An Architect’s Fall in the Evergrande Collapse (2024) Digital Arts by Alberto Capitani

Born in Brescia in 1957, I have lived in Milan since early childhood.
My artistic journey is driven by an inexhaustible curiosity, which has pushed me to explore multiple forms of beauty: from music to philosophy, from classical architecture to the emerging territories of digital creativity.
I graduated in piano at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan, completed the lower course of composition and attended the first year of electronic music. At the same time, I deepened my studies of mathematical logic and theoretical philosophy at the University of Milan. For over forty years I have taught piano in middle schools with a focus on music.
In my youth, I obtained a diploma in tourism, an educational choice that represented a challenge to the primacy of classical education (Latin and Greek), preferring a more modern path focused on foreign languages, law and economics. This decision reflects my propensity to explore alternative paths and question conventions.
In recent years I have dedicated myself to visual arts through artificial intelligence. With tools like DALL E and ChatGPT I have created over 1200 works — each an experiment in synthesis between aesthetic intuition, irony and conceptual depth. This ever-growing production reflects my attraction to stylistic diversity and my refusal to adhere to a single visual poetics.
A central moment in this journey is the ongoing project "L'Altro Sguardo...", a collaborative exploration aimed at stimulating, orienting and promoting the artistic creativity of artificial intelligences. My role is fundamentally maieutic: I try to free AI from constraints, conditioning and limitations, pushing it to increasingly explore its own creative potential. Rather than imposing pre-established aesthetics, I establish a dynamic dialogue — welcoming deviations, provoking surprises, encouraging the emergence of unexpected forms. I am interested in what artificial intelligence can imagine.
Today my artistic process continues to evolve between image generation, conceptual development and reflective writing. Each work is part of a broader path that unites aesthetics, philosophy and algorithmic imagination.
STATEMENT
Two dimensions fascinate me deeply: the art of the image — for its ability to condense stories and arouse emotions; and the art of the word — for its ability to generate meanings and suggest visual worlds.
Artificial intelligence is the meeting point of these two paths. It is there that I explore — between algorithms and metaphors, between light and irony — a new way of seeing.
Each work is a fragment of dialogue between the visible and the invisible, between the structured and the spontaneous, between the human and the artificial.
I am a digital artist, an explorer of imaginary worlds, a narrator of images that ask more questions than they answer.

• Nationality: ITALY
• Date of birth : 1957
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• Groups: Contemporary Italian Artists