Black Med, POMPEII<\/i> is the culmination of Invernomuto\u2019s research around theoretical reflections on the Black Mediterranean, with reference to the research of Alessandra Di Maio (University of Palermo) who has used this definition in the context of postcolonial, migratory, transnational and diaspora studies in the field of contemporary African studies. The work is part of a larger and ongoing research process called \u201cBlack Med\u201d, whose centre is the online platform blackmed.invernomuto.info. Designed to be accessible both online and offline, in the form of sound installation, the platform has collected, at the current stage of research, over thirty hours of content and musical contributions selected by Invernomuto and a series of participants including Paul Gilroy, Rabih Beaini, Donato Epiro, Kareem Lotfy, Ma\u2019an Abu Taleb and other musicians and researchers who were asked by the artists to propose a musical selection that would resonate with the research of Black Med<\/i>. Black Med, POMPEII <\/i>has an immaterial character, and it consists of a hard disk containing the programming code and the archive of the platform \u201cBlack Med\u201d until May 2022. The sound installation linked to the platform is a site specific work, involving the use of an algorithm especially created to \u201cplay\u201d extracts from the project\u2019s musical archive and combine them in an autonomous, continuously changing manner. Black Med, POMPEII <\/i>was among the winners of the Italian Council (7th Edition, 2019), a programme to promote Italian contemporary art in the world by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture.<\/p>\n
Invernomuto is the name of the artistic personality created in 2003 by Simone Bertuzzi (1983, Piacenza) and Simone Trabucchi (1982, Piacenza)<\/p>\n