Francesca Da Rimini -> Harpy -> Cleopatra

from Francesca the most debated “eroina dell’amore ideale”,
through the harpy, a figure of the Greek mythology half women half bird,
to the seductive Cleopatra.

Interactive video projections, gesture recognition, live performance, costume video projections

RELIGIOUS MANTIS
Alessandro Marianantoni
Performed by Tiffany Trenda
Music by Joseph Bishara
Costume constructed by Marina Tia
Light design by Maarten Cornelis
Additional graphics by Kevin Finch

@Women in Hell: Francesca da Rimini & Friends Between Sin, Virtue, and Heroism
Italian Cultural Center, Los Angeles

UCLA Italian Department, Massimo Ciavolella

Seaton Delaval Hall July-March 2011

it is a British Art Council Contemporary program

The art installation is a living visualization of greenhouse gas fluxes from a network of sensing technologies in the UK. The sculpture is based on a scrubber molecule which helps to sequester CO2 out of the air.  The installation is traveling to various National Trust historical sites in 2010.

more photos at the flickr group
movie → time-lapse installation

Producer and interviewer for the Interview with Prof. Omar Yaghi from the UCLA Chemistry Department. The Interview relates on climate change issues and Yaghi’s work on the scrubber molecule. The interview for the CO2morrow project, was screened at the United Nation Summit COP15 on December 2009.
movie → Capturing CO2, an interview with Omar Yaghi

PROJECT ARTISTS
Alessandro Marianantoni
Marcos Lutyens

SCULPTURE DESIGN TEAM
Roberto Castellani and Lucia Barna Architects at SS67
Francesco Chiesi Structural Engineer
Riccardo Bagagli Composite Engineer
Daniela Pangallo and Marco Piana at Ghigos Energy

Andrew Pearce at Mirror Image Yachts Ltd

PRESENTED by
The National Trust at the Royal Academy of Arts, GSK Contemporary, London, UK
Earth:Art of a changing world Exhibit

PRESENTING SPONSOR:
National Trust
Sarah Staniforth, Historic Properties Director
Andy Beer, Head of Learning

TECHNICAL SPONSOR:
Siemens AG

COMPOSITE SPONSOR:
Morley Composite (Full Bar Composite)
Simon Jenner, Managing Director

Co2morrow is also supported by Karborek SpA

PROJECT PRODUCERS
Martin Lutyens and Jacqueline Quella

CLIMATE SCIENTIST
Andrew Manning NERC Advanced Research Fellow
Lena Kozlova PhD Student
Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, UK

CO2morrow at the Royal Academy of Arts
GSK Contemporary
eArth: Art of a changing world
3 December 2009 – 31 January 2010

CURATORS
Kathleen Soriano  Director of Exhibitions at the Royal Academy David Buckland  Director of Cape Farewell
Edith Devaney  Royal Academy

Sunnifa Hope Exhibitions Coordinator
Philip Pearce Architect at Royal Academy
David Rafferty Engineer at Scott Wilson Group

ADDITIONAL PRODUCTION SUPPORT
University College Falmouth
Charli Clark
Kirsty Ziggy Davies-Clark
Dorothy Hunter

Michael Brooksbank Traxon UK
Matthew Lewis Metropolitan Work

www.co2morrow.net

2007/9
Staff Researcher for Semiotic Pivots and Activity Spaces for Elementary Science (SPASES)
a National Science Foundation (NSF) funded project at UCLA REMAP for the UCLA Lab Elementary School. Prototype development of a physically interactive classroom space for elementary physics concepts learning in 6-8 year olds, based on multi-camera computer vision and augmented reality.

2007
Senior designer and developer for Juncture
a media novel installation with  the UCLA REMAP Center in collaboration with the Walt Disney Imagineering, California State Park  and the Los Angeles Metro Rail for the Los Angeles Historic Park.

2005
Organized with Prof. Chiara Ferrari the two-day event Pier Paolo Pasolini and the City at the School of Theater, Film and Television, UCLA. Event sponsored by the Institute of Italian Culture in Los Angeles, Italian Dept. at UCLA, Italian Dept. at USC, Critical Studies program at UCLA and REMAP Center. In collaboration with Melnitz Movie, Film, Television Archive (UCLA) and the Cineteca of Bologna the movie Appunti per un’orestiade africana (1975) premiered in the U.S.
www.pasolini.net

2005/6
Author and Project Director of Quartieri della Memoria (Neighborhoods of Memory)
at UCLA REMAP. International collaboration with the Provincia di Rieti and the Fondazione Varrone, which provided 3 scholarships for 6 months of residency at the REMAP Center. It is a new media art piece for the town of Rieti (Italy), focused on oral memories and historical public spaces. The proposal was awarded in 2005 with one of the most conspicuous sponsorship for a public new media art project in Italy.

2005
with filmmaker and actor Matt Schulze, AM developed Advanced Scenography, a series of workshops and rehearsals at the UCLA School of Film and TV on performance with digital set for film productions through digital video projections.

2004/5
Development team leader, developer of Advanced Technology for Media production for the UCLA REMAP Center.  The project aims to provide to the cinematographer novel feedback data, which can be used during the production or the post-production phases. High-level engineering is provided to the film industry’s production workflow, connecting the lab to the field’s action world.
SenSys 2004

2003
Interaction designer for the School of Architecture, University of Firenze, Italy. AM worked on a series of interactive solutions and permanent art installations for a renovation plan of the historic city of Firenze.

2002/3
Research Assistant Intern at Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC) Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems, at the University of Southern California (USC)
Sponsor: Institute of Creative Technology
Computer vision thesis: Perceptual Interfaces: Head Pose Estimation from a single camera with Profs. Gérard Medioni and Isaac Cohen.

The Canary Indicators are designed for schools, hospitals, public city buildings and business establishments. They are useful for anyone who has a vested interest in economizing at the location in which they live or work, as well as contributing to the health of the planet as a whole.

Quartieri della Memoria
Multimedia Support System for Alzheimers
Firenze Futura
are part of Mnemonic Spaces

In form of the interactive demo system for Alzheimer’s, Mnemonic Spaces was exhibited at:

JAUS Gallery
ADHD (Art Diagnostics and Healing Devices)
November 19 – January 9, 2011
Curated by Kóan Jeff Baysa, M.D.

movie → Interactive Dance – Disney Glow Fest 2010 video clip from youtube

movie → from Bart Kresa’s youtube channel

movie → movie-clip
3D, compositing by A. Martina

1080 PUNCHUPS happened at the 100th anniversary celebration of the Futurism movement (event in Los Angeles).

Interaction description:
the system detects movements, speed and positions of the visitors to combine words on the facade. The words are retrieved from a database made out of the 700 words of Futurist Manifesto published in 1909 on Le Figaro.

movie → 1080 Punch-Ups movie-clip

The narrative is articulated around two acts, an interactive one and a static one.

The second act is a trompe d’oeil created around the architectural projection mapping of the facade.

The computer vision system is based on fluXsensi developed at Mediars

Futurism + 100
OTIS College of Art and Design
Los Angeles February 20, 2009

Presented by the OTIS Graduate Writing Program, chaired by Paul Vangelisti

video interactive installation by:

Alessandro Marianantoni
Gianluca Rizzo

SS67 Architetti
Ryan Dorn
Trinidad Ruiz
Daniele Ruju
Vids Samanta
Jackie Young
Siracusa
Thomas
Gomez
Patham
Dare
Tecle
Bennett
Leddy
Kinney

Long Beach January 19-21, 2009

Alessandro Marianantoni
Marcos Lutyens

The Excarnation Machine (BETA) is a participatory game that involves assembling and breathing life into an assortment of hi-tech media representations of the human body, generating a 21st century take on the “exquisite corpse.”  Our project addresses some of the ethical provocations that contemporary science brings to us, such as genetic manipulation and mutation from within and plastic surgery from without.

By representing the human body with MRI’s, X-rays or ultrasounds, we break through the body’s physical boundaries, removing its sense of gravity and turning it into an anti-terrestrial and quasi-ethereal entity.  Thus, in a sense, the body ascends into a cosmic dimension, and yet, at the same time, the antiseptic process of medical imaging causes a qualitative dilution that presents us with a human portraiture that is void of vitality, emotion and warmth.

http://www.nextmed.com

MMVR17 Blog

curator:
Kóan Jeff Baysa

Images from:
Dr. Arthur Toga
Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, UCLA School of Medicine

tracking system based on ARtoolkit