MILAN, ITALY.- On 2005, Domus Academy and Progetto Italia present the second ArtExperience edition: two weeks of events and reflections on contemporary art during next June, when the opening of the 51st Venice Biennale will occur. ArtExperience is dedicated to a public of art professionals but also of simply art lovers and on 2005 will deal with - by adopting different viewpoints - the relation among art, sound, architecture and technology.

ArtExperience is a DA project focused on the central figure of internationally recognized contemporary artists: on 2005 the Swedish Olafur Eliasson and the German Carsten Nicolai will be the artist that will lead open conversations, round talks and performances, together with important culture, art and publishing International key figures.

Further, ArtExperience offers two seminars open to limited admissions, that will be held to Telecom Italia Future Centre in the same period and will be lead from those artists in English language. Domus Academy is offering some internships to free admit those students with an outstanding curriculum.

ArtExperience 2005 will be guest in the particular frame of the former Convent San Salvador in Venice and each week will offer several occasions to meet professionals and to join open round tables, to which also the seminar's students will participate: art lovers, journalists, critics, young artists, architects and designers. Each seminar will be ended by a special appointment - a conversation for the Eliasson's seminar and a performance-concert for the Nicolai's seminar: both the events will be guest in the beautiful XVI° Century cloisters of former Convent, now the Telecom Future Centre, with free admission.

ArtExperience is aimed to build an experience able to go further the traditional approach to contemporary art, with the opinion that this discipline is today pretty linked to the other creativity or communication fields; today art enters in our everyday life and dialogues with architecture, social and anthropological sciences - with design and fashion, advertisement, cinema and music.
With 2005 edition, the multidiscipline element, so talked in the debates, is still the core factor of the workshops: in this sense the June new appointment renovate what already stated last year, during the first edition, held in the same place and lead by Rirkrit Tiravanija and Christian Marclay.