Climate Change: Artistic Interventions and Alternative Futures - 2025

Luca Pozzi, Rosetta Mission 2022, VR Installation, 2022

Rosetta Mission 2022  by Luca Pozzi is inspired by the homonymous space mission of E.S.A., the European Spatial Agency, that took place between 2004 and 2016. It represents the 3D reconstruction of the 67.P Churyumov Gerasimenko comet, transformed from a physical celestial body into a digital convergence point for different disciplines. A floating island hidden inside a digital sculpture called Third Eye prophecy Hyperinascimento originally generated, as augmented reality application, geolocalized between Leonardo Da Vinci’s monument and La Scala Theater of Milan in april 2022. The “RM2022” is a temporary free Hub, without specific, political, religious, and geographical coordinates, suitable for interdisciplinary contributions and social interaction: a meeting point for activists, artists, philosophers, and scientists. The project aims to be a metaphorical digital Rosetta Stone accessible after 2,200 years since the archaeological find that annihilated the Babel Tower purposes. A relational tool that allows information to flow and connect the people of the world.

Caterina Dufì, Maru Barucco, Our Excavation, performance, 2025

Concept by Caterina Dufì, Emanuele Caprioli, Simone Spampinato. Performance by Caterina Dufì and Maru Barucco with additional sound support from Simone Spampinato. English translation of the original poem by Allison Grimaldi Donahue.

Our Excavation is a project of experimental poetry, sound-art and visual art by Caterina Dufì, Emanuele Caprioli and Simone Spampinato, originally conceived with the Italian title Del nostro scavo continuo and performed during Residenza Poietica in 2024 at Fondazione Merz, Turin. Themes of enchantment and perceptual illusion drive and lead the interweaving of disciplines. The artists produced ian immersive and minimal installation related to the image of the well, in which responsivity between voice and sound, along with the presence of autostereograms created in collaboration with Mekit, coexist in a semi-dark environment. A collective and personal space for reflection on the animic and critical feedbacks of the relationship between ecstatic possibilities and new digital media.

Climate Change: Cultural Practices and Socio-Economic Outcomes - 2024

Clea T. Waite, Todd Furmanski, Caleb Foss, Jared Christopher Kelley, Max Orozco, Angelika von Chamier, TesserIce, 4D VR Mediascape, 2024

The VR installation of TesserIce in the Summer School is made possible thanks to the support of the VARLAB 

As part of the Summer School program the DAMSLab will host the VR installation TesserIce (2024) by American artist Clea T. Waite. TesserIce is a VR artwork where the participant navigates inside a 4-dimensional tesseract of living ice in which time is a material axis – a spatial lens outside our three dimensions. From the tesseract’s center, they experience space, time, sound, and ice in the unfamiliar geometry of the fourth dimension. Each room within this hyper-architecture presents a different phase and scale of glacial ice, inviting us to reconsider our radical connection to remote ecosystems via time, geology, and Earth. 

Students are invited not only to experience the work, but also to contribute to Clea T. Waite's artistic process by filling out a questionnaire that will allow the artist to gather feedback on the experience.  

Clea T. Waite, Ph.D. and Jared Kelley, Navigating the 4D Space-Time of Climate Change: TesserIce, 2022.