The talk introduces selected artworks that explore processes of development, fieldwork, and ideas linked to sonic architecture, conceptualised around embodiment, imagination/auralisation, digital surveillance, and art and science research. With performative knowledge, which resides in the idea of a continuum — an epistemology ‘in the making’, an epistemology of wandering (emerging from the psychogeography of the french flâneur, or later the drifter) without stable states of equilibrium, leading to nomadic propagation ‘in the wild’. The importance to decentralise approaches in subjectivity in examining different paradigms and traditions in several parts of the world is to achieve a plural vision of the field of possibilities. That said, a global solution or answer is not what is sought; instead, the aim is the promotion of an ecosystem and cosmology of knowledges that are local and site-specific.
Biography
Luca Forcucci is an artist and composer focusing on sound in the arts and perception. The research is informed by fieldwork in Southern and Western Africa, Brazil, Japan, India, and China, through the (re)combination of ancestral technologies and knowledge with contemporary ones. His work was presented in contexts such as the Institute of Modern Art Brisbane 2025, Akademie der Künste Berlin 2024, New York Experimental Intermedia Festival 2023, Ars Electronica Linz 2021, Museo Reina Sofia Madrid 2020, and Biennale Arcipelago Mediterraneo Palermo 2019.
He has received numerous accolades, including from the University of Lausanne Collaborative Research on Science and Society Art Commission 2025, Edgelands Institute Scholarship 2025, Maaretta Jaukkuri Foundation Residency Norway 2024, SUISA Foundation Scholarship for Investment in Next Career Step in A.I. 2023, and the Ministry of Education of Brazil Visiting Professor Scholarship at the Federal University of Bahia 2023. Forcucci holds a PhD in Music, Technology and Innovation from De Montfort University (UK), an MA in Sonic Arts from Queen’s University Belfast, and a professional background in architecture and neuroscience. www.lucaforcucci.com
Location
Monash Art, Design and Architecture (MADA) Building G, Room 1.04
4.00pm, Thursday 19th March 2026
Acknowledgements
Luca is visiting artist at SensiLab. His visit is made possible with the generous support of the Swiss Arts Council.