society. As I was interested in electroacoustic music since the age of twelve, I found more interesting way. I then became a producer of experimental music, programmer and producer of spectacles, installations and films, more and more centred on the new media. At the end, I became organizer of expo characterized by the use of new technologies, but not only.
the artistic and scenic side. A better knowledge of the technology allows not to be mystified by charlatans. At the same time, you must fascinate the public with the chosen works but also with their technologies. Claudia D’Alonzo: Since the middle 90′s, the interactive installations have been characterized by the use of more and more sophisticated but also discreet technologies. Do you think these tendency is now consolidated in a secure way or do you think there are other tendencies in the interactive world? Richard Castelli: The microscopic electronics and the acceleration of the elaboration speed allow the technologies to by more discrete, when necessary. It’s better, but when this force the artist to be discreet, well this would be a regression. I think that most of all that the interest for the visible machine turned into interest for invisible machines, and this strengthen pseudo philosophic discourses.
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Claudia D’Alonzo: Do you think that the use of new technologies in art is changing the role and work of the organizer? Richard Castelli: It is clear that a technical preparation and an open mind are advisable as a good general preparation must be supported by the skill of synthesis and the constant ability to anticipate the results of both
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