United States – "AMYGDALA" by fuse*
AMYGDALA is an installation that attempts to stimulate a reflection on the opportunities and dangers of the digital revolution we are going through: in fact, it makes visible the flow of data and information constantly created by users on internet –data that may be heard and interpreted by anyone.
AMYGDALA listens to shared thoughts, interprets states of mind (using sentiment analysis algorithms) and translates the data into an audiovisual installation capable of representing the collective emotional state of the net and its changes on the basis of events taking place around the world.
The work, recently awarded in China, is now presented in Atlanta, selected within the Georgia Tech Arts Series – cycles of artistic works and activities focused on the intersection of arts, sciences, and technology promoted by the Georgia Institute of Technology, one of the top research-intensive universities in the United States.
From April 5 to 30, AMYGDALA is set in the heart of the Georgia Tech campus, in the Ferst Center for the Arts, a venue offering a rich and multidisciplinary programme to the Atlanta community.
Georgia Tech Arts Series include professional performances, exhibitions, installations, residencies, project by students and activities developed by the faculties, but above all, the invited artists must be “profoundly talented, curious, and creative people”.
Another work by fuse* –Dökk, a live media performance– was presented at Georgia Tech in October 2019 and the new invitation is a further recognition to fuse* studio and its research in exploring the creative use of digital technologies, imagining modes of expression and new languages to tell the complexity of human and natural phenomena with installations and live media performances capable of profound audience involvement, in which new connections among light, space, sound, and movement invite ‘to push boundaries’.