Caterina Davinio (born November 25, 1957, Foggia) is an Italian poet, novelist and new media artist. Author of digital art, net.art, video art. She was the creator of Net-poetry in 1998.
Born in Foggia, she grew up in Rome since 1961. She studied literature and art history (student of Giulio Carlo Argan) at Rome University La Sapienza, where in 1981 she received a bachelor's degree in Italian Literature. In Rome she came in contact with the inter...
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Caterina Davinio (born November 25, 1957, Foggia) is an Italian poet, novelist and new media artist. Author of digital art, net.art, video art. She was the creator of Net-poetry in 1998.
Born in Foggia, she grew up in Rome since 1961. She studied literature and art history (student of Giulio Carlo Argan) at Rome University La Sapienza, where in 1981 she received a bachelor's degree in Italian Literature. In Rome she came in contact with the international circuit of experimental poetry and art, resulting in an intense curatorial activity in collaboration with renowned artists, critics and poets of the avant-garde. Since 1997 she has been living in Monza and Lecco, working at international level.
From the early 1990s Davinio was a pioneer of Italian electronic poetry, in the experimental field among writing, visual art, and new media, using computer, video, digital photography, Internet. She was the first woman artist utilizing in Italy computer and Internet in literature and poetry....
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