Mental images — biological images. This is how the work of Giovanna Bianco and Pino Valente, the two Neapolitan artists who study and research the formative process of images at the cerebral level, might be introduced. 
Elena Fierli - Bianco-Valente, 2001
What interests them, in fact, is the relationship between the information that reaches the brain and its translation into an image for the mind: the workings of neurons and synapses, the flow of waves as they transform. Memory, emotion, the sensations we perceive as something clear and sharp are in fact the product of biological and chemical processes that the mind elaborates and converts. The formation of sounds in the cerebral cortex, and their blending and merging with sounds synthesized and sampled by computer. The reproduction of these very processes within the work itself.
An investigation of the digital, photographic and televisual world, carried out through the mechanical processes that often escape us because we are too drawn to the finished product. It is also an investigation that draws a parallel between what forms in our mind and the "soft" world of digital mechanics, which produces images so similar to mental ones because, like them, they are ephemeral, subject to the wear of time, to being forgotten.
Bianco-Valente work with video and photography, presenting mainly installations with blurred, grainy, poorly defined images. The alteration of the image is not applied after shooting but is deliberately "wrong," volatile, blurred, from the outset. This is because, in video, they favour its very limits: the low definition of images, their evanescence, the difficulty of achieving focus. In the information age, the two artists also seek to reproduce three-dimensionality and external reality through the eye of the camera and the filter of the computer, in a continuous experiment aimed at overcoming the spatio-temporal limits of their own bodies and minds.
"For us, "postorganic" does not mean improving ourselves through the insertion of high-tech physical prostheses that remedy the decay or structural limitations of our body. For us, "postorganic" means fleeing our own body while still alive, before the slow and progressive disintegration it undergoes brings an end to brain activity and, with it, to our real existence.
The sum of all our lived experiences, our soft baggage, is a single, intricately tangled trace that winds through billions of neuronal synaptic connections. Being able to decode it and entrust it to active, non-organic memories, networked together, would turn us into immaterial conscious entities, capable — at the speed of optical impulses — of acquiring new experiences and moving without limits."