LUCA POZZI » Arkanian Leonardo

The “Arkanian leonardo” (2021) is a technological animism specimen, that lives simultaneously on macroscopic (Analog), subatomic (Quantum Interactions), and digital (Telegram / Internet) platforms.

Cast in aluminium, it is equipped with a particle detector created in collaboration with the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN @infn_insights ) which makes it sensitive to the passage of Muons coming from the stratosphere but correlated to violent explosions generated in the deep space.

Every time a particle interacts with the artwork, a pair of blue LEDS, as cute little eyes, flash creating a bridge with the visitor’s relative perspective.

A hyper object, programed with a rudimental artificial intelligence, able to convert the particle revelation into a word randomly selected from a pool of texts by Leonardo Da Vinci, Francesco Colonna and Albert Einstein.

Iconographically the art-work combines different interdisciplinary references connected to the figure of Leonardo Da Vinci: 1 – (the chest / The Vitruvian Man by Leonardo), 2 – (the back / Mandelbrot fractal diagram), 3 – (the shoes / golden ratio symbol), 4 – (the hands / E8 theory), 5 – (the mouth / quantum mechanics wave function, PSI symbol), 6 – (undertunic / Wheeler-De Witt equation), 7 – (the eyes / INFN muon detector, Multi-Messenger Astrophysics).

Every 16 revelations the art-work creates a phrase, a kind of japanese contemporary Haiku, with an open divinatory sense, ready to be shared, as a public message, on his personal Telegram profile (https://t.me/arkanianleonardo.), inhabited by the “Arkanian Leonardo” avatar version in 3D graphics.

The final stage of the multi-layerd experience is a dedicated web-site (www.thearkanians.com/leonardo) where the Arkanian, as a quantum prophet, declaims the last Message with a self generated browser voice.

It is a hybrid experiment created to highlights the biodiversity of physical phenomena beyond the classic concept of sensitive matter and the rigid duality of analog and digital. It underlines the existence of correlations at a distance, organized in an intimately hyperconnected web of relations that connects events from multiple times and spaces.

“Arkanian Leonardo” 2021. Polished aluminum sculpture, INFN particle detector, messaging software, internet connection,Telegram chat, PLA component, blue leds, dedicated web site. Dim:116x50x50 cm.

“Arkanian Leonardo” 2021. Polished aluminum sculpture, INFN particle detector, messaging software, internet connection, twitter profile, PLA component, blue leds, dedicated web site (www.arkanianleonardo.com ). Dim:116x50x50 cm.

Hyperinascimento Exhibition view.

Arkanian Leonardo real time dedicated website installation: https://www.thearkanians.com/leonardo