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I'm Lorenzo Antei  ▎
Computer artist. I do bizarre live coding sessions with highly questionable Arduino-based contraptions, and moonlight as full stack web dev and video editor when I'm not frying microcontrollers.
I am an Italian computer artist.
My creative spark first lit up into empty spaces during university. Digital photograpy became my way to slow down time — to walk barefoot through reality, notice its cracks, its reflections, its fleeting glances. It grounded me while also opening portals. That tactile relationship with the world sparked a need to go deeper. I carried that curiosity with me into the academy, where it found room to grow.
I graduated in Net Art and Digital Cultures from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara with the thesis Catturare l'effimero - L’archivio come azione artivista - verso un’estetica dell’effimero (2025).
I’ve taken part in numerous exhibitions, both in physical spaces and across the ether, pursuing a research path that blends irony, hacking, and critical intervention. I’ve created animatronics for theatrical performances, joined live coding nights with highly questionable Arduino-based hardware, and developed audiovisual experiences on the edge between performance and crash.
Alongside my practice, I collaborate with international entities such as Songlines Production, Omava Production and Lucca Crea (Lucca Comics & Games), handling media management and video editing for various projects... By day, I work as a full stack web developer at Quivi, building custom web applications.
I approach life as a constant flow, where the only certainty is the process of creating, evolving, and breaking things down to rebuild them again. Again. And again.
ARCANA Experiences
- ✶ Signal 01 2025Ma La Polizia (Laboratorio Intergalattico Giacomo Verde Artivista)date✶Open Invocation Archive / 01
- ☉ Signal 02 2025Ancora natura? (w/ Claudia Pino)date☉Open Invocation Archive / 02
- ☽ Signal 03 2025[RESTORATION] The living skulldate☽Open Invocation Archive / 03
- ☿ Signal 04 2025A mettere mano (performance)date☿Open Invocation Archive / 04
- ✷ Signal 05 2023brdrJourney - TUTTE LE MACCHINE AL POTERE (SECS)date✷Open Invocation Archive / 05
- ◊ Signal 06 2023Buco Bianco (Aria Nirvana) - TUTTE LE MACCHINE AL POTERE (SECS)date◊Open Invocation Archive / 06
- ∴ Signal 07 2023Simulacra; Whore; Madonna; (w/ Michelle Usai) - TUTTE LE MACCHINE AL POTERE (SECS)date∴Open Invocation Archive / 07
- ✶ Signal 08 2023L'Uccellino azzurro - Animatronics designdate✶Open Invocation Archive / 08
- ☉ Signal 09 2022(mi)rage - TOT Themes of Traces - Palazzo Binellidate☉Open Invocation Archive / 09
- ☽ Signal 10 2022[RESTORATION] Reperto Antropologico UnoNoveNoveSette - Giacomo Verdedate☽Open Invocation Archive / 10
- ☿ Signal 11 2022Interview UniMIdate☿Open Invocation Archive / 11
- ✷ Signal 12 2022brdrJourneydate✷Open Invocation Archive / 12
- ◊ Signal 13 2021Clouds - screening at Milan Machinima Festival MMXXIIdate◊Open Invocation Archive / 13