Festival” and “AMI Fest IV,” in collaboration with the “Japan Apulia Festival” in Tokyo, up to the recent collaborations with major lyric institutions such as the Petruzzelli Lyric Symphony Foundation and directors like Hugo De Ana, Walter Pagliaro, and Giandomenico Vaccari.