Alessandro Marianantoni
with
Ayesha Orange, Dancer
Diana Gianpiccolo, Choreographer
Amanda Hosler, Costume Designer

On the occasion of the
UCLA Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies conference:
“From Earthly Pleasure to Princely Glories in the Medieval and Renaissance Worlds”

Friday May 17 2013
ITALIAN CULTURAL INSTITUTE
Los Angeles

The walk along Via dei Fori Imperiali becomes a playful interactive narrative. As  you capture the beauty of the Colosseum and surrounding area with your tablet or smartphone,  you will  receive a short movie clip, related to the photo taken.

Let’s say you take a picture of the “Statue of Caesar”, his “Forum ” or the “Senate”… you might  receive a video clip on Caesar and Cleopatra or on Caesar’s assassination or hear a monologue from the great dictator. These  engaging video clips, based in historical fact, will  open your eyes to the famed love affair between Cleopatra and Caesar, the conversion of Constantine, Trajan’s resurrection and much more…You will even see a virtual reconstruction of the Colosseum as Vespasian intended it!

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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
movie → 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

Senior Researcher at UCLA Center for Research in Engineering, Media, and Performance (REMAP) at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.
Working on the National Science Foundation Future Internet Architecture project on “Named Data Networking,” a $7.9M program including 10 campuses lead by UCLA Computer Science and Xerox PARC.
a.m. is also developing international research activities and partnership with industries at REMAP.

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.

Publications & Lectures

Press

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 → from Bart Kresa’s youtube channel

movie → Disney Parks

movie → video clip from youtube

Review and Rankings

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