CROSS Festival 2025 is an international festival of contemporary dance and performing arts held across locations on Lake Maggiore in northern Italy.

It brings together performances, music, installations, video, and embodied practices within an interdisciplinary framework that explores the relationship between art, spirituality, and technology.

The 2025 edition, titled Tone of Light, focuses on light as an immaterial and perceptual dimension—connecting the body with the invisible. More than a traditional festival, it offers an immersive and participatory experience, combining shows, workshops, and digital projects that invite audiences to engage with art as a shared and transformative process.

I had the pleasure of being invited by CROSS Festival to write this text as an editorial piece accompanying a video dedicated to the digital projects presented by selected guest artists during the latest edition, Tone of Light.

The project reflects on the evolving relationship between humans and technology within contemporary artistic practices, exploring digital media not simply as tools, but as active agents capable of shaping perception, presence, and creative expression.

Within the festival’s interdisciplinary framework—where art, spirituality, and new media intersect—the video highlights how artists engage with digital languages to investigate immaterial dimensions such as light, breath, and transformation. Through this lens, digital art becomes a space of encounter, where human sensitivity and technological processes merge, opening up new forms of embodied and perceptual experience.