In 2018, with La morte si fa social, Davide Sisto was one of the first in Italy to introduce the topic of digital death. Since then, the relationship between death and new technologies has become increasingly intertwined with our lives, and the emergence of artificial intelligence in the infosphere has made things even more paradoxical. While in 2018 the main player was Facebook – which, with its profiles of deceased people, whose birthdays the algorithm regularly reminds us of, represents “the world's largest cemetery” – with new technologies, anyone can access services that promise to “talk to the deceased” as if they were still with us. The impact of these technologies on our relationship with death – and therefore with life – is increasingly disturbing.

As time passes, “foreverism” is gaining ground in society, the idea that we can somehow “live forever”, at least digitally speaking: apps that promise us digital eternity and exorcise death end up denying those left behind the consolation of grieving. Time itself is freezing in an eternal present.

In Vivere per sempre Davide Sisto, with a direct and profound style, reinterprets our relationship with the end, from the cultural repression of death to its spectacularisation, showing how technology is increasingly changing the way we live, remember and, above all, die and are remembered.