The Arkanians, a series of art works by Luca Pozzi, are technological animism specimens that live simultaneously on macroscopic (Analog), subatomic (Quantum Interactions), and digital (Twitter / Telegram / Internet) platforms.

Arkanian Leonardo
http://thearkanians.com/leonardo
Arkanian Leonardo, cast in aluminum, is equipped with a particle detector created in collaboration with the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN @infn_insights ) is programmed to count the passage of Muons coming from the stratosphere.
Every time a particle interacts with the artwork, a pair of blue eyes appear flashing on its aluminum face.

Every 16 revelations, the particle detector creates a phrase, a kind of Japanese contemporary Haiku, with a divinatory sense, ready to be shared as a public message, on his personal Telegram profile (https://t.me/arkanianleonardo.).
The final stage of the multi-layered experience is a dedicated web-site (www.thearkanians.com/leonardo) where the Arkanian, as a quantum prophet, declares the last message with a self generated browser voice.

The sculpture combines the features of artist and scientist Leonardo Da Vinci, formal and conceptual references from the Renaissance (the chest / The Vitruvian Man by Leonardo), mathematics (the back / Mandelbrot fractal diagram; the shoes / golden ratio; the hands / E8 theory; the mouth / quantum mechanics wave function), theoretical physics (undertunic / Wheeler-De Witt equation) and multi-messenger cosmology (the eyes / INFN muon detector).

Arkanian Shenron
http://thearkanians.com/shenron
is made of bronze with an ancient technique of more than five thousand years ago.
Iconographically the art-work combines different interdisciplinary references connected to the figure of Leonardo Da Vinci: 1 – (the chest / The Vitruvian Man by Leonardo), 2 – (the back / Mandelbrot fractal diagram), 3 – (the shoes / golden ratio symbol), 4 – (the hands / E8 theory), 5 – (the mouth / quantum mechanics wave function, PSI symbol), 6 – (undertunic / Wheeler-De Witt equation), 7 – (the eyes / INFN muon detector, Multi-Messenger Astrophysics).

It is a hybrid experiment created to highlight the biodiversity of physical phenomena beyond the classic concept of sensitive matter and the rigid duality of analog and digital. It underlines the existence of correlations at a distance, organized in an intimately hyperconnected web of relations that connects events from multiple times and spaces.

Arkanian Mirror
http://thearkanians.com/mirror
Made of a simple daily object, a table mirror, this version convert the particle revelation into a word randomly generated and based on a pool of texts about climate change.