signal/presence
AV Performance
Duration: 45 min.
Sunday, 31 May 2026 | 21:00 > 21:452026-05-31T21:00:00.000Z | Sala Ottaviani
signal / presence
The first fiber-optic cable did more than connect continents: it opened a threshold.
From that moment on, reality was no longer a single space, but a layered territory in which different dimensions coexist, overlap, and continuously transform one another.
Reality extends beyond the matter that composes it: it passes through devices, platforms, and networks, only to return to the physical world altered, reinterpreted, and filtered.
signal / presence emerges from this tension and translates it into an audiovisual performance in which familiar forms shift, dissolve, and recombine.
Reality ceases to be a fixed point and becomes a field of possibilities, constantly rewritten through the interaction between physical presence and technological mediation.
signal / presence does not represent the real; it stages its transformations: the moment in which experience is mediated and returned in new forms, a traversal of this expanded reality.
In a world where every experience is filtered through devices and interfaces, the work questions the way we inhabit space and perceive ourselves within it.
If the boundary between presence and representation becomes increasingly thin, what form does reality take today?
The first fiber-optic cable did more than connect continents: it opened a threshold.
From that moment on, reality was no longer a single space, but a layered territory in which different dimensions coexist, overlap, and continuously transform one another.
Reality extends beyond the matter that composes it: it passes through devices, platforms, and networks, only to return to the physical world altered, reinterpreted, and filtered.
signal / presence emerges from this tension and translates it into an audiovisual performance in which familiar forms shift, dissolve, and recombine.
Reality ceases to be a fixed point and becomes a field of possibilities, constantly rewritten through the interaction between physical presence and technological mediation.
signal / presence does not represent the real; it stages its transformations: the moment in which experience is mediated and returned in new forms, a traversal of this expanded reality.
In a world where every experience is filtered through devices and interfaces, the work questions the way we inhabit space and perceive ourselves within it.
If the boundary between presence and representation becomes increasingly thin, what form does reality take today?
Author
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Simona Vacca (Cagliari - 2001) is a multimedia artist based in Rome. She graduated in 2023 from the IED - European Institute of Design in the three-year Media Design program, where she explored the fields of interaction design, graphics, coding, video and audio production. She is currently completing her master's degree at RUFA (Rome) in Multimedia Arts and Design.
She is focusing her work more on performance and installation, gaining experience in the world of audiovisual performance and live...