Matèria is delighted to present the fourth chapter of OVERTON WINDOW in its street facing Vitrine. The curated series of small shows aims to cast a spotlight on digital and on-chain art and is developed in collaboration with Re:humanism; the pioneering platform led by Daniela Cotimbo, dedicated to the exploration of the intricate relationship between humanistic and scientific cultures with a special emphasis on the advancements in artificial intelligence research.

 OVERTON WINDOW sets out to explore the possibilities stemming from our rapidly evolving symbiotic relationship with technology. The project seeks to champion artists and concepts that illuminate the intersection of art and technology, with the overarching goal to harness the disruptive potential of AI and blockchain technologies, paving the way for new artistic production models. Additionally, OVERTON WINDOW serves as a catalyst for reimagining cultural production, markets and ownership models by providing artists with a platform and a support structure to experiment with the evolving technological landscape.

 Presented in curated installments, OVERTON WINDOW features an open ended dialogue between the public and a selection of local and international artists.

 The common thread of the project is embodied by the concept of new digital mythologies, a theme that encloses various manifestations of our relationship with the contemporary. If Chatbots, avatars, and voice assistants become new idols, digital simulacra embodying new forms of animism, renewed forms of digital ritual embrace diverse perspectives and suggest new narratives.

 The fourth appointment of OVERTON WINDOW presents, for the first time, an installation by the Peruvian artist Nicolás Lamas, entitled Collective Memory.

 The work is conceived as a timeless archaeology: the bronze cast of a Kenyanthropus platyops skull—an extinct hominid species that lived approximately 3.5 million years ago—and a wasp's nest, a fragile remnant of a non-human collective intelligence, are fused together and placed within the structure of a server that evokes contemporary data flows, digital infrastructures, and information networks.

 The project unfolds as a reflection that intertwines distant temporalities and heterogeneous cognitive models. On one side stands the "solid brain", a stable and specialized architecture present in many living species, including humans; on the other, the "liquid brain", a dynamic, distributed, and decentralized system characteristic of insects and certain artificial intelligence systems.

 Collective Memory challenges the traditional notion of the individual mind and proposes a vision in which intelligence emerges from complex systems—biological or artificial—and persists within the entanglement of living and constantly evolving networks. It invites us to transcend dichotomies and to rethink personal and collective experience as a web of relations that brings together different ways of being in the world.

*Matèria and Re:Humanism thank max goelitz gallery for the support.