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Priscilla Pallante
Augmented Rome
Augmented Rome
Augmented Rome is a collection of NFT artworks offering an intricate, complex portrait of the Eternal City captured through sonic resonances. A native of Rome herself, Pallante deploys novel photographic techniques to reimagine its landscape anew by materialising sound waves recorded at famed urban landmarks like the Fori Imperiali, the ancient road that runs
between Piazza Venezia and the Colosseum. For this project, Pallante collected feedback of voices and noises while walking through the city, from the Castel Sant’Angelo to the basilica
of San Pietro, visualising their frequencies to generate a ‘parallel vision and version of Rome. Technologies such as 3D mapping and cymatic geometries enable Pallante to, in her words,
‘give shape to the sonic weight that I perceived in my city but that I could not see’. Building on her scientifific and artistic inquiry into acoustic physics, Pallante’s cymatic images reflflect
the flfluid dualities of Rome’s identity, probing the public and the private, the abstract and the real, objectivity and illusion. Moving between aural and pictorial registers, in Augmented
Rome the city is ‘simplifified in form and amplifified in perception’, so that the ‘invisible becomes matter and then representation’. Through Pallante’s unique renderings, viewers are invited
to immerse themselves in Rome’s audiovisual architecture, to encounter, as in one example, ‘the beauty of a recorded voice that is transmitted inside the Pantheon and bounces off the
circular walls, wrapping around you’.
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