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Photosynthetic Me

Photosynthetic Me Bioart, Interactive and immersive Sci-Fi documentary
project 2020

Concept and design_interactive and VR system
Vanessa V

Scientific design
Vincenzo Guarnieri

Images
Andrea Macchia

Production
Alessia Gervasone

In collaboration with
The Molecular Biotechnology Center (MBC) of Turin (IT)
Mara Brancaccio
Interface Culture – Kunstuniversität Linz

Thanks to
Andrea Ballo, Petra Ballo, Fulvio Montano, Cian McLoughlin,
Dario Cottafava, Lydia Easley

Winner 2021 S+T+Arts Prize for Social Good
Premiered at Ars Electronica 2020

go to Photosynthetic You

01 January 2020

Photosynthetic Me is a bioart, interactive and Immersive installation that emerges from a process-based experiment around the topic of becoming plant-like. In the project, a biotechnologist activates a photosynthetic system in a situation of altered evolution that can make Vanessa V self-sufficient for food and energy requirements and, eventually, a producer of energy (energy-autarkic system).
In the installation, the visitor jumps from being an observer to being a protagonist through an effective embodied narrative process.

Innovative technologies that allow techniques such as CRISPR bring up again the debate around genetics since it places us in front of new scientific possibilities that strongly affect important issues in our contemporary society.
Photosynthetic me deals with some ethical questions related to this debate: what if we could replace the diseased parts of our DNA? What if we could swap genes with other species, becoming thin and motionless like leaves? Can I evolve in my imperfection? Is it really possible to be perfect?

photosynthetic self-sustenance

Video Promo PhotosyntheticMe 2021 // Starts

The process by which we can achieve the perfect photosynthetic self-sustenance

Photosynthetic Me Bioart, Interactive and immersive Sci-Fi documentary
project 2020

Concept and design_interactive and VR system
Vanessa V

Scientific design
Vincenzo Guarnieri

Images
Andrea Macchia

Production
Alessia Gervasone

In collaboration with
The Molecular Biotechnology Center (MBC) of Turin (IT)
Mara Brancaccio
Interface Culture – Kunstuniversität Linz

Thanks to
Andrea Ballo, Petra Ballo, Fulvio Montano, Cian McLoughlin,
Dario Cottafava, Lydia Easley

Winner 2021 S+T+Arts Prize for Social Good
Premiered at Ars Electronica 2020

go to Photosynthetic You

Apnea

Apnea Interactive and immersive documentary about migrants and the sea
project 2015/2016

Realized in Officine Sintetiche platform
With the support of
Compagnia di San Paolo nell’ambito del Bando ORA!
Fondazione 107
Universita degli Studi di Torino (CIRMA – Dipartimento Studi Umanistici)
Politecnico di Torino (Ingegneria del Cinema e dei Mezzi di comunicazione)
Festival Internazionale di Andria Castel dei Mondi
In collaboration with
Comitato 3 ottobre
Conservatorio di Torino Associazione di Promozione Sociale Mosaico – Azioni per i rifugiati

Concept Vanessa V
Artwork Design Stefano Sburlati e Vanessa Vozzo
Management team Paolo Armao (sound), Giacomo Leonzi (coding), Stefano Sburlati (VR 360°
video, system, contents), Vanessa Vozzo (interactive software, system, contents, production)
Interactive media software and 3d models Giacomo Davide Balma
Interactive media software assistants Matilde Capello e Elisa Li Causi
Video production, postproduction and 360° video Enrique Valido Moure, Nicolo Zilocchi
Contents Roberta Campagna, Andrea Leonessa, Federica Messina
Sound Stelian Spulber
360° VR Unity player Nicolo Ottenga
Sculpture Rosella Fida
Man in video 360° Simone D’Ippolito
Voices HRW-Human Rights Watch materials e Associazione Mosaico
Production Assistant Federica Bono
Project image and project reportage (photos and videos) Andrea Macchia
Project reportage (photos and videos) Rosario I. Rauber Mendoza, Deka Momo
Still life objects photos and project reportage (photos and videos) in Lampedusa Michele Cattani
Promotion Angelo Tarditi
Press Office adfarmandchicas
Graphics for promotion Claudio Ruffino
Officine Sintetiche project design team Tatiana Mazali, Federica Mazzocchi, Antonio Pizzo,
Stefano Sburlati, Vanessa Vozzo
Thanks to Andrea Ballo, Giorgio Battaglino, Tareke Brhane, Valerio Cataldi, Anna Chiara Cimoli,
Simone D’Ippolito, First Social Life, Pelagos Diving Center di Lampedusa, Eleonora Penna,
Federico Piccari, Residence il Castello di Lampedusa, Silvia Torresin, Carlo Maria Weber

A special thanks to MSF_Medici senza frontiere sezione spagnola per le bussole

01 September 2016

Apnea is an open documentary that explores the dimension of the emotions of migrants who venture out to cross the sea.

Apnea proposes an inner itinerary that we can all recognise: a cartography of feelings and fears mapped using interactive immersive technologies and an exhibition of objects that were salvaged from the sea.

Apnea’s audio-visual contents were realized in Lampedusa (Italy).

In Apnea the sea is a boundary where everything disappears, a real border, but also a representation of the limit that separates life from death, from solitude, from void.

A SPECIAL PATH INTO IMMERSIVE AND INTERACTIVE TECHNOLOGIES

The visitor’s exploratory experience unfolds through three episodes or environments that offer different degrees of immersiveness and interactivity: a journey into our own deep identity through a first person path.

Visitors start this journey with a display of photographs, videos, pieces of writing and original artefacts founded after the 3 October 2013 shipwreck or brought on land by individual migrants. These are taken out of context and located in a procedural soundscape that is recomposed in real time.

The water, the sea and the objects are the central elements of the next two episodes, which were devised specifically to enable visitors to achieve an individual experience:

the first is a space with an interactive projection that refers to a dive to the seabed, to primordial places that conflict with raw, real voices. As visitors move through the audio-visual environment, they modify it in real time.
the second is a 360° video that enables visitors to plunge into the seas around Lampedusa. Creating this part of the work involved intense periods of research for shooting the footage, editing it, creating the spatial audio and programming a specific player.

THE PROJECT

The Apnea project came about when the Fondazione 107 for Contemporary Art came together with the platform of the Interactive Media Art Officine Sintetiche, which involves the CIRMA, the Department of Humanities at the University of Turin and the Department of Cinema Engineering and Communication Media at Politecnico di Torino. The International Castel dei Mondi Festival at Andria later also joined as a supporting partner.

In May 2016, the project won the Ora! Prize by the Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo, which enabled it to launch into a pre-project phase of training and research that led to the organisation of a public event in March 2016.

The research on field is made thanks to the journalist Valerio Cataldi, to the Comitato 3 ottobre and to Doctor Without Borders – Spain.

Apnea has involved students, researchers and lecturers from Turin Polytechnic and Turin University, as well as extramural professionals: altogether, a large group of more than 20 people.

Apnea. The eternity of absence

The documentary

Apnea. A documentary about the backstage in Lampedusa.
The setup and the audience feedback.
(18′)

Extra

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