Activities
IRL interventions, projects and workshop
FORMICAIO
FORMICAIO is a digital art project that explores the politics of automated language through a retro web experience. Created by REINCANTAMENTO for MacTe's exhibition "we are all users until we are not", the piece invites visitors to interact with Agent, a militant AI entity.
January 2025, MacTe Digital, Termoli
The Drake Era or The Logic of Cultural Fracking
In the context of the “Sixposium: The End of Drake?” at the NYU Design & Media Theory Department organzied by Ruby Thelot, Alessandro Y. Longo presented the talk “The Drake Era or the Logic of Cultural Fracking”.
October 2024, NYU Design and Media Theory, Brooklyn
Re-Enchanting the World? Or Looking for Fireflies in Times of Fascism
In the context of the exhibition “Casting a Spell” at Somos Art Gallery in Berlin, Alessandro Y. Longo presented the talk “Re-Enchanting the World? Or Looking for Fireflies in Times of Fascism”.
October 2024, Somos Gallery, Berlin
0xSalon InfraWorlding Zine
In the context of Alessandro’s residency at 0xSalon, a publishing experiment bridging digital and physical surfaces of knowledge curation.
July 2024, Trust, Berlin
Prove di Reincantamento
Following Diluvio Festival’s invitation, we prototyped our new enchanted intervention: a multi-media panel centered on the role of imagination. Can we re-enchant reality and evolve new techno-ecological relations?
July 2024, Diluvio Festival, Brescia
REINCANTAMENTO meets MiGarden
REINCANTAMENTO transformed a garden into a microcosm, speculating on the poly-crisis and envisioning new enchanted futures. The event is celebrated by a limited-edition zine curated by MiGarden and Archivio Sporco.
July 2024, MiGarden, Milan
Meshdia’s Research and Design Phase
Since 2024, REINCANTAMENTO is involved in Meshdia, an emergent organization that researches, design, and prototypes new circulations for cultural work(s).
January 2024 - Ongoing, Oakland / Berlin
Aperturas: an utopian reading group
Aperturas is a reading group in search of breaches from the bleakness of the present and forms of conviviality during Berlin’s winter.
Fall-Winter 2023-24, offline, Berlin
Harvesting The Net - A tale of digital gardening
Harvesting The Net is a video-essay created for “Codici Magici”. A dreamy journey through the ideas of digital gardening and its significance for future Internet politics.
December 2023, MOCA, Brescia
Tech Collapse: The Game
An experimental board game, exploring the limits of computation, e-waste and green technologies, created for the 2023 edition of 48hrs Neukolln.
June 2023, 48hrs Neukolln, Berlin
Memories from the Latent Space
A playful workshop to explore together the semantics of generative models.
December 2022, C/O Foundation, Berlin
Dolphinology - What is like to be a dolphin?
Vincenzo Grasso, in collaboration with ALMARE collective, crafted a listening experience, in the form of guided imaginative practice to extend the limits of human perception.
May 2022, Fondazione Sandretto, Turin
:// Vectorial Baptism
An algorithmic ritual and performative dialogue, made with GPT-2 in an immersive crypt.