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Daniela Capaldo

Student

Daniela Capaldo

Academic staff

Giulia Cordin German A. Duarte Eva Leitolf

Course

ELIZA & Frankenstein – Techtopian Image Narratives

Program

BA Major Art

Semester

2019/20 WS

Two digital prints, 67×100 cm. Three panel installation, digital prints on Forex, various dimensions.

As a child, puddles fascinated me.
Small pools of vibrant water.
After heavy rain, small drops shattered in the body of water
creating concentric circles that reshaped that small cosmos below.
I walked the street imagining that they were windows to a parallel world.

A world turned upside down, mirror of ours. A reflected but different reality.

Now, I realize how much reality and the web, reality and virtuality, are each other’s puddle.
Like two mirrors placed opposite to each other in an infinite competition.

The certainties of what is truly real are shattered, giving way to a world of reflections,
pools of water where only sporadically
thanks to a few drops of rain

it is possible to distinguish the realness.

Attribuiamo Immagini Alle Nuvole Per Avvicinarci Ad Esse

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A project made in the course

ELIZA & Frankenstein – Techtopian Image Narratives

Studio IMAGE | BA Major in Art Both enthusiasm and skepticism about technological developments have always been a powerful driving force of cultural discourse and practice. The question of how far artists can not only be inspired or repelled by technological developments but can also contribute to current social discourses has been discussed recently in numerous events, such as the symposium “Guest, Ghost, Host: Machine!” organized by Hans Ulrich Obrist and John Brockman (Serpentine Marathon, 2017). How do we individually as well as a society relate to technological progress? Will “culture surrender to technology” as claimed by Neil Postman in his publication Technopoly in 1992?

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