CHRONOMOSAIC

CHRONOMOSAIC is a video installation in which a mosaic of events made of found footage are shown together to convey the timeline of the past, present, and future and to reflect on the human's representation of himself since the birth of the video medium. After Marina Piccolo's Run For Life, Marina Piccolo and Tommaso Galloni decided to collaborate by using the three previously used TVs to bring new meaning to CRT screens. The lost technology of the cathode ray tube is an essential part of the art work, as are the decoders that allow video to be shown on the TVs. These technologies, now obsolete, should be preserved as part of the history of human representation through video. Through 6 themes that are fundamental to the overall representation of the human - society, means of transportation and production, sports, drugs, love and sex, and finally war and destruction - the human's representation of self in history is analyzed. How were drugs represented in the 1920s? and the 2000s? How will they be represented in the future? The future, is conveyed here by images constructed with generative AI, as it is interesting to analyze how artificial intelligence, created by us and limited by us in some ways, now looks back at its creator-the human-and imagines him in the future. The ending on the theme of war represents human error and horror, from which, however, the human can learn, start over, hopefully changing its way of acting in the future, although, to date, unfortunately, it is demonstrating its inability to learn from its mistakes and change its future perspective. Eventually the 3 TVs start again in an endless loop, the cycle of life.