Today is not Today
Immersive and interactive artist experiences for VR headsets
Scena Urbana, Brescia in collaboration with Archivio Vincenzo Agnetti, Associazione Paolo Scheggi, and Fondazione Piero Manzoni with the grant of InnovaCultura, Regione Lombardia
Today is not Today is a digital platform offering immersive and interactive artist experiences for VR headsets standalone. Conceived by media philosopher Marco Senaldi and developed by the creative studio Scena Urbana in Brescia, which holds the ownership.
Conceived for widespread and inclusive use—in situ and online, both within and beyond the strictly institutional framework of art—the first two experiences, which could also be described as ‘latent works’, ideally inaugurate a section dedicated to the unfinished or unrealised projects of that extraordinary generation of Italian artists who represented a pivotal moment of convergence between the historical avant-gardes of the early twentieth century and contemporary art. These works are, respectively, Il Tempio La nascita dell’Eidos (1971) by Vincenzo Agnetti and Paolo Scheggi, and Il Labirinto (c. 1960) by Piero Manzoni.