I remember. Immortal Digitals — Officine Sintetiche

I remember. Digital Immortals is an open documentary in VR 360° that combines photorealistic 3D graphics and video to explore the theme of post-mortem existence in the digital world.
The work was born from a production workshop held from September 17 to 25, 2025, involving 18 selected students from the University of Turin, the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts of Turin, and the Polytechnic University of Turin. Through a process of collective research and creation, the participants explored how the concepts of life, matter, and memory are constantly being rewritten in the era of artificial intelligence and data persistence.

From these investigations emerges a virtual environment that takes the form of a possible “algorithmic afterlife” — a suspended space where cloned identity fragments, giving rise to an ecosystem of autonomous traces and memories. The experience becomes a sensory and mental journey in which memories recombine, deform, and are continuously regenerated by artificial intelligence.

By leading us into this liminal zone — between presence and absence, between being and non-being — I remember. Digital Immortals invites us to linger in a space of uncertainty and to question: what shape do our identity and our memory take in the digital world when the physical body disappears?

The work is produced within the Officine Sintetiche platform, with the support of Fondazione CRT and the University of Turin, in collaboration with the Polytechnic University of Turin and the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts of Turin. It will premiere at the Sottodiciotto Film Festival & Campus 2025 – VR Presence section.
Immersive Experiences – at Fondazione ETS Recontemporary (Via Gaudenzio Ferrari 12, Turin), on November 18, 2025, from 12:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
The duration of the work is approximately 5 minutes, with 4 headsets available.
On the occasion of the premiere, at 5:30 p.m., there will be a talk featuring the festival directors Enrico Verra and Cristina Colet, Vanessa Vozzo – co-founder of Officine Sintetiche and project lead – the creative technologist Stefano Sburlati, and several students who participated in the project.
Officine Sintetiche is a platform for research, training, and production dedicated to digital creativity and media art. Active since 2007, it fosters dialogue between art and technology by connecting universities, artists, professionals, and institutions.