Q: How does Brown help you be?
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I have access to things that bring me joy. I love 3D printing, I like laser cut, I love making videos. I am one of those crazy people who get up at 2 am, reading criticism on the differences in camera sensors – or anything that day – and here, I have access to all this, and to other spaces like the Brown design workshop. I also recently took advantage of the Employee training programTake a few lessons in Risd.
I am an interdisciplinary artist and a general practitioner, and in my role here, I can help students, teachers and staff by creating spaces and opportunities accessible to all. I also like culture at Brown. You can ask anyone here; I am noisy. But I am in an environment where I feel safe to be noisy, and it never makes you frightening for me to express my opinion or to speak for something that, I think, is important.
Q: How did Brown allow you to do something you have always wanted to do?
My identity was so wrapped in the idea of being an artist – especially that my goal should be to show things in museums and galleries – and Brown gave me the opportunity to see me more as a designer than a simple artist. We work with people from all over the university, and I realized that there are so many things that I have picked up in the pursuit of my artistic practice which can be used for all types of creative problems, which has become my main identity. I have a large toolbox and a variety of different methods to apply to different problems as you go.
An excellent example was during the COVID-19 pandemic, when we helped a huge group of volunteers from various hospitals of silicone silicone masks for medical workers. I realized that I could use the same technology to design and produce something to help other essential workers. There was already a facial shield circulating in the 3D printing community which took more than two hours to build because the entire structure was printed in 3D. So I ended up Clip This could go after a hat and maintain a piece of acetate for the facial shield. In doing so, I was able to reduce the printing time to just 16 minutes. So I wrapped them, I made videos of YouTube tutorial on how to do it at home, then I went out with a backpack and I gave them to people like the workers of the grocery and catering.
I don’t think I would have done this before my time at Brown, because I didn’t think like a designer. Brown changed me this way, and now I understand things everywhere.
Q: What did you do before coming to brown?
I have an MFA of Columbia College Chicago, and my work focuses on the intersection of technology, surveillance, identity and civic. I am best known for my works, “Urme surveillance“, Which is a printed and photorealistic photorealist prosthesis of my face that I have offered to the public by several online means as a means of trying to fight against facial recognition, initially in Chicago. The city has a surveillance system called “virtual shield”, where thousands of cameras with location data are linked to a central hub capable of managing all these recognition algorithms. He. “So when someone carries my face in public, he is not only protecting himself, but he also creates disinformation on the identity of Leo Selvaggio and where his location is at any time.
Q: What do you like to do when you are not at work?
I am a passionate volleyball player and I play in the Volleyball League Ocean State Pride. I love savings. And I teach myself to sew and make clothes, which has become a huge hobby. And I really like to enter my camera, go to Google Maps, point to a random city and go – just to see what exists.