MEGANOVA
ANIMATION
FROMAI TO UMAN BEING

One fine day, I had The urgency of exploring The world trough The eyes
of an Alien Creature, fruit of a Fantasy inspired character called
Meganova, a superlouminous supernova, an Anime figure with a
different mission.I would work with a photographer and our mission
multiplied. Exploring our 3d Earth with real landscapes and oddities that
can appear in reality. From old abandoned buildings to stunning Natural
views. Every time I would give a title and comunicate a message related
to a simple but clear discovery trough The eyes of an another world
creature. Partecipating casually to Festivals and photography open calls
having always a space to show it and display it. Within me though, since
i’ve been always worked trough performance i decided to turn these pics
into video animations that with Ai was seriously a fun.
Here The key: as an ARTIST I always avoided to be obvious and find
complicated intellectual ways of expressing My inner life.
I stopped performing for a while due to My hate to The Art system
wanting always to drive us towards something that appeals for style,
beauty and sales. I kept being Geeky authenthic. Experimenting and
creating different forms and styles. Exercising with different media and
techniques.Not conforming to any existing trend. My INTP shows there.
My new performance expresses The urge to turn an Ai i to a human.
We’ll see a video of these human pics turning into a digital creature
and trough a giant 3d printer create an actual human being, ready
to explore The world, dance, move around with a supersight, super
capacity stored in The brain trough all The info achieved during
The preparation on devices and reality for 30 years. A new human.
A lab process that finally involves so many stored capacities and yet
so obvious and simple skills.

by Anna Bastoni Performer Writer

AI AND REAL REALITY

WHAT HAPPENED WHEN MEGANOVA THE ALIEN CREATURE VISITING
EARTH MET AI:
It wasn’t just imagining what the Character would do.
This time was exploring the inner Life of myself as a human being day by
day incurring in odds that life could send me as messages of lack or false
identities that I gave as a meaning to my human experiences.
Where I indicated The problem of climate CHANGE in some titles of my
character I identified the attitude towards my personal self attacks that
also lead me to speak about that particular topic.
And I expressed an urge related to external factors such as our attitude of
destroying enviroments trough unconscious actions.
When talking about nature we are talking about ourselves.
Abandoned places become our inner world, populated by false desires
and deserted of real nourishing experiences.
So all these projections are ours or maybe just my ways of dealing with
what I was going trough.
Abandonment, seeing and not acting upon unrecognized beauty and
value, attacked or extremely involved in the problems occurring in my
enviroment as I was trying to save something belonging to my inner
world, projecting again it outside.
I still believe that these Images are the example of applied techniques to
psycologically cope with big distress, but usually we manifest detachment
from what is invisibile.
Making it visibile says so much about our times where audacity again
might be another coping system. Or the solution.
These Ai are the disclosure of real messages that I would want to
comunicate as a human more than an involved ARTIST.
Seeing my body moving instead of frozen in a frame immediately moved
me to develop a personal autentic narrative liberating MEGANOVA from
her “HARD” appearance , Seeing a teddybear as my people, my friends
finally showing up for help, dancing like a shamanic RITUAL to liberate
from a physical and psychological cage.
Having compassion for my clumsiness in doing so.
Overall having Ai talking trough me was a disclosure of so many emotions
like using a real mirror. Not the type of mirrors that we commonly use.