Officine Sintetiche Activities 2019 – 2020
Starting from February 2019 Officine Sintetici Lab, supported by the CRT Foundation and promoted by the University of Turin (CIRMA and Department of Humanities) in collaboration with the Polytechnic of Turin (Cinema and Media Engineering) presents a series of meetings, talks, seminars, workshops, studies and public demonstrations in the field of interactive media art.
The topics on which OS is currently working are: digital / gaming storytelling, localization systems, XR (VR / AR / MR) systems.
All activities are free to enter or register. Some activities are aimed exclusively at selected students, others are open to all interested parties.
SCHEDULED ACTIVITIES
2019 – 2020
4 – 8 February 2019
DoPPioGioco Laboratory at StudiUmLab of the Department of Humanities of the University of Turin.
DoPPioGioco (Interactive Storytelling)
at StudiumLab (Università degli Studi di Torino – Palazzo Nuovo)
DoPPioGioco is a computational platform that intervenes in the relationship between performer and audience as an “intelligent prompt” that suggests the next piece to the performer, taking into account both the emotional response of the audience and the decisions of the performers.
The general idea is to test the DoubleGame methodology in a performative context. The goal is to research, develop and test a particular physical interface that allows a performer to provide narration in real time to an intelligent interactive system by playing with the audience’s response in real time.
LECTURE, WORKSHOP, PUBLIC PRESENTATION
January 31 – February 1, 2020
Missing Out
curated by Vanessa Vozzo
Missing Out is a study that explores, through VR 360 ° systems and real-time streaming, FoMO, Fear of Missing Out, the social condition of feeling excluded, “cut off”.
Embodied narrative and perceptual-sensorial disorientation techniques are put in place to give the user-viewer the possibility, wearing a VR viewer, to observe from a new, immersive and engaging position.
The project was born in Linz by a group of the Master Interface Culture to investigate space-time perception in VR environments and is selected for Ars Electronica 2019.
In the same year Vanessa Vozzo proposed its development through a laboratory lasting about 15 days with the Officine Sintetici platform and together with a group of students and researchers from the Polytechnic and the University of Turin.
Missing Out is an experience lasting about 10 minutes, for one person at a time.
Supported by: CRT Foundation
With: University of Turin – Department of Humanities
Polytechnic of Turin – Cinema and Media Engineering
In collaboration with: Circolo del Design Torino
Media Partner: Turin City of Cinema 2020
16 – 17 January 2020
Meeting + Workshop with
MATT ADAMS | BLAST THEORY
Interactive engagement and storytelling
Matt Adams will address the topic of interactive storytelling by presenting the latest
Blast Theory projects, including the interactive documentary Bloodyminded.
Matt Adams was co-founder of Blast Theory in 1991. Blast Theory was a guest at the Venice Biennale with Ulrike and Eamon Compliant, and at the Sundance Film Festival with A Machine To See With, and at Tate Britain with Can You See Me Now? Its patrons include Channel 4, the National Theater Wales and the Royal Opera House. Among the awards obtained the Golden Nica at the Prix Ars Electronica, the Nam June Paik Art Center Award and four nominations at the BAFTA. Matt Adams was curator at Tate Modern and ICA in London. He has lectured at Stanford University, the Royal College of Art and the Sorbonne. With Ju Row Farr and Nick Tandavanitj, he won the Maverick Award at the Game Developers Choice Awards, was a Thinker In Residence for the Government of South Australia, and was an artist in residence at the World Health Organization in Geneva in 2018. honorary of the University of Exeter.
LOCATIONS AND TIMES
CONFERENCE
Università degli Studi di Torino
Via Sant’Ottavio 20, 10124 Torino
Aula 4 – Palazzo Nuovo (Primo piano)
January 16 – 10:00 – 12:00 Conference (free and free admission)
WORKSHOP
University of Turin
Via Sant’Ottavio 20, 10124 Turin
StudiUmLab – Palazzo Nuovo (Ground floor)
January 16 – 14:00 – 18:00 Workshop
January 17 – 9:00 – 12:00 + 14:00 – 18:00 Workshop with registration link below