On the occasion of SilenzioSuono – SoundSilence, the exhibition curated by Elena Volpato and supported by PAC 2022–2023 – Piano per l’Arte Contemporanea promoted by the Italian Ministry of Culture, GAM Torino has presented a new chapter of its collection: 471 artist records, many of them designed by the artists themselves.

The exhibition allows visitors not only to view the records and their covers, but also to listen to the entire audio collection. For this purpose, we designed and implemented the new Videoteca GAM, a space fully renewed and equipped for consultation, offering both physical access in the library and digital listening in the exhibition.

Our work focused on the technological infrastructure that connects the collection to the visitor experience:

• Setting up the audio and video systems for playback.
• Implementing the digital archive interface for browsing, consulting and listening.
• Creating a flexible network infrastructure to ensure accessibility both in the exhibition halls and in the Videoteca.

Through this setup, the museum makes available not only avant-garde works such as the Futurist experiments of Marinetti and Russolo, the Dada sound poems of Huelsenbeck and Schwitters, and the research on silence by John Cage and Yves Klein, but also Fluxus works by Joseph Beuys, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, the Beat Generation’s Dial-a-Poem records, and contemporary sound works by Laurie Anderson, Christian Marclay, Carsten Nicolai and others.

The Videoteca now serves as a permanent listening station, bridging past and present sound experimentations, and offering scholars, artists, and the public a unique resource to explore the intersection of art, sound, and performance.