ONGAKUAW 

The artwork is part of a project investigating our relationship with technology through the exploration of the visual and sonic internal environment of silicon chip-based devices of daily use. Based on carefully crafted techniques involving the use of a pin-hole stenopeic camera, photographs of the internal circuits reveal a variety of amazing digital landscapes, resembling virtual cities. The selected photos are projected in an empty dark room via a multi-projection system, creating a fully immersive perception for the visitor. The image flow simulates an imaginary travel through the expanded reality of the digital circuits inside a computer. The soundscape of the room is consistently based on sounds that are deduced from internal audio signals of the same device. Such sonified environment induces a strong, time-dilated  experience, from which poetic aspects of  technology emerge.  

Phantom Thoughts is a multimedia installation inspired by the reflection that our brain is a machine unfinished. As amazingly complex, it is very primitive in many ways: it is fragile, in need of an aqueous environment to operate at the correct temperature, and signals travel at the very slow speed of chemical reactions. A human head made of plastic is placed at the center of a dark room. A video is projected on on the scalp intermittently, reminiscent of the mapping of brains's neural activity. When the head "thinks", it physically lights up, in synchronous with  a soundscape produced by the manipulation of sounds/noises of the inner workings of a computer (glitches). The visitor is then questioned as to whether the brain activity of the head is not produced by a biological brain, but from a subrogating electronic chip. Read more on the exhibition booklet.

E alle stecche delle persiane già l'alba ("Dawn at the blind splints") is a multimedia interactive installation inspired by the closing lines of La cognizione del dolore, a masterpiece by the Italian writer C.E. Gadda. It aims at exploring the perceptions conveyed by the ambient, urban sounds entering the sleeping room of a terminal patient. Sounds hence provide the only and last mean of connection with what remains of healthy daily life. Visitors are faced with the emotional states connected with the notion that life is a delicate and short-lasting phenomenon. For a more thorough description view the Presentation Slides 

The Blue Desert Tower is an interactive sound installation in which a tower, an icon of power, stands, incomplete and transparent, over a desert of blue sand in the shape of Europe surrounded by impassable borders of barbed wire. From inside the tower comes the sound sequences of twenty-three European languages (featuring poets as the portuguese Filipe de Fiuza) arranged along an imaginary journey that starts from Malta (reference point of the compass) and circles back after going  through all the EU states. The sound texture is shelling when the visitor approaches and migrates within Europe, generating a magmatic soundscape that refers to a Babel perhaps next to come.