Research Catalogue

The UVTOWER is a generative installation and interactive performance instrument which produces dense post-rave music.

Magpick is an augmented pick for electric guitar created by Fabio Morreale, Andrew McPherson and Andrea Guidi at the Augmented Instruments Lab, Queen Mary University of London. The pick allows nuanced control on the guitar sound as well as new performing techniques with a minimal latency.

In the ongoing discourse surrounding artistic research, a key challenge is the need to transcend its immediate context and break through disciplinary boundaries. To address this challenge, we present °'°Kobi, an AI mediated research platform designed to prioritize interconnections across diverse fields. The platform aims to stimulate divergent thinking and imagination. °'°Kobi offers content that encourages creative experimentation and non-linear reflection, while providing the ability to track authorship and generate bibliographic references. These features lay the foundation for interdisciplinary collaboration and intellectual cross-pollination, creating resonance that bridges fields and communities. Users ask questions and perform searches interacting with an AI chatbot that replies with text and media from the knowledge base. The results include unexpected contents that encourage the exploration of new research paths and the development of counterfactual ways of thinking. The underlying system uses a Large Language Model (LLM) to transform artistic and scientific publications into a dynamic "Universe" of semantic nodes. Users are encouraged to explore thematic intersections and uncover unexpected correlations visualizing a constellation of concepts and connections. °'°Kobi, intended as a knowledge universe of reverberation and amplification between elements, becomes a crucial tool for connecting materials, ideas, and contexts. It proposes a paradigm of collective intelligence and creativity that exemplifies how the concept of resonance between fields and researchers can serve as a methodological tool in artistic research.

A silence lingers where words once stood, a fragile pause between what was said and what remains forever untold. I’m gonna build the cemetery of echoes, words suspended in time, each gaze a question, each absence a weight. Fragments of lives held in stillness, unfinished moments longing for release. Across the space, words rise like shadows. Memory dances with loss, the tangible and the fleeting entwined. It is not closure we seek, but the tender acknowledgment of incompleteness.

Exposition supporting the Artistic Research and Collective Intelligence workshop, 28-29 April 2025, Brera Academy of Fine Arts. Theme: In recent years, latent space has become a recurring notion in the field of AI and generative art, but the term has a much broader origin and resonance, finding relevance in various fields of knowledge such as psychology, biology and computer science. Translated into the field of artistic research, latent space can refer to indefinable and potential configurations, to a fluid and interstitial zone in which knowledge and imagination take shape through non-linear processes and intuitions. The workshop will offer a space for discussion and experimentation, welcoming proposals and reflections on the processes of artistic research, to investigate unforeseen configurations, lateral paths, and methodological deviations. The activity is promoted by the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome as part of the Enacting Artistic Research project. Workshop Tutors: Veronica Di Geronimo, Andrea Guidi, Daniele Pozzi Co-organisers: Matteo Cremonesi, Claudia Maria D'Alonzo Participants: Riccardo Arena, Chiara Bassi, Leonardo Bentini, Martina Borgese, Davide Frantoni, Erica Garavaglia, Francesca Greco, Guido Mannucci, Jiale Wu