Cognitive Awareness is an art exhibition inaugurated in Rome on April 22nd,2022 at the Ex Cartiera Latina on the prestigious Via Appia Antica. It was created in collaboration with the artist Alessandro Risuleo and represents a new chapter in the path shared with Breezy, which began last October with “Cognitive Awareness – The Beginning”.
Breezy selected and curated 10 artists for the show:
Alessandro Risuleo, Ania Catherine and Dejha Ti, Ben Snell, Giant Swan, Hackatao, Mbsjq,
Reinhard Schmid, Skygolpe, Travis LeRoy Southworth, Undeadlu.
In opening up to the idea of the encounter between the human creative flow and that of algorithms and technology, we are given the chance to explore new worlds and synergies previously unknown to us. The great opportunity to capture corners of ourselves that have always existed but that we have never known.
Who are we now? Who have we been until now? Who will we be?
“Cognitive Awareness” speaks the language of our time, ranging between NFT, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Artificial Intelligence and Digital Photography, but without forgetting the indissoluble connection that remains between technology and human being, told through the attentive look of those who first know how to grasp and intercept the future: the artists.
Specifically, the creations here exhibited, represent a glimpse into the various points of view about the relationship between the human body and technology; such as that of identity, of the fantasy of new realities and the creation of new worlds, of fluidity.
While Hackatao put us in front of our mutable essence as avatars in the metaverse in constant search of ourselves, Skygolpe offers us a “non-portrait portrait”, in the disorientation of the hybridity between physical and digital. Mbsjq invents an entirely new character, an astronaut who narrates his art; Reinhard Schmid fuses female and male spirits in poetic human figures with mechanical elements; while Undeadlu tries his hand at the coexistence of human and cyborg. Travis LeRoy Southworth uses the imperfections of the faces, of the skin, “Photoshopped” from the photographs of the models to render them in new harmonious compositions; Giant Swan dances to sculpt in virtual reality creating new bodies and using his own for the whole act of creation. Ben Snell has always dialogued with algorithms considering the points of contact between human and machine and Ania and Dejha invent a trench coat to be worn with pockets covered in military fabric to keep wireless devices offline”. Finally, Alessandro Risuleo, who came up with the idea to conceive this exhibition, with his photographs and augmented reality was the inspiration for the entire concept addressed for Cognitive Awareness: how aware are we and how much are we in a state of unconsciousness driven by the will of technology?
Eleonora Brizi
We created special contents for the artists selected and curated by Eleonora Brizi for this event.
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