Giancarlo Norese is an Italian artist, one of the initiators and the editor of publications of the Progetto Oreste during the Nineties, a network which organized several common initiatives and was invited by Harald Szeemann at dAPERTutto in 1999. His work has been also exhibited at the Planetary Network at the 42nd Venice Biennale, Villa Medicis in Rome, the P.S.1 and Performa 07 in New York, Galerija Škuc in Ljubljana, Galleria Continua in San Gimignano, Tent in Rotterdam, Triennale di Milano, and the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich. A resident artist at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Red Gate in Beijing and the ASU Art Museum in Phoenix. Giancarlo has been widely involved in many collaborative projects including both academic and experimental education, artists’ books, plural actions, artist-run spaces, and the setting up of a foundation.