Eyey, welcome to my digital realm (∩｀-´)⊃━☆ﾟ.*・｡ﾟ𓆏
My name is Alessio and I am a digital artist and design researcher based between Rotterdam (NL) and Venice (IT). As an avid explorer of digital technologies and a natural sciences enthusiast, my practice is located at the intersection of the virtual and physical worlds. My work spans 3D modelling and music production, but also material research to push the boundaries of digital fabrication and storytelling towards unknown lands. I hold a MA in Geo—Design at Design Academy of Eindhoven and a BA in Industrial Design and Multimedia at IUAV University of Venice.
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CV and portfolio on request JOB EXPERIENCES
2021-22 Concept developer/Research and Development Office at OLDER, Milan (IT)
2021 External rendering partner at Fridle Group, Vicenza (IT)
2020-21 Research and Development Office at Flexlite, Venice (IT)
2024 Beyond (Design) Frontiers, UM Gallery, Prague (CZ).
Organized by UMPRUM, Design Academy Eindhoven, Elisava School of Engineering, Konsfack
2024 Graduation Show 2024, Microstad, Eindhoven (NL).
Organized by Design Academy Eindhoven, Dutch Design Week
2024 Melted Film Festival 24, LAB-1, Eindhoven (NL).
Organized by geo.frames, Future Number Five
AN AMALGAM SIMULATION3D, Moving Images, SoundVIDEO2025An Amalgam Simulation is a simulation/music performance inspired by the taxonomical transcendence of limestone. Through the use of RNGs for generative music and fluid-particle physics simulations, An Amalgam Simulation explores autonomous processes in sound and image, by coupling them with the emergent properties of geologic matter.
Components Rendering, Soundscape
Softwares blender, VCV Racks
Rendering support Ivan Brichese
Exhibitions
MESOCOSM — Room as Policy Making, organized by Eternal Terra Ear at BIOF Blue Institute of Futures, Milan (IT)
WE WILL DESIGN 2025
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MAKING KIN Interactive, SoundEXHIBITION2025In occasion of Milan Design Week ‘25, BASE has organized its fifth edition of the show We Will Design, under the theme Making Kin.
By selecting 39 international emerging designers the exhibition rethink our bodies as shared, shifting states; knots within networks. An Amalgam Loop and its narrative on the shifting states of matter between geologic and biologic, has been invited to take part to the show by bringing a new collaboration with Zenith C and Cave di Aurisina.
Location Spazio BASE, V. Ambrogio Bergognone da Fossano 34, Milan, (IT)
Organizers BASE Milano
Sponsored by Milano Design Week, Ministero della Cultura, Regione Lombardia
Project sponsors
Cave di Aurisina,
Zenith C
BEYOND (DESIGN) FRONTIERSInteractive, SoundEXHIBITION2024-25
As a result of the collaboration between Design Academy Eindhoven, UMPRUM, Elisava School of Design and Engeneering and Konstfack, Beyond (Design) Frontiers is an exhibition intended to display the state of contemporary design education in Europe; mapping its patterns, urgencies and showcasing a shared commitment between institutuions. An Amalgam Loop has been one of the 16 projects selected for the exhibition
Location UM Gallery, UMPRUM, nám. Jana Palacha 80, Prague (CZ)
Organizers UMPRUM, Elisava, DAE, Konstfack
Sponsored by City of Prague, Artalk.czCurator Agáta Hošnová
BEYOND (DESIGN) FRONTIERS OFFICIAL PAGE DAE GRADUATES PARTICIPATE IN BEYOND DESIGN FRONTIERS EXHIBITION
GRADUATION SHOW 2024Interactive, SoundEXHIBITION2024
An Amalgam Loop has been presented during DDW24 at Design Academy Graduation Show. Placed in the basement of Microtuin, the project have been displayed alongside with the artworks from Lili Harather and Piet Schmidt. Also the thesis publication An Amalgam Paradigm have been presented at Graduation Show 2024, at the bookstore run by Limestone Books.
Location Microstad, Professor Dr Dorgelolaan 2, 5611 BA Eindhoven (NL)
Organizers Design Academy Eindhoven
Other sponsors Dutch Design Week, Municipality of Eindhoven
Curator Martina Muzi
Photo credits Sofia Paz, Vincenzo Lapiccirella
ARTICLES
MELTED FILM FESTIVAL 2024Moving ImagesFESTIVAL2024
During DDW24, geo.frames and Future Number Five, in collaboration with LAB-1 organised Melted Film Festival 2024.
In occasion of this festival dedicated to experimentation with moving images [...] prima di dormire was selected to be screened on the last of the four nights organised.
Location LAB-1, Keizersgracht 19, 5611 GC Eindhoven (NL)
Organizers geo.frames, Future Number Five
Other sponsors Design Academy Eindhoven, Dutch Design Week, Municipality of Eindhoven
Curator geo.frames, Future Number Five
AN AMALGAM PARADIGMEditorial, GraphicPUBLICATION2024
An interdisciplinary cluster, a process of sedimentation, but also an aggregate with emergent properties - An Amalgam Paradigm is a publication that traces in the boundaries between disciplines the unearthed potential for new ways of understanding the world.
In exposing a hierarchical system of understanding reality, the writing proposes a systemic and empathic vision to living and non-living entities.
Mentoring Geo-Design Department, Metahaven
Thesis supervisors Ben Shai van der Wal, Nadine Botha
AN AMALGAM LOOPInsteractive, Performance, SoundINSTALLATION2024By creating a self regulating system, An Amalgam Loop challanges the dichotomy between active and inert matter and brings the animacy of geologic entities between human perceptual thresholds. The project proposes a more empathic approach to inorganic matter challenging Western sciences analytical way of relating to it. Components Limestone, Aluminum Panels, Vinegar, Arduino Circuit, Sound Exciters, Subwoofer Set, LEDs, Amplifier
Softwares Arduino IDE, VCV Racks
Exhibitions Graduation Show ‘24, organized by Design Academy Eindhoven at Microstad, Eindhoven (NL)
Beyond (Design) Frontiers, organized by UMPRUM at UMPRUM Gallery, Prague (CZ) We Will Design 2025 — Making Kin, organized by BASE Milano, Milan (IT)
LANDSCAPE TRANSFER3D, Moving ImagesINSTALLATION2023
In the digital era, society's obsession with archiving data feeds a machine that transforms physical resources into digital memories. Landscape Transfer maps the metamorphosis of rare earths into virtual landscapes.
Components Moving Image, 3D Map, 3D Scanned objects, Print on textile
Softwares Blender, Adobe Premiere
Designed with Ache Wang, Hancen Zhang
Mentoring RNDR, Formafantasma
TRANSHABITAT3D, Moving Images, SculptureINSTALLATION2022-23Transhabitat embodies a transformative exploration of the Venetian saltmarshes’ identity, aiming to establish a connection between human and ecological identity in order to evoke an ecosystem consciousness. Drawing upon the notion of the idol as a medium the project bridges the gap between the individual and the collective consciousness embodied by the saltmarshes
Components 3D printing, CNC, Moving Images
Softwares Blender, Rhinoceros, PrusaSlicer, Midjourney
Designed with Elena Zaghis, Matteo Volonterio
[...] PRIMA DI DORMIREMoving ImagesVIDEO2022-23[...] prima di dormire is the name of an (almost) imageless movie; a movie projected with closed eyes, like the ones before sleeping. Offering an extract of the daily life in the Venetian province, this subtitles movie is a brief introspective journey intended to leave space for mental images.
Components Moving Images, Voiceover
Softwares Adobe Premiere, Audacity
Exhibitions Melted Film Festival 2024, organized by geo.frames and Future Number Five at LAB-1, Eindhoven (NL)