Giuseppe Ragazzini

Sketching on the first prototype of my 5 wheels mechanical object. Five “discs” with four faces each, for a total of 1024 possible combinations. I’ve been working on this project for such a long time, trying to turn my digital gears into physical objects, and finally everything works. I would like to thank from the bottom of my heart Guido Pietrella, author of the code that makes this machine work, who is also working on many amazing technical construction details. And finally I would like to thank Angelo De Grande @de_grande_art_curator , who was essential helping me in the construction of this first prototype. Made using @arduino.cc You will see more experiments in the coming weeks! #giusepperagazzini #facewheel #mechanicalwheel #combinatorio #drawing #improvisation #livepainting #painting #inkonpaper #contemporaryart #contemporaryartist #collageart

I made a collage on the finished prototype of my face machine. Five “discs” with four faces each, for a total of 1024 possible combinations. Many thanks to Guido Pietrella, who made this possible. #giusepperagazzini #facewheel #mechanicalwheel #combinatorio #drawing #improvisation #livepainting #painting #inkonpaper #contemporaryart #contemporaryartist #collageart

I blended some of my works with other generated collage using the incredible #midjourney and I got these variations. #giusepperagazzini #midjourney #AI #gan #collage #portrait #morphing #interpolation #collageart #collageartist #mixedmedia #mixedmediaart #mixedmediaartist

It was incredibly exciting to be a speaker at the AI Week 2023 in Rimini, discussing Art and Artificial Intelligence. It was an amazing opportunity to share my story with over 1600 people attending this fantastic event, which explores the topic of Artificial Intelligence through direct testimony from various experts in different fields. I had the pleasure to meet really extraordinary people, scientists, doctors, mathematicians, data scientists, comic artists. I would like to thank you the incredibles Giacinto Fiore @giacinto.fiore and Pasquale Viscanti @pasquale.viscanti , founders of AI Spiegata Semplice @iaspiegatasemplice and organizers of @aiweekitalia Thank you once again! #art #talk #Ai #dalle2 #midjourney #gan #generativeart #contemporaryart #tecnologia #technology #artandtechnology #giusepperagazzini

I don’t want to take myself too seriously, so here you go 😂 If you are wondering, this is how we did it. “This is me and my son Leo during the first lockdown. Swipe right to see the super professional backstage.” Ingannando il tempo, e @Instagram, in quarantena. #giusepperagazzini #instagram#99k#aftereffect#greenscreen#fun#quarantine#mixedmedia#oldtimes#quarantena

Speed painting improvisation on my iPad The music is by my friend Franco Piersanti, ( @umbrah1 👈)which by the way is one of the greatest Italian composer and cinema composer of our days. Made using @procreate software #giusepperagazzini #francopiersanti #speedpainting #painting #illustration #illustrationart #paintings #drawing #disegno #pittura #metamorfosi #metamorphosis

The collage machine is an infinite collage generator developed thanks to @polarisengineeringspa and their data scientist, It uses AI algorithms in order to create collage faces starting from a user’s photo adding an archive of collage pieces (segmentation algorithm, face recognition and face parcing). Yesterday and today we presented this “creature” to the public at the Zeffirelli Foundation during the PerformIA Festival 2022. Photos by @giuliagiometti #giusepperagazzini #polaris #performIA #collageart #collageartist #collageoftheday #artificialintelligence #gan #algorithms #intelligenzaartificiale

And so here we are, in the #Metaverse, adding the finishing touches to my first virtual exhibition “La Macchina del Collage” on @spatial_io (This gymnastic #avatar is supposed to be me 😱😂).I am very happy to present this exhibition that will open on 👉 Friday 23rd (my birthday) at @fondazionefrancozeffirelli in Florence, Italy, on the occasion of the #PerformIA Festival 2022, a festival dealing with #AI expressions applied to art, born thanks to @polarisengineeringspa 👏👏 My space, which was born thanks to the fundamental contribution of Polaris, was attended by great professionals from different fields. The space was created by none other than @wunthompsonita , the set design was created by Ortiche Spazi in Scena @ortichestudio (a Milan-based collective of three fantastic set designers that I am lucky enough to know), and the original music was composed by Emanuele De Raymondi @emanuelederaymondi , a great friend and extraordinary musician. I would like to thank all of them from the bottom of my heart for being part of this project. On Friday at 5:30 p.m. there will be a talk by me at the Zeffirelli Foundation, and then the space will be open to visitors wearing the famous Oculus glasses for augmented reality. I hope to see you (live) in Florence. I really would like to thank Roberta Cintura @flooxypop from @polarisengineeringspa and Alessandro Cuviello @alexqv and Marco Papale @defected from @wunthompsonita #giusepperagazzini #metaverso #PerformIA #Polaris #exibition #oculus #contemporaryart #virtualreality #collage #collageart #collageartist #mixedmediaartist #performiafest

Some of my first experiments using @openaidalle starting from my own works. This is a series of variations starting from some of my mixed media portraits. I’m completely astonished by the quality of the results. 😮😮😮 #giusepperagazzini #openaidalle #mixedmedia #artificialintelligence #art #contemporaryart #contemporarycollage #contemporaryart #portraits #mixedmediaart #mixedmediaartist #illustrationartist

Repost @driade_it A game of mechanisms and multiple joints, on a new extraordinary support such as the plate, an eternal object with a perfect shape that can be used as the fundamental component of a “physical” gear.⁠ 📸 Il Bestiario della tavola, Giuseppe Ragazzini ⁠

Extract from "Idoli", a series of 12 original portraits. For the first time, @giusepperagazzini experiments with the use of GAN and Artificial Intelligence algorithms in his artistic design. Idoli is one of his first attempts to deeply investigate and apply to art the possibilities of this debated and intelligent technology, connecting it with his philosophy. Machines are perfect, while human beings are marvelously faulty. AI acts autonomously, producing virtuous, extraordinary, and complex results. The only drawback is the lack of that aspect of necessity typical of a work of art. Original music by @emanuelederaymondi #NFT available on ReasonedArt.com

10 sec of my new work “Idoli”, presented tonight at the @videocitta Festival for “Presente e Futuro”, in collaboration with @reasonedart Thanks a lot to the great @emanuelederaymondi who composed the original music👏👏 A series of 12 digital collage portraits processed trough the use of Artificial Intelligence algorithms and morphing. One of my very first attempts to investigate more deeply the potential of this controversial and extraordinary technology, trying to bring it back to my own artistic expression in an ‘unequivocal’ and still ‘human’ way. #giusepperagazzini #videocittà #reasonedart #presenteefuturo #gazometro #idoli #contemporaryart #contemporarycollage #mixedmedia #artificialintelligence #ai #morphing #videoart #videoprojection