DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES AND ART TO PRESERVE MASTER CRAFTSMANSHIP: IN VIAREGGIO THE EXHIBITION INSPIRED TO "AMICA" PROJECT SUPPORTED BY TIM FOUNDATION
A new bridge between art and technology to preserve and transmit knowledge: the sense of "Presence" is contained in these words. Sant'Anna School TeCIP Laboratory for Perceptual Robotics contributed significantly to “Presence” exhibition which opens Thursday, May 26th at 4.30 pm in Viareggio, at "Lorenzo Viani" modern and contemporary art gallery.
The exhibition explores the path of two years of work for the development and experimentation of "Amica" project, implemented by the Institute TeCIP Perceptual Robotics Laboratory of Sant'Anna School for Advanced Studies of Pisa and funded by TIM Foundation in the framework of open call “Invisible Assets” launched by TIM.
Researchers and technicians of the perceptual robotics laboratory "blended" to craftsmen and artists during the first year of the Master's program in "Techniques and management in fine art printing and publishing" promoted by the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence with the 2RC Contemporary Laboratory Association and with Viareggio town council, which was held in Viareggio at the 2RCGAMC International Centre of Graphic Arts.
The Master course gave the students the opportunity to “learn and digitally acquire” people, objects, activities that contribute to the creation of fine art prints. The result is an immersive virtual reality tool, able to show processes and skills needed to create craftsman products, preserving and handing down to future generations the skilled knowledge of master craftsmen.
The exhibition presents the experimental and technological research process required to achieve best results. It will show the artistic training paths of the Master course, integrating the arts with technology, and the multimedia applications created in the laboratory. These three themes seamlessly combine to guarantee the full picture of a complex product in which art and technology interact to experience an innovative way to preserve and transmit knowledge.
Several appointments are scheduled during the exhibition period in which the researchers of Perceptual Robotics Laboratory will demonstrate the features and functionality of the "immersive products" and offer the possibility of wearing the virtual reality system to immerse themselves in a virtual lab and have firsthand knowledge of work, skills and abilities featured in exhibitions.
The exhibition also includes graphic works, plates, printing matrices - from old print shop 2RC - by artists such as Francesco Clemente, Lucio Fontana, Francis Bacon and George Segal.
