PHANTOMOLOGY. From micro to macro to real phenomena

by Ugo La Pietra/Stanza/Domnitch&Gelfand 31 january - 6 april 2019

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​CUBO presents, for das – dialoghi artistici sperimentali 2019​ (experimental artistic dialogues 2019), 
its project on  Phantomology (a term coined by the Polish writer and futurologist Stanislaw Lem in his Summa Technologiae of 1964), curated by Marco Mancuso, Daniela Tozzi and Ilaria Bignotti.

The audience is asked to reflect on the power of technological change and its impact on everyday life in terms of technology, society, architecture and relationships.

The exhibition aims to look at the environment from four different perspectives:

– The Technological environment and the flow of data above us, that overwhelms us, as encapsulated by the STANZA​installation.

– The Sub-Atomic environment beneath us, of which everything is formed, is addressed by the Russian duo in their live Force Field​performance.

– L’ambiente Fenomenologico che ci circonda, il livello invisibile in cui siamo immersi e all’interno della rassegna è stato affrontato mediante il panel Un’energia invisibile. Immersioni e Fenomeni dell’arte contemporanea.

– The Phenomenological environment that surrounds us, the invisible strata in which we are immersed, is addressed by the panel An invisible energy. Immersion and Phenomena in Contemporary Art. 

– The Urban and Architectural Environment, its structural and social complexity, through the talk The Architectural and Sociological Environment: Sensitive Data. New urban, cultural and social structures.

The artists asked to express these four concepts are media artist Stanza and science artists Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand in dialogue with Ugo La Pietra, a historical figure in Italian radical language, architecture, urban culture and design. 

STANZA, Time past, Time present, Time future, olio su tela, 2012 e The Nemesis Machine – From Metropolis to Megalopolis to Ecumenopolis (dett.), installazione site specific, componenti elettronici

STANZA, The Nemesis Machine (dett.), installazione site-specific, componenti elettronici.

Ugo La Pietra’s Immersioni and Commutatore (Immersions and the Commutator) dialogue with the technological environment of Stanza’s The Nemesis Machine and with the subatomic Force Field of Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand, offering an ante-litteram, pioneering and fitting interpretation of topics addressed by contemporary artists and performers: 

immersion / interactivity, digital isolation / shared experience, networking of experienced potential / relationship and osmosis between physics and technology, return to man in overcoming our biological boundaries, moving towards an interpenetration of energy, species, emotion and space. 

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