Underneath

Underneath is a digital artwork by Valerio Berruti — the 3D scroll-down sculpture that has opened his official website since spring 2021. I conceived the concept and curated the production with Valerio.

From valerioberruti.com — "The digital work Underneath was born in spring 2021 and is part of the experimentation path of digital, sculpture and animation techniques, technologies and tools that Valerio Berruti has been carrying out for more than a year with curiosity and enthusiasm. The work consists of a digital sculpture depicting a little girl, immersed in an ethereal, white liquid. The use of the work is linked to the 'scroll down' gesture, typical of today's use of smartphones or tablets and browser navigation on the most common websites. Scrolling becomes the discovery tool with which the user reveals what lies beneath (hence the title Underneath) of the liquid, and sees a shadow transform into a real digital sculpture."

Innovation has always been linked to the concept of art. I think it is important for my research to explore what today are called Digital Arts, because it is a social, cognitive and aesthetic dimension in which we all live more and more. Thanks to the imagination of those who create and thanks to the imagination of the beholder, digital dimensions offer new perspectives and new forms of knowledge, interaction, beauty and therefore also of art.

— Valerio Berruti, valerioberruti.com