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deusin-machina

Module ID212 Designing Advanced Environments Authors Zeno Ercole Felix Tamagni-Lazzari, Riccardo Assirelli, Ruben Samuel Campoy Bähler 2026

Professor

Leonardo Angelucci

Assistants

Luca Draisci, Alice Mioni

This work attempts to observe the machine freed from its instrumental function, as a presence operating beyond human comprehension. When use is suspended, projection resurfaces: function, intention, and interiority are still assigned. The ghost appears in the gap between elusive autonomy and the need to assign meaning. This fracture is the work's territory. Anthropomorphism is not eliminated but made conscious. Each image becomes a negotiation between technical alterity and interpretive necessity, acknowledging the impossibility of not seeing oneself reflected in the machine.