The title WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD evokes, with a pinch of irony, our time of challenges and uncertainties, of conflicts and hopes, in relation to the many human and technological possibilities of great developments and pushes towards the future. Through their dreams, hopes, critiques, hypotheses and exercises, the artists invite us to reflect on some of the major contemporary issues and what we perceive and understand as the ‘world’ today.

What are the dynamics that define the physical and information space between large migratory flows that mark new geographies and invisible routes in metropolitan cities (Biscotti, Barba)? How do the data flows that determine what we see and what we perceive between reality and fiction influence our notion of experience (di Martino, Hirschhorn, Evans, Webb)? What is the place of the human being today in relation to other living species (Höller, Moro)? What world (or worlds) and what human being are to be found in digital ecosystems between technological unawareness, algorithmic drifts and crypto (wonderland) systems (Rafman, Denny, Atkins), and in relation to the increasingly uncertain and restricted physical environment in which we live (Nicolai, Ventura, Trouvé, Assaël)?

These and other themes are interwoven in the works on display, offering an articulated and complex panorama that proposes an experience of art that is reflection, encounter, relationship and closeness. Art thus becomes a privileged magnifying glass through which to look at the facts and things of today’s world and its possible future developments.