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Room 3327
di Simone Pappalardo
show and
audio performance for two spectators at a time
The
universe of Nikola Tesla, half a conjurer of the 1800 and half a severe
man of science of the 1900, is the subject of Simone Pappalardo’s
work. The idea is to built up the ideal room of the brilliant
scientist, an environment where the symbolic elements of his
imaginative world (spheres and antennas) being stimulated by random
people’s presence turn into sound generators. Project titled Room
3327 –under the suite at the New Yorker Hotel where he has lived
last time of his life, aims for a simulation: a place, which is both
cerebral and not, can be the paradigmatic studying and working room
where the illusionist’s witchery earns into scientific dignity of
electromagnetism phenomena. Room 3327 is a Lupus/Salieri experiment.
Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) was born in Serbia but works all his life in
US acquiring American citizenship. He was an inventor, a mechanical and
electrical engineer, best known for many revolutionary contributions in
the field of electricity and magnetism in the late 19th and early 20th
centuries. His patents and theoretical work formed the basis of modern
alternating current electric power (AC) systems, including the
polyphase power distribution systems and the AC motor. After his
demonstration of wireless communication (radio) in 1894 and after being
the victor in the "War of Currents", he was widely respected as one of
the greatest electrical engineers who worked in America. Aside from his
work on electromagnetism and electromechanical engineering, Tesla has
contributed in varying degrees to the establishment of robotics, remote
control, radar and computer science, In 1943, the Supreme Court of the
United States credited him as being the inventor of the radio. Many of
his achievements have been used, with some controversy, to support
various pseudosciences, UFO theories, and early New Age occultism. Due
to hiseccentric personality and his seemingly unbelievable andsometimes
bizarre claims about possible scientific andtechnological developments,
Tesla was ultimatelyostracized and regarded as a mad scientist. Never
havingput much focus on his finances, Tesla died impoverished at the
age of 86. |
