TIMELESSNESS

Filippo Gregoretti. Juried Artist

KEPK PERFORMANCE – 27/6/2024 17:00

SAE EXHIBITION – 25/6/2024 16:00

Artist Statement

Based on Amrita, the “Artificial Artistic Evolving Personality” created by the artist in the course of the last two decades, TIMELESSNESS is a living, impermanent piece that develops a unique personality designed to create unseen, unrepeatable visuals and music for a thousand years. An entity capable to learn from its environment, which develops its taste over time, expanding its creative process both visually and aurally, inspired by real-time geoscientific readings from Australian Aboriginal sacred sites.
During the live performance the artificial being creates the audio-visual experience, dueting with Filippo Gregoretti playing the Harmonium – a votive instrument – in a trans-human meditative session melting man and machine, the present moment and eternity, and the timeless essence of truth belonging to ancient spiritual traditions. The human performer is guided through harmonic and musical directives by the AI in real-time on a secondary personal screen, and the AI is influenced by the musician’s performance, through his music. The artistic and spiritual communion between human, algorithmic and natural essences is what the artist defines “trans-human Yoga”. The musical and visual discourse is always different and unpredictable, and the outcome is a trance-like experience stimulating a deep, instinctive connection with eternity and impermanence.

About the artists

Educated as a fine artist and musician, alongside a career as a traditional visual artist, pianist and composer, Filippo has pursued a passion for technology and algorithms since his teenage years, creating interactive works of art with generative visuals and music. This journey has led him to explore the intersection of music, visual art, design, and the creation of immersive digital experiences and interactive pathways for the international market since the 1980s. He founded one of the first digital creative studios in Italy and, in 1992, launched “NeT-ArT”, one of the earliest art-related dynamic experiments on the internet. He released the first ever works of art that were made into applications and distributed in the official stores. His works of art incorporate his own original artistic artificial intelligence algorithms and encompass installations, live performances, music, and physical visual artworks. His awards include the “Perseo D’Oro” first prize at the Mediartech Festival Internazionale dell’Opera Multimediale 1996, presided over by Gillo Pontecorvo’s jury. As a professor at Naples’ Suor Orsola Benincasa University, his lectures include “authorship and technology for digital experiences” and “transmedia arts and storytelling.” His artworks have been exhibited during solo and group exhibitions, and he has performed internationally, accompanied by other performers or by his digital beings, on hundreds of occasions since the ‘80s. He is currently an artist in residency for the European Commission S+T+ARTS program.

Credits: Filippo Gregoretti

URL: https://filippogregoretti.com/en/