Veto_A

The multi-media installation Corrispondenze is the basis for later works, such as Veto_L, which Caloro uses for experimenting with the theme of the confrontation between man and machine, something that is relevant for his entire oeuvre. Veto_A is a steel cylinder - the shell of a machine - that has been positioned on the floor. Two different sensors protrude from a hole in the middle: the one reacts to warmth via infrared, the other uses ultrasound to measure the distance between the measured object and the sensor. Thus, visitors initially unconsciously influence the purportedly autonomous object. The neural networks, guided by external influences, feed information to ten motors inside the cylinder, with the help of which, ten extensions that stick out of the body are set into motion. These in turn have a tentacle-like cable attached, to which the movement is diverted. Due to the minimal intervention, solely manifested in the hint of a movement, a spontaneous impression comes about that the machine has come to life. The question arises concerning the autonomy and the free will of actual living things, and ultimately, of us as humans. Ultimately, is not man also predetermined in his, granted complex, thought processes in much the same way as this machine here?