Ti fidi di Me?
In collaboration with Metronom (art gallery and publishing house in Modena) for
Generazione Critica #6.
The aim is to analyze the role of technology in contemporary artistic production.
Do you trust me? reflects the technological progress effects on our perception of reality. The spectator faces some boxes in which the hidden content is accessible only for a smartphone, the extreme evolution of human view. Only through the lens of this instrument, that translates the content in image, the visitor will be able see inside the boxes. The smartphone becomes the only way that guarantees the fruition and documentation of the object's existence. The mediation between human and machine is an act of faith.
"The act of observation breaks the state of indeterminacy. In quantum physics, observation is an active procedure. By taking measure and identifying, it interferes and engages with its object. By looking at the cat, we fix it in one of two possible but mutually exclusive states. We end its existence as an indeterminate interlocking waveform and freeze it as an individual chunk of matter." Hito Steyerl, Missing People
The aim is to analyze the role of technology in contemporary artistic production.
Do you trust me? reflects the technological progress effects on our perception of reality. The spectator faces some boxes in which the hidden content is accessible only for a smartphone, the extreme evolution of human view. Only through the lens of this instrument, that translates the content in image, the visitor will be able see inside the boxes. The smartphone becomes the only way that guarantees the fruition and documentation of the object's existence. The mediation between human and machine is an act of faith.
"The act of observation breaks the state of indeterminacy. In quantum physics, observation is an active procedure. By taking measure and identifying, it interferes and engages with its object. By looking at the cat, we fix it in one of two possible but mutually exclusive states. We end its existence as an indeterminate interlocking waveform and freeze it as an individual chunk of matter." Hito Steyerl, Missing People