Colletti’s project investigates semantic opacity in the age of artificial intelligence. Building on Günseli Yalcinkaya’s reading of this phenomenon as a form of digital folklore, Colletti’s research situates it within a broader genealogy of the European avant-garde. Its lexically absurd and visually accelerated aesthetic recalls early Futurist experimentation. Yet these affinities become more disquieting when considered alongside the rhetoric of Silicon Valley venture capital, such as the Techno-Optimist Manifesto, which invokes Filippo Tommaso Marinetti as a kind of patron saint.

Within this framework, the representation of Italy as a technological periphery emerges less as a given than as an epistemic construction—one that functionally positions its territory as an operational space for logistics and the management of energy and information flows.

The project will probe these tensions by placing the historicized utopias of Futurism in dialogue with the often contentious trajectories of contemporary AI. It asks how artistic practices might help articulate a critical lexicon capable of interrogating the ongoing mutations of technoculture.