Alessandro Y. Longo

Alessandro Y. Longo

Alessandro Y. Longo is a researcher, strategist, and cultural agitator based between Berlin and Turin. He’s a PhD candidate at DREST (Italian Doctoral School of Religious Studies), where he investigates the emergence of synthetic intimacy and the problem of AI personhood. Alessandro is the initiator and maintainer of REINCANTAMENTO, an independent research and development group exploring technology, and politics, and spirituality through the lens of re-enchantment. He has spent several years contributing to cooperative protocol design and blockchain governance through Curve Labs and Circles Coop.

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His latest essay, Mods of Production, was published with the Institute of Network Cultures. With Christopher Dake-Outhet he develops Minor Index, an experimental local AI initiative, and he is part of the Solidarity Economies Lab at transmediale 2027, which is building a time bank for artists.

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Before the doctorate, he completed an MA in Digital Humanities and Digital Knowledge at the University of Bologna, with a thesis on club culture heritage and digital archives, and a BA in Philosophy at the University of Turin.

His installations, video essays, and lectures have been presented at MFRU (Maribor), MacTe (Termoli), Panke Gallery and SAVVY Contemporary (Berlin), Unsound (Krakow), HackThePromise (Basel), Baltan Laboratories (Eindhoven), NYU Design and Media (New York), Accademia Albertina (Turin), and NABA (Milan), with residencies and grants from 0xSalon / Trust, C/O Berlin, and the Serpentine’s Beyond Cultures of Ownership programme. He has covered CTM Festival and transmediale as a critic.

He has worked as user research and ecosystem lead for Shared Visions, as communications manager and research assistant for the ERC-funded BlockchainGov project at CNRS, and as lead researcher on the Circles universal basic income pilot in Berlin. Minor Index is supported by the KSM Art Grant.

  1. The Persona of LLMsin pressFondazione Bruno Kessler, Trentoin press
  2. Alchemical Re-enchantment: Transmuting the Computational Conditionin pressEuropean Culture & Technology Lab+in press
  3. Mods of Production: Agentic Bricoleurs, Slopensource and the Decentralisation of Software2026REINCANTAMENTO × Institute of Network Cultures10.26
  4. O.U.R. Coop, O.U.R. Coin: A Community Currency for the Arts2026REINCANTAMENTO Drops09.26
  5. The Persona Space: Elements of Vectorial Semiotics2026REINCANTAMENTO Drops07.26
  6. Poetics is All You Need: On Leif Weatherby's Language Machines2026REINCANTAMENTO Drops06.26
  7. Love Means Taking Action: Autonomia and Solidarity in the Coming Crisis2026REINCANTAMENTO Drops04.26
  8. "Lust auf Eis?": CTM and transmediale in 20262026REINCANTAMENTO Drops02.26
  9. The Air of Those Days: A sound chronicle of the Italian October Strike2026REINCANTAMENTO Drops, with Arianna Longo, Kinked01.26
  10. A General Poetics for Generative AI: On Leif Weatherby's Language Machines2026Annali di studi religiosi 27, ed. M. Leone, Aracne, pp. 621–642
  11. PROGRAMMA 101: Who Killed Mario Tchou?2025REINCANTAMENTO Drops12.25
  12. Spotify vs. Anna's Archive: Working Notes2025REINCANTAMENTO Drops12.25
  13. Babe, We Got Gnomes in Our Computer!: A conversation with Kinked2025REINCANTAMENTO Drops12.25
  14. Unabating Wonder: On spirituality and politics in Palestine2025REINCANTAMENTO Drops07.25
  15. Cultivating Agency: An Introduction to nCHANT #012025REINCANTAMENTO Drops06.25
  16. Entroducing... nCHANT: On REINCANTAMENTO's new monographic magazine2025REINCANTAMENTO Drops05.25
  17. The Madness of Vision2025REINCANTAMENTO Drops05.25
  18. At a Time Like This2025REINCANTAMENTO Drops04.25
  19. Conjunctural Vertigo2025REINCANTAMENTO Drops04.25
  20. No AI on a Dead Planet: Sentiment and Emotion Analysis Across Reddit Communities on AI and the Environment2025NLP4Ecology 2025, Tallinn, with Arianna Longo, pp. 77–8303.25
  21. There is No More Ordinary Life2025REINCANTAMENTO Drops02.25
  22. On FORMICAIO: A look inside REINCANTAMENTO's latest artwork2025REINCANTAMENTO Drops02.25
  23. Red Notes2025REINCANTAMENTO Drops01.25
  24. 'Till We Gain Control Again: On OpenAI and sabotage2024REINCANTAMENTO Drops11.24
  25. Blue Skies and Gilded Cages: On X-odus, digital spaces and collective desire2024REINCANTAMENTO Drops11.24
  26. The American Refraction2024REINCANTAMENTO Drops11.24
  27. Looking for Fireflies in Times of Fascism: A brief journey through the ruins of modernity2024REINCANTAMENTO Drops10.24
  28. An Anarchive's Intervention: What makes art worth living2024REINCANTAMENTO Drops07.24
  29. The Drake Era or the Logic of Cultural Fracking2024REINCANTAMENTO Drops05.24
  30. UDO: The Weird Magic of Digital Folklore2024REINCANTAMENTO Drops01.24
  31. Phantom in the Chain2023REINCANTAMENTO Drops11.23
  32. Impact of a Blockchain-based Universal Basic Income Pilot: The Case of Circles UBI Currency2023Proceedings of the FRIBIS Conference 2023, with T. Criscione, J. Linares, S. Avanzo
  33. Mask Without a Wearer — ritual personhood in AI companion communities2026conference4S 2026 Annual Meeting, Toronto (online)10.26
  34. When Hallucinations Spill Over — the prosopopoeia of Italian brainrot2026conferenceXXXI Convegno della Società di Filosofia del Linguaggio, "Allucinazioni: percezione, cognizione e intelligenza artificiale", Torino09.26
  35. Mask Without a Wearer — ritual personhood in AI companion communities2026conferenceEuARe 2026 Annual Conference, Roma07.26
  36. Unmonitoring The Situation2026workshopSalon Am Moritzplatz, Berlin04.26
  37. Three Movements on Aesthetic and Technology2026talk & workshopMendeseltaren Change Program, Madrid04.26
  38. Speranza e Progetto2026talkL'Ultima a Morire, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento04.26
  39. Il Cielo Ha Un Limite #3 — comunità di apprendimento per una società tecno-cosciente2026workshopARCI, Torino04.26
  40. Il Cielo Ha Un Limite #2 — comunità di apprendimento per una società tecno-cosciente2026workshopARCI, Torino03.26
  41. MINOR INDEX: a hyper-local community AI archive2026research & artworkwith Christopher Dake-Outhet, KSM Art Grantongoing
  42. SOLIDE INCANTI2026installationCables of Resistance, FMP1, Berlin03.26
  43. Il Cielo Ha Un Limite #1 — comunità di apprendimento per una società tecno-cosciente2026workshopARCI, Torino02.26
  44. Alchimia — storia di un'utopia perduta2026lectureAccademia Albertina, Torino01.26
  45. Endless Conversations — an archaeology of AI companionship2025conferenceIl senso serbato, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento12.25
  46. REINCANTAMENTO — a speculative walkthrough2025lectureNABA, Milano11.25
  47. Transmuting the computational condition2025conference5th European Culture & Technology Lab+ Annual Conference, Eindhoven11.25
  48. Alchemy — tale of a forgotten utopia2025lectureRaise Your Voice, Post-Graduate Design Program, Vienna11.25
  49. Synthetic Intimacies2025talkHackThePromise Festival, Basel10.25
  50. The story of Programma 1012025talkMFRU Festival, Maribor09.25
  51. PROGRAMMA 101 — whispers of computing otherwise2025installationMFRU Festival, Maribor09.25
  52. La follia del vedere2025talkMAST Festival, Scicli08.25
  53. nCHANT 01 — On Digital Gardens, launch2025talk & launchTurin / Milan07.25
  54. Lucky Land Coop Radionica2025talkMutuogenesis, Berlin07.25
  55. Technological Cooperativism2025workshopShared Visions online workshop, Belgrade05–06.25
  56. Blockchain for cooperatives2025talkShared Visions kick-off meeting, Belgrade05–06.25
  57. The role of imagination and culture in coop models2025talkFunding the Commons Berlin Forum 2025, Berlin05–06.25
  58. A Road to Nowhere — stories of techno-escapism2025talkFMR 2026 Prolog, Linz05–06.25
  59. nCHANT 01 — On Digital Gardens, launch2025talk & launchBerlin05–06.25
  60. Shared Visions — cooperative economies & Web32025–26user research & ecosystem lead
  61. Digital tools and protocol thinking for the arts2025symposiumIn-Between Symposium, Moving Media Lab, Amsterdam03.25
  62. Re-Enchanting desire in digital spaces2025workshopBaltan Laboratories, Eindhoven03.25
  63. No AI on a dead planet2025conferenceNLP4ECOLOGY, Tallinn03.25
  64. Formicaio — we are all users until we are not2025installationMacTe, Termoli02.25
  65. The Drake Era, or the logic of cultural fracking2024symposiumSIXPOSIUM 2024, NYU Design & Media (online)10.24
  66. Dissonant Cartomancies — a god that plays dice2024talkUnsound Festival Discourse Program, Krakow10.24
  67. Impact of a blockchain-based UBI pilot: the case of Circles UBI currency2024conferenceFRIBIS Annual Conference 2024, University of Freiburg (online)10.24
  68. Meshdia — playing networks to existence2024talkGeldgipfel-Hub Berlin, Moos Space, Berlin10.24
  69. Re-Enchanting the world? Looking for fireflies in times of fascism2024talkCasting a Spell opening, Somos Gallery, Berlin10.24
  70. Scraps from the imaginary of labour2024talkL ABOR, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin07.24
  71. 0xSalon2024residencyTrust, Berlin05–08.24
  72. Meshdia — network as media & media as networks2024talkWhat and How We Own: The Politics of Change, Oakland03.24
  73. Beyond Cultures of Ownership2024research grantSerpentine Galleries & RadicalxChange01–05.24
  74. Harvesting The Net2023–25video essayCodici Magici, MoCa Brescia · AMRO Festival, Linz · Enchanted Garden Festival, Vienna · Arkipel Film Festival, Jakarta · MANIFEST:IO, Berlintouring
  75. Infrastructural Constructivism2023conferenceThink Well 4, SAVVY Contemporary, Jakarta10.23
  76. BlockchainGov, CNRS — ERC-funded research2023–25communications manager & research assistant
  77. Circles Coop e.G. — universal basic income pilot2023lead researcher
  78. C/O Digital Program2022residencyC/O Berlin09–12.22
  79. Curve Labs — The Sphere, LabDAO, Toucan Protocol2021–23writer, researcher, project manager, technical writer
archive 47
  1. A Guide to CTM and transmediale 2026: REINCANTAMENTO's favourite concerts, club nights, workshops and lectures2026REINCANTAMENTO Drops01.26
  2. A Guide to CTM and Transmediale 20252025REINCANTAMENTO Drops01.25
  3. 20 Albums for 20242025REINCANTAMENTO Drops01.25
  4. A Child Bewitched: An End-of-the-Year Offering2024REINCANTAMENTO Drops12.24
  5. Notes on Bolaño: On a unvoluntary opera-mondo2023REINCANTAMENTO Drops09.23
  6. Notes on Game Design: Behind-the-scenes of Tech Collapse2023REINCANTAMENTO Drops08.23
  7. Notes on Technic and Magic: On two modes of action2023REINCANTAMENTO Drops07.23
  8. Notes on Yeezus: The tenth anniversary of a contemporary masterpiece2023REINCANTAMENTO Drops06.23
  9. Notes on CoreCore: GenZ at the end of times2023REINCANTAMENTO Drops06.23
  10. Le voci del para-reale2023NOT, Nero Editions
  11. Il carbone che non si vede2023Il Giornale dell'Arte
  12. L’arte è di chi la esperisce2022Indiscreto12.22
  13. Crypto-arte radicale?2022Not11.22
  14. Architettura senza architetti2022Mirror09.22
  15. Breve viaggio alla scoperta dei network2022Mirror07.22
  16. Parliamo di Reincantamento2022Indiscreto07.22
  17. ᗰᗩGIᑕ ᑎOTEᗷOKᔕ: un report2022Speculum!06.22
  18. Alchimia e Farmacologia2022Speculum!04.22
  19. Mechanism Art2022Mirror03.22
  20. Filosofia dal Futuro2022Speculum!02.22
  21. Radical Visions. Cities as lifeforms2021Speculum!12.21
  22. Neon Screams. History of the machines inside us2021Speculum!12.21
  23. Occupy Metaverse!2021REINCANTAMENTO11.21
  24. Eco+Queer2021Speculum!11.21
  25. Faces under control. Proctoring software in university.2021Speculum!10.21
  26. Back to the future: DAO’s and Web 3 dreams2021Singola10.21
  27. Conspiracy!2021Speculum!10.21
  28. Magic and Autonomy2021Speculum!07.21
  29. REINCANTAMENTO Episode 11. Towards impossible objects2021Medium05.21
  30. Glitch #2: Ethics - Let’s talk about Glitch Feminism2021Lay0ut Magazine05.21
  31. Tech Collapse2021KABUL Magazine05.21
  32. REINCANTAMENTO Episode 10. NFT: beyond the hype, the ecosystem!2021Medium04.21
  33. Glitch #1: Metaphysics – Intentionality and machinic anxiety2021Lay0ut Magazine03.21
  34. The NFT wave2021KABUL Magazine03.21
  35. The madness of vision2021NOT03.21
  36. Utopia, Alchemy, Post-Scarcity2021Speculum!01.21
  37. REINCANTAMENTO Episode 9. A Disproportionate Gaze2020Medium12.20
  38. The design of illusion2020Menelique11.20
  39. REINCANTAMENTO Episode 8. The psychedelic sun2020Medium08.20
  40. REINCANTAMENTO Episode 7. Destitute and Heal2020Medium06.20
  41. REINCANTAMENTO Episode 6. Through the screen: cruelty in the age of the livestream2020Medium06.20
  42. REINCANTAMENTO Episode 5. Re-enchanting design?2020Medium05.20
  43. REINCANTAMENTO Episode 4. The algorithm’s destiny2020Medium05.20
  44. REINCANTAMENTO Episode 3. Stiegler’s farmacology2020Medium04.20
  45. REINCANTAMENTO Episode 2. Technic and Magic, part two2020Medium04.20
  46. REINCANTAMENTO Episode 1. Technic and Magic, part one2020Medium04.20
  47. REINCANTAMENTO Episode 0. How did we get here?2020Medium04.20