Automated Italian Hand Gestures

t’s so over they automated italians.

A mechanical sculptural hand mounted on a white pedestal repeatedly performs the stereotypical Italian pinched-fingers gesture, driven by strings and a crank-like mechanism. The caption jokes that Italian gesticulation is obsolete because Italians have been automated, while Paolo Conte’s jaunty jazz-pop song “Via Con Me” makes the absurd machine feel theatrically Italian. EN: A mechanical sculptural hand mounted on a white pedestal repeatedly performs the stereotypical Italian pinched-fingers gesture, driven by strings and a crank-like mechanism. The caption jokes that Italian gesticulation is obsolete because Italians have been automated, while Paolo Conte’s jaunty jazz-pop song “Via Con Me” makes the absurd machine feel theatrically Italian.

questo tempo grigio, pieno di musica e di uomini che ti sono piaciuti e'zuanofu, e'zuanofu, e'zuanofu, good luck my baby, e'zuanofu

♪ Paolo Conte — Via Con Me

• @afrosidemoon / 71531 2025-04-11