Marco Cadioli (aka Marco Manray)

short version
Marco Cadioli, artist and photographer in virtual worlds as Marco Manray, documents the developments of the metaverse since 2003 and is one of the best known photographer in virtual worlds. He entered the multiuser war game in 2005 as an "embedded" photographer, like a modern day Rober Capa, and his images from Second Life have been published by international magazines as Liberation, El Pais, Repubblica. In 2008 he leaved Second Life to explore the chinese virtual world HiPiHi, and he is now hanging around the virtual Berlin in Twinity. He exhibited at Odyssey art+performance sim in Second Life 2009, Reality Festival - Paris 2008, Galleria Overfoto – Napoli 2007, PEAM Pescara Electronic Artists Meeting – 2006,
Author of the book “IO, REPORTER IN SECOND LIFE”, Shake Edition, he teaches at Accademia di Belle Arti of Brescia.

complete version
Marco Cadioli, artist and photographer in virtual worlds as Marco Manray.

He started to travel and take photographs in the Net since 2003, after the publication of his "Internet Landscape" Manifesto where he set up the concept of net-photography.

In 2005 he published "ARENAE” a b&w reportage from the battlegrounds of the net. Like a modern-day Robert Capa he entered as "embedded" reporter in war games like Quake III, Enemy Territory and Half-Life Counter Strike. The photos look dramatically like real war photos, like real war photos looks like videogames.

From february 2005 he is resident in Second Life as Marco Manray, an artist-photographer who documents the evolving of the metaverse with his stories and his images.
His images from Second Life have been published by international magazine as Liberation (paris), El Pais (madrid), Repubblica (milan), and in the books "Second Life, un monde possible" essai ed. Les petits matins - Paris - oct-07.

Author of the book “IO, REPORTER IN SECOND LIFE”, Shake Ed., Milano nov 2007
The book starts with the story of the making of the reportage for Liberation, "Votez Virtuel", during the presidential election in France in 2007, and a photo from a virtual world went on the first page of a newspaper.

Left the interest for reportage, in 2008 Cadioli starts a research about landscapes in virtual worlds, with the black and white series "Why is there something rather than nothing?", photographies taken in Second Life wild areas still untouched by man, where Manray roams, wearing Ansel Adams’ shoes in a metaphorical West.

In summer 2008 he leaved form Second Life to explore the chinese virtual world HiPiHi, for his project: “Der Neue Wanderer”. Lost in a far corner of the metaverse like a new Friedrich’s “Wanderer” he went back with a series of artworks on paper inspired at the Maoist propaganda posters and a video.

The last project “Remap Berlin”, deals with different levels of reality, mirroring back a mirror world from virtual to real. The photos shot in the virtual Berlin of Twinity, are then geo localized in google maps, re-mapped from virtual to real, and many of these photos were selected by Google for Google Earth and by this became little geographical virus.

Solo Exibitions:
Der Neue Wanderer - Overfoto Gallery, Napoli, september 2009
Remap Berlin - Odyssey art+performance sim in second life, july 2009
I am not afraid - Shake Edizioni, Milano, march 2009
REPLICA Galleria Overfoto , Second Life - may/jul 2008

Group Exibitions:
Reality Festival - Festival international d'Art dédié aux mondes virtuels, oct 2008, Door Studios, Paris
Rinascimento Virtuale Museum of Natural History at the University of Florence oct 2008
Allarmi, Caserma De Cristoforis, Como, May/jun 2008
ArtecontemporaneamodernaRoma ArtFair with Galleria Overfoto - Roma 2008
Shooting Pixels – Galleria Overfoto, Napoli dec 2007-feb 2008
Paesaggi elettronici, “NetSpace: viaggio nell’arte della Rete” MAXXI - Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo - may 2007 Roma
The Diamond, PEAM Pescara Electronic Artists Meeting, Pescara 2006
SuperNeen, Galleria Pack, Milano 2006
Premio Michetti - Museo Michetti - Francavilla al Mare (CH)- jul - aug 2005
PEAM Pescara Elettronic Artists Meeting Pescara 22-30 october 2005
Sintesi Electronic Art Festival - Napoli 2004
BitArt - Fondazione culturale Stensen, Firenze oct-nov 2004

graduated in Phisycs. After computer studies he begun working in 3-D computer animation since 1985 and he followed the principles step of the development of new media. He teach "Digital Media" at "Accademia di Comunicazione" in Milan and "Estetica (dei new media)" at Accademia SantaGiulia, Brescia.
He lives and works in Milan and Second Life