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questa razza di diavoli non conosce regole!
2017-2020, proiezione video e Htc Vive, programmazione e grafica di Unboolean,
Ph Sebastiano Luciano
“Questa razza di diavoli non conosce regole!” è il titolo di un ciclo di lavori fruibili per mezzo del visore HTC Vive, che permette, oltre alla fruizione in Virtual Reality da parte dello spettatore, anche un'interazione tramite un controller. Ho iniziato a sviluppare questi lavori nel 2017, anno in cui è stata diffusa in commercio questa tecnologia.

Indossando il visore ci si ritrova immersi in uno spazio illimitato dove molteplici forme distorte e tridimensionali fluttuano
con criteri indefiniti all'interno di paesaggi onirici o di sfondi monocromatici. Le immagini presenti all’interno di questo universo sono dei
frammenti trasfigurati di alcune mie produzioni scultoree, con le quali è possibile interagire in
maniera randomica attraverso il controller.
Ogni volta che realizzo una scultura in ceramica, la scultura viene scansionata in 3D per poi divenire una nuova componente e un nuovo layer di un paesaggio 3D fruibile in VR. Di seguito è possibile vedere un esempio di questo processo:

untitled
2020, oil on canvas
33 x 50 x 27 cm / 13 x 19,68 x 10,62 Inches
Scansione 3D della scultura in ceramica
La serie "Questa razza di diavoli non conosce regole!" è stata presentata per la prima volta nella mostra personale "L'Apocalisse dell'ora" (Albumarte, Roma), e successivamente in occasione dell'edizione Europea del Maker Faire 2019.
l'apocalisse dell'ora - albumarte - roma
A cura di Lorenzo Gigotti, 2019
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maker faire - european edition
A cura di Valentino Catricalà, 2019
La mia ricerca con la Virtual Reality è descritta all'interno del nuovo libro di Simone Arcagni "Immersi nel futuro".
Questo "Libro bianco", realizzato con il supporto della RAI, si pone l’obiettivo di indagare - attraverso dati, interviste e testimonianze - i diversi aspetti della VR, gli ambiti di applicazione e gli scenari futuri. Questa dettagliata panoramica sulla Virtual reality include al suo interno anche una sezione dedicata all'arte visiva, in cui si percorre la storia della VR all'interno dell'arte contemporanea e l'utilizzo di questa tecnologia da parte degli artisti fino ad oggi.
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Below you can see the selection of works created specifically for the exhibition and the idea of their possible location within the space:
Below you can see the selection of works created specifically for the exhibition and the idea of their possible location within the space:
Below you can see the selection of works created specifically for the exhibition and the idea of their possible location within the space:
The selected works are seven paintings on canvas. Each oil painting that will be displayed in the exhibition will then correspond to a digital image created with the collaboration of AI. The digital images will become NFTs uploaded to the blockchain.
alessandro giannì BIO AND SELECTED WORKS


Alessandro Giannì was born in 1989 in Rome, where he currently lives and works and he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome until 2011. He has exhibited in several institutions in Italy and abroad including: the American University Katzen Arts Center (Washington DC); the residence of the Italian ambassador to the USA “Villa Firenze” (Washington DC); the MAXXI museum (Rome); the MACRO museum (Rome); the House of Arms (Rome); the Swiss Institute of Rome; the Swiss Institute of Milan ; Kühlhaus Berlin (Berlin); the Winter Museum (Siena), the Gardens of the Venice Casino. He was art director in the EGH, a project whit Enrico Ghezzi and Emiliano Montanari inside the 73rd Venice Biennale of Cinema. Recent exhibitions include: RE-NEW, Postmasters Gallery (New York - Rome); Expo Azimut Libera Impresa (Fiera Milano-Rho); Messinscèna, Chromatic number (Rome); This race of devils knows no rules!, Maker Faire - The European Edition; The apocalypse of the hour, AlbumArte.
Titled Due to the Image, the exhibition consists of the first series of paintings made by Alessandro Giannì in collaboration with his custom-made artificial intelligence program named Vasari (after Giorgio Vasari, 1511-1574).
Vasari was born from Alessandro Giannì's need to find an alternative to human logic to conceive his works. The AI has been programmed to emulate the compositional processes of Giannì, by tracing the artist's body of work and his extensive digital visual archive.
The creation starts with several inputs, such as keywords provided by the artist that Vasari uses to search the web for images, or a selection of images that are uploaded into the software and then reworked. The software can process an unlimited number of images that will remain in the archive and are stored in a non-relational database, using a deep learning model called convolution neural network (CNN).
In addition to the archive and given keywords by the artist, Giannì provides the AI with crucial input for sketch composition, such as image size, colour preferences, quantity of images to combine, and a variety of other possibilities that will be used to create the digital sketches that the artist will then select and paint in oil on canvas. Giannì also intervenes manually and feeds the resulting image to the AI, which modifies it again based on further inputs. In this way, two realities are contrasted: the programmed, endlessly repeating binary e-matrix, and the human one made of defects, errors and weaknesses. The exhibition layout was also conceived by uploading the exhibition’s images into Vasari’s database, which then came up with potential solutions for installation
The software was developed in 2020 by Unboolean, a creative studio that moves on the border between art and engineering.






ARTWORKS

DUE TO THE IMAGE (THE LAST SUPPER)
2021, oil on canvas
270 x 350 cm / 106,2 x 137,8 Inches

DUE TO THE IMAGE (THE RIGHT MISTAKE)
2021, oil on canvas
250 x 90 cm

DUE TO THE IMAGE (THE red flight )
2021, oil on canvas
410 x 200 cm / 161,5 x 78,75 Inches

DUE TO THE IMAGE
2020, oil on canvas
200 x 250 cm / 78,74 x 98,42 Inches

DUE TO THE IMAGE (AFTER THE MISTAKE)
2021, oil on canvas
1) 70 X 90 cm / 27,5 X 35,5 Inches
2) 80 X 120 / 31,5 X 47,25 Inches

DUE TO THE IMAGE (The black flight)
2021, oil on canvas
90 x 70 cm / 35,43 c 27,55 Inches
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