Emidio is an Italian interdisciplinary artist and art director based in Milan. Trained in photography at ÉCAL in Lausanne, his practice examines how images, technologies, and infrastructures shape systems of power, visibility, memory, and ecological relation. Working across installation, image-making, AI, and computational tools, Battipaglia explores the moment in which images cease to simply represent the world and begin to organize perception, knowledge, and behavior.
Through machine vision, data systems, and more-than-human intelligences, his work investigates the structures through which visibility, labour, memory, and extraction are produced. Bringing together physical materials, archival research, generative processes, and responsive environments, Battipaglia approaches technology not only as a tool, but as a material condition that shapes how bodies, environments, and histories are seen, measured, and made legible.
Battipaglia’s work has been exhibited internationally. He received the Art Vontobel Contemporary Photography Prize 2023, A New Gaze, and in 2026 has taken part in a residency programme developed by the Visual Arts Commission of Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Culture.