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.

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The concept of Backup, a natural progression from that of Habitat, is most closely tied to the 2023 concept album Arca (as Ottodix), which also inspired the artist’s interdisciplinary DVRI residency across Venice. In the album, Zannier envisions a vast space ark—its form recalling both Noah’s Ark and the turtle Chelonia mydas—as humanity’s imagined refuge.

This work acts as a black box containing the DNA of a place: habitat backups stored against catastrophe, seed-capsules designed to be sown elsewhere, enabling future generations to recover the deep essence of a lost landscape—its maps, history, artworks, environmental data, species, and archives.

Zannier’s earlier project ENT, linking environmental data between Italy and six continents, began between Venice and New Zealand and concluded in the United States, entering the collection of the Italian Cultural Institute in New York with the support of international curator and architect Alessandro Melis.

He also collaborates with universities and research institutes worldwide, producing artistic and sound-based investigations into complex systems and the interplay between nature and society. Under his musical alias Ottodix, he has released 8 concept albums, 2 collections, and a biography, a pioneering project in Italian electro-alternative music. Today Ottodix concerts bring science, philosophy, and environmentalism into cultural and museum spaces.

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