Riccardo Giovinetto is a sound designer and multimedia artist, also half of Ozmotic (Touch rec), producing AV perfomances and installations on his own.
FEMINA is a double screen audio-visual performance by multimedia artist Riccardo Giovinetto, in which echoes of polyphonic choirs are layered on the composition of original electronic music, all the while samples of Renaissance paintings are deconstructed by transforming them into an evolving stream of images responsive to sound. The project explores the idea of grace and, more importantly, the eye that defines it during the Renaissance, that of the painters, who accorded it par excellence to the feminine figure.
During the performance the golden section comes into dialogue with alternative proportions and principles. Vocal polyphonies were treated through processing that alters their nature, so that the resulting samples are able to relate with sculptured sounds of electronic music. Gazes of painters and those returned by the portrayed ladies are absorbed in a process that in turn establishes a third gaze, one abstracted in the rules of its own numerical language. An imaginary journey of an AI through its various stages of apprehension, interiorization and self-expression of grace’s concept.
