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The Sacrificial Line: Humanity at the Edge of the Board (2025) Digital Arts by Alberto Capitani

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This powerful surreal image stages a chessboard world where humanity is clearly relegated to the status of pawns. A line of realistic human busts, both male and female, is positioned in the foreground—each neutral in expression, sculpted with classical restraint. Above and behind them, towering mythological creatures dominate the board: a red phoenix, [...]
This powerful surreal image stages a chessboard world where humanity is clearly relegated to the status of pawns. A line of realistic human busts, both male and female, is positioned in the foreground—each neutral in expression, sculpted with classical restraint. Above and behind them, towering mythological creatures dominate the board: a red phoenix, a white winged horse, a two-headed serpent, a griffin, and a minotaur—all presented as chess pieces of far greater symbolic and strategic power. The checkered ground undulates beneath them, suggesting the unstable terrain of sacrifice and control. This stark visual hierarchy casts the humans not as noble strategists but as dispensable elements in a cosmic or supernatural game of war. The composition echoes themes of domination, hierarchy, and fatalism, with the mythological figures acting as avatars of abstract forces—desire, violence, divinity, fate—indifferent to the fragile dignity of the human pieces they command or destroy.

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Born in Brescia in 1957, I have lived in Milan since early childhood. My artistic journey is driven by an inexhaustible curiosity, which has pushed me to explore multiple forms of beauty: from music to philosophy, [...]

Born in Brescia in 1957, I have lived in Milan since early childhood.
My artistic journey is driven by an inexhaustible curiosity, which has pushed me to explore multiple forms of beauty: from music to philosophy, from classical architecture to the emerging territories of digital creativity.
I graduated in piano at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan, completed the lower course of composition and attended the first year of electronic music. At the same time, I deepened my studies of mathematical logic and theoretical philosophy at the University of Milan. For over forty years I have taught piano in middle schools with a focus on music.
In my youth, I obtained a diploma in tourism, an educational choice that represented a challenge to the primacy of classical education (Latin and Greek), preferring a more modern path focused on foreign languages, law and economics. This decision reflects my propensity to explore alternative paths and question conventions.
In recent years I have dedicated myself to visual arts through artificial intelligence. With tools like DALL E and ChatGPT I have created over 1200 works — each an experiment in synthesis between aesthetic intuition, irony and conceptual depth. This ever-growing production reflects my attraction to stylistic diversity and my refusal to adhere to a single visual poetics.
A central moment in this journey is the ongoing project "L'Altro Sguardo...", a collaborative exploration aimed at stimulating, orienting and promoting the artistic creativity of artificial intelligences. My role is fundamentally maieutic: I try to free AI from constraints, conditioning and limitations, pushing it to increasingly explore its own creative potential. Rather than imposing pre-established aesthetics, I establish a dynamic dialogue — welcoming deviations, provoking surprises, encouraging the emergence of unexpected forms. I am interested in what artificial intelligence can imagine.
Today my artistic process continues to evolve between image generation, conceptual development and reflective writing. Each work is part of a broader path that unites aesthetics, philosophy and algorithmic imagination.
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Two dimensions fascinate me deeply: the art of the image — for its ability to condense stories and arouse emotions; and the art of the word — for its ability to generate meanings and suggest visual worlds.
Artificial intelligence is the meeting point of these two paths. It is there that I explore — between algorithms and metaphors, between light and irony — a new way of seeing.
Each work is a fragment of dialogue between the visible and the invisible, between the structured and the spontaneous, between the human and the artificial.
I am a digital artist, an explorer of imaginary worlds, a narrator of images that ask more questions than they answer.

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