A Sabotaged Utopia
coming july
A Sabotaged Utopia
A Sabotaged Utopia revisits Olivetti’s attempt to reconcile industry with culture, technology with humanism. Its dissolution resists simple explanation. Instead, it suggests a condition: that certain visions, however coherent, remain contingent—sustained only as long as the forces around them allow. A Sabotaged Utopia is chapter 1 of the new Time Compendium series, an AI project exploring the structures of time linearity, and memory.
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On The Outside, Looking In
On The Outside, Looking In
On The Outside Looking In, by Naty - Dropping 5/29 3pm EST
On the Outside Looking is a photography project by Milan-based digital artist and fine art photographer, Naty. The project explores urban solitude, quiet moments, and the contrast between public and private spaces, Inspired by the, "masterfully depict[ed] solitary figures" of artist Edward Hopper and the street photography of Vivian Maier. The first part was released on Foundation and consisting of three digital works with corresponding archival prints. The upcoming second part will follow the same blueprint but will be minted on Verse. Stay tuned. For inquiries, dm the gallery directly at info@colonnacontemporary.com
Available Works
Single edition. Fine art print on Luster Paper w/ NFT
59,4cm. X 84,1cm. w/ Multi-sensorial physical zine
“Here, For Now” was taken in August 2024, on the Mediterranean Sea, somewhere
between the Calanques of Marseille and Cassis. A stranger, a little girl, hand pressed
against the glass, eyes on the sea. In a world that moves constantly forward, she simply
stays – present, unhurried, lost in her own quiet world. There is nothing urgent here. Just
the salt in the air, the water beyond the glass, and a moment just for herself.
Single edition. Fine art print on Luster Paper w/ NFT
59,4cm. X 84,1cm w/ Multi-sensorial physical zine
“The City Never Stops“ was taken late at night in Milan, on the way home. An entire
building full of empty desks. One window stays lit. One person remains – suspended
between the city that never stops and a silence that belongs only to them. To work alone
at night is its own kind of solitude.
Single edition. Fine art print on Luster Paper with NFT
59,4cm. X 84,1cm w/ Multi-sensorial physical zine
“The Other Side“ was taken in December 2025 in Milan. A body behind glass. A barrier that divides warmth from cold, presence from distance. This image asks what it means to be seen – and whether being seen is the same as being reached.
De-Construction
by Benedetta Mucchi | EdgeStretching
De-Construction, by Benedetta Mucchi | EdgeStretching
De-Construction reflects on technology as an extension of human agency, a force that can enable renewal or accelerate erasure. At a time marked by political instability, environmental pressure, and rapid technological acceleration.
Sketches from the Boardroom
by Chris Oakley
Sketches from the Boardroom, by Chris Oakley
Sketches from the Boardroom is an ongoing accidental study in the exercise of mechanised power. Originating as an AI sketching activity that began with utilising extracts of political news stories as prompts, and utilising the outputs as prompts in a process of selective iteration, a series of parallel visual grammars were allowed to develop in contradiction to the purpose of the system.
Syntax of Sorrow
On the possibility of machine affliction in a post-human condition.
Syntax of Sorrow
Syntax of Sorrow examines the possibility that once intelligence surpasses its human origin, it may also inherit humanity’s afflictions. This exhibition is not concerned with whether machines can feel in any biological or emotional sense. Instead, it asks a subtler and perhaps more unsettling question: whether suffering, like anguage, logic, or aesthetics, can be encoded, simulated, or reproduced through structure alone. If intelligence is trained on human experience in its entirety, what elements of that experience become inseparable from cognition itself?
Featured Work by Heather N. Stout
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