[Tekst dostępny tylko w języku angielskim] Deliriouniversale.com(a) is an artistic and digital experimentation project that emerged in the early 2000s and is connected to the practices of Nikky / Valeria Guarcini, Chiba / Daniela D'Avino and Dr Doom / Emiliano Fuksas. Based primarily in Rome, the project developed through global collaborations within the first wave of creative web culture, when browsers, Macromedia Flash and digital tools were becoming new territories for constructing images, animations and forms of interaction, both with machines and among the different communities participating in the rapidly expanding online world.

Delirio Universale belongs to a period in the history of the web when the network was not yet a standardised platform, but an open space for constructing personal visual languages through code, images and interaction. Its research moves across graphics, collage, photography, animation, performance and audiovisual experimentation, combining discarded objects, ideas, materials and sensibilities from the physical world with the possibilities offered by the digital environment. Bodies, faces, photographic fragments and objects are assembled, transformed and set in motion, often retaining visible traces of their material construction.

Interaction is a central element of many of the works created for Deliriouniversale.com(a), where the “(a)” is pronounced but not written. The domain is not conceived as a surface to be passively observed: visitors are invited to explore it by interacting with the URLs of its editorial system or through the mouse, discovering sensitive areas, activating animations and altering what happens on screen. The browser thus becomes a performative space in which image, movement and the actions of the viewer coexist.

Reactivated within HyperMedia, the works of Delirio Universale offer access once again to this dimension of the early web: works created to be explored and manipulated, in which the physical processes of collage and assemblage encounter a digital environment constructed interaction by interaction.

This practice is still carried forward today by one of Delirio Universale's founders, Nikky, who develops it through multiple forms of experimental practice, including performances and projections. Her path intersects with Rome's digital culture scene and with projects such as Shockart and FLxER, whose second edition she curated, laying the foundations for subsequent experiences that would converge in the LPM meeting and its research around VJing.

Delirio Universale remains active today — albeit in a passive form — and continues to receive new submissions.

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