Giovanotti Mondani Meccanici: hacker dell’immaginario

Giovanotti Mondani Meccanici are three cynical cybernetic creatures – toothed pins, diaphanous nostrils, black ties and tungsten filaments – born in the early 1980s out of Andrea Zingoni’s dystopian narratives and Antonio Glessi’s clumsy attempts to give them form on a six-colour, pixelated screen-mosaic. Immediately, these shady men-in-black become the alter egos of their creators, proto-avatars destined to launch impetuous attacks on a technodelic imagination permeated by vain promises of hyper-connection, participation and transparency. From the Apple II to television, from multimedia installations to the early web, from duo to network, GMM have made the postmodernist drive for convergence a virus aimed at sabotaging the mechanisms that govern our increasingly saturated media existence. That is why they rightfully belong among those pioneers who used technology as a tool for the emancipation of the human being instead of its enslavement and its hebephobic automation.