Precisa Virtuosa is built from a discarded Precisa calculator and a broken radio—two obsolete machines reimagined into a single hybrid body. Originally built for precise calculations, the calculator no longer wishes to function as intended. Instead, it performs: each press of a number key triggers amplified typewriter sounds and a mechanical tone unique to each digit. As more inputs accumulate, the machine grows overwhelmed, and the faint signal of a radio voice emerges, disrupting the pattern.
The work explores the emotional potential of machines and questions the roles they are assigned. It imagines obsolete devices reclaiming agency and refusing to be reduced to function alone—transforming e-waste into a poetic medium that sings instead of calculates.
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