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= Andrea Zingoni = Andrea Zingoni (Florence - December 30, 1955) is an Italian director, writer and artist active in the fields of digital art, cartoon animation and cinema.

He is the founder of a historical group of video and computer art called Giovanotti Mondani Meccanici (GMM), and the creator of numerous cartoons including Gino il Pollo (Gino the Chicken), Dixiland and Arthur and Kiwi.

Recently, Zingoni completed the post-production of his first feature film, Sono Angelica, voglio vendetta (Angelica wants revenge).

Biography
Andrea 'Zingo' Zingoni was born in Florence. A web and electronic arts pioneer, Zingoni is best known as the founder of the historic Italian video and computer art group, the Giovanotti Mondani Meccanici (GMM), and also for the invention of the cheeky cartoon character Gino il Pollo (Gino the Chicken). A gifted voice talent, he is also the voice behind Gino and a host of other characters.

1984-1988. The beginnings. The Giovanotti Mondani Meccanici: video and computer art
Together with Antonio Glessi, Zingoni founds the GMM (the Mechanical Worldly Youngsters) in 1984. In the same year the group cause an uproar when they publish the first digital comic strip in the history of comics in the magazine Frigidaire. Besides writing the computer comic scripts Zingoni is also the creative mind behind the group’s videos, installations and performances.

1988-1995. Artist and V-Jay
In 1988 he pioneers a role as an analogical V-Jay at Tenax in Florence, a discotheque that provides him with an opportunity for experimentation. With GMM he produces many hours of visual material – one of the first experiments in artistic V-jaying. That selfsame material is used during the first Italian rave parties and forms the basis for some important works in the future: the videos Electronic Mandala and Run, go, get out of here (1989), and the Tecnomaya in Infotown installation at the Museo Pecci in Prato (1991). Buddah Vision, another interactive installation and an experiment in non-immersive virtual reality, appeared in the same year. At this time Zingoni also works alongside numerous fashion giants including Gianfranco Ferré, Pitti Immagine, Vivienne Westwood, and Milano Vendemoda.

1995-2000. Cyberdelia, interactivity and technology
In the nineties Zingoni pursues his interest in sixties’ psychedelic culture and the interactive relationship between man and technology. Evidence of this is to be found in the Hacker Test video series, which includes the work Jimi in the Space, considered by many a milestone in electronic psychedelia. In the video-installations of this period there is less of the simply visible mental landscapes of the GMM years and a marked movement towards the realization of actual physical spaces where the spectator can wait and experience. An example of this is the Psychedelic room created in 1996 for the Starship festival that had been organized together with the philosopher and writer Franco Bolelli and the musician Claudio Rocchi. The successful collaboration with Bolelli sees them taking part in three editions of the Frontiere festival (1998, 1999, 2000) with Zingoni creating the visual architecture. The Adamo e Eva installation and e-Movies of this period are ‘definitive’ works that bring to an end Zingoni’s phase as an artist.

2001. Gino, Star of the Web
Zingoni invents Gino il Pollo as a virtual spokesperson for GMM in February 1995. Thanks to his video-proclamations, Gino almost immediately becomes the guru cum-explorer/philosopher of the newly-born worldwide web. In 1999 the book Gino the Chicken - Le mirabolanti avventure del primo pollo perso nella rete is published for Castelvecchi Editore. After a guest spot for the underground mag Re Nudo, Gino il Pollo makes his first appearance for Linus in 2000. His adventures are illustrated by various designers including Calì, Maramotti and Joshua Held. Fame arrives a year later when Zingoni starts working with My-Tv, Italy’s first web tv. He becomes the channel’s artistic director, and together with Joshua Held (who designs and animates Gino), he turns Gino into a genuine web cartoon and begins to exploit his real media potential. At My-Tv Gino il Pollo becomes a singer, musician and the protagonist of well known webtoons, an aggressive journalist, a presenter of tongue-in-cheek news items on the most controversial subjects and an out-and-out star of the web. The Tu' vuo' fa' o talebano video, a variant on one of the most famous tunes by Renato Carosone (Tu vuò fà l'americano - You wanna be like an American) is one of those difficult-to-explain viral success stories that spreads like wildfire across the social network from below.undefined In December 2001, in the midst of the post-Twin Towers crisis, O’ Talebano is sung in almost fear-banishing fashion by a chorus of Italian MPs in parliament; on the My-Tv website the tune obtains more than two million hits in the space of just four days. Unbelievable figures for the time. In 2002, Zingoni (with the help of illustrations by the Malleus collective) creates a Flash animation mini-series for My-Tv called Princess Angela. The series recounted the adventures of an ante litteram super-heroine – a rock star who fights sex crimes committed against women. Another Flash animation mini-series, Wonderland Simphonyes, this time photography based, appeared in 2002. Its subject was international politics.

2004-2006. Gino il pollo: perso nella rete (or Gino the Chicken: lost in the web). The Tv series.
In 2004 Zingoni writes and creates Gino il pollo: perso nella rete, an animated TV series produced by Rai Fiction, the Lanterna Magica studio and My-TV, and is distributed by Rai Trade. The series is made up of 52 thirteen-minute episodes, with dozens of characters and 60 original songs. It is broadcast by RaiTre in 2006, and re-appears many times in the years to come.

2012. The Return of Gino il Pollo
In 2012 Zingoni goes back to his highly loved and most famous character and writes I Grandi Classici di Gino il Pollo, an animated TV series of twenty-six irresistibly comical 11-minute episodes dealing with the classics of literature, the cinema, the theatre and contemporary youth culture. From Shakespeare and Dante  to The Mummy and Superchicken; from Gino Padrino (The Godfather) to Ginocchio (or Pinocchio), and from Pollo Artù e i cavalieri della tavola calda to Conan il Pollo, barbarian and offender of human  rights. The series, co-produced by Rai Fiction, will be ready in late Spring 2014.

2006-present. New cartoon series for TV: Arturo e Kiwi and Dixiland
Together with Joshua Held, Zingoni creates Le ricette di Arturo e Kiwi (Arthur & Kiwi’s Recipes) for Rai Tv, a series of thirteen high-powered manic episodes on typical Italian and international dishes. During the same period T-Rex Digimation produces a pilot episode of the TV series Galacticos (co-financed by Rai Fiction) and establishes the format for the series Happy Family. In March 2010 Zingoni writes and produces (together with Rai Fiction) Dixiland, a series for toddlers whose main character is a winged elephant. The drawings are by Ugo Murgia and the original music is by Dario Brunori. In 2011 two illustrated volumes are published by Zelig Editore: Dixi e il Sole dormiglione and Dixi e la Cometa caduta, both taken from the TV series. In 2017, Dixiland won the UNICEF AWARD at the International Cross-media and Children's Television Festival in Turin. At the moment Zingoni is working on the second season of Dixiland which will be finished in December 2018. The series, which is distributed by Rai Comm, is distributed already in China, South Korea and Argentina.

Angelica Wants Revenge
The pre-production of the feature film Angelica Wants Revenge (original Italian title: Sono Angelica, voglio vendetta), started in July 2016, the post-production finished in January. The movie is mostly filmed in Florence and it can be considered a rape and revenge movie.

Works

 * 1984 Giovanotti Mondani Meccanici (15') and GMM vs. Dracula (15') Computer Comics (1st Prize of the jury at the Festival del Cinema Giovani di Torino; Special jury Prize at the Festival del Fantastico e della Fantascienza in Rome; 1st prize Film-Maker 85, Milano; honourable mention at the video festival of Rio de Janeiro)
 * 1986 Realization of the TV cartoon series Le Avventure di Marionetti, 11 three minute episodes in computer animation for "Non Necessariamente" (Rai Uno), awarded at the Ferrara Festival di U-Tape and mentioned in other international festivals.


 * 1987 Film Maker Prize Milano for the script of "La Metamorfosi" (true life short film).
 * 1988 Puccini/Opera (30') – mixed techniques: traditional animation, computer graphics, video electronic post production (1st prize at Ferrara U-Tape 88 video festival)
 * 1989 Production and realization of the computer-animated Home video series known as Hacker Test whose first products, "Electronic Mandala" (1h) e "Run, Go, Get out of here " (1h), are presented the following year at special video-installations in Italy and all over Europe.
 * 1990 Production and realization of the computer-animated Home video series known as Space/Trance (1h20')
 * 1991 Spazio/Tempo/Velocità per la città del XXI secolo (30'), premio Fifarc for urban video
 * 1992 Silicon sounds for dusty actors, (interactive film realized in computer graphics) Fatma Hands (4') - computer animation
 * 1993 Freak (3') - mixed techniques, computer graphics and video
 * 1993 Starship (5') - computer animation
 * 1994 Coltello nella pancia (6') - mixed techniques, computer graphics and video (1º Premio Electronie d'Arte, Roma)
 * 1994 White Rabbit (4') - mixed techniques, computer graphics and video
 * 1995 Jimi in The Space, A Psychedelic Trip (1h) - Computer Animation and true life video
 * 1995 Gino The Chicken Lost In The Net (Internet Clip) (2') – mixed techniques, computer graphics and video


 * 1996 Gino The Chicken: A Prayer (2') - video, computer graphics, traditional animation
 * 1996 Gino The Chicken: Help I Am Freak (2') - mixed techniques, computer graphics and video
 * 1996 Gino The Chicken: Chicken For The Devil (3') – video, computer graphics, traditional animation


 * 1997 Gino The Chicken: Piccolo Pollo (1')- animation
 * 1997 Gino The Chicken: Ginofiles (Internet Film)
 * 1998 Adamo e Eva (35') - mixed techniques, computer graphics and video


 * 1998 Frontiere 1 (1h 10') - e-Movies – mixed techniques -  video, computer graphics, traditional animation


 * 1999 Frontiere 2 (1h 10') - e-Movies - mixed techniques -  video, computer graphics, traditional animation


 * 2000 Commercial Album (1h 10') - e-Movies - mixed techniques -  video, computer graphics, traditional animation
 * 2001 from the beginning of the year Gino is a daily guest on My-Tv.it where he presents Gino Tg (Gino News); a weekly series entitled Gino Weekend, a Flash web cartoon designed by Joshua Held, also starts up.

In November, with “Tu vuo' fa ‘o Talebano” Gino becomes the biggest ever success on the Internet with millions of downloads. Over three years 75 web cartoons lasting approximated 1min 45” are produced for


 * 2002 - 2004 Princess Angela (web miniseries 8 x5) - flash animation
 * 2002 - 2004 Le avventure di Capitan Condom (3') - Pilot -flash animation
 * 2002 - 2004 Pornocchio (2') - flash animation
 * 2002 - 2004 Wonderland Simphonyes (web miniseries 8x2) - flash animation
 * 2002 - 2004 GINO TV (22 two minute slots') – mixed techniques: video, computer graphics, flash animation
 * 2006 Work finishes on the production of the cartoon series Gino il Pollo perso nella rete  for RAI (52 episodes lasting 13min); Zingoni is personally responsible for the concept, the topics and scripts, the direction, the songs, the montage, the post audio, and also dubs the main characters
 * 2006 – For Rai and Lanterna Magica he writes and directs the Planet Party pilot; with the help of Melazeta, he also experiments with new ways of producing animation, mixing techniques and technologies that seem to have little to do with one another (from After Effect to Flash; from Motion to Photoshop; and from video and photos to traditional animation …)
 * 2006 – Writes the full length animation Miss Skeleton
 * 2007 - 2008 Author, director and scriptwriter of Le ricette di Arturo e Kiwi (26 x 4') for RAI and MyTV
 * 2007 Author, director and scriptwriter of the pilot for Galacticos (26 x 7') for RAI and MyTV
 * 2008 Author, director and scriptwriter of Gino Pollo TV (26 x 1' + 13 x 2) for RAI and T-Rex Digimation
 * 2008 e 2010 Author, director and scriptwriter of Arturo e Kiwi – Cucina per i cuccioli (two  series of 13 x 4') for RAI and T-Rex Digimation