EVOLUTION GAMES (Riccardo Silano)
Video, 2023
About the artwork
The first chapter of a jurassic hardcore show about death and rebirth, told unlocking some early cathodic memories of mine from the TV and VHS era. Challenges from Takeshi's Castle (1989) and the corrupted visuals of a Jurassic Park pirate cassette (1994) meet again.
AI generated text to video via Kling.
AI generated soundtrack with Udio.
Additional sfx arranged and manipulated in Capcut.
Sound design by Riccardo Silano
Riccardo Silano (b. 1982, Novi Ligure, Italy) is an artist, designer and media archaeologist. His art is born from treating all technology, from analog hardware to generative AI, as black boxes to be creatively rerouted. The result is an act of witness, capturing the technological ghosts that emerge from the tension between repetition and change, just before they vanish.
Silano's professional path evolved through theatre, commercial audiovisual production and broadcasting. In 2019 he started rewiring retro gears not just into video art installations, but into a method for tuning into the machine's own operative unconscious. This practice guided him directly to generative AI, which he approaches not as a tool, but as an unpredictable system to be patched in unconventional ways, revealing its hidden behaviors.