Life on Earth is managed by a sophisticated and invisible software that allows us to exist, a subtle calculation made up of millions of correlations and balances between humans, animal species, plants, fungi, bacteria, minerals, magnetic fields, atmospheric shields, the water cycle, and mineral resources, the result of millennia of adaptation. Continents, oceans, and poles are now to be considered as a single neural network, a world habitat of connections.

In the Anthropocene, pollutants, fake news, propaganda, viruses, economy, energy, spread across the entire planetary system ever more rapidly and potentially with outcomes beyond control. The correlation between environmental crises, increasing dependence on potentially destructive technology in our hands, and the cultural involution of the West has never been so high in previous centuries.

Alessandro Zannier's video installation, supported by OOM (Alex Piacentini and Nicholas Bertini), offers an artistic and emotional vision of the multitude of environmental and anthropic big data recorded in recent years, many of which provided by universities and the CNR, staging the exponential growth of the hyperboles of the graphs on the alarms raised by the Agenda 2030, towards the inevitable reaching of the "tipping point," or singularity point, beyond which chain reactions become rapid, impactful, and irreversible.

The installation suggests, with the help of archival images and statistical data, a correlation between cultural impoverishment and increased environmental damage. The losses suffered by the world's artistic and historical heritage over the centuries at the hands of humans, combined with recent studies on the impoverishment of vocabulary, simplification of complex system analysis, functional illiteracy, dependence on technological cognitive prostheses, and in general on the level of education in so-called civilized countries, now in clear decline, provide fertile ground for the worst propaganda and an increasingly palpable intolerance towards the analysis of complexity and the intellectual sphere of society.

The work, installed in the immersive M9 Orizzonti room, ideally accompanies the viewer along the course of these exponential curves in a total of 10 minutes of emotional crescendo, supported by the other protagonist element which is the Escalation soundscape, the sound installation created by the artist himself, also a long-standing musician and author under the pseudonym Ottodix.