Led by Ars Electronica, European Digital Deal is a three-year project run by a network of 13 cultural European organizations, of which Sineglossa is the Italian partner.
Through a myriad of programs running from January 2023 to December 2025, European Digital Deal will be a new kind of public forum where cultural institutions, artists, researchers, and educators gather to reflect on what a deal that safeguards democratic values in the digital realm might look like, and the role they can play in shaping it.
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The Open call for artists
The call for artists launched by the project is open from Sept. 28 to Nov. 30, 2023. Sineglossa takes part with the challenge “The Enchantment of Truth”: how can artists challenge misinformation and misinformation by using the charm of stories? Can truth inspire enchantment?
The call for artists offers 12 residencies, including one promoted by Sineglossa in collaboration with Fondazione Bruno Kessler and Cineca Visit Lab, at the Tecnopolo Data Valley Hub in Bologna.
The art residency at Bologna Tecnopole
The artist selected by Sineglossa and the Italian jury – Luca Baraldi, Barbara Busi, Ilaria Bonacossa, Antonella Guidazzoli, Maria Chiara Liguori, Wu Ming 2 – is dmstfctn (pronounced “demystification”), a London-based artist duo working with audiovisual performance, games and video installation. Since 2018, their work investigates complex systems through the study of communication networks, capital, information flows, and, more recently, AI.
dmstfctn was in residence at the Bologna Technopole between September 2024 and February 2025 to work with the Leonardo supercomputer. The outcome of the artistic residency is The Models, an interactive audiovisual installation on the theme of fake news, inspired by the thesis — outlined in Q of Conspiracy by Wu Ming 1 — that conspiracy fantasies spread because human beings tend to be more fascinated by stories that evoke wonder than by scientific texts or reports.
Listen to the interview with the artists
The conference on AI and autorship
On 25 September 2024, Sineglossa and Cineca organised the conference ‘What is an Author. Creating with generative artificial intelligences’ on AI and authorship.
Paraphrasing Michel Foucault’s famous lecture, the event discussed the consequences of the production of works of art through artificial intelligence on the philosophical and legal notion of authorship. With Maurizio Lana, digital humanist from Università del Piemonte Orientale, Giovanni Leghissa, philosopher from Università di Torino, Francesca Lagioia, senior associate professor in Legal Informatics, AI and AI Law and Ethics (University of Bologna), Francesco D’Isa, artist and philosopher, artists Roberto Fassone, Kamilia Kard, and writer Wu Ming 2, with moderation by Pierdomenico Memeo.
Event organised under the patronage of the Municipality of Bologna, realised within the framework of the European projects GRIN S+T+ARTS and EUROPEAN DIGITAL DEAL, co-funded by the European Union.
The audiovisual installation at Bologna Technopole
The Models is the interactive installation developed by London-based duo dmstfctn resulting from the artistic residency at the Tecnopolo Manifattura Data Valley Hub. The installation has premiered at Tecnopolo Manifattura Data Valley Hub in Bologna from 7th to February 9th, as part of ART CITY Bologna 2025 during ARTEFIERA.
Credits
EUROPEAN DIGITAL DEAL is a project co-funded by the European Union’s Creative Europe program and the Austrian Federal Ministry of Arts, Culture, Civil Service, and Sport.
Partners:
Ars Electronica, Gluon, iMAL, Kersnikova Institute, LABoral, Οnassis Stegi, Pro Progressione, Sineglossa, Braga Media Arts, gnration, The Center for the Promotion of Science (CPN), The Culture Yard, Waag
Zaragoza City of Knowledge Foundation (FZC) / Etopia
The Models (2025) is an interactive installation by dmstfctn, with music by Hero Image and game development support by Jenn Leung, curated and produced by Sineglossa, in collaboration with CINECA and ART-ER, under the patronage of the Emilia-Romagna Region and Fondazione Bruno Kessler.
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