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Luca Tornato

@lucatorsera

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brazilian based in Rotterdam
@xpub.pietzwart currently
@artscience.interfaculty alumnus
video • laser • light matters
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In September 2024, while driving through Greece I stumbled upon an abandoned NATO military base, with two large satellite dishes reminiscing of radar and monitoring practices close to the border with Albania. Back then it became very clear to me that this military institution was never about protecting "the people" but Western interests, hence a military base constructed in the 60s close to then socialist countries. A month earlier NATO's Instagram profile had posted a Brat-stylized meme with the word "Peace". Whatever trend-following reason that was, it struck me that amidst a genocide the post featured "Peace", with blurred lines. And that says it all. Now on 24.06.25 The Hague is hosting the NATO summit. Global leaders are here to shake hands, destabilize sovereign countries and incite war, in the name of "security", "threat", and "peace". This is not the interest of European people, when NATO has a history of war crimes (e.g. in Serbia, Afghanistan, and Libya) and was founded upon imperialist intentions. Mark Rutte, born in The Hague, ex-prime ministry of NL and NATO chief, thinks the US is not breaking international law by starting a war in Iran. Rutte is complicit in war crimes in the Middle East and reinforces NATO's colonial objectives. Rutte is also pushing the agenda that Europe must be able to "defend itself" by allocating more budget into militarization, AI & quantum computing systems for war. This laser-action back then spoke about surveillance and colonial practices. Now it feels incredibly close, in a dystopian The Hague. Thank you @ira_gruen for documenting this action with me. #stopwars #natosummit #notonato #navotop by @lucatorsera
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a year ago
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In September 2024, while driving through Greece I stumbled upon an abandoned NATO military base, with two large satellite dishes reminiscing of radar and monitoring practices close to the border with Albania. Back then it became very clear to me that this military institution was never about protecting "the people" but Western interests, hence a military base constructed in the 60s close to then socialist countries. A month earlier NATO's Instagram profile had posted a Brat-stylized meme with the word "Peace". Whatever trend-following reason that was, it struck me that amidst a genocide the post featured "Peace", with blurred lines. And that says it all. Now on 24.06.25 The Hague is hosting the NATO summit. Global leaders are here to shake hands, destabilize sovereign countries and incite war, in the name of "security", "threat", and "peace". This is not the interest of European people, when NATO has a history of war crimes (e.g. in Serbia, Afghanistan, and Libya) and was founded upon imperialist intentions. Mark Rutte, born in The Hague, ex-prime ministry of NL and NATO chief, thinks the US is not breaking international law by starting a war in Iran. Rutte is complicit in war crimes in the Middle East and reinforces NATO's colonial objectives. Rutte is also pushing the agenda that Europe must be able to "defend itself" by allocating more budget into militarization, AI & quantum computing systems for war. This laser-action back then spoke about surveillance and colonial practices. Now it feels incredibly close, in a dystopian The Hague. Thank you @ira_gruen for documenting this action with me. by @lucatorsera
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In September 2024, while driving through Greece I stumbled upon an abandoned NATO military base, with two large satellite dishes reminiscing of radar and monitoring practices close to the border with Albania. Back then it became very clear to me that this military institution was never about protecting "the people" but Western interests, hence a military base constructed in the 60s close to then socialist countries. A month earlier NATO's Instagram profile had posted a Brat-stylized meme with the word "Peace". Whatever trend-following reason that was, it struck me that amidst a genocide the post featured "Peace", with blurred lines. And that says it all. Now on 24.06.25 The Hague is hosting the NATO summit. Global leaders are here to shake hands, destabilize sovereign countries and incite war, in the name of "security", "threat", and "peace". This is not the interest of European people, when NATO has a history of war crimes (e.g. in Serbia, Afghanistan, and Libya) and was founded upon imperialist intentions. Mark Rutte, born in The Hague, ex-prime ministry of NL and NATO chief, thinks the US is not breaking international law by starting a war in Iran. Rutte is complicit in war crimes in the Middle East and reinforces NATO's colonial objectives. Rutte is also pushing the agenda that Europe must be able to "defend itself" by allocating more budget into militarization, AI & quantum computing systems for war. This laser-action back then spoke about surveillance and colonial practices. Now it feels incredibly close, in a dystopian The Hague. Thank you @ira_gruen for documenting this action with me. #natosummit #nato #navotop #notonato by @lucatorsera
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O videoclipe de Peixes Estranhos está no ar. Essa é a segunda faixa de bLU, e o clipe foi feito por @lucatorsera, meu irmão há mais de uma década e ex-integrante do sukya || porno. Mandei a música pra ele sem nenhuma instrução e ele fez o que provavelmente é o vídeo sobre peixes estranhos mais lindo do mundo. Veja o clipe no YouTube, link na bio. #bLU by @lucatorsera
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TUNNELING - BEAM di Anna Lora, Michele Rampino e Luca Tornato IT Tunneling di Anna Lora e Michele Rampino Un tunnel che non conduce, ma invita. Una voce e una chitarra elettrica trasformano i sotterranei in uno spazio di ascolto, vibrazione e smarrimento. Chi entra, esplora. Chi si avvicina, perde. Chi resta, ascolta. 
Beam di Luca Tornato Un punto viene proiettato attraverso i bordi del seminterrato del castello. Le pareti irregolari sono cucite insieme in linea retta. Il raggio utilizza la luce e la sua interazione con spazi complessi che fungono da “filo rosso” per intrecciare le stanze. Segui il filo dall’inizio alla fine. EN
Tunneling by Anna Lora and Michele Rampino A tunnel that does not lead anywhere, but invites. A voice and an electric guitar transform the underground into a space of listening, vibration, and bewilderment. Those who enter, explore. Those who approach, lose. Those who stay, listen. Beam by Luca Tornato A point is projected through the edges of the castle basement. The irregular walls are stitched together in a straight line. The beam uses light and its interaction with complex spaces to act as a “red thread” that weaves the rooms together. Follow the thread from beginning to end. condivisioneresidenza.com per saperne di più. Open call con LIKE-USUAL, link in bio! Foto: @kononchenko Video: @like_usual_ @tisanna_alla_camillora @michelerampinoguitar @lucatorsera taken in Mola Di Bari by @lucatorsera
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Ways of Sensing: Signals in Circulation 20.03.2026 20:00–22:00 (Doors | 19:30) at iii workspace, The Hague Listen closely as language, sound, and images are set in motion, circulating through connected and isolated nodes. Ways of Sensing #2 brings together three works that interrogate systems and their notions of time, control, and circulation. In all works, signals are not treated as stable messages but as material processes that change as they pass through technical, spatial, and institutional conditions. As the artists route and transform words, sounds, and images, the systems that govern transmission become perceptible, revealing how meaning is shaped by the structures that carry it. 📖Luca Tornato approaches language as a site of conflict and domination, mobilising text, speech, and distortion to expose how writing has historically functioned as an instrument of power. @lucatorsera 🌀Puck Wacki focuses on the material and spatial behaviour of sound itself, constructing a network of interconnected chambers in which resonance, feedback, and chance shape the sonic outcome. @puckwacki 🛜Geo Barcan examines the past, present, and future of internet cultures in a forgotten Romanian town, uncovering the gap between cybernetic imaginaries and lived realities. @geobarcan Together, these works invite you to listen attentively, to attune to systems as they reveal themselves through their operations. Curated by @marijnbril @xpub.pietzwart @nadd.network @salwa_foundation by @lucatorsera
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7 months ago
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Right before we turn on the Christmas lights, we’re looking back at the Budget Light Design Workshop with facilitator @lucatorsera 💡 Over two days at @thegreyspaceinthemiddle iii hosted a hands-on workshop where participants built their own light interfaces and explored materials, colours, and playful experiments with light. To close it off, some participants joined the DJs to light up a small dance party! With dj’s @oxarzero and @whothehellislila Thank you to everyone who joined and we hope there’s a beautifully glowing (and maybe slightly experimental) Christmas tree lighting up your home ✨🎄 Video/sound: @idamyraida #lightart #lightdesign #lightworkshop #greyspaceinthemiddle #thehague by @lucatorsera
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9 months ago
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@lucatorsera is an interdisciplinary time-based media artist with works around video surveillance, artivism, and light design to critically approach non-human agents, legal systems, and spaces. In A Life in a Camera a laser interacts with a CCTV camera, with the output displayed on a CRT TV. Dust and microorganisms reveal patterns formed over years of surveillance, uncovering internal traces. You are invited to see the connections between the life of decommissioned technologies, and its decay in the face of organic matter. Part of The New Current 2026, set within a 3.500 m² former industrial space. More soon. 25–29 March 2026, @rotterdamartweek photo by Ira Grünberger taken in Rotterdam Zuid by @lucatorsera
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Excited to be part of Special Issue #28: Amazing Machines: Wordscapes to Liberate Language, as part of my master's program @xpub.pietzwart We worked for two months under the guidance of Steve Rushton to produce writting machines and experiments with text and language. We also hosted a weekly radio show @radio.worm and on wednesday Nov 19th we will present some outcomes of our research at Ubik, WORM. I'll present Marginalia. A new project that takes selected texts in different historical contexts, and transforms them in experimental annotations engraved in canonical books, in an attempt to center the margins of history. As a performance, layers of text, speech and distortion presents a writing machine as sonic warfare. All the documentation and radio shows will be archived at https://issue.xpub.nl/ Poster by kiki taken in WORM UBIK by @lucatorsera
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a year ago
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„Nothing New Under The Sun“ live a/v in preparation with @lucatorsera 15.11. @laak.club Den Haag for @traumgarten.world by @lucatorsera
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a year ago
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¹⁵.¹¹.²⁵ ᴀʀᴛɪꜱᴛ ᴀɴɴᴏᴜɴᴄᴇᴍᴇɴᴛ___ᴀʀᴄʜᴇᴛʏᴘᴇ + ᴛᴏʀɴᴀᴛᴏ (ʟɪᴠᴇ ᴀ/ᴠ) on 15.11 @laak.club we’re excited to welcome @_archetype____ and @lucatorsera with their audiovisual performance ‘Nothing new under the sun’ — a meditative dive into connection, isolation, and collective memory in the digital age. blending immersive sound, live video, and performative gestures, the duo explores how technology shapes our sense of presence and intimacy. Archetype crafts sonic worlds that evoke shared emotion and reflection, while Tornato manipulates light and video to bend perception and dissolve boundaries between the visual and the sonic. a sensory dialogue between noise and stillness, between the self and the collective. a moment of stillness in the loop. tickets via the link in bio ⛓️‍💥 📸 images by Marysia Swietlicka @marysia.marysia.marysia_ by @lucatorsera
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Explore how light interacts with space, sound, and material through a hands-on workshop and a collective light jam interdisciplinary media artist on 23 October, 18:30—21:30 and 24 October 15:00—22:00. The workshop is led by multidisciplinary artist, Luca Tornato [ @lucatorsera ], who is an interdisciplinary media artist whose work moves between surveillance, artivism, and light design where he explores the politics and materiality of illuminated environments. At the end, participants will build up for a group light jam afterparty and can take home a DIY light controller and a 5-meter LED strip. The workshop is provided by iii – an artist run, community platform supporting new interdisciplinary practices linking performance, technology and the human senses. For more information, check out our website or go straight via the link in our bio! taken in The Grey Space in the Middle by @lucatorsera
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