Il corpo si dissolve, perde i suoi contorni per farsi flusso termico, colore, volume. La tecnologia, deviata dal suo uso originario, diventa strumento di svelamento: non misura, ma trasforma. La danza si apre a una dimensione altra, in cui il visibile si riconfigura e il gesto è presenza spettrale.
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Spettri cromatici is an audiovisual work created through the use of a thermal camera, a technology originally developed for military purposes—to precisely identify a moving body and detect objects in complete darkness—and later adopted in medical and engineering fields as a tool for identifying and locating anomalies, performing maintenance and diagnostics, and inspecting buildings.
In this project, the technology is diverted into an aesthetic research device, investigating—through color—the dynamics that unfold between bodies in motion and between those bodies and the landscape in which they act. What kind of plastic and formal relationship can emerge between the detection of body temperature and its transformation into color and volume? The filmed subjects lose their somatic traits, approaching a more ghostly dimension, becoming more organically intertwined with the digital matter that captures their gestures.
Reconsidering Marshall McLuhan’s classification in Understanding Media, thermal cameras seem to enact an ambiguous reversal in the distinction between hot and cool media, moving toward a new dialectic between high and low definition: images dense with information and content, in which the viewer is passive and guided, and others that are sparse in data yet demand high spectator involvement, precisely because they remain open to a multiplicity of possibilities.
What worries us more? Global warming or the overheating of our devices’ processors?
Which color speaks most clearly of our planetary cataclysm?
