Trainspotting
Video, 2023
About the artwork
A moment to question who is truly observing whom.
A visual triangle forms between trains, creatures, and ourselves. This ends in a landscape juxtaposition, resembling an almost involuntary predatory attempt.
AI generated text to video. Sound effects and AI generated sounds created and arranged by Riccardo Silano.
Sound design by Riccardo Silano
Audio explanation
Listen to Riccardo Silano discuss this work.
Riccardo Silano (b. 1982, Novi Ligure, Italy) is an artist, designer and media archaeologist. His art is born from treating all technology, from analog hardware to generative AI, as black boxes to be creatively rerouted. The result is an act of witness, capturing the technological ghosts that emerge from the tension between repetition and change, just before they vanish.
Silano's professional path evolved through theatre, commercial audiovisual production and broadcasting. In 2019 he started rewiring retro gears not just into video art installations, but into a method for tuning into the machine's own operative unconscious. This practice guided him directly to generative AI, which he approaches not as a tool, but as an unpredictable system to be patched in unconventional ways, revealing its hidden behaviors.