Michele bazzoli

The Merge is a single-channel digital video that explores dystopian future environments and landscapes where a Material Artificial Intelligence (MAI) addresses the ecological crisis that has made Earth's atmosphere uninhabitable. This new material-based AI system transforms materials into large, hollow structures that grow in response to external atmospheric conditions, providing shelter for humans and other species. The video also serves as an introduction to www.themerge.space, an evolving experimental digital platform and virtual environment continuously developed by the artist.

Michele Bazzoli is a visual artist specializing in sculpture, installation art, and digital media. His work explores the complex relationship between human and nonhuman environments, aiming to develop an autonomous visual language with which to relate, explore and question ecological breakdown and ongoing environmental transformations of our present.

Adopting a non-categorical approach, Michele’s creations highlight the ambiguous, hybrid spaces where body and object, natural and artificial, and opposing forces like growth and decay melt together. He views his works as filters that offer new perspectives on our human-made habitats, encouraging viewers to reflect on their interconnectedness—both as individuals and as a species—within the unstable ecosystems we inhabit today.

Website: www.michelebazzoli.com
Instagram: @michele_bazzoli

Credits: Thanks to Baltan Laboratories, ETOPIA Center for Art and Technology, Frankfurt School, SERN Start-up Europe, MEET Digital Culture Center