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DS Experience at Triennale Milano

Deep Scrolling Experience, Triennale Milano museum

Milan, Italy

  • Darkened hall of Triennale Milano with white sculptures by Federico Clapis on plinths, a female torso in the foreground and visitors behind
  • A large crowd of visitors fills a white corridor at Triennale Milano waiting to enter the Deep Scrolling Experience by Federico Clapis
  • A visitor wearing a VR headset sits cross-legged in a box of wood shavings, a virtual reality installation by Federico Clapis at Triennale Milano
  • White sculpture by Federico Clapis of a female torso with a foetus holding a smartphone in the womb, lit in the dark at Triennale Milano
  • Sculpture by Federico Clapis of a crying baby inside a cracked egg-shaped shell, displayed on a white plinth at the Deep Scrolling Experience
  • White sculpture by Federico Clapis of a newborn carried in a cloth sling by a drone, shown in the dark at Triennale Milano
  • White sculpture by Federico Clapis of a woman wearing a VR headset and cradling the air, shown at the Deep Scrolling Experience in Milan
  • Two people embrace behind a sculpture by Federico Clapis of two figures reaching out of laptop screens, at Triennale Milano
  • A long row of smartphones standing on a wooden support atop a white plinth, an installation by Federico Clapis at the Deep Scrolling Experience
  • Young visitors gather around a wooden bar lined with smartphones, an installation by Federico Clapis at Triennale Milano
  • A girl in a VR headset kneels in wood shavings and reacts with surprise, inside a virtual reality installation by Federico Clapis at Triennale Milano
  • An older woman in a VR headset kneels in a box of wood shavings, experiencing an installation by Federico Clapis at the Deep Scrolling Experience
  • A man wearing a VR headset sits in wood shavings inside a wooden enclosure, a virtual reality work by Federico Clapis at Triennale Milano
  • Close view of a white sculpture by Federico Clapis, a drone carrying a newborn in a sling, backlit by a spotlight at Triennale Milano
  • Sculpture by Federico Clapis of a man and a woman leaning out of two laptops to touch hands, lit in the dark at the Deep Scrolling Experience
  • Panel of speakers on white sofas in a hall of Triennale Milano, with a screen and a large mural, during a talk of the Deep Scrolling Experience
  • Federico Clapis in silhouette beside his white sculpture of a pregnant torso with a foetus holding a smartphone, at Triennale Milano
  • Seated visitors beneath suspended monitors showing the word Detachment, a video installation by Federico Clapis at the Deep Scrolling Experience

Deep Scrolling Experience was a one-day event at Triennale Milano, in the Palazzo dell'Arte on Viale Emilio Alemagna, built around the work of Federico Clapis. Conceived as a multidisciplinary project, it was developed with the Istituto di Psicosomatica di Milano and the Associazione Dipendenze Tecnologiche, and it brought art and science together around technology addiction, and dependence on social networks in particular. Admission was free. The programme opened with yoga sessions and continued with talks by specialists in technological addiction, including Riccardo Marco Scognamiglio and Giuseppe Lavenia, and by Maura Gancitano and Andrea Colamedici of Tlon, while help points offered families and teenagers psychological support throughout the day.

Clapis showed his immersive installations to the public for the first time. The photographs show white sculptures set on plinths in the darkened, spot-lit halls of the museum: a female torso with a foetus holding a smartphone in the womb, a newborn carried by a drone, a woman wearing a VR headset, two figures reaching for each other out of laptop screens, a crying child in a cracked egg. Visitors wearing virtual reality headsets sat in a wooden enclosure filled with wood shavings, a long row of smartphones stood on a wooden support, and a room of suspended monitors displayed the word "Detachment" above the seated audience.

The event placed Clapis, who had left his career as a YouTube creator to devote himself to contemporary art, inside one of Milan's main design and architecture institutions, and framed his critical view of the relationship between people and their devices as a subject of public discussion.

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