Magazine · Path 04
Technology, facial recognition, language and power. Here current events meet twenty-five years of research into the relationship between humans, machines and perception.
One room, one boy, one screen. In Hikikomori the visitor moves through twenty-four environments suspended between light, noise and waiting: an interactive artwork by Massimo Scognamiglio about the distance that survives connection.
Read →American Musical, Three Films After Midnight and My Memorial of the Madhouse Circus: three AI films in which American myth, desire, memory and human fragility become cinema.
Read →From artificial intelligence in 2042 to a 1900 Milan addicted to images: a conversation about Cronache al di là del tempo, the power of technology and the question running through the entire collection.
Read →From one-to-one verification to biometric identification in CCTV footage: where facial recognition is used, the limits set by the EU AI Act and its connection with The Age of Silence.
Read →Documents obtained after a lengthy lawsuit show how the New York police used facial recognition against protesters, critics and even artists. In the story that opens Cronache al di là del tempo, power is subtler still: it does not order people to be silent, but makes speech unnecessary.
Read →From theme to project
From digital work in the 1990s to AI films: the relationship between humans and machines runs through images, surveillance, language and freedom.
Explore the project →The practice in books
Cronache al di là del tempo imagines artificial intelligences governing language. SMELL returns to the birth of the web and theories of AI.
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