The Italian artist's project articulates sound composition and audiovisual language in works linked to the digital universe and Web3.
Cristian Guerra, an Italian artist born in 1996, developed a practice that articulated music, image and technology. Active since 2008 as a composer, with tracks played by DJs in different countries, he brought to the visual field research based on rhythm, repetition and structure, elements that crossed his audiovisual production.
In 2022, Guerra began to sign his works under the name CRIS WAR, a project that marked a change in its trajectory. From that moment on, his practice expanded to collaborations with digital artists linked to the Web3 ecosystem, investigating how sound and image could operate in an integrated way in digital environments.
His work was organized based on issues related to the technological mediation of the human experience. The projects observed how identity, presence, and perception were crossed by digital systems, without resorting to illustrative narratives or decorative visual solutions.
In 2024, the artist presented his first collaboration guided by artificial intelligence in the Fellowship's Daily program, a platform dedicated to contemporary digital art. The following year, he launched data_transform, a series of conceptual videos that circulated widely on the networks. In the project, bodies and gestures were progressively fragmented and converted into visual flows, reflecting the logic of the data and algorithms.
Between music, image and code, CRIS WAR constructed a reading of the present based on digital languages, treating technology not as an isolated topic, but as a structural part of the way in which human relations began to be mediated in contemporary daily life.
