EYE SEA FFW

"Man’s vertical posture generates space." — Giorgio Cardona, The Six Sides of the World. Language and Experience. "The nature that speaks to the camera is different from the one that speaks to the eye, especially because, instead of a space shaped by human consciousness, it reveals a space unconsciously processed." — Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. "AI has an implication that none of the turning points in human history ever had: it reverses the relationship between subject and object. The subject becomes passive, the object becomes active. The relationship between subject and object is no longer marked by a clear demarcation line and bridges fostering communication and interaction. It assumes a hybrid character, in which algorithmic processes must be considered autonomous actions of an object that can have outcomes as concrete as those of humans." — Lorenzo Perilli, Artificial Consciousness. How Machines Think and Transform Human Experience. EYE SEA is a hybrid digital artifact containing a syncretic semiotics made of images, sounds, and ancestral symbols—some of which unintentionally evoke an imaginary sedimented in the collective memory of the past, the present, and even the future. EYE SEA is part of a personal expressive research that seeks to re-found the system of representation, in response to the paradigm shift underway in the perception of a work of art due to the introduction of AI-generated imagery. EYE SEA is an attempt to transmit unexpected emotions through a synesthesia that transcends temporal linearity and the traditional experience of video art. The screening of EYE SEA, partly inspired by the Japanese Komorebi—popularized by a recent film by Wim Wenders—begins with the inversion of a familiar image: the shoreline on a windy day, transformed through a watercolor effect, then deconstructed and shown as a negative, followed by decomposition into RGB primary colors, then as an etching-like black and white, then again in a high-luminance black and white, and finally with a thermal camera effect that reminds us of both the overheating of the sea and its creative/propulsive force. This serves as a small tribute to my past collaborations with artist Paolo Monti and his studio, Metatron – i MontiRossi.