Gabriele Barbagallo Discusses Digital Art and Virtual Identity in ATPdiary Interview

Artist Gabriele Barbagallo, born in Catania in 2001, explores the intersection of reality and virtual dimensions through digital photography, 3D graphics, and performance. In an interview with Sara Benaglia and Mauro Zanchi for ATPdiary, he discusses his projects including 'Warmbodies,' which uses photogrammetry to create digital avatars from biological bodies, treating technical glitches as constitutive elements of new digital subjectivity. Barbagallo explains how his work examines perception in immersive technology eras, with projects like 'In the Name of Algorithm' and 'What Humans Are Made Of' addressing themes of memory, displacement, and the fusion of digital and physical realities. The conversation covers his artistic practice's philosophical underpinnings, including references to Deleuze's concept of the body without organs.