nature & technology

Inspiration, Meetings, Stories, Teaching

What Is Life?

15/05/2022

Italiano [English below] All’Accademia di Belle Arti di Urbino è in corso il programma “What Is Life?”, costituito da tre incontri, un workshop e una mostra che si terrà in autunno, curati da me e da Noema. Ho proposto questo progetto nel Settembre 2021, sul quale ho trovato una convinta convergenza…

Meetings, Stories, Travel

Nature, Life, Data and Algorithms – Old and New Models to Shape the World

08/06/2019

I have been invited to participate to the workshop “Artificial Intelligence and Humanity”, organized in Brussels by the Joint Research Center (JRC), division Science and Art, of the European Commission. The workshop, on June 6-7, was held at the BOZAR Center for Fine Arts. It has been an interesting experience,…

Inspiration, Stories

La Terza Vita e il postumanesimo necessario

06/02/2018

È uscita una mia intervista sul n. 100 del magazine di arte contemporanea Espoarte (Anno XIX, n.1/2018), numero speciale celebrativo curato da Livia Savorelli e Luca Bochicchio, che mi ha fatto l’intervista. Luca ha voluto insistere su degli argomenti che sa che mi interessano molto, come la Terza Vita, la relazione…

Inspiration, Stories

Tanti auguri da Noema e da me! / Best wishes from Noema and me!

05/01/2017

Tanti auguri da Noema e da me! / Best wishes from Noema and me! [ITA] Nel fare gli auguri a tutti per uno splendido 2017 comunico che ho avuto finalmente un po’ di tempo da dedicare a questo sito. L’ho aggiornato in varie parti, in alcune era rimasto indietro di oltre sei mesi, in particolare nella…

Meetings, Writings

The Nature of Technologies. Technologies as Nature (in Russian)

19/12/2016

My essay from the presentation I held in Maribor at Kibla in 2012, entitled “The Nature of Technologies. Technologies as Nature“, which was published in the conference proceedings (Snežana Štabi, Dmitry Bulatov, Aleksandra Kostič (eds.), Soft Control: Art, Science and the Technological Unconscious / Soft Control: umetnost, znanost in tehnološko nezavedno, Maribor, ACE…

Meetings

Fak’ugesi Digital Africa Conference – Some notes about Nature and Life

15/12/2014

On December 6 I held a presentation at the 3-days international Fak’ugesi Digital Africa Conference, organized by Wits – University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. The presentation was in the same period and place of the PhD T-Node Winter Session, organized as a joint session between CaiiA and T-Node (I’ll go through…

Meetings, Travel

The Nature of Technologies. Technologies as Nature

24/12/2012

On November 23, I delivered the lecture “The Nature of Technologies. Technologies as Nature (Towards the Third Life)” in Maribor (Slovenia) at Kibla, Association for Culture and Education. The lecture takes place in the realm of the exhibition and the events related to the topic of “Soft Control – Art,…

Writings

The Technological Herbarium (German edition)

15/04/2012

I’m proud to announce that Gianna Maria Gatti’s book L’Erbario Tecnologico (Bologna, Clueb, 2005) has been translated into German (Das Technologische Herbarium, Berlin, Avinus Press, 2012), after being translated into English (The Technological Herbarium, Berlin, Avinus Press, 2010). Gianna Maria was one of my best alumni and I was the…

Writings

The Technological Herbarium

03/06/2010

I’m proud to announce that Gianna Maria Gatti’s book L’Erbario Tecnologico (Bologna, Clueb, 2005) has been translated into English (The Technological Herbarium, Berlin, Avinus Press, 2010). A translation into German is underway. Gianna Maria was one of my best alumni and I was the supervisor of her thesis. This book…