Mariano Leotta

cathartic and childish, ironic and disturbing, the carousel is the symbol of the fair. a post-modern carousel, material and immaterial. steel circular tubulars hold up a sheet where the surreal characters of the carousel are projected:
contemporary tarots showing and exorcising the taboo. the taboo is the limit that allows the society to be like that. anyway, only who is ready to overcome this limit, entering in the carousel, could trigger the mechanism of exorcism and contamination. but be careful. not take it too serious. a toy awaits you in the center of the carousel and if you bow in front of it the carousel will rotate too fast becoming grotesque.

the toy is made with a IcubeX reachclose MIDI sensor, connecting the proximity of the audience to the speed of the video through VVVV.

credits
project: mariano leotta, alessandra senso odoni
illustrations & graphic design: alessandra senso odoni
motion design: dario lazzaretto







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videoCTRLroom is the information sorting center of the urban video control system. A postmodern panoptic where people discovers to be watched and watchers, integral part of a well-oiled mechanism of oppression.

The audience is filmed by hidden infrared web-cams set just in front of the building, at the entrance, on the staircase and in the same room of the installation. The images of the audience alternates with noise effects and other videos discovered and stolen from the webcams of unaware Chatroulette users. The video inputs are managed through VVVV which send them to the installation: a PVC tubes structure embedding 4 or 6 screens made up with the same tubes.

credits
art direction: Mariano Leotta
sound design: Salvo Zappalà
video editing: Emanuele Foti
shooting: Luca Fuscaldi, Enzo Cuccia
voices: Giuseppe Brancato, Giuseppe Bisicchia, Flavio Iannelli, Daniela Alfonso
multimedia set design: Mariano Leotta and Ema









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In the beginning, there was light, white light. energy. Then the universe evolved as a thick net of energy microwaves. Their constant, coordinated movement produces even now a cosmic symphony. The elektro-kokon is the first energy concentration, the matter confronting for the first time with the invisible antimatter.

tech notes
A camera is mapping the carpet from above. VVVV is used to track the black color and connect it to sound and video, so that: the more the blacks in the frame, the more the frequency (sin, delay) and pixel (spins, vibes) variations. The performer is producing transformation with his body, with the position, the exposition, the speed of his body. The dancer is “playing” his own music to dance and manipulating the video environment around him.

credits
art direction _ mariano leotta
multimedia design _ mariano leotta, emanuele foti
performance _ gonçalo cruzinha
sound design _ ex-directory
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SYN is a synchronization request packet on the Internet.
SYN means “togheter” in ancient greek.
SYN is the synapsis.
Through the synapses a neuron exchanges informations in the form of chemical-electrical impulses to other neurons within a neural network managed by the brain. The “social brain” (Luis Cozolino) exchanges information through social impulses, rather than chemical-electrical ones.
In contemporary society, the social impulses do not just come from physical relationships, but more and more from virtual ones.

SYN installation represents an artificial neural system with a constant exchange of electrical inpulses. The constant exchange of electrical impulses is realised using QuartzComposer to set a precise videomapping activated by topic related tweets on Twitter and audience web-interaction. Using a mobile device (smartphone, tablet or laptop), anybody can send a spark, a creative contribution from the festival location or all over th





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