Artefacting Public Art + Research Practice

Rome 2011 Case di Cartone; A House Full of Ideas

Alex White-Mazzarella is the Founding Director and Manager of Artefacting. An artist & urbanist he sparked Artefacting as an initiative in utilizing art, collaboration and positivity as means of building community and engaging the pressing social and cultural issues at the community level. With courage, multiculturalism and global insight in hand, Alex is passionate about bringing diverse audiences together. Through Artefacting he conducts artistic interventions from the inside of a community out to spawn fresh perspective, possibilities and boost social cohesion.

He received his BA in economics at Clark University (2002) and studied Urban Planning & Architecture at Portland State University and Universidad Politecnica de Barcelona. He developed the Central Waterfront Planning and Design Competition as the Program Manager of Designing Hong Kong before moving to New York City to work as an artist - training under Hugo Bastidas, Phillip Sherrod and Larry Poons at the Art Students League. His work is in private collections in the USA, Europe and India and he exhibits regularly in New York City. www.lamazza.com is his personal website.

Antonio Amendola, 40 years old, Founder and President of Shoot 4 Change (S4C); blogger, traveller, expert of new media and communication technologies, he combined all this to sort out new ways to use photography as a tool for social change. his website is www.antonioamendola.com

[Media Attention] Shoot4Change blog, Case di Cartoni blog