D.A.I.R 2025: two digital artists selected for residence at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini
D.A.I.R 2025: two digital artists selected for residence at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini
In May 2025 the Fondazione Giorgio Cini selected Florencia S.M. Brück and Calin Segal for the second edition of its Digital Artist in Residence programme (D.A.I.R.), curated by the Digital Center – ARCHiVe. More than thirty artists, researchers and developers from twelve countries applied.
The two artists were invited to spend a month on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, working with the Foundation’s digital archives and with the team in the Digital Center labs, on how artificial intelligence can build new narratives from historical material.
Florencia’s proposal set out to use AI to reinterpret archival images, bridging past and future through AI-generated video and LoRA (Low-Rank Adaptation) learning models. Calin Segal, a Romanian computational artist trained as an architect in Paris, proposed AI-generated virtual actors embodying archetypal figures from small, everyday and forgotten historical events.
The residency, which follows a 2024 pilot with Hiroaki Yamane, Mersid Ramičević and Matteo Rattini, extends the Foundation’s long tradition of residential scholarships at the Vittore Branca Center to digital practice.
The work produced during the residency: Memory Recall.