Dispositivo di Memoria a Rumore Residuo

Dispositivo di Memoria a Rumore Residuo (Residual Noise Memory Device) is an interactive digital project by Giuseppe Bergamino, part of IRA GENERANS, the exhibition season exploring anger as a necessary and natural response to injustices and oppressions, whether social or personal. Understood as a driver of transformation and change, anger becomes the core of a collective reflection involving artists and collectives, invited to legitimize themselves through their artistic practice.

Giuseppe Bergamino is an electronic musician whose research materializes in interactive installations and multimodal works designed to stimulate sensory perception and active audience participation. At spazioSERRA, he presents Dispositivo di Memoria a Rumore Residuo, a work that interprets and amplifies the season's theme through a continuously evolving sound and visual experience.

Dispositivo di Memoria a Rumore Residuo is hosted on spazioSERRA's website, inviting the audience to record their anger, with maximum intensity, through a scream. The title suggests the device's capacity to collect and archive user interactions, accumulating them into a visual archive gradually constructed over time, thus legitimizing each outburst with care, despite the negative connotation society assigns to the act of screaming. Every noise perceived by the work transforms into a small luminous trace which, when combined with those left by others, will form a collective synergy that grows stronger, brighter, and blinding. The memory of collective anger will also interact with the environment, as the dots on the screen will move according to the intensity of the screams. The scream is resistance; the scream is transformation. Bergamino writes: “Anger is not violence to be repressed; it is an authentic response. It is a scream that transforms into awareness and change, necessary to illuminate new possibilities.” In this way, the work invites reflection on the sense of collective responsibility: for the screams to generate the work, a large number of people must contribute and light up the device. Once recorded, the submissions cannot be listened to again, emphasizing a further invitation to abandon individuality. For the creation of this archive, no scream has been ignored. And no scream should ever be ignored. Residual Noise is light.