Circoscrizione
Circoscrizione 6 / MAUTO Museo Nazionale dell’Automobile, Corso Unità d’Italia, 40
Supercar is the title of the light installation that combines light, architecture, cars, science fiction, customisation, movement and the collective imagination.
The first immediate reference is Supercar, the 1980s television series in which the undisputed protagonist is a car characterised by futuristic technology called K.I.T.T. (Knight Industries Two Thousand): equipped with artificial intelligence - which makes it think - and capable of feeling and experiencing states of mind, K.I.T.T. is a car - in the first series it was a 1982 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am - whose distinctive feature is the light scanner placed on the grille that allows it to see its surroundings thanks to infrared. On a second level of interpretation, this explicit reference to popular culture and collective memory gives way to a relationship with the more contemporary concept of the ‘supercar’, i.e. the automobile sapiens capable of interacting with the user and the context, processing information, learning and acting autonomously in ways and criteria similar to those of human beings.
Cristian Chironi intervened on the façade of the building in Corso Unità d'Italia, imagined as the front of a car: the windows overlooking the balcony house a light scanner that moves along a horizontal line, bringing the architecture into a new space-time context.
