Mediterraneo.exe

The project stems from an investigation along the Adriatic coast of the Mediterranean, between Bari and Brindisi, where the sea is at once a place of affection and of neglect.

During coastal explorations, natural elements and plastic debris are collected and photographed — fragments of an ecosystem in imbalance. Each object, geolocated, is treated as an archaeological find of the present, part of a fragile yet tangible mapping of today’s Mediterranean.

Each find is linked to a QR code, in which the photograph is transformed into a programming language.
This passage opens a parallel between the physical and the digital landscape: if the sea is polluted by non-biodegradable materials, cyberspace is submerged by an excess of data, unfiltered information, and malicious content.

In both cases, the environment is compromised, navigation is difficult, and security is at risk. Plastic, in the physical realm, and digital misinformation, in the virtual one, thus become mirror symbols of a world struggling to manage what it produces.

The concept of cybersecurity is not merely technical: it intersects with the need for sustainable ecologies, where systems — natural or digital — are legible, protected, and habitable. These images alternate with the sea itself, evoking the mythical and connective dimension of water: a fluid memory, a narrative body that unites, carries, and preserves.

The project reflects on the Mediterranean as a complex space, where matter and information intertwine, and where every find — physical or digital — questions the present and its vulnerabilities.

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in collab with Astrixion