NUCLEO x Club Silencio

NUCLEO is the Club Silencio programme I took part in. Weeks of workshop between light, machines and visuals: DMX nodes, moving heads, haze and a room full of people testing what a beam does to a wall. Coming from web design, this was the first time my output had a physical space instead of a viewport.

For Camera, Turin's photography museum, I wanted to use the photographs from their website. I was explicitly told I could not. So I went around the block: I had AI describe to me how those photographs were built, then I regenerated them from scratch from a text description alone. The result is images very close to the originals that are not the originals. Hence the line running through the piece: all these images are stolen, except for the fact that they are not.

For the MRSN, the natural history museum, I went in and photographed the insects of their collection, then rebuilt them in 3D from those photos: meshes through Meshy AI, scene in Blender. There are four of them, rotating inside a generative, ethereal environment that behaves like a museum, taking each insect and placing it on a pedestal. The format is ultrawide, 3840x1200, made for the screen it was shown on and not cropped down from something else.

I made both pieces on my own, but the programme was a collective: people testing, breaking and fixing things next to me. The photos in this project are that part, the process nobody usually shows.

Bold minimalism and emotional design also work when the medium is a beam of light. Realtime taught me something the browser had not: the audience is in the room, and reacts while you are still building.