Luca Forcucci

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Luca Forcucci is an artist, composer, and scholar exploring the relationships between the sonic, consciousness, perception, experience, memory, and the body. His research and artworks are regularly presented worldwide and have won numerous national and international awards in well regarded contexts. Forcucci achieved a PhD in Music, Technology and Innovation at De Montfort University in the U.K.; an MA in Sonic Arts from Queens University of Belfast; and diplomas in architecture and civil engineering in Switzerland.

He conducted art research in cognitive science at the Brain Mind Institute in Switzerland, where he explored cognitive neuroscience of out-of-body experiences with a scholarship from the Swiss Federal Office of Culture, and support from Zürich University of the Arts. He also conducted his research at GRM/INA (Groupe de Recherches Musicales / Institut National d’Audiovisuel) in Paris, TU Electronic Music Studio Berlin, and NOTAM (Norwegian Centre for Technology, Art and Music) in Oslo.

He studied electroacoustic music with the Swiss composer Rainer Boesch. His professional background includes architecture, neuroscience, and the curation of many projects worldwide by promoting art and science encounters with his lab www.ubqtlab.org in collaboration with Leonardo / ISATS in California.

Praxis statement:

Forcucci’s research observes the perceptive properties and the field of possibilities of the first-person experience, which is explored as the artwork. He is interested in perception, subjectivity and consciousness. Since 2009, he collaborates with scientists in the field of cognitive science to explore perception in the arts through installations, performances, sonic arts, video, photography and text.

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Current research:

During research trips in Mozambique, South Africa, and eSwatini from 2015 to 2018, I have been investigated ancestral technology of precolonial musical instrument blending with computer and digital forms, including video and sonic arts, in Southern Africa and in Ghana in 2022, with artists and musicians and Indigenous leaders. Transcultural aspects of sonic arts in Southern and Western Africa are investigated by observing the field of possibilities of the term “technology” in order to create a bridge between ancestral and contemporary knowledge. The project explores processes in practice-led research and fieldwork, which inform the first-person experience, as inner experience, through autoethnography.

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