Archaeology of the Inner Voice
Ideas
Archaeology of the Inner Voice
When I enter the radius of any of the three geolocations—Campo Santa Maria Formosa, Ponte delle Tette, or Campo Sant’Agnese—verses by Veronica Franco become audible through the headphones. They are read by a synthesized voice. The text is intelligible, the delivery fluid and close to the ear. No recording of her voice exists, nor has one ever existed.
Disclosure
IoT is the best basis, not objective, not neutral for active decision making for ‘now’ and factoring in the repercussions of that act in ten years time. I too end on pragmatic cybernetics as the only form of governance that will keep us from ‘total breakdown of society because of the inability of the state to deal with the digital’.
The Sapiens-AI Condition
Sapiens-AI is not a future possibility, a technological project or a speculative fiction. It already inhabits the present, though largely unnamed and unrecognized. Our century witnesses the emergence of a new cognitive being.
The Mutability of Memories and Fates: Art, Aesthetics and Culture in the Biolab
What distinguishes this work is that it originated from a question posed by the artist herself: how many times can a cell be reprogrammed, and what traces of its previous states might remain? The question emerged from artistic reflection on the concepts of memory and identity, yet it resonated strongly with ongoing scientific investigations into cellular plasticity.
The Iran War is Not Taking Place (La Guerre d‘Iran n’a pas lieu)
The signs of the real have replaced reality itself. What is authentically original in events and experiences is replaced by the image, the rhetorical, the virtual, the electronic, and the digitalized. The language of demagogic propaganda has replaced concern for facts, truth, and genuine communication. Yet when simulacra become so widespread and dominant, we move beyond simple replacement. The simulacra begin to interact with one another. Lies talk with lies. Rhetoric blends with other rhetoric.
Un “affresco” contemporaneo dell’acqua e della vita / A Contemporary “Fresco” of Water and Life
[ITA] Fossilized Futures mira a evocare sensibilità di cura, empatia e consapevolezza etica. Sfida i visitatori a confrontarsi con la propria responsabilità all’interno di fragili sistemi ecologici.
[ENG] Fossilized Futures aims to evoke sensibilities of care, empathy, and ethical awareness. It challenges visitors to confront their responsibility within fragile ecological systems.
Metabolism Moves. Stories of competition and collaboration
The smartphone was configured in 2007. It has not had significant conceptual new updates. It has created wealth for the phone and app store makers, and it left democratic processes fully out of any form of control, but regulatory measures that leave government and institutions in the role of bogeymen, taking tools away. The device is not a tool, it is infrastructure.
Resident Evil: tra Finzione Scientifica e Derive della Realtà / Resident Evil: Between Scientific Fiction and Real-World Fears
[ITA] La saga di Resident Evil (Biohazard) utilizza l’horror biologico per esplorare le conseguenze estreme di una scienza senza scrupoli. [ENG] The Resident Evil franchise is more than a horror game series: it reflects concerns about unchecked biotechnology.
Coscienza Artificiale e Identità in “Detroit: Become Human” / Artificial Consciousness and Identity in “Detroit: Become Human”
[ITA]L’opera di Quantic Dream non sta nella previsione esatta del futuro bensì nella sua funzione anticipatoria: rende accessibili concetti complessi di scienza cognitiva, etica computazionale e biotecnologia.[ENG]Quantic Dream’s work lies not in accurately predicting the future, but in its anticipatory function: it makes complex concepts from cognitive science, computational ethics, and biotechnology accessible.
Il Cordyceps di The Last of Us: tra biologia reale e immaginazione culturale/The Cordyceps of The Last of Us: between real biology and cultural imagination
[ITA] In The “Last of Us” un fungo parassita infetta gli esseri umani, ne prende il controllo e li trasforma in organismi aggressivi. Nel mondo biologico esiste un fungo in grado di alterare il comportamento di alcune specie di formiche.
[ENG] In "The Last of Us," a parasitic fungus infects humans, takes control of them, and turns them into aggressive organisms. In the biological world, there is a fungus capable of altering the behavior of certain species of ants.
Noema, un pensiero vivente: dal gesto alla rete / Noema, a Living Thought: From Gesture to Network
[ITA] Noema non si chiude in un volume, ma resta come un’officina accesa di notte. È bussola e carta di navigazione, piattaforma per l’assalto al futuro, radicata nel presente e nutrita dai semi del passato.
[ENG] Noema does not close within a book: it remains like a workshop lit at night. It is compass and navigation chart, a platform for an assault on the future, rooted in the present and nourished by the seeds of the past.
Holy Water
The idea of holiness and holy water exists in most human cultures and habitats, independent of belief systems. How essential water is for life is undisputed. But in a physical sense, it avoids following the known rules of existence over strictly, and provides ever-changing beauty of movement, phases, and states of steam, liquid and solid, serving the cycle of life and biodiversity like nothing else.
Recursive Resonance: Building Creative Intention within Human-Centered, Machine-Powered Systems
This essay traces the origins of human–machine creativity through the feedback structure of the guitar, reframing artificial intelligence as part of a centuries-old recursive process of resonance and intention. It explores how creative systems evolve through alignment of purpose, inquiry, exploration, compression, and expansion—culminating in a reflection on authorship in the age of adaptive machines.
Life in distance, simulation, relativization, externalization, and art. Notes about the decline of humanism
The progressive relativization and externalization processes basically mark some sort of retreat of humanism: the relativization process makes humanity aware of its limited relevance inside an immense context in time and space that pervades us. The externalization process expands the human culture, but in a direction that goes beyond humanity as we intend it now.
Il Terzo Paradiso della Speculative Research: arte, scienza e nuovi saperi per le Contemporary Humanities / The Third Paradise of Speculative Research: Art, Science, and New Forms of Knowledge for the Contemporary Humanities
[ITA] “L’arte della ricerca. La cura dei nuovi saperi nei dottorati accademici” (Mimesis 2024) non è una semplice raccolta di saggi ma un dispositivo critico e istituzionale che restituisce piena dignità alla ricerca artistica come Speculative Research.
[ENG] “L’arte della ricerca. La cura dei nuovi saperi nei dottorati accademici” (Mimesis 2024) is not a mere anthology but a critical and institutional device that restores full legitimacy to artistic research as Speculative Research....
Le radici dell’Hacktivism in Italia (1969-1996) di Tommaso Tozzi. Una riflessione indisciplinata / The Roots of Hacktivism in Italy (1969-1996) by Tommaso Tozzi. An undisciplined reflection
[ITA] “Le radici dell'Hacktivism in Italia (1969-1996)” di Tommaso Tozzi è una ricerca di tre volumi sulle radici dell’hacktivism in Italia dal 1969 al 1996. I tre volumi raccontano l’evoluzione dei movimenti hacker e cyberpunk in Italia mettendo in luce il contesto storico e tecnologico che li ha resi possibili.
[ENG] “The Roots of Hacktivism in Italy (1969-1996)” by Tommaso Tozzi is an impressive three volumes research on the roots of Hacktivism in Italy from 1969 to 1996. The three volumes r...
Come fidarci di quel che vediamo? Oltre forma e contenuto: affidabilità nell’era delle tecno-immagini / How can we trust what we see? Beyond form and content: trustability in the era of techno-images
[ITA] La demarcazione tra realtà e finzione si sfalda. Il terreno sottostante la nostra comprensione condivisa di ‘ciò che è accaduto’ inizia a vacillare. Sussiste un pericolo concreto e presente: la nostra facoltà di discernere il ‘reale’ dal ‘fabbricato’ si sta erodendo… a qualcuno vien da chiedere: forse irreversibilmente?
[ENG] The boundary between the real and the fictional is dissolving. The foundation of our shared understanding of “what happened” is beginning to shake. There is a clear ...
Arte dell’artificiale / Art of the Artificial
[ITA] L’“artificiale” è quel naturale peculiare della nostra specie che viene prodotto dall’interazione con l’ambiente e la sua assunzione come peculiarità antropica è solo una convenzione. Tuttavia, grazie alle scienze e alle tecnologie, l’artificiale umano presenta delle caratteristiche peculiari.
[ENG] The “artificial” is that natural peculiarity of our species produced by interaction with the environment, and its assumption as an anthropic peculiarity is just a convention. However, thanks t...
Intelligenza artificiale, sfide etiche, rischi, AI Act e diritti umani / Artificial intelligence, ethical challenges, risks, the AI Act and human rights
[ITA] Con l'accelerazione della pervasività dell'intelligenza artificiale nella vita di tutti i giorni, vi è stata una crescente preoccupazione dell'opinione pubblica per i rischi possibili. Quando le applicazioni sono mal progettate, sviluppate o utilizzate in modo improprio, queste possono rivelarsi altamente dirompenti sia per gli individui che per la società.
[ENG] With the acceleration of the pervasiveness of artificial intelligence in everyday life, there has been a growing public concern...
The Resonant Language of Intelligent Machines and Humans
How should we study the history and future of programming languages? The question of the methodology for examining the successive programming paradigms becomes crucial again today due to the emergence of Creative Coding and AI-based chatbots and text generators like ChatGPT. The poetic, musical, ambivalent, and resonant qualities of human languages were lost in computing’s original invention. As the history of programming languages continues, and in the spirit of Creative Coding, human language ...
Transdisciplinary cooperations and autonomous creativities
Autonomous creativity in the arts has been recurring since the dawn of human expression. In times of Generative Artificial Intelligence, and to the goals of this presentation, we can consider Generative Art as a precedent for Generative AI based art forms. [...] In its broader meaning, Generative Art includes visual, textual, sonic, and audiovisual art forms generated through many kinds of more or less autonomous systems and processes: mechanical, electronic, computer-based, biological, natural,...
Microperformatività in azione / Microperformativity at work
[ITA] Sebbene l'artista sia presente, il “lavoro artistico” sarà eseguito in sua assenza, da forze creative altre rispetto all’umano – più una performance nel tempo e attraverso il tempo che una mostra di oggetti nello spazio.
[ENG] Although the artist is present, the art’s work will be performed in his absence, by other than human creative forces – more a performance in and over time than an exhibition of objects in space.
Dialogues across the Seas. The Ocean that keeps us apart also joins us Charting knowledge and practice in the Anthropocene
[ITA] È uscita per Noema.media & Publishing la seconda edizione in lingua inglese dell’eBook Dialogues across the Seas. The Ocean that keeps us apart also joins us. Charting knowledge and practice in the Anthropocene.
[ENG] Is now out the second English edition of the eBook Dialogues across the Seas. The Ocean that keeps us apart also joins us. Charting knowledge and practice in the Anthropocene.
Venti, nebbie, acque / Winds, mists, waters
[ITA] Gli oceani sono forse l’elemento di maggior connessione del nostro pianeta, un colossale medium naturale, per i transiti che consentono, per le loro risorse immense e immerse, dal vivente alle materie prime, dai combustibili fossili alle terre rare.
[ENG] The oceans are perhaps the most interconnected element of our planet, a colossal natural medium for the transitions they allow, their immense submerged resources, from living organisms to raw materials, from fossil fuels to rare earths....