The usage modes and integrative processes of the technologies we use on a daily basis seem to be shaped and shaped solely through the computing and aesthetic interfaces that filter user-instrument interaction. Yet it is the normative, ethical, and legislative plans that should be at the center of the processes of educating, training, and shaping the development of the technologies we use.
Every new technology brings with it the promise of a technological revolution, but quite often, this promise is not kept. Indeed, rather than generating progress, advances in technology may actually increase inequality, by giving certain social groups even more advantages over other, already disadvantaged groups. Diletta Huyskes turns a spotlight on the paradoxes that the introduction of new technology gives rise to in a volume entitled Technology of the Revolution, published by “il Saggiatore”.
If you enter the coordinates 42.4437339 and 11.4855630 in digital maps, you will find an exact point in the wilds of the Maremma, at the top of a hill near the Fattoria Stendardi in Pescia Fiorentina, a place chosen by the artistic collective, neo-conceptual artist, Claire Fontaine for one of her works inspired by the language of emoticons and created for the sixth Hypermaremma Festival.
In July thousands of spectators were enchanted by their site-specific work, Nebula, presented inside the Gazometro in Rome. It was created for Videocittà, the video-art festival, in collaboration with the maestro of electronic music, Giorgio Moroder. The Quiet Ensemble is a duo of Italian creative artists specialised in digital art and among the most active creators of immersive installations in Europe. The duo is composed of Fabio di Salvo and Bernardo Vercelli; they have taken part in some of the most important international festivals such as Noor Riyadh, Sonar, and Signal, and their work is focussed on exploring the increasingly more complex and multilayered relationship between man and nature.
Maria Azovtseva was born in 1977 in St. Petersburg. Her first education was in music pedagogy, where she trained as a choir conductor, and she later obtained a second education as a culturologist. In 2015, a year after the Russian annexation of Crimea, Maria left her hometown of St. Petersburg for Tallinn, Estonia.
Giacomo Costa is a Florentine artist born in 1970. His borderline research work between photography and digital art has been exhibited in 2006 at the Venice Architecture Biennale and the Centre Pompidou in Paris, in 2011 at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul, then at the Leopold Museum in Vienna and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Brisbane.
Annibale Siconolfi, also known as Inward, is an Italian artist, architect and sound designer based in Irpinia who has constantly experimented with different disciplines, from art to sound, from architecture to 3D techniques. These aspects found their synergy in the creative vision of vast urban landscapes that explore the tensions between a technologically advanced future and a return to nature.
In recent years there has been a lot of talk about metaverse, especially since October 2012, when Mark Zuckerberg, founder and owner of Meta, announced his intention to change the name of Facebook Inc. to Meta, staking everything on this technology. Although it is a widespread buzzword, few people truly understand what metaverse actually is and how it works.
Filippo Rosati is the Founder and Artistic Director of Umanesimo Artificiale.
After an MSc in Marketing and Strategy from Bocconi University in Milan, and a double degree from the Copenhagen Business School, he worked in consulting and creative agencies in Europe and Asia. In 2017, he founded Umanesimo Artificiale where he is President, and has since focussed on art, science, and technology, mediating between disciplines and exploring interchange between art, design, robotics, biology and hacking, with an experimental approach to artistic and scientific research.
Bruno Zamborlin, PhD, is an acclaimed AI researcher, entrepreneur, and artist, recognized for revolutionizing human-computer interaction through his startups: Mogees Limited, HyperSurfaces, and HyperSentience. His work focuses on transforming everyday objects and surfaces into interactive, intelligent entities, thereby redefining our interaction with the space and between us.