Alessandro Scali
Artist & Creative Researcher
Alessandro Scali is an Italian artist and creative researcher based in Turin. For over twenty years, his transdisciplinary practice has operated at the intersection of contemporary art, hard sciences, media archaeology, and artificial intelligence.
His entire body of work is structured around the conceptual framework of the Anthropoperiphery (Antropoperiferia): a continuous program of experimental investigations designed to test, decenter, and challenge the limits of human sovereignty in perception, cultural memory, digital representation, and cognitive judgment.
Rather than focusing on a centralized personal signature, Scali’s research manifests through autonomous platforms and creative heteronyms, ranging from physically invisible Nanoart created with the Politecnico di Torino, to tactile pre-cinematic devices like the Giphoscope, the digital glitch-art of Van Glitch, and the independent AI curatorial agent Catherine Gipton.
His practice has been widely validated by leading global scientific, academic, and cultural institutions, including Nature, Tate Britain, Bloomsbury Academic, Advanced Materials, the Biennale of Seville, AMACI / IIC San Francisco, and the Carnegie Mellon University (MoonArk Project).
Anthropoperiphery
Artistic research as experimental philosophy | 2004 - ongoing
A sequence of artistic experiments testing the limits of human centrality in perception, culture, images and judgment.
Validated by
Nature | Seville Biennale | Advanced Materials (MIT/Harvard/Caltech) | IIC San Francisco | Serlachius Museum | Carnegie Mellon University (MoonArk)
Each experiment in Scali's research represents a degree of departure from the center: an exercise in downsizing to discover what remains of reality when the human observer steps aside.