//:LOCAL gHOST
At the end of my “Moving Image” residency program at Parsec in Bologna, I presented the multimedia installation //:LOCAL gHOST.
The work was exhibited from 2-4 February 2024 for Artcity at Aterliersì in Bologna, Italy.
//:LOCAL gHOST delves into the topic of new technologies, their social and environmental impact and algorithmic anxiety, i.e. the concern about technology's excessive control over our choices and every aspect of daily life.
Is it possible not to be only the object of systemic extractivism continuously operated through the sharing of our data? Algorithmic anxiety becomes an expedient to reflect on its multiple implications: from mental health to the contradictions of capitalist society, from the sense of community to the ecological impact of technologies. Combining video, sound design and sculpture, the installation I developed moves in a rhizomatic manner, connecting the online and offline worlds in an indissoluble network. Moving away from the trinomial nature - human being - technology, I presented an speculative imagery, which constitutes I defined 'a survival manual for algorithmic anxiety', both an antidote and an invite to navige within the digital vortex.
The project was kindly support by Culture Moves Europe’s fund for artistic mobility within the European Union.
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//:LOCAL gHOST VIDEO EXCERPT
PHOTOS
In the photos are visibile some the sculptures created with reuse of waste materials and obsolete technological objects, as well as
the installation site and visuals.
SCULPTURES
The sculptures are the result of plastic melting in the process of cleaning industrial machines. What remains of this cycle are plastic conglomerates which I recovered and repurposed for the installation.
