Description: The video installation by Alessandro Zannier presents a powerful artistic interpretation of the Earth as a complex, invisible operating system — a living network of interdependent relationships between humans, ecosystems, technology, and planetary processes. In the Anthropocene, pollution, misinformation, economic forces, viruses, and energy systems propagate across this global network at accelerating speeds, producing effects that are increasingly difficult to control. Zannier frames continents, oceans, and poles as a single neural environment, where imbalance in one node reverberates through the whole.
Created with the support of OOM and based on extensive environmental and anthropogenic datasets provided by universities and the National Research Council (CNR), the installation visualizes exponential curves and hyperbolic graphs that echo the urgent warnings of the UN 2030 Agenda. These escalating data flows lead toward an inevitable tipping point — a moment of singularity beyond which chain reactions become rapid, destructive, and irreversible.
Combining archival footage, statistical visualization, and an immersive soundscape (Escalation Soundscape) composed by the artist under his musical alias Ottodix, the work draws a parallel between environmental degradation and cultural impoverishment. It suggests that the erosion of cultural memory, language complexity, and critical thinking fosters vulnerability to propaganda and intolerance toward complexity itself. Installed in the immersive space of M9 Orizzonti, the ten-minute experience guides viewers through an emotional crescendo that mirrors the accelerating crises shaping our present and near future.
Alessandro Zannier Alessandro Zannier was born in Treviso (Italy) in 1971, where he lives and works.
He is a conceptual artist who works with music and visual arts, between physics, environment and big data with works and concerts with a multimedia and popular slant.
A graduate in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, he has exhibited in international solo and group shows including at the Correr Archaeological Museum in Venice, various editions of the Italy China Biennale between Beijing and Turin, the Curitiba Biennale 2019 (Brazil) and two consecutive Venice Biennials 2021/2022.
Under the musical alias "Ottodix" he has released 8 concept albums, a collection and a biography, a project of Italian electronic wave music that now invades cultural spaces with multimedia concerts with a popularizing approach.
In 2016/17 he presented in Beijing and Berlin the concept album "Micromega" about the scales of magnitude of the matter of the cosmos and the visionary website www.micromegaproject.com considered a real web installation, a hybrid of illustrated "hyper album" and encyclopedia of matter
In 2020 he published "Entanglement", an album on the correlation of phenomena on a global scale, and in 2021/22 the related "ENT" project, now expanding, consisting of a series of twin light installations around the world.
Invited to the Venice Architecture Biennale 2021 - Italian Pavilion, and to the Venice Art Biennale 2022 - Cameroon Pavilion and the University of Auckland, the project continues to collaborate with research institutes, universities and museums in Asia, South America and Europe and will continue until 2024.
In 2023, the ENT project lands at the CAFA Museum in Beijing, at Bethanien Kunstquartier in Berlin and in 2024 at the Institute of technology in New York.
Thanks to the album and concept "Arca," a concept between music, science, astronomy, environmentalism and popularization. Zannier was chosen as artist-in-residence 2023 in Venice, with a widespread exhibition made up of concerts, sound installations and works on the themes "habitat, backup, extinction," involving various entities such as CNR ISMAR, Venice Music Conservatory, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Mestre's M9 Museum of the '900 and Ca'Foscari University of Venice.
His recent "Escalation><Involution", a massive immersive video and sound installation on the exponential crescendo of climate crisis related to the cultural impoverishment of the West, is on display at the M9 - Museo del '900 in Mestre, Venice, together with the exhibition on Impressionism, "Arte Salvata" (Art Saved) from the bombing of Le Havre.
