Exploded Snapshot Modern warfare increasingly relies on simulations, where complex technological systems enhance control and operational efficiency. In this context, computer simulations not only support intelligence but often serve as documentation, shaping narratives around real or anticipated actions. For example, methods used to locate underground tunnels rely on speculative data and partial information, potentially justifying actions with significant humanitarian impacts. To explore these issues, we developed a video game that simulates intelligence data, highlighting how such simulations blur the line between fact and visualized fiction. Exposition and  Awards

B3- Biennale of Moving Images  | 13-20.10.2024
Moving Image festival, Frankfurt

Plat(t)form 24 Winterthur Fotomuseum  | 6-8.9.2024
Research presentation.

Virtual Matters @ Ars Electronica 2024  | 3-8.9.2024
Collective exhibition.



Links

https://sincere-danthus-a97.notion.site/Matter-of-simulations-6a57b10d9c9f474183405e2ce1bf33fd
Exploded Snapshot How is objective truth conveyed through images?

Despite their inherent subjectivity, images—whether photographs, videos, or simulations—are often seen as authentic representations of reality, especially within fields like science. A virtual archive has been created to examine this perception, using a socio-political conflict documented through both real and game-engine-produced images. Users can freely navigate and interpret these images, categorized by technique, authorship, dissemination, and perceived authenticity. By including fabricated images, the archive challenges viewers to consider whether authenticity or contextual impact is more important in shaping our understanding Exposition and  Awards

Lange Nachte der Wissenschaft |  22.6.2024 17:00
T.U., Berlino


Links

https://sincere-danthus-a97.notion.site/Matter-of-simulations-6a57b10d9c9f474183405e2ce1bf33fd
Poor Things Poor Things is an ongoing project that explores the possibilities of using a video game environment as an alternative narrative tool. The project comprises a virtual world populated by various non-playable characters (NPCs) that interact with each other in a dynamic and autonomous manner. These NPCs are born, live, interact, and eventually die, and their life satisfaction and fulfillment  is affected by their interactions with each other and other random factors. These interactions also affect the AI-generated dialogues between the NPCs and an eventual playable character.  These dialogues revolve around everyday life issues, both happy and sad, providing a unique and thought-provoking narrative experience. Overall, the project aims to push the boundaries of traditional storytelling methods and use the medium of video games as a form of narrative expression. Exposition and  Awards

B3- Biennale of Moving Images  | 12-20.10.2023
Winner of award Best emerging talent,

HmAin I create therefore I am | 22.4.2023/30.4.2023
Collective Art exhibition for Raume.art, Berlin.

When If Not Now?| 3/02/2023-5/02/2023
Collective Art exhibition for CTM at Mahalla, Berlin.

Links

https://b3festival.de/en/b3_festival/films/2023/tiny-creatures
Life and Death of Hans Maximilian

LIFE AND DEATH OF HANS MAXIMILIAN is a modern interpretation of the famous Tamagotchi game (a handheld digital pet simulation toy, 1996). The project is based on Chomsky’s grammar hierarchy theory and Panini’s Sanskrit grammar documentation “Aṣṭādhyāyī”. The game is based on a language model within the Tamagotchi context, based on opposing normative concepts: void/fullness, up/down, material/soul, noun/verb/adjective, in order to construct a normative form of communication. The generated word meanings are classified in a node tree, forming “meaning classes” which then build 3-word sentences. The user is required to read and understand the needs of Generative Tamagotchi, which are communicated in normative phrases and body language, and then respond to them by typing a suitable response with a controller within a specific time frame. Exposition 

Breaking Patterns - Ars Electronica  | 6-10.9.2023
collective exposition at Ars Electronica, Organization and curation and exhibition
Si aggirava furtivo il pittore tra i monti

“Dopo un lungo inverno, per niente felice, ed un'estate iniziata promettendo miglioramenti, noi di Bronzo Studio sentivamo il forte bisogno di scappare dall'oscurità nei nostri cuori e nelle nostre case. Personalmente, sentivo che stavo per morire, mi sembrava tutto vano, mi sentivo un fallito e il mio cuore era stato irreversibilmente spezzato. Accasciati su noi stessi, abbiamo puntato tutto sulla pratica artistica, abbiamo disperatamente sperato che la catarsi ci avrebbe così aiutati a fare il primo passo fuori dalla nostra malattia. Ma mai avremmo pensato di trovare segni di chi, prima di noi, era fuggito in cerca di cure e pace a Lozio. Era forse Lozio la montagna Magica? Tale Jacob Montserrat, entomologo a cavallo tra XIX e XX secolo, studioso della natura, amante delle montagne e, nel suo piccolo, anche sperimentatore pittorico. Uomo, scienziato, pittore, piccolo uomo, un vero tedesco, completamente dimenticato, mai stato conosciuto in realtà. Herr Jacob sembrava condividere i nostri dolori e le nostre stesse speranze. Di lui rimaneva una foto rovinata, che lo raffigurava, un ometto diffidente, magro e, nello stile del tempo, rigorosamente baffuto; tre dipinti che una signora del paese ha attribuito a lui e una lettera, scritta in tedesco a qualcuno di caro a Herr Jacob ma a quanto pare mai inviata... La piccola e quasi inesistente storia di Herr Jacob ci ha commosso e a lui abbiamo deciso di dedicare la nostra residenza, completando la sua produzione pittorica, le sue visioni, alleviando i suoi (nostri) dolori. Grazie di cuore, signor Munster, con affetto Federico ed Edoardo. Non la dimenticheremo mai.” Dal diario degli artisti Exposition and  Awards

Falia Artist in Residence | 7.2023
Il Caro Piotre
Dear Piotre is no more. He was a fullness: now he's a vacuum. Killing my heart, he went away and I won't see him anymore as he exactly was. I am left with his words, his powerful visions of a later world, the aching words of a diary written as he was approaching the very limits of sanity, where he described many horrifying landscapes; he found himself surrounded by them every time he managed to wake up, alone and as helpless as a one could be.

The exhibition uses traditional mediums such as pseudo-romantic landscape painting, contextualizing them through a false narration, creating a particular atmosphere that subsumes the works and the viewer.

The Idea is to use narrative to give to the exhibition a different context to the usual contemporary art one, to improve the emotional and immersive impact of the work, even though romantic landscapes paintings might feel like an obsolete medium. Expositions

Il caro Piötre | 2021
Solo exhibition at Libera Collina di Castello, Genova.
Matter of Simulation, Exploded SnapshotOngoing Project, Drafts
2024, Simulation, War images
 Documentation Sofar
Poor Things Prototype
2023, Videogame, Public Spaces
 Documentation
The Life  and Death of Hans Maximilian
 Prototype
2023, Videogame, Language, Tamagotchi
 Documentation
Continuous Landscape Draft
2023, Landscape, Romanticism
 Documentation



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