Alessandro Scali

For over twenty years, my research has dismantled the anthropocentric illusion. I employ technology - from nanoscience to Artificial Intelligence and digital systems - not to celebrate progress, but to map the Anthropoperiphery: the space where the human loses its visual, authorial, and cognitive centrality, being radically downsized.

SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS & ACADEMIC RESEARCH

2024 | Carnegie Mellon University & NASA — MoonArk Project (Commissioned nanometric artworks for lunar archive)

2020 | Postmedia Books (Milan) — Mind the Gap. La vita tra bioarte, arte ecologica e post internet by Elena Giulia Rossi (Critical essay, dedicated chapter: "Creating at the nanoscale").

2015 | Advanced Materials (Wiley-VCH) — Art on the Nanoscale and Beyond (Co-authored review with MIT, Harvard, Caltech)

2010 | Éditions Hermann (Paris) — Images mirages nanosciences (Academic anthology, dedicated chapter)

2007 | Nature — Nanoart Feature Vol. 449 | scientific validation of nanometric sculptures

2004–2024 | Politecnico di Torino & IIT — Ongoing Research Partnership (Advanced nanofabrication with Prof. Fabrizio Pirri)

SELECTED MUSEUM & INSTITUTIONAL EXHIBITIONS

2025 | The Gate (Gerace Artistic and Technological Experience) — Digital Ruins (Site-specific installation, Chiesa di Santa Caterina) (Gerace, IT)

2025 | Paratissima Kosmos 21 — Official Virtual Mediator (Turin, IT)

2024 | IIC San Francisco & AMACI — Official Presentation (San Francisco, USA)

2024 | Biennale Tecnologia — Utopie Réaliste (Turin, IT)

2019 | Serlachius Museum — The Quest for Happiness (5-month solo exhibition & Permanent Collection) (Mänttä, FI)

2016 | smART Polo per l'Arte — Stop and Go: The Art of Animated GIFs (Rome, IT)

2015 | LACDA (Los Angeles Center for Digital Art) — Technarte Exhibition (Los Angeles, USA)

2014 | Tate Britain — 1840s GIF Party (London, UK)

2011 | Principia — Stanze e sostanza delle arti prossime (Piazza del Duomo, Milan, IT)

2008 | Biennale of Contemporary Art — YOUniverse (Seville, ES)

CONFERENCES, TALKS & JURIES

2010 / 2013 / 2015 | Technarte International Conference — Invited Speaker & Exhibiting Artist (Bilbao, ES / Los Angeles, USA)

Ongoing | TIFA Awards — International Jury Member

Ongoing | Phi Awards — International Jury Member

SELECTED PRESS & CULTURAL MEDIA

Doppiozero — Per un'arte che non dia (troppo) nell'occhio (Critique & Essay)

Vice / The Creators Project — The Giphoscope Allows You To Bring GIFs Anywhere

BBC Click — Feature on Giphoscope and Digital Ephemera

The Verge — A GIF of a GIF machine

Artribune — Exhibition Reviews & Critique

The New York Times — Featured mentioned