Environmental Monitoring System (E.M.S.) is a 4-channel AV installation conceived as a simulation of a multi-camera monitoring system designed to document the real-time dynamics of four complex ecosystems.

The project—which revisits and re-elaborates the path I have undertaken regarding the relativization of life forms and the concept of life itself as a notable consequence of technobiological evolution—is intended as a further reflection on the nature of synthetic imagery, opening up broad questions about the relationships between sensory orders, levels of rationality, figures of subjectivity, and cosmologies.

My invitation is to reconsider the weight and implications of a scenario in which the ‘informatic image’ can be seen as an unstable intermediary area between convergent systems. Not only as immaterial abstractions of increasing complexity and plausibility, which find their theoretical development limit in technology, but also as liquid interfaces of connection/conversion between domains of (co)existence, between ‘realities’ whose distance (difference) progressively dissolves, contributing to reveal the impracticability and inadequacy of our anthropocentric perspectives.

Produced with 3D modeling/animation software and synthetic sound generation tools, E.M.S. is also available (for screenings/projection) in a single-channel version (post-produced, four-way split view).

Year : 2016
Tech Specs : Full-HD 1920×1080 px, 16:9, 6:24 Mins, Color, Stereo, Ed. of 4 + 1 AP
Copy & Credits : Lorenzo Oggiano. Cover image: “Montecristo Project”, Sardinia, Mediterranean Sea, Italy, 2017 (installation view) – Courtesy Enrico Piras & Alessandro Sau