Francesco D'Abbraccio on Music, AI, and Time Coils at Mattatoio
At the exhibition Archivio Contemporaneo, curated by Visioni Parallele in Padiglione 9b of Mattatoio in Rome, artist Francesco D'Abbraccio presents his new audiovisual project Lorem. D'Abbraccio, a musician and new media artist, co-founded Krisis Publishing and is known for unconventional machine learning approaches. His installation Arc and album Time Coils explore time, consciousness, and AI. Time Coils references Alan Moore's Jerusalem and uses neural networks to process Walt Disney cartoon samples and experimental rap vocals. D'Abbraccio employs machine learning as a transformation tool, not generative, based on Jason Bailey's Hypercollage concept. Arc builds on his 2021 work Distrust Everything, which used dream transcripts from artist Mirek Hardiker as a dataset. Arc combines dream archives with texts describing altered states, generating sixty visualizations from twenty pairs of contradictory emotions. A live performance took place on April 27.
Key facts
- Exhibition: Archivio Contemporaneo at Mattatoio, Rome, curated by Visioni Parallele.
- Artist: Francesco D'Abbraccio, co-founder of Krisis Publishing.
- New project: Lorem, an audiovisual and multidisciplinary work.
- Installation: Arc, based on dream datasets and machine learning.
- Album: Time Coils, released with a live performance on April 27.
- Album references Alan Moore's novel Jerusalem.
- Uses neural networks to process Walt Disney cartoons and rap vocals.
- Machine learning used as transformation tool, not generative.
- Hypercollage concept by Jason Bailey influences the work.
- Previous work: Distrust Everything (2021) with Mirek Hardiker's dream archive.
Entities
Artists
- Francesco D'Abbraccio
- Mirek Hardiker
- Alan Moore
- Jason Bailey
- Walt Disney
Institutions
- Visioni Parallele
- Mattatoio
- Krisis Publishing
- Artribune
Locations
- Rome
- Italy