Mattia Casalegno is an Italian visual artist and director renowned for his video, immersive installations, and XR projects. His work evokes experiences that are fully immersive, sensorially embodied and psychologically heightened. His art practice draws from such disparate disciplines as anthropology, ecology, biology, neurosciences and informatics and focuses on the relations and tensions between nature, society and technology.

Casalegno has won multiple prizes and received various grants and fellowships including the Lumen Prize and New Technological Art Awards, and his work has been supported by such organizations as NEW INC, the Center for Cultural Innovation, Young Italian Artists Network, New York Foundation for the Arts, the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, EYEBEAM, Chronus Art Center and the Asia Culture Center.

Casalegno has exhibited in more than 100 international venues and institutions including Siggraph Asia, ISEA – International Society of Electronic Artists, Ars Electronica Animation Festival, Mutek festival, Untitled Art Fair, Superblue Museum, MACRO Museum, Cini Foundation, RomaEuropa Festival, Cimatics festival, Festival de la Imagen and Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts.

His work has been featured in various publications and catalogs including A Touch of Code (Gestalten Books), Tactics of Interfacing (MIT Press), Deleuze and Audiovisual Art (Manchester Metropolitan University), and on the The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, CNN, Sky Arte, Artribune, Exibart, among others.

He lives and works between New York and Naples, IT.