Precisa Virtuosa
A poetic machine that sings instead of calculates
Precisa Virtuosa is built from a discarded Precisa calculator and a broken radio — two obsolete machines reimagined into a single hybrid body. Originally built for precise calculations, the calculator no longer wishes to function as intended. Instead, it performs: each press of a number key triggers amplified typewriter sounds and a mechanical tone unique to each digit. As inputs accumulate, the machine grows overwhelmed, and the faint signal of a radio voice emerges, disrupting the pattern.
The work explores the emotional potential of machines and questions the roles they are assigned. It imagines a world where obsolete devices reclaim their agency and refuse to be reduced to function alone — transforming e-waste into a poetic medium, a machine that sings instead of calculates.
Rather than a nostalgic object, it is meant to be met as a character with desire and memory, inviting people to rethink technology not as disposable tools but as entities that evolve, resist and express.
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