FMAV – Palazzo Santa Margherita

When we talk about artificial intelligence we think of human-machine interaction, and what about other living beings?

Gli artefatti della tecnoscienza ci permettono di comprendere meglio le forme non umane di intelligenza? E in che modo l’arte si interroga e si relaziona con un contesto più ampio che contempla l’ambiente e il mondo animale e vegetale che ci circonda?

La mostra “Umwelt” che significa “environment” o “world around us*seeks to answer these questions and reflects on the non-human ecosystems that populate our planet endowed with literally unimaginable forms of intelligence.

"Umwelt" thus aims to open a debate on the critical, aesthetic and narrative potential that emerges from the study of unexplored forms of interaction between humans, machines and natural systems.

**(the term was introduced by the biologist and philosopher Jakob von Uexküll in his essay 'Animal and Human Environments' (1933) to describe the unique perspective each organism has of the world around it).

The artists worked in synergy with the curator, Marco Mancuso, are: Forensic Architecture (The NebelivkaHypothesis), Semiconductor (Through the AEgIS), James Bridle (Solar Panels (Radiolaria Series), CROSSLUCID (The Way of Flowers), Anna Ridler (The Synthetic Iris Dataset), Entangled Others (DecoheringDelineation), Robertina Šebjanič/Sofia Crespo/Feileacan McCormick (AquA(l)formings-Interweaving the Subaqueous) and Eryk Salvaggio (The Salt and the Women).

The project is proposed by MFAV Modena Visual Arts Foundationin collaboration with Philosophy Festival e Smart Life Festival.

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EVENTI COLLATERALI – talk

• Saturday 14 September 2024
  ore 16 – cortile di Palazzo Solmi
• "Intersecting Intelligences, Nature and artifice, human and non-human, in the Umw exhibitionelt"
  Dialogues Davide Piscitelli of Forensic Architecture and coordinator of The Nebelivka Hypothesis project exhibited in the UMWELT exhibition and the curator of the exhibition Marco Mancuso
  Moderator Lorenzo Respi, Exhibition and Collections Director of FMAV
  In collaboration with festivalfilosophy

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• Sunday 29 September
  ore 16 – cortile di Palazzo Solmi
  "Unique and inseparable. The invisible connections between man, nature and machine.e"
  dialogue Marco Mancuso, critic and curator, Laura Palazzanian expert in bioethics and lecturer in Philosophy of Law at the Lumsa University in Rome, and Alessandra Gribaldo, Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. In collaboration with Smart Life Festival

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Cover image
The Way of Flowers_Seed 3053284983_CROSSLUCID, 2023

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