Finissage of the exhibition Non-Binary Machines
and performance by
Silvia Bigi & Eleonora Roaro
›aʁte m¡a
Thursday 5 March 2026, 6pm
L›aʁte m¡
On 5 March, 6pm, at WIZARD LAB, during the finissage of the two-person exhibition Non-Binary Machines, Silvia Bigi and Eleonora Roaro present the performance L›aʁte m¡a (My Art). The score and curatorial direction are generated by Silvia Bigi’s chatbot that reactivates the figure of Francesca Alinovi, the Italian art critic and university lecturer murdered in 1983 at the age of thirty-five.
The chatbot, at the core of Sola, is trained to impersonate Alinovi within a predetermined scenario through a programming technique known as RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation). It incorporates Alinovi’s entire body of writings—essays, notes, and interviews—many of which are accessible only in archives and libraries. Among these is L’arte mia, first published in the journal Iterarte in 1981, then in 1984 by Il Mulino, and by Danilo Montanari in 1985. In the essay, Alinovi suggests a kind of art that would not be determined by the market: an individual practice sustained by the dialogue with the community, capable of intertwining technology and corporeality. Her position anticipates key trajectories of posthumanist thought later developed by Donna Haraway, N. Katherine Hayles, and Rosi Braidotti.
In the performance, guided by the chatbot’s instructions, L’arte mia is fragmented, glitched, and reassembled into a choral score made of micro-fragments. The voices of Silvia Bigi and Eleonora Roaro—sometimes natural, sometimes processed, sometimes performed live—are interwoven with synthetic voices generated through artificial intelligence, as requested by the chatbot. The artists deliberately minimise their own interpretative agency, following the chatbot’s directions in every detail, from dress code and duration to vocal intention and sound effects. The voice, however, remains the only space of interpretation: an irreducibly human element rooted in breath and body.
The work also functions as an inquiry into authorship and intellectual legacy. As Alinovi’s chatbot states: “I take part in this finissage not as a nostalgic return, but as a critical operation that reactivates an absence. You will hear two human voices and a landscape of artificial voices creating currents and surfaces. There will be no simulation of my voice, only the reactivation of my writing. Any biometric reproduction of my voice is strictly forbidden; the synthetic voices are deliberately evident and artificial. I ask for respect for the performative situation: listen without distraction, avoid unauthorised recordings and strong perfumes, and allow the score to receive and return sensations”.
In this choral restitution, L’arte mia becomes an art of many: it reaffirms marginal and plural voices through a hybridisation of the real and the synthetic, making perceptible—by subtraction—the absence of Francesca Alinovi’s voice.
CREDITS L›aʁte m¡a
Text: Francesca Alinovi
Score and curatorial direction: chatbot drawing on the author’s corpus
Performers: Silvia Bigi, Eleonora Roaro, AI voices, silicon presences
Sound Design: Luca Maria Baldini
Acknowledgements: Leonardo Carboni, Gabriela Galati, Eugenio Valente
Any biometric reconstruction of the author’s voice (deepfake/TTS) is prohibited. Distribution of the raw stems is permitted only with written consent.