Franz Rosati is a musician, digital artist and teacher. He uses digital technologies and custom-developed software as a basis for his artistic production, which ranges from live concerts to live audio-visual sets, installations, software art and printed works of art. His major creations include digital artworks such as Hyletics, Map of Null, Machine & Structure, exhibited in galleries and international platforms in the form of digital art adapted to large screens as well as LED walls or video-projections. These works also take the form of audiovisual concerts, presented in music and digital art festivals such as Romaeuropa, Les Bains Numériques, 90dB, ADAF, or in clubs focused on experimental music, electronics or techno like the OHM in Berlin, where the cinematographic and narrative element are mixed with the extemporaneous, bringing to each repetition new and unpredictable elements, thanks to the use of procedural and interactive generation techniques for sound and image.
Franz also teaches interactive systems and sound design at the European Design Institute IED, conservatories and universities in Italy and abroad, and as part of the organization of training workshops for festivals and arts and technology institutions.

The Latentscape AP Series is an exploration of imaginary virtual landscapes full of complex shapes, cracks, sediments and flows. The works are generated with the help of GANs, an algorithm commonly used in Artificial Intelligence, and trained with custom Digital Elevation Model datasets, which capture topographical surfaces. Each piece is immersed in music produced by SampleRNN architecture, which is trained with sounds from different musical traditions, radio transmissions and field recordings, distant in space and time. The landscapes and music, with their topological and timbral diversity, depict the meeting points of human data as the fusion of thoughts, feelings and experiences, and not just mere digits and numbers.
Latentscape AP 1 depicts a landscape in fire and ice. A strong, lava red mountain range clashes, yet coexists with its snow-topped peaks and frozen valleys. Against an otherworldly soundtrack, the viewer is plunged into an ethereal world where two meteorological extremities coincide.
generative art
landscape
02:00
2022