Archaeology of the Inner Voice
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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.
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.
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.
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...
What is Life? Verso nuove visioni e sensibilità / Towards new visions and sensibilities
[ITA] Conciliare natura, ambiente, discipline scientifiche e tecnologie – cioè natura e cultura umana – è oggi fondamentale. L’arte può fornire una prospettiva teorica e pratica importante e il tema della vita è di profonda attualità.
[ENG] Reconciling nature, environment, scientific disciplines and technologies – that is nature and human culture – is fundamental today. Art can provide an important theoretical and practical perspective.
INCITE: Digital Art & Activism
[ITA] “INCITE: Digital Art & Activism” è un libro d’artista realizzato da artisti, studiosi e attivisti motivati a continuare a lottare per il cambiamento attraverso l'utilizzo creativo delle nuove tecnologie.
[ENG] “INCITE: Digital Art & Activism” is an artist's book created by artists, scholars, and activists motivated to continue to fight for change through the creative utilisation of new technologies.
Verso COP28 (Dubai, Novembre 2023) / Towards COP28 (Dubai, November 2023)
[ITA] Durante la COP27 sono stati ribaditi i punti: potenziare l’adattamento al cambiamento climatico e concludere i negoziati sul sostegno finanziario a favore dei paesi emergenti
[ENG] During the COP27 the following points were reiterated: to enhance adaptation to climate change and concluding negotiations on financial support for emerging countries
Reverse Biology
[ITA] Come esseri umani, abbiamo sempre osservato e tentato di riprodurre i fenomeni naturali. Dalle pitture rupestri alla scultura, dai canti tradizionali ai modelli della fisica teorica e delle altre discipline scientifiche. Per natura, copiamo la natura. E creiamo novità che ci possono far vivere meglio.
[ENG] As human beings, we have always observed and attempted to reproduce natural phenomena. From cave paintings to sculpture, from traditional songs to models in theoretical physics and oth...
Giacomo Verde: Liberare arte da artisti / Giacomo Verde: Set the artists free from Art
[ITA] “Giacomo Verde: Liberare Arte da Artisti” è la prima mostra pubblica dall'Archivio Giacomo Verde e illustra la prima “fase tecno-artistica” dell'artista: un periodo ben documentato e ricco di creatività dal teatro popolare e di strada alla video arte e alle installazioni.
[ENG] “Giacomo Verde: Set the artists free from Art” is the first public exhibition from the Giacomo Verde Archive and it illustrates artist’s first “techno-artistic phase”: a well-documented and creatively rich period f...
Back to the Future: Memories from Ars Electronica 2022
[ITA] Cari Elena e Pier Luigi, vi scrivo questa mail a qualche settimana dal rientro, vi ringrazio infinitamente per essere stati dei preziosi compagni di questa mia prima volta al Festival Ars Electronica.
[ENG] Dear Elena and Pier Luigi, I am writing you this email a few weeks after my return, thanking you so much for being such valuable companions in this my first time at the Ars Electronica Festival.
Meraviglia Ubiqua / Ubiquitous Meraviglia
Salvatore è un atto poetico e rivoluzionario, è performance stupefatta dove attraverso affinità empatiche e telepatiche partecipiamo a un grande progetto di “abitare” le vite (tutte). Questo mio discorso a cuore aperto, come un’operazione senza anestesia, forse non restituisce l’immensità di Salvatore, ma ne dà una goccia che spero instillerà nell’oceano agitato una promessa di continuare ciò che Salvatore ha fatto e continua con noi a fare, ossia aprire il suo corpo. Il nostro (suo) viaggio non...
Dialogues across the seas: the ocean that keeps us apart also joins us. Charting knowledge and practice in the Anthropocene
This publication is about two events on the impact of the climate crisis on the seas and the marine environments: “From the Mediterranean to the Pacific. Dialogues across the seas” (in Cervia, Italy) and “The ocean that keeps us apart also joins us: charting knowledge and practice in the Anthropocene” (at ISEA 2020 “Why Sentience?” in Montreal).
Biomimetics and shifting languages: computation to aid nature
These concepts are now absolutely crucial as the world warms beyond all previous predictive analysis. The analog of technology may have already reached a complexity apex. The circle would close when we move toward helping the organic world and the concerns therein. Complexity is many layers or parts working together, but when overpacked, it becomes overly complicated.
La Torre di Majorana e l’ipotesi di Riemann sui numeri primi / The Majorana tower and the Riemann Prime Numbers conjecture
[ITA] I fisici Fabrizio Tamburini e Ignazio Licata hanno proposto una lettura del più grande problema matematico di tutti i tempi, l’ipotesi di Riemann, tramite l’esotica “torre di Majorana”.
[ENG] Physicists Fabrizio Tamburini and Ignazio Licata propose a reading of the greatest mathematical problem of all time, the Riemann hypothesis. And they do it through the exotic “Majorana tower”
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The Deep Meaning of Poetry. Eduardo Kac’s Art of the Fundamental Processes [Part 2. Interview to Eduardo Kac]
I create form, I create form that gives itself to the senses which is to say, form that provides an aesthetic experience. That is what I do and that is what art is supposed to do. What is particular in what I do, that is unique and underpins all of my interests, is that early on in my life I understood that life could not fold into haze: either we would find ourselves in a condition that we would be free or we would find ourselves in a condition that we would not be free.
Pink Water Landscapes of Artifice. On Smithson’s “Spiral Jetty” Heritage in the Making of “Vanishing Point”
In 2019 I visited the “Spiral Jetty” twice: alone right after my arrival in Utah, and on the morning of a late summer day when I had to fly back to Italy. That was when I shot the video-performance “Vanishing Point” influenced by Smithson’s idea of entropy and disruption, and his interest in geology, time sediments, location identity (Kwon, 2002), and environment that are widely investigated in his writings (1996).
Recombinant text and narrative
Hierarchies form a sense of structure and point of view and reference. Logic exists in how things connect inside of a work of art or literature in the sense of how it is entered, completed and which details and related deeper resonance and symbolism are placed at the fore in terms of detail and composition and which are placed in more subtle , auxiliary roles within. But what could happen if when completed the work invited someone to play, to shift and reform it whole?
La Corporate Social Responsibility aziendale e lo sviluppo sostenibile / CSR and sustainable development
[ITA] A seguito dell'impatto negativo sull'immaginario collettivo provocato dalle catastrofi ambientali è nato il concetto di diritto all’ambiente salubre, oggi finalmente annoverato fra i diritti umani fondamentali.
[ENG] In conjunction with the negative impact on the collective imagination following the environmental disasters, the concept of the right to a healthy environment was born, finally included among the fundamental human rights.