The network is coordinated by V2_Lab, an interdisciplinary center for art and technology in Rotterdam that has been animating research into the connections between art, design, technology and society, and includes research centers, museum institutions and creative hubs. Sineglossa enters the net by throwing A call for artists open to female artists from all over Italy.
Artist Residency
A call open to emerging women artists who use the languages of art and technology to explore issues pertaining to the sustainability and the relationship between humans and the natural environment. Selected by Kilowatt and Sineglossa, the artists work at the Greenhouses of Giardini Margherita, in Bologna, in a highly productive and creative atmosphere, with expert support, feedback and supervision, and a continuous confrontation with the wide audience that passes through the space.
During the 4- to 8-week art residency, the artist develops his or her project entirely, from the creative process to final realization, and presents it during a public event at the conclusion of the residency. The winner has a budget of 2,000 euros (all-inclusive gross figure) to cover all expenses.
Selected artists
Ludovica Lotito is a visual artist born in Ascoli Piceno. Currently in Bologna, she continues his artistic research that links body and nature through photographic images and materials that alter and investigate the perception of self and space.
Marta Romanelli is a designer born in San Benedetto del Tronto and based in Milan, Italy, her research investigates the ecological theories of contemporary philosophers and the relationships between human and non-human entities with a speculative approach to design.
FLYLYF, the work born from the residency
FLYLYF is a place to celebrate the present, imagined and possible nature.
A worldview that nullifies the gap between natural and artificial, a proposal for a communion of human, non-human and non-life forms as different entities of the same ecosystem.
The work is inspired by the structure of the aviary and the greenhouse as artificial environments capable of allowing an entity to survive out of context; invaded by speculative vegetation, FLYLYF becomes a symbol of an incomprehensible and unknown nature in which human beings are reflected physically and conceptually.
People, with their entry into the installation, affect the environment by activating a 220 hz frequency attractive to vegetation, a gesture that becomes a hymn, a wish for fruitful cooperation aimed at coexistence.
Through a qr code placed on the work’s platform, it will be possible to access an Instagram filter inspired by the vision of birds – with altered colors and shapes – that creates a bridge between human reality and the perception of other entities. People will thus be able to move from an aesthetic conception related to seeing, to one that encompasses a plurality of perceptual sensations that suggest ethical and aesthetic values, with the aim of empathizing with each other.
