Endless-Objects.com

Hi, this is Riccardo Zanardelli (me). Endless-Objects.com is the place of my research at the intersection between art and technology. I have always been fascinated by the idea of building artworks in the form of “classes", which have nothing to do with social science. In object-oriented programming, a class is an “an extensible program-code-template for creating objects” (Wikipedia). Objects created from the same class - frequently defined instances - can be infinite in quantity and variety, but also intimately similar one to the other. More recently, I am focusing on connecting the generative process of the class-type artwork to other forms of “noise", closer to the user experience. Data coming from sensors inside smartphones, social media feeds and Artificial Intelligence are some of the elements which have been recently involved in my work. Which is the potential of computing and data for the years to come? Where is the line between a delightful artificial intelligence and a threat for our privacy, safety and freedom? Are we going to deploy technology in the good direction or not? Will we be able to find a balance between human and machine? These are all question whose answer will be given by our behaviors and decisions as a society. Art, and especially the forms of art making use of computing, sensors and machine learning, have the great opportunity to uncover all the shades of grey between the black and the white of technology. In the era of Big Data, IoT and Artificial Intelligence, the aim is to inspire people to think about the potential of technology as something good, something which makes our world evolve for the better. Discussions on these topics should be made inside corporations, public administration, academics, scientists and also families. We can all participate, we should all contribute. as technology becomes easier, we can make things with it and we need to experiment. -Riccardo