Luca Tornato (b. 1997 in São Paulo, BR) is an interdisciplinary time-based media artist with works divided into three stems: video surveillance, artivism, and light design. Each stem is an investigation into the politics and materiality of light-mediated practices. With installations, AV performances, workshops, and public demonstrations, he searches for tactics and tricks to critically approach non-human agents, legal systems and spaces.
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 bias, media archeology and new materialism. Finally, a current interest is organizing guerilla acts, such as public projections and hacking devices as an insurgence weapon and call to action against the rise of far-right extremism.
Luca has exhibited his works and performed in festivals and venues such as Awakenings(NL); Traumburg (DE); LAAK Club (NL); BUDA_BXL(BE); Kiosk Radio (BE); Aalborg Surreal (DK); Konvooi Festival (BE); Fu:bar Glitch Art (HR); The Grey Space in the Middle (NL); ReWire (NL); WORM Rotterdam (NL); Amsterdam Dance Event (NL); Studio Loos (NL); PAARD (NL); NYEEC Public Access TV (US); Alex TV (DE).
For commissions and collaborations, contact him at lucatorsera at gmail dot com.
His full CV can be accessed here.