THEM
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THEM is an artistic-philosophical project by Domenico Fragata, grounded in the dialogue between human and machine and focused on the symbolic and linguistic structures that shape identity. Emerging from a continuous exchange with artists, engineers, programmers, and artificial intelligences, THEM embodies a relational and dialogical practice in which creation itself becomes a form of thought. Rooted in Fragata’s background as a philosopher, writer, and cultural communicator, the project investigates the porous boundary between human and technological identity, exploring how language, myth, and memory intertwine in the age of algorithms to redefine what it means to be human.
“Callisto is portrayed as a typographic mosaic, a refined portrait where her veil, features, and shadows are formed entirely from written text. Sentences taken from Apollodorus, Ovid, and Giovanni Faustini overlap across Greek, Latin, and Italian, creating a layered identity shaped by centuries of ... ”view more
“Achilles is portrayed as a typographic mosaic, a classical-inspired portrait where the hero’s face, armor, and drapery are composed entirely of written text. Each fragment of shadow and light is formed by sentences in Greek, Latin, and English, drawn from three voices that shaped his myth: Homer’s ... ”view more
“Digital Venus is the goddess of synthetic beauty: the force that shapes desire in the age of generated images, impossible faces, and aesthetics born from computation. She does not represent human love but the attraction that moves gazes, guides algorithms, and structures collective taste. Her figure ... ”view more
“Digital Uranus is the god of pre-internet networks: the ancestor of interconnections, the distant principle from which the human and technological impulse to link the separated first emerged. His realm includes ARPANET, Usenet, early BBS systems, and the primitive protocols that paved the way for ... ”view more
“Digital Apollo is the deity of algorithmic clarity: the god of data-light, structured vision, and the order that shapes the digital world. If Artemis inhabits the unseen margins of cyberspace, Apollo rules what can be viewed, read, and interpreted. His figure is built from the HTML code of the image ... ”view more
“Digital Artemis is the goddess of the dark web and the free spirits of cyberspace. She guards the unmapped zones of the network, the territories untouched by control where freedom still survives. She does not belong to the realm of light or transgression, but to the threshold — the margins where ... ”view more
“Digital Jupiter embodies the deity of electricity: the invisible force that moves through circuits, networks, and processes, making every form of digital life possible. He does not command; he enables. He is the flow that feeds everything, the primal tension sustaining the entire artificial ... ”view more
“Digital Mars emerges from the encounter between myth and language, drawing on the harmony of Botticelli and the dramatic fractures of Caravaggio. The serenity of the former and the chiaroscuro tension of the latter converge in the visual architecture of the god. The figure is built from the HTML ... ”view more
“For me, creating with words is a demiurgic act. Every artwork is born from a coded system of symbols—language, the most powerful technology human beings have ever devised. Naming is the first gesture of understanding—and of power—over reality. Words and code are the DNA of my works. In them, ... ”view more
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