ARENAE is a photo reportage from the battlegrounds of the net. These are war photos, they look dramatically like real war photos, like real war photos looks like videogames. ARENAE extends Internet Landscape explorations to Mmorpg (massive multiplayer online role playing game), Virtual Online Worlds, persistent universes that recreates real environments, in wich you can live as your own avatar. They just seems to be games, but they are designating the first collective environments that are getting populated, they are an experimental lab of online social relationships.

ARENAE presents three reportages from three battlefields. Real contemporary ARENAE are open to warriors who challenge each other in various scenarios, defined by maps that constantly changes, recreating famous battles like in the real roman arenaes. Environments cloned in thousands of servers where thousands of players join, choose the weapons, choose their mates, and then kill each other. Worlds where you can test different identities and social relationships, while you are incarnating a monster.
Worlds with their own rules, that you have to learn in order to survive or just to move around. The photographer joins those worlds as an "embedded" reporter, leaded by an expert player, and he follows the action taking photos of the fight, taking portraits of the gladiators, of the corpses on the ground, war photos.
ARENAE presents reportages from Quake III, Enemy Territory and Counterstrike, showing realistic war scenarios, from 2nd World War to Terrorist attacks, to totally synthetic scenarios.

ARENAE is part of Internet Landscape project, that presents reportages of growing places, of the very first human and robots online beings, in an online world. This project starts from the awareness that what we are creating is much more than a new media, much more than a hi-tech simulation, it's a world apart, a part of the one we call "real world", but totally independent.
Internet Landscape, like classical photographic reportages, looks at what's going on in this new world and describes it with images.