The performance "The Screaming Image" brings online images closer to oral language, highlighting how they can alter meanings and change our perception of words. The image screams, imposing itself in a spatial and sound dimension, interfering with the intention of the subject.
Each word spoken by the actor/s during the performance is processed by a voice recognition system (Google API) and subsequently searched on the online search engine Google Images. The images are then projected simultaneously to the, speech, creating a comparison between the spoken word and the image. In addition, each image emits a sound at the moment of its projection. Each image is scanned from left to right by a program that, by detecting the pixel composition and colour distribution, extrapolates data that modulates 15 sine waves, resulting in a musical composition improvised by the activity of the algorithms.
During the performance the performer/s play/s a part, with the possibility of improvising depending on the images that are projected simultaneously in front of them.

The program used for the performance was developed by programmers Daniel Morandini and Andrea Kaus in 2019. It is open source and part of The Discursive Image, a collaborative art project and theoretical investigation on the role of digital images that began in 2018 as a collaboration with programmer Romeo Bellon, with the production of the artwork Paradiso I. The Project was presented as a bachelor's thesis at the Free University of Bolzano/Bozen under the supervision of media theorist German Duarte Andres Penaranda and performance artist Italo Zuffi.

The performance was presented at Museion Museum of Contemporary Art in Bolzano/Bozen, Italy during Here to Stay, a live stream broadcast of acts and performances initiated by Bart Van Der Heide in April 2021.

The Screaming Image, 2021

sound designer: Zeno Lösch
programmers: Daniel Morandini, Andrea Kaus