Shifting Selves 2023
Concept:
In an increasingly digital Universe, within which individual identities are presented as not easily distinguishable,
what role does the individual assume in his fictitious uniqueness?
This is how the work attempts to investigate the theme of the depersonalization of the person within the virtual
World, through a particle graphic component that slowly crumbles and then recomposes itself in the essence of
the physical body belonging to the daily dimension.
Within this changing dynamic, Man places himself in a flexible but at the same time quite fragile condition, a state
from which it is very difficult to emerge without being overwhelmed by what is a reality artificially created by the
human being himself.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1PH_Xcxeo4A1R3otHgd6VfToxyUGBl0BB?usp=drive_link
Note: The text above was written by the Artist. No modification was made by COCA.
Simone Martinotta
Italy
Good morning,
As previously announced, I am a graduate student in New Technologies of Art at the Academy of Fine
Arts of Brera, Milan.
My work, since the most distant times, has tried to bring together two of the great passions that have
tormented me since I was a child: art and philosophy.
During my career, a central role has always been that of the union between man and technology,
considered each time by virtue of achieving a symbiosis between man and machine, a very important
issue that since the first experiments in the artistic field involves the life of the human being (my final
thesis work entitled Ars e Techné focuses on an investigation of the relationship between art and
technology, analyzing how this can bring a notable advantage to the human condition, always
recognizing the limits of Man and preventing it from taking over).