Dear friends & colleagues, Hope this email finds you well. I am proud to present "AI heart", an animated GIF and non-linear narrative artwork (see the youtube link below) by Alessia Pittaccio, an ongoing student at the Academy of Fine Arts of Rome. The Widget Art Gallery http://www.chiarapassa.it/wag is a Web-App cross-device, just save the WAG icon on your mobile screen to access it whenever you want!Since 2008 the Widget Art Gallery is also available under the guise of a widget for the osx-dashboard. Download it here http://www.chiarapassa.it/wag.zipWAG's articles, reviews, curiosities, etc. here: http://www.chiarapassa.it/TheWidgetArtGallery.htmlEnjoy the show! Sending my best, Chiara Passa
About the show
"AI heart " by Alessia Pittaccio. March 02 - May 23 2023.The gif depicts an ironic reinterpretation of the performance "Rest Energy" by Marina Abramovic and Ulay. It symbolizes the relationship between artists and technology, where artificial intelligence both threatens and empowers them. On one hand it can potentially replace and therefore kill the artists, on the other hand it can literally make its way into the artists' heart.
The interactive and non-linear narrative artwork is here: https://youtu.be/68YTN2qNZvYAbout the WAGDue to our needs that seem to be increasingly handheld, the WAG was born in 2008 as OSX Widget and launched as WebApp in 2009! The Widget Art Gallery is a single art-gallery-room fitting into people's pockets. Every two months, the WAG hosts a solo digital-art exhibition related to its dynamic site-specific context.The WAG works both as a kunsthall showing temporary exhibitions and also as a museum conserving all the past shows inside an online and dynamic archive working as a permanent collection.