Binaries is a project by Atmosfera dedicated to lectures, seminars, and workshops featuring designers, studios, and brands that are shaping the field of lighting design. This format brings our professional community on stage — people and practices united by a forward-looking vision, a passion for technological experimentation, and a desire to share their expertise with those who will join them.
Lecture: Anonima/Luci x ATMOSFERA
In this lecture, Anonima/Luci explores how light, music, and space intersect within their practice, offering insights and reflections.
Anonima/Luci has always operated along the boundary between lighting design, architecture, and music — and this is where the lecture by co-founders Alberto Saggia and Stefania Kalogeropoulo begins, focusing on their recent lighting design project for “Voce,” the historic space inside Triennale Milano. In the video, starting from the history of Japanese listening bars and listening rooms — places where social interactions dissolve and individual listening becomes the core of the experience — the designers explain how Voce positions itself exactly in between the two.
Through archival images, they retrace the history and evolution of the space originally designed by Giovanni Muzio in the 1930s, showing how the idea for a modular lighting system — one that could transform with use — emerged from that history. Preliminary and final schemes, tests, trials, and a patented technical component: the lecture clarifies how projects of this complexity require constant collaboration between architects, sound designers, and technicians, as well as a method grounded in research, observation, and the ability to overcome obstacles and unexpected challenges.
For anyone interested in working with light, the lecture offers a concrete understanding of how an intuition can evolve into a complete system capable of reshaping the relationship between sound, space, and people.
Discover the project through their own words: watch the lecture’s recording.
ADDITIONAL MATERIALS FROM ANONIMA/LUCI:
▶️ Triennale Voce Opening
Visual Anonima Luci, sound design Lorenzo Senni
Anonima/Luci personal/private installations:
▶️ Our design vision @Voce, Triennale Part I
▶️ Our design vision @Voce, Triennale Part II
LUMEN / Community Talks
Four thematic talks featuring industry professionals, researchers, and creatives will lead the discussion on how AI and digital technologies are reshaping the way we conceive lighting paradigms, particularly in the realm of creativity, design and architectural planning. An open debate on the present and future, addressing ethics, research, and raising new questions about the possible scenarios ahead.
Enjoy the experience, watch now the talks recordings.
BY TRIAL AND ERROR
RICCARDO FRANCO LOIRI
VISUAL ARTIST @ HIGH FILES
Artificial intelligence is redefining art, multimedia products and creative processes.In this transition, it is crucial to address model biases and potential errors, the author’s maieutic role, and the political dimension of AI-generated art—key to becoming informed designers and users.
DIGITAL ARCHITECTURES FOR POSTHUMAN USERS
MARCO FRASCAROLO
LIGHTING DESIGNER.
FOUNDER @ FABERTECHNICA.
LIGHTING DESIGN MASTER’S PROGRAM COORDINATOR @ SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY
KAMILIA KARD
ARTIST AND SCHOLAR
MARIA CHIARA LIGUORI
RESEARCHER IN DIGITAL HUMANITIES AND VIRTUAL HERITAGE @ CINECA
From light in virtual reality to environments in the multiverse, the way we design and inhabit virtual spaces is becoming increasingly important. Creating welcoming ecosystems for ourselves and our digital twins means balancing aesthetics, functionality, and well-being—rethinking the relationship between body, technology, and environment.
WHO’S AFRAID OF AI?
FRANCESCO D’ISA
ARTIST & PHILOSOPHER
MATTEO SUBET
DESIGN RESEARCHER FOR SUPSI @ MAIND, PHD @ ELISAVA
ANTONELLA AUTUORI
DESIGN RESEARCHER FOR SUPSI@ MAIND, PHD @ RMIT
AI is not just a mimic of human style, it’s a tool capable of generating radically new aesthetics, alien to our sensibility. Exploring these territories means rethinking creativity, authorship, and ethics, questioning how artificial intelligence can redefine our relationship with art and imagination.
LIGHTING PERSPECTIVES
ARISTIDE STUCCHI
PRESIDENT @ A.A.G. STUCCHI
TEO SANDIGLIANO
DESIGNER & CURATOR @ ATMOSFERA MAG
LAURA BELLIA
FULL PROFESSOR AND LECTURER IN LIGHTING TECHNOLOGY @ UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES.
PRESIDENT @ AIDI
CARLO COMANDINI
PRESIDENT @ ASSIL
CEO @ VOSSLOH-SCHWABE ITALIA S.P.A.
MARCO FRASCAROLO
LIGHTING DESIGNER.
FOUNDER @ FABERTECHNICA.
LIGHTING DESIGN MASTER’S PROGRAM COORDINATOR @ SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY
From integration with smart systems to the creation of adaptive environments, lighting is evolving toward increasingly dynamic and interactive scenarios. This transformation brings new challenges: sustainability, its impact on human well-being and the ethical implications of technologies that shape our perception and biological rhythms.
A chance to reflect on how to design the light of the future with awareness and responsibility.
LUMEN / Workshop: Kinetic Lights
How can the movement of the body be transformed into a visual and sonic landscape, in real time? How can AI, motion tracking, sound, and kinetic lighting be brought into dialogue?
This workshop, led by Nima Gazestani and Jack Sapienza, offers performers, artists, and designers the opportunity to explore the languages of contemporary art through advanced digital tools.
AI, interactive lighting, and sound design: over the course of two hours, participants will be introduced to an integrated system that brings together Touch Designer, Max MSP, Kinect, Stable Diffusion, Remote Light Control via DMX.
Thanks to this setup, it becomes possible to observe how every movement influences visuals, sound, and lighting in real time — creating a constantly evolving environment: a truly sensitive organism, where the person becomes an active part of the visual and sonic narrative.