Materia is an audio-visual installation which seeks to excavate entangled and expanded vocabularies for redefining how art and science can collaboratively re-approach the most urgent planetary challenges of our time.The viewer is led through a series of uncanny landscapesdistributed across three visual-sound layers. These ‘worlds’ enmesh to form an evolving study of the layered past, present and future of Intelligence as an ontological lens. Created by artist Davide Bernardis (Berlin) and commissioned by Blaise Aguera y Arcas in collaboration with a team of international independent designers and scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (Dresden), and Human Technopole (Milano), Materia (Latin Noun: materia; English: substance, material) considers how we can re-imagine relations between consciousness, technology and the natural world.

 

Galerie Kandlhofer, Davide Bernardis