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13 Facts About Marco Brambilla

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Marco Brambilla's work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York; SFMOMA, San Francisco; Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul; the Museum of the Moving Image, New York; Metronom Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Barcelona, Spain and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC.

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Marco Brambilla has explored the concept of the Metaverse, whose term was coined by Neal Stephenson in Snow Crash.

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Marco Brambilla has likened the Metaverse to the disruptive Dada movement, and in 2021 curated an NFT collection by Simon Denny, Rachel Rossin, and Willem de Rooij, combining Sculpture, VR, and Blockchain technology.

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Marco Brambilla's Megaplex is his first series of virtual reality artworks, set between the birth and death of the universe and all that pop culture created during its existence.

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In 2001, Marco Brambilla was commissioned by Creative Time to present on the Jumbotron screen in Times Square, New York City, titled Superstar.

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In 2013, as part of the Art Production Fund, Marco Brambilla presented his site-specific video installation at Time Warner Center titled Anthropocene, which uses LiDAR scanning technologies to track the terrain from the southwest corner to the northeast corner of New York's Central Park, displayed on two intersecting cinematic channels.

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In 2019, Creative Time and Art Production Fund commissioned Marco Brambilla to create Nude Descending a Staircase No 3, which was screened at World Trade Center station.

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In 2020, Marco Brambilla produced the "visual intermezzos" for Abramovic's opera 7 Deaths of Maria Callas.

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In 2010, Marco Brambilla was commissioned by Kanye West to direct his music video for 'Power'.

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In 2020, Marco Brambilla created The Four Temperaments where Cate Blanchett performs four sets of distinct character types divided according to a personality classification first defined by the Greek philosopher, Galen.

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Similarly to Approach, Transit, a collection of photographs Marco Brambilla took in and around airports, was published by Booth-Clibborn Editions in 2000.

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Marco Brambilla made his directorial debut with the futuristic action film Demolition Man, premiered October 8,1993, starring Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes and Sandra Bullock.

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Marco Brambilla received the Tiffany Comfort Foundation Award for Film and Video in 2002 and the Colbert Foundation award in 2000.