Franz Rosati

APA Prize

DATALAKE:CONTINGENCY

DATALAKE:CONTINGENCY is a collection of AI-generated scenarios, a continuous flow of moving images that explores the tension between nature and technology in search of a new form of coexistence within an organic and balanced system.

Cars, architectural structures, and natural disasters intertwine, giving life to a fluid organism made up of objects, shapes, and configurations that oscillate between spontaneous natural phenomena and artificial devices. The work lies somewhere between a fake documentary and the sensational imagery of television news, immersing the viewer in a vortex of stimuli from an unstable and fragmented universe. Reality becomes a continuous stream of visions and shifting timelines. Natural landscapes alternate with images of enormous television screens, functioning as portals that eventually dissolve into the viewer’s perceived reality, interrupting the process of identification and emphasizing the constructed nature of perception. Everything disassembles and reassembles within a space stretched and altered by time, where each moment becomes the most accurate representation of what is (or is not) real, possible, or impossible. The work invites us to confront this unstable landscape, questioning the role of images and technology in shaping our relationship with reality in the age of post-truth.

Franz Rosati creates audiovisual concerts, electronic music, video installations, software art and printed artworks.

The balance between visuals, sounds and music and the intersection between real and digital domains are at the core of its artistic production. Projects like Latentscape and Distantia are grounded into narrative structures where the cinematic events and soundscapes creates a new cartography or ever-shifting imaginary worlds presented as Audiovisual Concerts as well as Contemplative Video Installations.
Vast digital landscapes, transforming Pointclouds or disrupting wire-frame structures are crafted using intricate workflows that put together aural and visual domain, open data, programming languages, scientific software, artificial intelligence, and video game engines.

When presented as audiovisual concert, audio and visual concepts are modeled over a cinematic and narrative approach, emphasizing the interplay between sound and images. This is consistently enriched by real-time interventions that add new and unpredictable elements to each performance, thanks to the interaction between sounds, images, and generative/procedural structures.
The same visual and auditory elements take the form of digital artworks designed for contemplative engagement, intended for large screens, LED walls, art galleries, and audiovisual installations.

Sound and music hold a central role in every work, representing the result of a profound process of material selection and transfiguration of acoustic sources. Traditional or unusual acoustic sources, environmental field recordings, or samples from found materials are the elements blended together into deeply emotive music, rich of tense crescendos and abrupt interruptions, heavy anvil sounding percussions, rhythmic noise patterns, and a cinematic sound design that maintains a constant balance between digital and organic shape.

PHOTO CAPTION: DATALAKE_CONTINGENCY

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