Terry Gilliam receives a calligram from me On January 4, 2019, at a screening of his film “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote” organized by the Umbria Film Festival, I had the opportunity to meet and get to know the great director Terry Gilliam. A former member of Monty Python, the group that revolutionized world […]
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A poem for Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça On June 24, 2023, I was received in audience at the Hermitage of Camaldoli by His Eminence Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça, prefect of the Dicastery for Culture and Education, that is, a kind of minister of culture to the Pope. The son of a fisherman who
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I donated my post-contemporary work entitled “When the Mountains Had Not Yet Raised Their Heads” to the Paleontological Museum in Cortina d’Ampezzo. In the presence of Regole d’Ampezzo President Stefano Gaspari, the donation ceremony took place. It is a multimedia mosaic poem, that is, a mosaic in which is inserted a QR code from which,
Post-contemporary: what characteristics must art have to already address the future? The lie of the contemporary The word “contemporary” is itself a lie. The instant we utter it, it has already been devoured by the past. But it has become an even bigger lie in recent decades, when instead of defining a chronological condition it
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What is poetry? Perhaps it is more interesting to understand why we care to know. What is poetry? To give a definition of poetry is very complex, because to define things is to confine them to a dimension of rationality. And poetry eschews this imprisonment and reaches out to the most mysterious dimensions of humanity.
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I have been asking myself what poetry is for years, and perhaps I have found an answer. All humans have always wondered what poetry is However far back the memory of human beings goes, poetry is encountered. Our grandparents, Renaissance, medieval, Roman and Greek men made poetry, ancient civilizations made poetry, and perhaps already hominids
Artificial intelligence and poetry: can machines replace humans? Can artificial intelligence produce art and poetry? Everyone is talking about artificial intelligence nowadays. I have already written a book to introduce “beginners” to AI. With all its pros and cons, AI raises possibilities and doubts together. One of them is related to art. Some recently released
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Artificial intelligence pros and cons Artificial intelligence pros and cons Everyone is talking about artificial intelligence now. Since the release of CHAT GPT-3, the world has realized that artificial intelligence exists and anyone can use it. But what are the pros and what are cons? It is very difficult to write lists of pros and
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Artificial intelligence: what will happen? Artificial intelligence: what has happened The moment that all the nerds in the world have been waiting for for a long time has arrived: AI (or AI, in English) has become something very tangible. With the release of CHAT GPT-3 anyone has access to an artificial intelligence capable of writing
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Street poetry. Maybe I brought poetry into street art. Or maybe in the graffiti art. Or maybe I got lost in the bush that critics like so much. Or maybe I just smeared a wall with words. I don’t know, man. What I do know is that I felt the need to take some verses
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