Rosetta Mission 2020

Luca Pozzi’s project “Rosetta Mission 2020” (RM2020), produced by An-Icon (An-Iconology ERC: History, Theory, and Practices of Environmental Images) and conceived, by the Milanese artist, not only has his latest CROSS-REALITY artwork, but also as a new collaborative interdisciplinary meta-exhibition curated by The Swan Station. It’s been realized during his residency program started in February 2020, at the 12° Atelier, as a propositive reaction to the actual pandemic crisis, collecting and harmonizing contributions by opinion leaders of different disciplines like Carlo Rovelli (Physicist), Alain Connes (Mathematician), Michelangelo Pistoletto (artist) and Garrett Lisi (Physicist).

“RM2020” is inspired by the homonymous space mission of E.S.A., the European Spatial Agency between 2004 and 2016. It is 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” originally generated, as an augmented reality application, between Andrea Mantegna’s (Madonna col bambino) and Giovanni Bellini’s (Madonna Greca) masterpieces at The Pinacoteca of Brera in Milan the Christmas night 2019. The “RM2020” is a temporary free Hub, without specific political, religious, and geographical coordinates, suitable for interdisciplinary contributions: a meeting point for artists, mathematicians, philosophers, and scientists. A place for a hybrid public, that overcomes the linguistic and physical boundaries in the pandemic era. A meta place suspended in time, able to teleport the travelers into an immersive space conceived as a new hyper-technological, collaborative environment.

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. The “RM2020” takes place as a Mozilla Hubs social community for multiple users and as a solo meditative journey developed in Unity downloadable from the artist website” (www.lucapozzi.com)

The contributions of the featured researchers divide the comet’s surface into 5 macro-areas, intended to be used for different purposes such as exhibitions, concerts, performances, and conferences. Through the intimate interconnection of the various personalities, the Rosetta Mission 2020 offers a single multi-disciplinary stage in continuous evolution that constantly processes incoming data from Instagram / Twitter / Youtube and the world of IoT, embedding digital and physical platforms in a single environment.

In a critical moment of global danger, the “Rosetta Mission 2020” follows the example of the ESA space mission, a historical collective European exploration of outer space that guaranteed the first rendezvous with a comet, ending up in the strengthening of an international community. As its artistic corresponding, RM2020 similarly gives the visitors the possibility to leave their own comfort zone and to network their knowledge, enhancing it as a collective identity. An example of Cross-Reality artwork, a living canvas to find new degrees of freedom.