We see one human but Quayola is not alone: the machine speaks as a second entity in what appears to be co-creation between the Italian artist and that which he gives autonomous life to.
Quayola presents us Luce, an audiovisual piece emerging from the space between memory, cognition, and technology’s interpretation.
As virtually as vividly articulated, Luce is a space for reflection – images from the Archivio Luce become impressionist glitches, messing with the perception of the past with the fragility of the future. There’s a clear interplay with dichotomies – tradition and technology, human and machine, past and future, old and new, figurative and abstract, opposition and equilibrium – in Quayola’s neat approach to sound and image.
But referring only to sound and image feels reductive: what we see is a fusion of seemingly distinct worlds into a critical dimension of reality that is algorithmically operated, questioning what remains real and human in such a present time where machines and artificial intelligence take over; what hybrid forms of perception, experience and interpretation are being created and developed between the obsession and the caution with technology.
Luce is a reminder that perhaps one thing we have in common, humans and machines, is the inevitability of error.
Photo: Vivien Gaumand
