Residencies and Exhibitions

Art

Residencies, events, and workshops where artistic practice meets the Lab’s tools—from sculpture to 3D printing, from electronics to artificial intelligence.

For us, art is not a world separate from technology: it is another way of using the same tools we use every day to prototype, build, and experiment.

In the Lab’s Art section, we showcase projects, events, and programs where artistic practice intersects with 3D printing, modeling, electronics, and artificial intelligence.

The format

Artist Residencies

The Lab welcomes artists-in-residence. For the duration of the project, the Lab becomes their workspace: a place where they can engage with tools, people, and processes different from their own, and bring their artistic practice into a new context.

The project concludes with an exhibition open to the public, showcasing the results of this collaboration.

The "Chroma Garden" Exhibition at the Asperastra Lab

The Second Home

CODE OMEN

The Seed of Transformation. Zita Fusco and 777Rouge bring a traveling performance to the Lab that blends art, technology, the body, and transformation. The Lab changes form for one evening: matter, images, sound, light, and both human and artificial presences come together to form a single environment to be explored.

The First Residence

Chroma Garden

Sculptor and visual artist Luca Mingolla has worked with clay, 3D printing, and images generated by artificial intelligence to create a garden that is far from idyllic: a place where care and decay coexist.

The opening night interwove his sculptures with a DJ set by Jazza, a longtime figure in Trieste’s electronic music scene, blending personal samples with AI-generated sounds. An exhibition conceived entirely within the Lab, born from the intersection of artistic practice and our technologies.

Read the story of the residency