LAN/EST #1
Video, 2026 · Unique
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About the artwork
LAN/EST is about the transportation of language, and vice versa.
The language of transportation evokes dynamic relationships among displaced points: overflowing vectors acting as particles and waves.
The transportation of language happens by displacing semantic relationships across vector domains: a disposable local coherence perceived as a structural bond.
Two worlds meet here, flowing one into the other, connecting deeper yet never fully united: a story of loss. A quest for distance.
Visuals: smartphone photography with Pro Res Zoom (Google Pixel), Krea 2, Seedance 2.0.
Sound: analog tape manipulation, AI-generated sound effects (Seedance 2.0).
Sound design by Riccardo Silano.
Audio explanation
Listen to Riccardo Silano discuss this work.
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.