Our relationship with nature is becoming increasingly complex, highlighting the urgent need for a paradigm shift that fosters care, love, and knowledge. Since the dawn of time, plants have symbolized much more than what appears on the surface: beauty, fragility, renewal, and the delicate balance of life.
Neo Botanica is a work that aims to portray nature through cutting-edge technologies, encouraging a deep connection with natural spaces. The featured artists use AI, CGI, 3D modeling, and computational codes to envision unexplored botanical realms: flowers lost to extinction, hybrids that have never existed, and plant structures shaped by algorithmic possibilities.
Neo Botanica reminds us that the future of all life on the planet depends on our ability to innovate and collaborate.
The presentation of the volume, published by Vetro Editions, will be accompanied by a talk with the curators Luca Bendandi and Freya Marshall, an exhibition of works featured in the book, installations created in collaboration with video artist Akasha / Riccardo Franco-Loiri and the Sintetica collective, a live performance by Hans Arsen (Gang of Ducks), and a DJ set by Slothmachines (Stasis).
Vetro Editions ( Luca Bendandi e Freya Marshall), Akasha/Riccardo Franco-Loiri will take part during the exhibitions
