Heal, Hex, Hack Technology – Ginevra Petrozzi
In our current capitalist reality, many believe to be able to escape fate, that our future is makeable, and that our destiny is determined solely by our personal actions.
Ginevra Petrozzi's work resists this capitalist myth, suggesting that in fact the future lies in the hands of predictive analysis, algorithms, and artificial intelligence: all technologies that have now assumed the role of fate-makers in a digitally regulated cosmos, perpetrating systems of control and leading users to unified futures. The talk Heal, Hex, Hack Technology will expand on magical thinking in the context of surveillance technologies, discussing how the notion of the future has evolved since ancient divination techniques, until modern algorithmic systems. Her projects and ongoing research will guide the reading of these topics, and how the supernatural could serve as a design tool to interfere with current technological systems of control.
Bio
Ginevra Petrozzi is an artist and interdisciplinary designer currently living and working in The Netherlands. Her work wishes to expand the notion of magical thinking in the context of modern predictive systems, such as AI, machine learning and algorithmic processes. Through academic research, writing and creative production she aims to make space for other ideas and forms of intelligence, knowledge and wisdom, both human and non-human. Currently, she is exploring the possibilities of mysticism and the occult within the landscape of contemporary techno-politics. In this framework, she took the role of a “digital witch”, reclaiming the archetypal role of the sorceress as a healer, and as a political rebel. Since 2025 she is a PhD Candidate at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Industrial Design Department, in which she is researching new aesthetics for Intelligent Adaptive Systems.
Petrozzi’s work has been exhibited widely, including recent and upcoming exhibitions with National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art (IT), De Nederlandse Bank (NL), Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (NL), TENT Rotterdam (NL), Mattatoio (IT), INDEX Braga Biennial (P), Science Gallery London (UK), Het Hem (NL), World Design Embassies (NL), MFRU (SLO), Panke Gallery (DE), amongst others. Recent awards include the Special GNAM prize for the Inside Art Talent Prize 2025, for which her work Congregation of Mysteries has been permanently acquired by the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome. She was one of the finalists for the Conai Prize 2025, and for the Re:Humanism Art Prize in 2023. In 2021 she won the Gijs Bakker Award for her project Digital Esoterism.
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