Emanuela Mottola was born in Rome in 1994. She attended a scientific high school and then obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Design from “Sapienza” . Her thesis project was published in the ADI Index 2017 volume and she was awarded the Premio Eccellenze del Design nel Lazio 2017. She subsequently attended a First-Level Master’s Programme in Interior, Exhibit & Retail Design at the Politecnico di Torino, before enrolling in the Multimedia Arts and Design course at RUFA, during which she completed an internship at Studio Azzurro in Milan,
collaborating on the creation of the exhibition “Fellini 100. Genio Immortale”. She is currently a member of the artistic collective Quadro Quantico, founded in Rome in 2017. She has taken part in the following festivals: Segnali e MediaArt in 2018; Fashion digital night, Blooming, Roma Europa, Fano jazz by Sea and Stradarolo in 2019; RGB light Experience 2020. In addition to collaborating with the collective, she works as a designer
of interactive systems and multimedia spaces.
Classificazione merceologica può contenere tracce di esseri umani
Against all forms of standardisation, this project aims to objectify the human being, taking categorisation to an extreme and translating the individual into a barcode. An installation identifies and classifies users through the analysis of their voice, rich in expressiveness and emotion. A programme analyses the extralinguistic information contained in users’ voices according to predefined criteria. The machine therefore becomes the judge of what a voice has conveyed to it, enclosing it within a category.
The multiple and variable pieces of information contained in each voice, restricted to classification categories, show how reductive it is to confine individuals within predefined schemes.
