Rome’s hot summer lights up with the eighth edition of Videocittà, the Festival of Vision and Digital Culture scheduled until Sunday at the Eni complex of the former Gazometro in the Ostiense area. The event is an open observatory that promotes excellence in audiovisual and digital communication, giving visibility to the most advanced forms of production and creativity.
On stage from dusk until late at night the luminous installation by Quayola’s that reinterprets the area’s industrial ruins, many works of video art, videomapping, virtual immersive experiences, musical performances and focus on AI and the latest frontiers of art. The full program is available at the dedicated page on the event’s official website.
Solar by Quayola. The must-see installation at Videocittà 2025
Videocittà 2025 celebrates the 800th anniversary of St. Francis’ Canticle of the Creatures and focuses on the sun as a symbol of life, light, and energy. A theme reflected in the work of the artists involved who explore the relationship between sustainability, environment and digital innovation. Following this track is the large site-specific installation at Gazometer G4, a monumental work by Quayola entitled Solar. Inspired by the optical phenomenon of twilight rays, Solar reproduces an endless cycle of digital sunrises and sunsets where light becomes living matter, sculpting darkness and shaping space.
Practical information: visitors can choose a time slot to visit the installation with the requirement to show up 15 minutes early.
What to see at Videocittà 2025
The former gazometer area is one of the largest sites of industrial archaeology in all of Europe. Making the atmosphere vibrant is a busy schedule of adiovisual shows; each night there’s a performance of a different artist that uses sounds and images in his research. Sunday night will be the turn of Dardust, with his show Urban Impressum.
The terrace of the Gazometer G3 hosts the review dedicated to viedeoarte; on stage the parallel world inspired by the aesthetics of video games by LuYang, the installations that reflect si existential themes si Lawrence Lek, the work of Federica Pierantonio.
Don’t miss the virtual reality experiences (more than 100 visors available to visitors) and the videomapping curated by the students of the IED of Rome.
The Talk Lighting Design. Visual, Design, Culture moderatated by Marco Frascarolo
Videocity 2025 is also a host of meetings and speeches; particularly interesting is the moment planned in the spaces of Opificio 41 on Sunday, July 6, at 8 p.m. The talk Lighting Design. Visual, Design, Culture focuses on light and its narrative potential, which goes beyond functional lighting. Light shapes space, creates atmospheres, determines perceptual hierarchies, tells the culture of a place on a visual level, opening to the other senses. In a round table of exchange and confrontation, 5 personalities will tell their vision to reason about the state of the art and reflect on the tomorrow of lighting. Moderating the meeting will be Marco Frascarolo, lighting designer, didactic coordinator Master in Lighting Design (MLD), Sapienza, Chair Light for Cultural Heritage Architecture Uni RomaTre, with whom ATMOSFERA Mag has already had the pleasure of collaborating.
Videocittà 2025: practical information on tickets and how to get to the area
Tickets are available and purchasable directly on the website of Videocity and Xceed, ticketing partners of the event, with different types of passes (single and season tickets) at this link.
Entrance: Via del Commercio 9/11 – Roma
Doors and ticket office open for the public from 6:30 p.m.
Enjoy and Lime are mobility partners of the festival, Videocittà invites people to reach the location well in advance on foot or by sustainable mobility.