In her work, Eleonora Calvelli explores urban landscapes and pathways through the use of plurimediality as artistic expression, synthesized in the photographic image. For over two years she has been working as a photographer of "invisibile theaters" in Rome. Through her photography she reveals and interprets the activities of underground artistic groups and movements. Eleonora Calvelli's photographic eye defines the spaces and movements through which these performances occur. She conveys the active presence of the audience without neglecting the importance of the documentary approach.
Eleonora Calvelli was born in 1970 in Rome, where she currently lives and works. Already as a child she showed a precocious interest in photography. Initially, she studied on her own and later chose to follow a two-year course at the Scuola Romana di Fotografia. There she learned to use the view camera and developed a passion for medium format, particularly Hasselblad cameras, for studio shots and for fine art printing. Following her Degree in Russian Language and Literature, she specialized in Communication Studies and began to work with the Department of Sociology and Communication at La Sapienza University in Rome, focusing on communication, training, and new media-related technologies. As a part-time teacher of New Media Theory and Techniques at the Link Campus University of Malta in Rome she addresses matters pertaining to censorship, safety and privacy on the web. As an activist she deals with issues concerning Net Art and New Media Art, supporting the creative use of arts linked to new technologies. Since October 2004, she is co-moderator with Tatiana Bazzichelli, founder of the art networking project AHA:Activism-Hacking-Artivism, of the eponymous mailing list. As a freelance author she writes reviews for on-line magazines such as Neural, Cut-Up and Ateatro. Her photographs have appeared in Drome, Next Exit, La Repubblica, Il Manifesto and L'Unità . Since the beginning of 2006 she has worked together with OSI/Occuparespazinterni, a network of artists founded by Annina Di Oronzo and Marco Bedini. She collaborates also with a lots of independent artists in Rome, such as Margine Operativo, Latòmia and with Sign of Sound, a project by Fabiana Yvonne Lugli Martinez. Through these activities she has channelled her research towards the portrayal of artists and towards reportages of art-related performances and events. She has exhibited her work at the Forte Prenestino in Rome, the ESC Atelier Occupato, the Scuola Romana di Fotografia, the Swiss Institute in Rome and the Rush Arts Gallery in New York.
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