From February 12 to 15, 2026, Bergamo hosts INTERSCAPE, a four-day event featuring distributed exhibitions, musical performances, and a conference, all part of the third edition of the Tono Festival.
INTERSCAPE is the concluding act of the “INPA – International Network of the Polytechnics of the Arts” project, an initiative funded by the European Union through NextGenerationEU – PNRR (Mission 4: “Education and Research”) funds via the Ministry of University and Research (MUR). The project, coordinated by the Polytechnic of the Arts of Bergamo as the lead partner, involved over 60 students and professors in an articulated training and research path aimed at innovating artistic education through the implementation of interdisciplinary practices. The project is founded on a solid academic network involving the collaboration of several national Higher Education Institutions for Art and Music (Academy of Fine Arts, “Luigi Cherubini” Conservatory of Music and ISIA Design of Florence; “Albertina” Academy of Fine Arts and “Giuseppe Verdi” State Conservatory of Music of Turin; Academy of Fine Arts and “G. Verdi” Conservatory of Music of Ravenna; Ligustica Academy of Fine Arts of Genoa) and prominent international partners, including Universidad de Granada, Escuela Universitaria de Artes TAI, Hochschule Luzern (HSLU), and Academy of Arts Novi Sad.
The heart of the project will be presented to the public starting Thursday, February 12, the opening day of events related to INPA. The INTERSCAPE exhibition, curated by Bianca Trevisan and Daniele Maffeis and hosted simultaneously in the spaces of GAMeC Spazio Zero, Palazzo della Libertà, and the Giacomo Carrara Academy of Fine Arts, will gather artistic and musical projects created by the students. A distributed exhibition that puts visual installations, multimedia works, and sound interventions into dialogue, transforming the exhibition spaces into a true landscape to be traversed. During the inauguration and in the following days, the exhibition will be animated by live musical performances, curated by Umberto Pedraglio and conceived as an integral part of the exhibition path. Culminating moments will be the Concert (Friday, February 13, reservation required) and the Musical Performances (Saturday, February 14, free access at 11:00 AM and 4:00 PM) of unpublished compositions for Soprano, Piano, Tuba, and Live electronics created by INTERSCAPE students and conducted by Maestro Fabian Panisello at the G. Carrara Academy of Fine Arts.
The event gathers works resulting from the joint work of artists and composers from the network Institutions: Stefano Agnini, Pía Alvarado Arróspide, Arian Baniasadi, Giulia Bedeschi, Piero Bindi, Felipe Blini, Luca Brembilla, Veronica Bria, María Brito Calleja, Sara Camaiti, Benedetta Carini, Sara Cavaioli, Daniel Cristóbal, Ivana Čuturić, Cecilia Danesi, Vasilija Dobric, Sevan Gharibian, Sirio Guaiana, Laura Guerrazzi, Paola Iacovino, Nicoline Janka, Elena Laghi, Bianca Levi, Marcello Licata, Marilena Licata, Lorenzo Milani, Martina Minzoni, Giulio Monciatti, Juan Jesús Moreno Mariscal, Giotto Orsini, Nicola Ortodossi, Leonardo Panni, Giulia Petronio, Samuele Pigliapochi, Giovanni Proietti, Elena Regini, Lorenzo Ruggieri, Carlos Sandoica López, Massimiliano Seggio, Sofia Senesi, Capucine Seuret, Francesco Stabile, Marta Tessaroli, Tâmisa Trommer, Ana Sofía Vela Ramírez, Katja Voinova, Petra Weber.
The live performance of the unpublished scores is entrusted to Nicola Argelli, Elena Campiotti, Jacopo Franchi, Elisabetta Nessi, and Francesco Romeri.
Complete program available at interscape.it
The Project
A founding element of the project vision is the programmatic convergence between Musical Arts and Visual Arts: disciplinary fields that find an institutional synthesis in the model of the Polytechnic of the Arts of Bergamo. INTERSCAPE synthesizes the adopted methodological paradigm: the term reflects the fusion between the dimensions of Internationalization and Interdisciplinarity applied to the investigation of Landscape. This linguistic crasis defines not only the object of research but the modus operandi itself: the constitution of a transnational space of inquiry where artistic and musical languages operate in synergy to generate shared educational models and new expressive syntheses.
The path was articulated in five methodological phases, from preliminary theoretical research to the international Summer School in July 2025, passing through the Autumn School in October, the production of works with individual consulting, and finally, the public presentation. The initiative benefited from the supervision of visiting professors such as Brandon LaBelle, José Manuel López López, Fabian Panisello, and Stefano Romano. Through a practice-based research approach, creative production was used as a primary tool of investigation to generate new theoretical and critical knowledge.
The INTERSCAPE project reflects on the contemporary landscape understood not as objective data, but as a living reality born from the dynamic relationship between humans and the environment. The works on display highlight how sound and image can interact to build complex perceptual spaces, overcoming disciplinary distinctions to merge languages into a single cognitive horizon. In this scenario, the spectator is called to active participation that integrates listening and vision, transforming simple observation into a deep immersive experience. The landscape thus reveals itself not so much as an object of representation, but as a field of tensions between different dimensions: memory and transformation, nature and artifice, the individual and the surrounding space. The landscape becomes, ultimately, a shared testing ground, where the specific skills of each discipline dialogue to generate knowledge that emerges from the continuous interaction between the senses and the territory.
Event Program
February 12 – 15, 2026 | Bergamo
Thursday, February 12
EXHIBITIONS OPENING
14:00 — Palazzo della Libertà (Piazza della Libertà) Opening of the exhibition path.
17:00 — GAMeC, Spazio Zero (Via San Tomaso, 53) Opening of the exhibition path.
18:30 — Accademia di Belle Arti G. Carrara, Hall B1 (Piazza Giacomo Carrara, 82/d) Vernissage with live musical performances.
Friday, February 13
10:00 — 17:30 — Sala Boninelli, Tiraboschi Library International Conference: “Polytechnics and Universities of the Arts. Models of interdisciplinarity compared”.
18:30 — Accademia di Belle Arti G. Carrara, Hall B1 INTERSCAPE Concert: Musical performance of original works by students. Conductor: Maestro Fabian Panisello. Reservation required
Saturday, February 14
11:00 AM and 4:00 PM — Accademia di Belle Arti G. Carrara, Hall B1 Live Performance of Unpublished Works: Double session of musical performances conducted by Maestro Fabian Panisello. Free admission.
Sunday, February 15
11:00 — Accademia di Belle Arti G. Carrara, Hall B1 Chamber Music + INTERSCAPE ELECTROACOUSTIC PERFORMANCES. Reservation required.
Useful Information All exhibitions and performances are free admission subject to availability. Reservations are required for the concerts on Friday evening and Sunday morning:
https://www.eventbrite.it/o/politecnico-delle-arti-di-bergamo-60332510833#events
ORGANIGRAMMA / THE PEOPLE
Direttivo / Executive Board
- Direzione Scientifica / Scientific Direction: Daniela Giordano
- Project Manager e Coordinamento Scientifico / Project Manager and Scientific Coordination: Bianca Trevisan
- Vice Project Manager: Daniele Maffeis
- Responsabile Produzione Musicale / Music Production Coordination: Umberto Pedraglio
Governance Politecnico delle Arti di Bergamo
- Presidente / President: Giorgio Berta
- Direttrice / Director: Daniela Giordano
- Vicedirettore con delega all’Accademia di Belle Arti / Vice-Director with mandate for the Academy of Fine Arts: Ettore Favini
Masterclasses / Workshops
Alfonso Alberti, Alda Caiello, Giorgio Colombo Taccani, Mario Cristiani, Stefano Gervasoni, Brandon LaBelle, José Manuel López López, Damiano Meacci, Roberto Neri, Fabian Panisello, Umberto Pedraglio, Stefano Romano, Alessandro Solbiati, Gianmario Strappati.
Studenti / Students
- Artisti / Artists: Stefano Agnini, María Brito Calleja, Sara Camaiti, Benedetta Carini, Sara Cavaioli, Ivana Čuturić, Cecilia Danesi, Vasilija Dobric, Sirio Guaiana, Laura Guerrazzi, Paola Iacovino, Elena Laghi, Bianca Levi, Martina Minzoni, Giulio Monciatti, Juan Jesús Moreno Mariscal, Giotto Orsini, Giulia Petronio, Samuele Pigliapochi, Giovanni Proietti, Elena Regini, Carlos Sandoica López, Sofia Senesi, Francesco Stabile, William Studer*, Marta Tessaroli, Tâmisa Trommer, Katja Voinova, Petra Weber.
- Compositori / Composers: Pía Alvarado Arróspide, Alessandro Artico*, Arian Baniasadi, Giulia Bedeschi, Felipe Blini, Luca Brembilla, Veronica Bria, Daniel Cristóbal, Sevan Gharibian, Marcello Licata, Marilena Licata, Nicola Ortodossi, Massimiliano Seggio, Capucine Seuret, Ana Sofía Vela Ramírez.
- Compositori Elettroacustici / Electroacoustic Composers: Piero Bindi, Nicoline Janka, Lorenzo Milani, Leonardo Panni, Lorenzo Ruggieri.
- Musicisti / Musicians: Nicola Argelli, Elena Campiotti, Jacopo Franchi, Elisabetta Nessi, Francesco Romeri.
*studenti che hanno partecipato solo alla Summer School / students who participated only in the Summer School
Docenti, ricercatori e dottorandi / Professors, researchers and Ph.D students
Riccardo Benassi, Simone Bertuzzi, Mirjana Blagojev, Marina Brancato, Céline Brunko, Veronica Caciolli, Serena Canino, Bruno Dozza, Filippo Emiliani, Jessica Ferro, Ilaria Gadenz, Giulia Mengozzi, Pietro Millefiore, Jesús Osorio Porras, Alessandra Pioselli, Giuseppe Previtali, Agustin Sanchez, Pasquale Savignano, Gabriella Sborgi, Annamaria Storace, Marco Tognetti.
Project Team
- Consulente Produzione Musicale e Profili Giuridici / Music Production and Legal Affairs Consultant: Giuseppe Leotta
- Responsabile Rendicontazione Economica / Financial Reporting Manager: Giuseppe Empoli
- Supervisione Comunicativa del Progetto / Project Communication Supervisor: Filippo Emiliani
- Collaboratore all’Attuazione del Progetto / Project Implementation Collaborator: Lorenzo Benzoni
- Componenti del project team per le attività organizzative e logistiche / Project Team Members for Organizational and Logistical Activities: Ilaria Carrara, Federica Paganoni
Contatti Stampa:
Ufficio Stampa TONO Festival 2026 – INTERSCAPE
Alice Tartari: alicetartari@peopeo.it
Telefono: 035 222696 / Cellulare: 347 4360376
Ufficio Stampa Politecnico delle Arti di Bergamo
Laura Arrighetti: ufficiostampa@poliartibg.it
Telefono: 340 3126067
