I
Accumulation
Warp Feedback Machine
The present is fed back into itself until the image no longer resembles what entered. Memory is not stored — it is metabolized.
Visual artist · Researcher · VJ
Matteo Scandola — m.code visuals
Matteo Scandola
Real-time audiovisual installations and live visuals, built from feedback, emergence and light. Verona — Paris.
Intro animation
Messico e Nuvole
la faccia triste dell’America
- Type
- Installation
- Date
- 4–6 September 2026
- Place
- Alcova stage, Komorebi Music Festival
Forte di Vinadio, Italy
Suspended in space, a constellation of inorganic elements waits to be inhabited. At first the sculpture appears compact and solid, yet light passes through it. The metal mesh becomes an iridescent membrane: where the light touches it, it glows like cloud; where it passes through, it lands on the stone arch as shadow, as rock.
Messico e Nuvole surprises and disorients, inviting the gaze to lose itself among matter, light and music. Lying down, visitors let the music carry them into a liquid, dilated journey, where the perception of time slowly fades and no ending is needed.
A site-specific installation created for the Alcova stage at Komorebi Music Festival 2026, at Forte di Vinadio. The fort is undergoing a transformation: its historical function is gradually giving way to new inhabitants, to a new community. The installation sits between the material and the immaterial, between memory and transformation. Here the architecture of the past meets music, light and contemporary vision, and for a few moments the visitor can lose the boundaries of the self.
States of Motion
- Type
- Installation
- Date
- 30–31 May 2026
- Place
- MART Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art
Rovereto, Italy - Festival
- Poplar-Utopia
- With
- Consuelo Donati & Luca Richelli
- Photo
- @raw_sario / Rosario Multari
In 1915, Giacomo Balla and Fortunato Depero published the Futurist Reconstruction of the Universe, calling for a new art: abstract and dynamic, transparent and luminous, autonomous, transformable, simultaneously plastic and alive.
States of Motion is a live audiovisual instrument that processes the present through feedback, temporal displacement, and signal degradation. A live camera enters the system and is acted upon immediately — accumulated, run back through itself, distributed across screens in space.
Your body is the input. The system does the rest.
“Rebuild it with the materials of your time.”
Giacomo Balla, found by Elio Marchigiani under a cardboard flower
II
Duration
Slitscan / Time Displacement
Every position a body has occupied, held simultaneously. Past and present occupy the same surface.
III
Degradation
Optical Flow + Compression
Only the parts of the signal that move survive. The rest decays into blocks — data corruption as the truest portrait of flux.
IV
Contour
Edge Detection + Feedback Trails
The body reduced to the line where it ends and the world begins. That line accumulates, and persists after the body has moved on.
V
Presence
Blob Composite + Time Machine
The same figure shown now and a few seconds ago, in the same frame. You are here, and you were here, and both are true at once.
Proximity
- Type
- Generative piece
- Year
- 2025
- Tools
- TouchDesigner
My work explores how complex spatial structures can emerge from extremely simple primitives: points or agents and above all the connections between them. Rather than using surfaces or volumes, the visual language is built entirely from relationships: proximity, neighborhood, and their motion in space.
What interests me is not representing objects in space, but making relationships in space visible — showing how form can emerge purely from interaction, motion, and proximity.
S/01
Field
Points sample a 3D texture field and are displaced by what they read. A feedback-slope-displace network introduces temporal memory — space shaped not only by the field, but by the history of the system.
S/02
Swarm
Flocking behaviors — alignment, cohesion, separation. The connections, not the particles, reveal the emergent collective structure: patterns of organization and self-regulation.
S/03
Attractor
Trajectories constrained by deterministic equations — chaotic but structured motion. The connected points expose the hidden geometry of the attractor over time.
Nails / Landlord
Uecker nails to fix memory
- Type
- Art piece
- Year
- 2025
Uecker nails to fix memory.
Inwards
- Type
- VJ pack
- Date
- March–April 2026
- For
- Inwards, composer based in the UK
A pack of real-time visuals made for the composer Inwards.
bette2rave
- Type
- VJ set
- Date
- 25 April 2026
- Place
- Paris, France
Live visuals for the bette2rave night in Paris.
Setlist
Live VJ sets
CH 07
Poplar Festival
12–13 Sep 2025 · Trento, IT
CH 08
One Size Fits None
22 Jun 2025 · Trento, IT
CH 09
Follow the Pig
12 Jul 2025 · Trento, IT
CH 10
Mesiano 2025
10 May 2025 · FEELTHEF, Trento, IT
Selected appearances, 2025–2026
- 4–6 Sep 2026Messico e NuvoleKomorebi Music Festival, Forte di Vinadio · ITInstallation
- 30–31 May 2026States of MotionMART Museum, Poplar-Utopia · Rovereto, ITInstallation
- 25 Apr 2026bette2raveParis, FRVJ Set
- Mar–Apr 2026InwardsFor Inwards (UK)VJ Pack
- 12–13 Sep 2025Poplar FestivalTrento, ITVJ Set
- 12 Jul 2025Follow the PigTrento, ITVJ Set
- 22 Jun 2025One Size Fits NoneTrento, ITVJ Set
- 10 May 2025Mesiano · FEELTHEFTrento, ITVJ Set
About
Matteo Scandola
Matteo Scandola
m.code
Matteo Scandola aka m.code (Verona, 1998) is a visual artist and researcher based in Paris, exploring emergence, feedback, and spatial relationships through real-time audiovisual systems.
With a background in physics, he later shifted his focus toward audiovisual art through the discovery of TouchDesigner. His work investigates how structure and complexity can emerge from interaction, motion, and accumulation through experiments with code and algorithms.
Tools — TouchDesigner · Houdini · Blender
Contact
Contact
Open to VJ sets, installations, scenography and custom real-time visuals. Tell me about the project, the place and the dates.
m.scandola1998@gmail.com