What relationship do we have with images and sounds today?
How do we access information?
What relationship do we have with our reality?
These are the questions that this exhibition wants to answer. Our learning methods and knowledge are increasingly mediated by game engine processes which, once a merely technological fact, are now a veritable cultural phenomenon that opens up important social and philosophical issues.
In order to understand these shifts, the exhibition sets out to look at the work of artists who have been exploring and reprocessing this new territory for years, ahead of the game.The concept, coming from the School of Digital Arts (SODA) Modal Gallery in Manchester, is expanded on this occasion,aiming more firmly at the generation of artists – including Italian artists – born between the 1980s and 1990s, who have grown up surrounded by the media and digital technologies.Through works of sound art, robotics and machine learning, these artists investigate the role of digitalization processes in many different ways: from political criticism, like DIS and Mishka Henner, to activism like Joshua Citarella & Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman and Audint; from our relationship with nature, like Quayola, to issues of the Anthropocene, like Jakob Kudsks Steensen and Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg; from the relationship with our cultural memory, like Oliver Laric and Auriea Harvey, to issues linked to identity, like Federica Di Pietrantonio, and artificial identity, like Donato Piccolo.
