Merge Research Synthesis 01
Exhibition
“Synthesis 01 – Commune Networks”, or “How to Dance in the Ruins of the Web”, was an exhibition held at Nolo91 in Milan, in collaboration with the critical media collective REINCANTAMENTO. The aim was to merge the research trajectories of REINCANTAMENTO and MERGE, presenting a rhythmic exploration of today’s online condition—its idiosyncrasies and its utopian hopes for renewal. Dancing in the ruins of the Internet means learning to move with the ambiguous beats of our technological moment, finding grace within fragmentation, and discovering new choreographies of connection. The mini-exhibition moves across three installations, each exploring different scales and tempos of digital inhabitation.
The Splinternet Era presents a fragmented history of the Web, recalling five moments of its evolution from the utopic, globalist beginning to the shattered surface of how it is today, broken alongside geopolitical and cognitive fault lines. An interactive experience capturing how the unity of information has dissolved into competing rhythms.
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How to Scale a Garden? explores the relationship between community, software, and freedom through an expanded reading of nCHANT #01, REINCANTAMENTO's new monographic magazine. In this work, nCHANT becomes a living surface beyond the boundaries of the printed page.
Counter-Dancing brings the visitors into the realm of embodied movement itself. The work explores escape from digital reduction through the tension between human expression's complexity and digital technology's binary nature. Inspired by Shintaro Miyazaki's reflections, the work hints at the ineffable nature of reality that always exceeds machinic modeling.
Merge Research Synthesis 01
Exhibition
“Synthesis 01 – Commune Networks”, or “How to Dance in the Ruins of the Web”, was an exhibition held at Nolo91 in Milan, in collaboration with the critical media collective REINCANTAMENTO. The aim was to merge the research trajectories of REINCANTAMENTO and MERGE, presenting a rhythmic exploration of today’s online condition—its idiosyncrasies and its utopian hopes for renewal. Dancing in the ruins of the Internet means learning to move with the ambiguous beats of our technological moment, finding grace within fragmentation, and discovering new choreographies of connection. The mini-exhibition moves across three installations, each exploring different scales and tempos of digital inhabitation.
The Splinternet Era presents a fragmented history of the Web, recalling five moments of its evolution from the utopic, globalist beginning to the shattered surface of how it is today, broken alongside geopolitical and cognitive fault lines. An interactive experience capturing how the unity of information has dissolved into competing rhythms.
Get to know more here!
How to Scale a Garden? explores the relationship between community, software, and freedom through an expanded reading of nCHANT #01, REINCANTAMENTO's new monographic magazine. In this work, nCHANT becomes a living surface beyond the boundaries of the printed page.
Get to know more here!
Counter-Dancing brings the visitors into the realm of embodied movement itself. The work explores escape from digital reduction through the tension between human expression's complexity and digital technology's binary nature. Inspired by Shintaro Miyazaki's reflections, the work hints at the ineffable nature of reality that always exceeds machinic modeling.