Cardano Circles

Collaboration with electronic composer Max Cooper for "Seme" – an immersive exploration of Italian aesthetics, music, and emergence, performed at Osterfestspiele Salzburg and the Barbican in March and April 2024.

The work was named after mathematician Gerolamo Cardano, who invented a system used in early printing press technology that transformed linear movement into circular motion.

This simple and yet elegant concept evolved into a visual system designed to explore the aesthetic possibilities inherent in the idea. What if motion and color persist over time, giving rise to new emergent forms? What if changing angles create shapes beyond circles? And what if these circles were arranged in a grid rather than the Cardano system, numbering in the tens of thousands that swarm new patterns? The sequence unfolds, at times echoing the Cardano motif, to remind us of the foundational structure from which everything stems.