The Pearl originates its beauty and singularity by reacting to external interferences. Organic materials, parasites and even mantle tissue of the oyster itself are considered a threat, and covered in nacre. Also known as "mother of pearl", nacre is composed of hexagonal platelets of a substance called aragonite.
Luca Bertini and Marco Antonini's NACRE is an ongoing project in which data inconsistencies retrieved from the net bloom into an ever changing sprawling 3d structure. A plentiful mass of interferences and anomalies (the multi-faceted constituents of networks that are no longer able to produce a linear, unequivocal reality) is therefore perceived as a threat to the purity and determinism of the "outer environment".
This chaotic structure is built from huddling hexagonal platelets designed over information collected by a spider (an automatic computer program which crawls the net in search of data).
NACRE exists to give shape to this underworld of deceptive, ambiguous data, in a way that is neither creative nor critical.
NACRE resembles a product, but its approach to the economy and ecology of networks is completely unique. Personal data treated by NACRE take a completely useless, anti-iconic form, ultimately by redefining the rationale of the environment, what they were originally from dramatically extending its possibilities.