I have been invited to be part of the datagov project, a super interesting ERC financed project lead by Prof. Stefania Milan. The project is about future data infrastructures for governing. I shall be the connection with art practices and methodologies. The 26 of March 2026 I had to present myself and the lab concept I am going to fiddle with and I did it in these terms:

I am an independent researcher. I direct the Trasformatorio Stichting that I founded in 2020, and animate the Trasformatorio Lab since many years before. There with many peer artists we have experimented with site specific art projects development. This meant to carry technology and contemporary art forms in difficult places, for unlikely audiences: in the nature, in old villages, on and off the grid.

I worked as well in many innovation projects, technological and social innovation alike, mostly intermixed. In Datagov I have been called to shape the datagov lab with an eye on art rooted methodologies of exploration.

Laboratory -from latin Labor- a place to work. But as well a place to trouble. Trouble to stay with -to say that with Donnna Haraway, and to make kin. Trasformation because the scope of the art I am interested in is to transform energies, people, relations, ideas. Hands on, experimenting, subverting the situation with the unexpected. Critical but, as well, concrete and future directed. Artists want to talk about the better future, the eutopia, the good place, we need to predicate to counter to the actual mess we are in.

I feel that the 21st-century advocates transformation over representation, relation over production and transpersonal over individual. Will try to feed these types of curiosities in the lab: an eye for unmasking methods of power, and another exploring the hybrid zones between data infrastructures and body space.

Will shall use play as a driver for learning together. Play illustrates non hierarchical ways to relate between participants. Will use hands-on exploration and manipulation of technologies, to own infrastructure. An homage to the hacker's own pedagogy we need to develop further on.

The forms might vary: create our own minimalist infrastructure, invent new interfaces for multiple aggregates of people, experiment with connected and hybrid spaces to foster different forms of awareness about digital technology: in particular the one explored by the project as a support for power structures.

I see the "lab" as a place to curate meaningful encounters, entangle particles and conjure transformations. In this respect, as an artist of an imaginary and ever present avantgarde I have a motto: "chaos is a teacher"

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