Michele Sambin

Michele Sambin (born 1951 in Padua) is an Italian theatre director and artist. In 1967 he moved to Venice and attended the Artistic High School of the lagoon city. In 1968 he made his first experimental film called Anamnesis. He began attending the newly founded International University of Art (UIA) in 1969, founded by Giuseppe Mazzariol to create a link between artistic experiences and problems affecting the Venetian territory. Sambin then reflects on the city of Venice making the films Laguna (1971) and later Blud'acqua (1972). In 1972, on the occasion of his first solo show, held in Abano at Galleria Image, he met Teresa Rampazzi, one of the first women in Italy to produce and experiment with electronic and avant-garde music. Sambin began to participate in his research and in 1975 he graduated in the course of Electronic Music at the Benedetto Marcello Conservatory in Venice with Alvise Vidolin. From 1974 to the experience with cinema Sambin joins the experimentation with the video and realizes the first works of video art with the Galleria del Cavallino in Venice, directed by Paolo Cardazzo. Sambin will be the first artist to experiment since 1976, later declining the operation in many variations, the videoloop, the open reel video: technique for which through the creation of a magnetic tape ring is enclosed, in a single device, the shooting of an event and its reproduction while achieving a temporal decay of the image and sound. In Sax soprano due (1980) the author plays using multiple tracks pre-recorded by him.