10/10/2022
“The Sentinel Immune Self”, a work created during the artist’s residency at Area Science Park, on display in Milan in October 2022
From 4 to 30 October 2022 at MEET Digital Culture Center
Il Parco
The Sentinel Immune Self is an immersive artwork, set inside an aquatic science-fiction world, that invites viewers to explore its different levels: it is a real-time simulation inspired by the human immune system and recent scientific investigation into the possible reactions of our organism with microplastics present in our blood.
“The Sentinel Immune Self” is a project by Danish artist Sissel Marie Tonn, inaugurated on 4 October in Milan at MEET Digital Culture Center, an international center for art and digital culture funded by Fondazione Cariplo. Created in the context of the “:REWORLD” collective, the work is the result of the artistic residency hosted this year by MEET Digital Culture Center and Area Science Park.
The artist had the opportunity to collaborate with researchers at the Laboratory for Genomics and Epigenomics and the Orfeo Data Center of the National Research Body (lear more here), with support from the European programme S+T+ARTS, an initiative exploring potential collaboration between science, technology and art.
The work, which will remain on display in Milan until 30 October 2022, unfolds with an interactive narrator that accompanies the public on a simulated journey within their own body. In the end, it is revealed that humans are not only transforming the world but have also been transformed.
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> https://www.meetcenter.it/en/event/reworld-repairing-the-present/