We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Romina Daniele. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Romina below.
Romina, so good to have you with us today. We’ve got so much planned, so let’s jump right into it. We live in such a diverse world, and in many ways the world is getting better and more understanding but it’s far from perfect. There are so many times where folks find themselves in rooms or situations where they are the only ones that look like them – that might mean being the only woman of color in the room or the only person who grew up in a certain environment etc. Can you talk to us about how you’ve managed to thrive even in situations where you were the only one in the room?
When you are the only one in the room that looks like you, you already are effective or successful, as long as everybody is fascinated by your ability to be unique. When you are this way, you actually don’t do anything peculiar to build it as you have found yourself born in the condition. You’ll learn with the years to focus purely on the opening of the research and on sharing for good, instead of being vain, and this will teach you to be safe and to protecting the true meaning of doing art from the jealousy of others as from the showing off mania.
Let’s take a small detour – maybe you can share a bit about yourself before we dive back into some of the other questions we had for you?
I degreed Cum Laude in Cinema Studies and I went deep into the technologies applied to art, sound technology and multimedia while attending the Milan Conservatory. I’v been composing electronic music for all my life, and even when I record rock or blues pieces I am the one who take care of the editing and mastering which I consider a part of the composing process, as I work with sounds as I work on perception, consciousness and the human being abilities themselves.
As I completed classical studies and I’ve always been involved with the literature investigative processes, all I do is very bonded with the true meaning of philosophy which is one thing or making art in my experience.
I gained important prizes during the years, and I’ve been publishing books and records. I went into the photography field deeper and deeper starting an ongoing “Berlin project” about 15 years ago.
I work with every kind of client and the special part of it is probably what they call the thoughtful aim of my approach. Like I had the chance to explain lately, I believe they refer to the art itself in the way I can feel and spread it as what it is tied to the very final meaning of the human being, the way the universe can talk to us in relation to the meaning of being as to create which is one think with get consciousness and being a little closer with the purest and original sense of existence.
Looking back, what do you think were the three qualities, skills, or areas of knowledge that were most impactful in your journey? What advice do you have for folks who are early in their journey in terms of how they can best develop or improve on these?
I think I had a very peculiar path and background where multimedia and philosophy are one thing, to summarize and using schematic words. There is also everything in between and around. The first aim you need to have to make true art is willing to work on the connections, between techniques and materials, levels of perceptions and the human being and the universe. You will learn the skills and abilities you’ll need being connected to the vocation of doing art.
There will be no schemes or rules others made for you, you may need some just in case mainly working in the land of creation where the real and unique goal is to catch knowledge and to spread it for the good of yourself and the entire human being race.
You know you are a main energy in action using the techniques and the technologies to create and understand, so to share and spread. The action of working and create is everything you are in (the way you do) and no subject can move you from the path (the things you can do).
There will be no final purpose other than the main one, the unique and most important, the one which remains — as a conscious and thinking being open to the connection with the purest and original sense of existence.
“Never stop to believe”. It is actually not a question of belief but being, and being in the opening tending towards the original meaning.
As we end our chat, is there a book you can leave people with that’s been meaningful to you and your development?
Many times in my life – writing, publishing, being interviewed – I had the occasion to share most of my bibliography. First of all, it Is included in my own books which are available in many places starting from our own platform at the website jadysdanieles.com One of them is available in English as well and it is my Poetry collection. Then you can refer my main website for any short articles I wrote and shared for free. Since I have always worked on the connections/ramifications and many levels – summarizing let’s say between philosophy and technologies -, my story and biography, even on Wikipedia, are all over very full of literature references like my musical records are too. The last record I published, Spannung, has a booklet of 32 pages full of photographs and opening with an essay. All those fields I have been working into constitute my way of doing art and, as I always try to underline, I believe human being is on earth with the purpose of creating, which is the same thing of thinking, where thinking is creating thoughts and consciuosness, not a mechanical brain operation. It is being in the opening tending towards the original meaning itself.
With this said, I am listing here some titles. Gilles Deleuze, What is the Creative Act?, from a conference of 1987. And: Jacques Derrida, L’Écriture et la différence, first published in 1967. Both in France.
My invite for you is to open yourself into the set of ramifications. And that is a “suspended” invitation to do so.
You probably will find yourself landing on a series of milestones with epistemological values, like the book by Michel Chion, Audio-Vision, 1993. It is not only a book on the sound on screen. It is probably where you start to connect technology with creating with all the new knowledges referred.
Two great more examples are Die Frage nach der Technik by Martin Heidegger, based on a conference in a series called Arts in Technical Age held in Munich, 18 November 1953: and The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, by Walter Benjamin, first published in 1936, in Germany as well.
How i work with technologies and philosophy in the same time?
Because what technology does by entering in the world of the human beings is a complete change of paradigm, things will never be and will never be perceived the same when man starts with photography and then with recording music and cinema back in the 19th century.
From that moment on, reality could be perfectly reproduced in a fixed second or time frame, and by seeing that second in the photograph or that time frame in a movie scene, man’s eyes start to be able to analyze the reality itself like never before. Then I assumed sound goes even further in that, and about all this I am still writing an essay which is an ongoing project as well.
This is all about to being open to understand a little more of the original meaning of what we really are. And to share is for your own good and that of the human being race.
Contact Info:
- Website: RominaDanielePhotography.com
- Other: JadysDanieles.com RominaDaniele.com
Image Credits
Romina Daniele RDM Records Jadys Daniele’s
