Richard Castelli is a producer, artistic consultant and curator of numerous exhibitions associated with art, science, performance, or new technologies.
From 1982 to 2003, he started as producer of the French new music band Art Zoyd,, for which he also designed the lighting of the shows and graphics of the LPs and CDs. During this period, he wrote scripts and directed short and medium-length films with the music of the band, among others Dernière danse and Ceremony with Philippe Blanc, Upon the Heath, and broadcast on several channels worldwide.
In 2005, Richard Castelli expanded the activities of Epidemic with the creation of an exhibition department. Under his curatorship, Epidemic produced, among others, exhibitions in Berlin, in Shanghai, in Istanbul. He curated five exhibitions for the , two of which in co-operation with the Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome MACRO Testaccio,,, and one at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Roma,. In France, the curated two exhibitions commissioned by Bethune Capitale Régionale de la Culture in 2011. On the occasion of the exhibition Robotic Art, which he curated for the Cité des sciences et de l'industrie in Paris in 2014-2015, was inaugurated the 3D Water Matrix, a computer controlled display of animated three-dimensional liquid artworks, he designed, from an original idea he discussed with artist Shiro Takatani in 2000. The 3D Water Matrix received the CODAawards Winner 2015 in the category "institutional". He was also the Artistic Director of the Francofffonies ! Québec_numériQ event featuring the Quebec avant-garde artists in digital arts at Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris in 2006. In Russia, Richard Castelli is the first and to date the sole foreign Artistic Director of the Nikola-Lenivets Archstoyanie Architecture Festival,,, located 200km away from Moscow. For this 9th exhibition held in 2014, he focused on the notion of temporality in architecture. Alongside his activities as producer and curator, he has participated in the publication of a number of books and exhibition catalogues. He is author of several essays, including Robots d'artistes ou robots artistes? in the collective book published by Futuroscope FYP, Hu Jieming, A World in Thickness in Hu Jieming, a monography of the Chinese artist Hu Jieming, published by Li Zenhua, Shanghart, A Future where we are already in in Romaeuropa Digitalife 2010 2011 2012 - Human Connections He has been invited to give lectures by the Universities of la Sorbonne-Paris, , Créteil, Hong Kong, Saint-Denis, , Sydney and by various institutions in Chengdu, , Montreal, Moscow, New York, Prague, Reykjavik, , , Taipei, Toronto...
