Luca Tornato currently holds a bachelor’s degree from the ArtScience Interfaculty at the Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague (NL). With a background in electrical engineering, and heavily influenced by expanded cinema and early computer graphics, he hoards old analog video equipment giving them a second and final chance to create videoart, performances, and installations.

Every piece of technological device secretly encloses a history of decisions, usually made up by dominant ideologies at the time of their design. By dissecting them, one can gain an understanding of how these devices shape their medium of operation, thus revealing their non-human agency. At the moment, Luca is working with the themes of surveillance cinema, algorithmic editing, non-human photography, media archeology and new materialism. Finally, a current interest is engaging with ephemeral guerilla acts ,such as quick public projections as an insurgence weapon and call to action against the rise of far-right agendas.

Cinema Panoptica is a commissioned collaboration between Luca and Roel Weerdenburg. Having closely (over)watched each other’s works at a distance, they will finally join ideas, TVs and cameras. Seeking for cross-talks within their research on the repurposing of de-comissioned technologies, several corners of WAS. will be framed and networked on a massive video installation. An amalgama of voyeuristic images, live edited through generative compositions brings the aesthetics of surveillance to the dancefloor.