Beyond the Gaze:
Towards an Ecology of the Senses between Visual and Sound Arts.
INTERSCAPE is the outcome of a year of research and artistic production carried out within INPA — International Network of the Polytechnics of the Arts — an initiative funded by NextGenerationEU (PNRR) and coordinated by the Politecnico delle Arti di Bergamo.
Visual artists, composers and musicians have worked in close collaboration from the earliest stages, creating works in which sound and image do not simply run alongside one another but shape each other — drawing from distinct disciplines an unprecedented expressive synthesis.
The protagonist is landscape: a field of tension between what we see and what we hear, between the memory of a place and its possible transformation.
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The story of the project
1
Theoretical research
Spring 2025
Three interdisciplinary research groups lay the theoretical foundations of the project: three state-of-the-art essays, three annotated bibliographies, and the conceptual framework for the phases to follow.
2
Summer School
July 2025
Over ninety students and faculty from across Europe gather in Bergamo for a week of lectures, masterclasses and workshops. The interdisciplinary projects are born.
3
Autumn School
October 2025
A second in-person week: the projects take on their definitive form through one-to-one mentoring sessions and masterclasses with international composers.
4
TONO Festival
February 2026
Thirty-one works across three venues in Bergamo. Four days of exhibitions, concerts and performances as part of TONO Festival 2026.
5
International Conference
February 2026
"Polytechnics and Universities of the Arts. Comparing Models of Interdisciplinarity." A day of dialogue between partner institutions on the future of interdisciplinary artistic education in Europe, aimed at building a new international network of collaboration.
The Projects
Thirty-one interdisciplinary works in which the visual and sound components have shaped one another from the very start. Each project emerges from direct collaboration between visual artists and composers: distinct disciplines, a single path of research.
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Theoretical Contributions
In the spring and summer of 2025, three interdisciplinary research groups, composed of professors and researchers from the Italian partner institutions, began the theoretical phase of the project. Each group produced a guiding document: an essay outlining the state of the art, accompanied by an annotated bibliography.
These texts provided the conceptual foundation for all subsequent stages of the project, from the Summer School to the production of the artworks featured in the exhibition across GAMeC, Palazzo della Libertà, and the Politecnico delle Arti – Accademia G. Carrara di Bergamo.
Partners
