Discover: fuse*, the Artistic Studio Bridging Technology and Humanity

For the average arts enjoyer, it would be understandable to assume that fuse* founders Mattia Carretti and Luca Camellini were born into and raised in extensive 'traditional' arts environments-- however, we were pleasantly surprised to find the opposite.

Both trained in scientific fields, Carretti & Camellini entered the creative world through curiosity rather than convention. With deep roots in chemistry, science has shaped an arts practice grounded in research: form a hypothesis, test it, refine it, start again. This scientific mindset—paired with their unwillingness to be confined by labels—led fuse* to develop a hybrid artistic language that spans architecture, engineering, multimedia performance, and computational art.

Over time, audiences and institutions began to recognize their projects as artworks, revealing the potential of a studio that embraces both rigor and imagination.

Today, fuse* is considered a pioneer in generative, interactive, and immersive art, guided by core principles they describe as precision, elegance, and significance.

Elegance, for them, is the act of removing the unnecessary until only the essential remains, ensuring a coherent emotional experience for the viewer. Their works arise either from personal stories they feel compelled to share or from R&D explorations into technologies with untapped expressive potential.

Whether investigating dreams, black holes, or the fragility of human impermanence, Carretti and Camellini use technology not to celebrate novelty, but to question how it shapes our relationships with ourselves and the world.

Dökk, the Icelandic word for 'darkness', is the culmination of fuse* studio's three year effort to represent how our perception of reality changes throughout our lives-- from the day we are born to the day we die. A true testament to the unique human experience, each performance of Dökk is never the same show twice. 

The core of the show is representative of the fuse* mission: the intersection of technology, art, science, and humanity. A combination of motion tracking, camera movement, and digital scenography that takes in data from the current social landscape on Twitter, meets Elena Annovi, aerial dancer and performer, who quite literally distorts the multi-media output through the smallest changes in choreography, breath, and even her heartbeat.

A contemporary dancer and trained acrobat, Elena Annovi is the beating heart of both Dökk and Ljós. Her artistry is rooted in a lifelong fascination with how the body moves through and is transformed by space. Her career is marked by the development of a distinctive movement language that merges suspended dance, vertical dance, and grounded physicality into a single fluid practice.

For Annovi, the “stage” is never just a surface, but an environment, a collaborator, and sometimes even a co-creator.

Annovi's journey with fuse* is an ongoing exploration of how the human body can interplay with technology. This research led to two major works that define the studio’s aesthetic and emotional core. She choreographed and performed the lead role in Ljós (2014), presented at major European and international festivals, and later in Dökk. 

Before Dökk, there was Ljós—the 2014 production that introduced both performer Elena Annovi and the studio’s growing interest in human-technology interplay. Built around the then-innovative capabilities of the Microsoft Kinect, Ljós (“light” in Icelandic) became an early signal of the artistic direction fuse* would take in the decade to come.

Like the first light of dawn, Ljós hinted at the emotional and philosophical terrain the studio would later explore more fully. While not conceived as the start of a trilogy at the time, it ultimately became the opening chapter of fuse*’s Full Circle Trilogy, tracing the arc from light (Ljós) to darkness (Dökk) and beyond.

What comes after light and darkness? For fuse*, the answer is Sál (“soul”), the final chapter of their Full Circle Trilogy.

Currently in development, Sál turns its attention to life’s final moments— in which existence folds into memory. The work explores the proximity between two souls, one departing and one remaining, seeking to capture the fragile tension of loss through movement, visuals, and sound.

Where Ljós traced emergence and Dökk examined the shifting spans of consciousness, Sál asks what happens in the quiet space between presence and absence.