Born in Italy in 1991, Tommasino Maderna trained in music and philosophy before turning to advanced studies in logic. He earned his diploma in Piano at 17, studied Classical Composition and Philosophy, and later pursued Logic in the Netherlands. In 2024, he completed his PhD in Philosophy at the University of St Andrews. From 2024 to 2025, he taught Logic, Philosophy, and the Ethics of AI at the University of Edinburgh as a Teaching Fellow. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of St Andrews, contributing to the EPSRC research project Instruments of Unity: the Many Ways of Being One.

Maderna’s artistic practice unfolds at the edges of machine vision and human gesture, investigating how technology mediates human perception and generates new forms of experience. Working across audiovisual media, he creates audiovisual works that behave like sensing organisms — recording, misreading, and reinterpreting fragments of humanity through computational logic. Influenced by his training in music and philosophy, Maderna’s work approaches machines as co-creative agents—participants in a speculative, shared space of image, sound, and thought. His environments combine digital and analogue signals into fluid ecologies, where perception becomes unstable and meaning shimmers at the threshold, offering glimpses into alternative ways of being and knowing.