Introducing Marco Barotti

After an intense assessment period of applications for our Kunst der Verschränkung artist-in-residence program, we are excited to announce Marco Barotti as inaugural winner!

I am very excited about the opportunity to pursue a new dimension in my art working together with researchers at BIFOLD. My sculptures will both react to data but also become learning models themselves through a poetic and functional dialogue between art and science.

Marco has been living in Berlin since 2005. After studying music at the Siena Jazz Academy, he began merging sound with visual art. His artistic research concentrates on the human co-existence with machines, while also seeking to dissect technological products through data-driven sculptural forms that twist our way of looking and sensing the technological universe we inhabit. Marco's works have been premiered and exhibited many times internationally.

At BIFOLD he will pursue a project called CORALS which aims to create awareness about the climate crisis and ocean conditions by designing a kinetic sound sculpture reflecting a living coral ecosystem:

The residency will allow me to collaborate with BIFOLD in creating a learning model able to analyze oceans conditions using data sets such as sea surface temperature anomalies, sea level rising, bleaching alert areas, ocean acidification and other environmental data.

The data will be translated into sound. The generated high audio frequencies will form a soundscape while the low frequencies will produce slow movements that will turn the sculpture into living corals. Through motion, sounds, and vibrations, the viewers will be able to experience the condition of our seas and the impact of rising temperatures on coral.

Marco will be formally introduced at the opening ceremony of BIFOLD on September 16th where you will be able to see a small installation of his previous work.