SHADOWLESS

Roberto Musanti

FILE SÃO PAULO 2026: Inter-creativity – Art and Technology – VIDEO ART SHORT
Electronic Language International Festival

Shadowless – Italy

Shadowless is an audiovisual work that explores the perceptual limits of the human mind in the age of digital image overproduction. Through the combination of electronic music and continuously generated visuals, the piece reflects on the loss of meaning caused by the endless circulation of images, where memory becomes blurred and the boundary between lived experience and mediated vision progressively dissolves.

BIO

Roberto Musanti is an electronic music composer, audiovisual artist and educator based in Cagliari. Active since the early 1980s, he works in electronic and multimedia art, creating audiovisual performances, video works and interactive installations presented at international festivals. He holds degrees in Electronic Music and teaches multimedia and computer music.

Hash2ash
Installation touches on the themes of selfie-culture, and the fear of permanently losing the digital records of our lives due to technical failures, impermanence of data storage, or simply because of the obsolescence of the old digital file formats. Even with such compulsive overproduction of the images of ourselves we might end up with nothing but the blank memories of our past. Even the data on ourselves will eventually fade away… The installation consist of the display that prompts you to take a selfie on your phone, which it renders in digital particles on its large 1×1 meter screen. Then a moment later, your face scatters and falls apart and the real black gravel starts to fall at the bottom of the screen in perfect synchrony with the digital simulation. Gradually a dark mound builds up at the foot of the construction.

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Hansje van Halem has run her studio in Amsterdam since 2003. In between deadlines for book designs, she fills time gaps with type drawings and empty book space with patterns. With a “practice makes perfect” mind-set, she taught herself not to be afraid of failure. Her time gaps soon took the upper hand and became her core business. While working on commissions from patterns for endpapers, architectural typography, and all scales in between, she creates a lot of overproduction.