Blog - Riccardo Silano

Multiplex as Arena: an imaginary media at the convergence of cinema, gaming, and collective agency

A cloud gaming session with Angry Birds revealed a pattern I first encountered on an Intel 286. Following that pattern to its logical end, I arrived at an imaginary medium: the multiplex as a collective gaming arena. Everything needed to build it already exists.

Night Watch: Reversing the Vector Between Rembrandt and Gen AI Cinema

My AI animation of Rembrandt's The Night Watch has been selected as one of five winners of the Google Gemini Art Remix challenge by Art Crush. The work will be featured on 3,000 billboards across the Netherlands in march 2026, exhibited at Galerie MINA, and shown at a Rijksmuseum pop-up. This is the story of why I made it and what I found.

The Ghost Before the Machine: A Case for Imaginary Media

Every medium that exists was once imagined. This is a structural fact about the lifecycle of all media. Before adoption, before obsolescence, before the format wars and the commercial pressures and the cultural canonization, there is a moment when a medium exists only as potential. A flicker in the gap between materiality and meaning.

How AI Video Creation Finally Became a Video Game

In 2003, I predicted that gamers would become the directors of the future. Today, that vision is reality. Let's explore how the 'Walking Simulator' and 'Puzzle Game' modes are defining a new era where video production meets e-sports mechanics.

Looking in the Mirror: The Biological Hardware behind Chimera

I spent years studying the ghosts in external machines, only to realize my primary subject has always been closer: the source code inscribed on my own biological hardware. This post marks the conclusion of my 'Chimera' series and the beginning of a new practice.