Artmaker #5
During Share Festival XVI, the six works produced in the fifth edition of Artmaker were presented together with Share Prize.
In circuito
ApotropiaTHE STARS PROVIDE US WITH A PHOTOGRAPH OF THE PAST, YET FOR MILLENNIA MAN HAS BEEN OBSERVING THE TRAJECTORIES OF CELESTIAL BODIES IN ORDER TO INTERPRET THE FUTURE. THE INTER-CONNECTION AND THE CYCLICAL PATH OF CELESTIAL BODIES ARE THE FUNDAMENTAL PARAMETERS THAT ALLOW MEN TO HYPOTHESIZE FUTURE EVENTS BY DECIPHERING THOSE OF THE PAST.
"In Circuito" is an installation that focuses on cyclicity of nature through geometries, sounds and light projections within a "circumscribed space of sky": a templum in its original meaning.
Asph3a
Giorgio Alloatti and Liliana Caruso
ACOUSMATIC SYSTEM FOR PLANT AND HUMAN WITH THREE ALGORITHMS
ASPH3A is a work / performance, an endless feedback inserted within a modular system that feeds itself by generating new sound forms with a strong organic component. The body and the plant interact with each other and simultaneously interact with the acoustic instrument and the modular synthesizer. The man / machine interaction is disrupted thanks to the introduction of another actor from the plant kingdom. The number 3 represents the elements that enter the network, determining a generative and acousmatic system capable of developing light, movement and sound, the main component of the entire work.
The work questions the relationships and connections that are established within the evolutionary process by changing relationships and subordinations. The human / machine dichotomy disappears as it incorporates a third component as important as the other two, thus reaching a new human / plant / machine sequence. Each component brings with it the transformations that led to its shape and help to define the physiognomy of the work.
Exploit
Carlo GambirasioMBRACE EXTEND EXTINGUISH IS A MARKET STRATEGY LAUNCHED BY MICROSOFT AND ADOPTED BY BIG TECHS TO GAIN MARKET HEGEMONY ON THE CONTINUOUS CONSTRUCTION OF THE POSTREAL.
In the context of the semi-spontaneous birth of new digital interconnection technologies, when the new is still too immature to attract investment, open source communities are the engine of innovation.
After these first moments of embryonic development, when the new instruments gain audience and the heavyweights come into play, the mechanism is triggered: open source technologies are adopted with minimal re-elaborated versions to be extended to the general public and immediately subservient to production needs.
The artwork is a portrait of the schizophrenic anxiety of this process: the continuous proliferation of concepts and systems that provide structure to our synthetic reality takes shape in the incessant, energetic debate of air flows, caged in the tangible form of plastic, made visible and therefore usable, by the very agent of its constraint.
The bio-capitalist exploitation, in itself neither good nor bad, is a futuristic-looking gear, taken as an constituent element of a system that needs only awareness to be twisted against itself. Accelerationism, as a revengeful system, is an instrument of this awareness, in a game of parties that, in the context of digitization, sees the user as a subject with unprecedented potential.
RE/Fluo
Francesca FiniRE/FLUO IS AN ARTISTIC PROVOCATION THAT EXAMINES THE POTENTIAL AND CONTRADICTIONS OF CRYPTO-ART, THROUGH THE LANGUAGE OF PERFORMANCE ART.
At the center of the scene is set a small photo studio dominated by a cubic Lightbox of a white fabric. The Lightbox, enlightened by two neon panels, includes and isolates a series of geometric assemblies of waste, scraps, non-organic garbage of various types (such as plastic, jagged metal, shreds of fabric) to create bizarre still-life 2.0.
The works, inserted in the Lightbox and slowly rotated on an electric display, is scanned with a photogrammetric device that transforms them into three-dimensional digital objects. Virtual sculptures that are placed on the NFT market to be sold to the highest bidder. This process of collective production, placing on the market and selling are acted out, documented and shown to the public in real time during the Festival.
Oloflower
Alessandro SciaraffaTHE ‘HOLOFLOWER’ IS A LASER TRANSMISSION HOLO- GRAM OF A FLOWER GENERATED BY MAGNETIC FIELDS.
Result of a study done by the artist for THE FLOWER OF MARS, an interplanetary art project aiming to bring a seed of a new bio- logical species of flower to Mars, plant it and observe its growth. The hologram can be de- fined as a recording of light on a holographic plate or film. In the case of a 3D image, the re- cording is obtained by the interference of two laser beams, which allows three-dimensional reproduction by the effect of refraction.
Using an angled mirror, a laser beam is separated into two beams, one of the object and one of the reflection. The Flower of Mars is a “project in power”. Something that does not ex- ist yet, but already exists, idea and reality, real and virtual. Mathematical mod- els of the last frontier for the construction of the universe are based precisely on oleo- graphic principles, The idea that The Flower of Mars is already a reality, even if not an objective one, is the key to the artist’s choice of the tech- nique of holography, made by the expert holographer Mauro Melotti.
Cristallo di Luce
Diego ScroppoCRISTALLO DI LUCE IS A PUBLIC WORK OF ART WITH A HIGH INNOVATIVE AND TECHNOLOGICAL CONTENT. IT IS BORN AS PART OF ARTMAKER# 5 AND WINNER OF THE ARTWAVES BY COMPAGNIA DI SAN PAOLO, WHICH USES PHOTOVOLTAICS FOR ENERGY GENERATION.
For Artmaker#5 a 1:10 scale model of the sculpture will be presented, that will be 7 meters high, which simulates the operation through sostenible technologies for charging small devices, such as tablets and phones.
Presented in Aosta in an exhibition and conference within T*Danse with the partner TIda Teatro Instabile di Aosta, it was also at the center of the workshop in collaboration with the Department of the Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea at the IIS Natta of Rivoli.
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