Luca Bertini (1979) lives and works.
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His projects deal with his profound fascination for the beauty, frailty and autism of contemporary systems.
'Systems themselves' are usually exploited as raw material in his pieces.
After infiltrating and manipulating them, he silently reintroduces them into their own environments. Which happens to be ours, too.
As a result of that, most of his works are real-life grafts, not only living on an art-world level, but capable of sharing their existence with us.
Somewhere.
Secretly out there.
Like 800-178968, an ambiguous toll-free number service in a desperate need of a public, morbidly calling thousands and thousands of people all-over Italy;
or Vi-Con, two computer viruses in love, harmless and weak, roaming from computer to computer (possibly yours) to find each other.
Or I.IAR, a radio conspiracy message generator, but for no one to listen.
He transcoded Black Thursday’s stock-exchange intraday data into a comfortable, glamorous jazz concert (29); and set up a synthesized life form sustained by incoherent informations taken from data fluxes (NACRE).
His latest project, HAI, involves geostationary satellites.
They play “broken telephone” game together, confidentially, 22.400 Miles above our heads.
He exposed - among others - at New York Gallery - ISE foundation (US), at Sonar ‘06 (ES), at Audio Relays in Lafayette (US), at Expò de Mulhouse (FR), at GAMeC - Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo (IT), at Peam - Pescara Electronic Artists meeting (IT), at Pianissimo Gallery (IT), at Edith-Ruß-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldemburg (DE).
