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Pinocchio Beyond the Canvas

By Carmine Grasso · IT

Pinocchio Beyond the Canvas is an interactive physical-digital painting in which touch activates moving images and voices. I painted Pinocchio, the Fox, the Cat, the Talking Cricket, the little house and the surrounding geometric forms on canvas, then transformed selected painted areas into capacitive interfaces using conductive material. When a visitor touches a character, Arduino detects the change in capacitance and sends a serial command to a Raspberry Pi, which plays the corresponding audiovisual narrative through the screen and speakers integrated into the artwork. The animated sequences were developed with Grok from images of my own painting. The work asks where authorship resides when a handmade image becomes data, movement and voice. AI does not replace the painting or make the artistic decisions: it extends a material work whose concept, figures, interaction, electronic architecture, narrative direction and final selection were conceived and realised by me.

Category
CONCEPTS MIXED MEDIA
Approved
22 September 2026