Night-1.0, Day for Night Project, Fed Galleries (KCAD), Grand Rapids, Michigan, naccarato, 2017

About the Artist and Work

Naccarato is an Interdisciplinary Visual Media Artist, based out of Montreal, QC and Rome, Italy, who creates conceptually driven visceral works incorporating varied media, such as performance, digital print, media art, and site-specific installations. He uses daily life as subject matter to create a critical commentary of technology’s intervention on social, cultural and personal identity.

the Butterfly Effect 01, NFTs, John Naccarato, 2022, @ rariable

the Butterfly (effect): NFT Series

The term is closely associated with the work of mathematician and meteorologist Edward Norton Lorenz. He noted that the butterfly effect is derived from the metaphorical example of the details of a tornado (the exact time of formation, the exact path taken) being influenced by minor perturbations such as a distant butterfly flapping its wings several weeks earlier.

white.Rabbit, day 08 (interface), NFT / Print series, naccarato, 2021

white.Rabbit Series

The white.Rabbit Series (aka, Chasing the white.Rabbit through the Ethereum) was inspired by the rise of cryptocurrency and its role in our ever increasing augmented virtual and digital world. I set out to explore this phenomenon through a collection which follows the rabbit’s experience over a one year period.

Day for Night AR Exhibit, The Day for Night Project (The Augmented Story), KCAD, Naccarato, 2017

the Day for Night Project / The Augmented Story

The Augmented Story unfolds as narrative, revolving around an unnamed protagonist and his movements throughout the city of Grand Rapids, Michigan, and his chance encounter with the mysterious V.

The Augmented Story was made up of twenty-three (23) interactive and augmented Story Frames, which premiered at the FED GALLERIES (KCAD), Grand Rapids, Michigan between August 29 to October 15, 2017.

Day for Night Exhibtion, naccarato

The Day for Night Project / The Augmented City

The Augmented City was made up of multiple Story Markers – distinctive GPS co-ordinates and landmarks throughout the city of Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Some of these markers were site-specific to a location, consisting of landmarks, architectural structures and designs such as the mural found across from Fed Galleries. Others consist of non-site-specific elements such as street signs and could be triggered anywhere throughout the city.