ALBERTO NOVELLO

ALBERTO NOVELLO

(Itália - Italy)

ALBERTO NOVELLO a.k.a. JesterN's practice repurposes found or decontextualised analogue devices to investigate the connections between light and sound in the form of contemplative installations and performances. He repairs and modifies tools from our analogue past: oscilloscopes, early game consoles, analogue video mixers, and lasers. He is attracted to their intrinsic limitations and strong 'personalities': fluid beam movement, vivid colors, infinite resolution, absence of frame rate, and line aesthetics. By using these forgotten devices, he exposes the public to the aesthetic differences between the ubiquitous digital projections and the vibrance of analogue beams, engaging them to reflect on the sociopolitical impact of technology in a retrospective on technologisation: what 'old' means, and what value the 'new' really adds. In most of his works, light and sound are fused into an indivisible entity that stimulates both senses simultaneously, enabling what he calls visual listening: a phenomenon wherein one listens to light and observes sound.