Plancton Art Studio:
Mauro Annunziato / Piero Pierucci (Italy)
/ Biography
E-SPARKS

E-Sparks is an ironic exploration of the communication between human and artificial aliens. As people interact with digital creatures, they are able to learn about relationships between words and intriguing answers. The visitor is apparently speaking with artificial beings; while actually, it is speaking with other visitors who left a trace in the past. Through a recombination of human fragments in artificial minds, the artificial realize a bridge between people, and become a mirror of society.

VIDEO DOCUMENTATION: E-Sparks (09:58), IT, in English, color, stereo, DVD, 2008
PHOTO CREDITS: Plancton Art Studio: Mauro Annunziato and Piero Pierucci, E-Sparks, 2001-2006, photo courtesy the artists. © 2006 Plancton Art Studio


DEVOLUTION 
VOILES / SAILS 
TICKLE SALON 
SWARM PAINTINGS 
PACO: 
POETA AUTOMATICO CALLEJERO ONLINE
 
AUTOTELEMATIC SPIDER BOTS 
E-SPARKS 
Louis-Philippe Demers
Nicolas Reeves
Erwin Driessens / Maria Verstappen 
Leonel Moura 
 
Carlos Corpa / Ana Garcia-Serrano
Ken Rinaldo
Plancton Art Studio: Mauro Annunziato / Piero Pierucci 

CONTENTS

DVD-ROM 1
I. ARTIFICIAL BUT ACTUAL: Artificial Life
II. LIMITS OF MODELING: Evolutionary Design
III. SHINING PROSTHESES: Robotics

DVD-ROM 2
IV. BODY AS TECHNOLOGY: Techno-body Modification
V. MORE THAN A COPY, LESS THAN NOTHINGNESS: Bio and Genetic Engineering
VI. SEMI-LIVING: Tissue and Stem Cells Engineering
VII. POST SCRIPTUM: Re-Coding