Alberto Novello a.k.a. JesterN’s practice repurposes found or decontextualised analogue devices to investigate the connections between light and sound in the form of contemplative installations and performances.

He repairs and modifes tools from our analogue past: oscilloscopes, early game consoles, analogue video mixers, and lasers. He is attracted to their intrinsic limitations and strong ‘personalities’: fuid beam movement, vivid colors, infnite resolution, absence of frame rate, and line aesthetics. By using these forgotten devices, he exposes the public to the aesthetic diferences between the ubiquitous digital projections and the vibrance of analogue beams, engaging them to refect on the sociopolitical impact of technology in a retrospective on technologisation: what ‘old’ means, and what value the ‘new’ really adds.

His productions in form of performances, talks, papers and compositions have been presented at Centre Pompidou in Paris, Museo Reina Sofa Madrid, Ars Electronica Linz, Amsterdam Dance Event, Venice Biennale, National Art Museo of Lima, New York Computer Music Festival, Bozar Bruxelles, BOA Biennale Porto, Rewire Festival Den Haag, Glasgow Contemporary Art Center, National Art Museum Buenos Aires, Dom Moskow, Seoul International Music Festival, Imagen Festival Colombia, Rome University of Fine Arts, to mention a few.

BLACKLIGHT is a live choreography of laser light, in which invisible ultraviolet beams trace evolving forms onto a custom phosphorescent surface. Within the darkened theater space, delicate movements of light slowly reveal intricate structures - like the outlines of unknown cities, landscapes, or organic architectures unfolding in time. The tension between the frenetic precision of the laser and the lingering trace of phosphor creates a unique temporal experience. BLACKLIGHT is not merely a visual work, but a meditative encounter—where the invisible becomes visible, and light becomes memory.

Presented in the Theater Hall, the piece invites a quieter intensity beyond the noise of the digital age: a space where the viewer’s attention meets the light in a slower, altered rhythm of perception.