We’ve just read this post by the brilliant Cosmo Wenman of Concept Realizations. The cause is near and dear to us, doubly so because it involves Rodin’s The Thinker, which we have remixed for the BCC Innovation Festival. What we genuinely cannot understand is how people opposing the free distribution of our cultural heritage think […]
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In one week our work on the BCC Innovation Festival will culminate in an hybrid event, whose physical manifestation will be held in the Salone delle Colonne: an impressive looking immersive room in Rome’s EUR district. We are tasked with producing audiovisual material that shows off our immersive experiences in a context that is still […]
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The other large project we’ve been working on for the past few month is the immersive component of BCC Innovation Festival, the startup festival held by BCC ICCREA. This is a very large conglomerate of what are basically Credit Unions, when translating it into English. Immersive identity The concept developed by our clients’ communications department […]
Read more »Part of our job in the BCC Arte & Cultura project is to provide the “high fidelity” visualizations for each artwork. For some that means one of our 3D scans, for others it’s simply a zoomable interface. Our clients are making a “standard” website and simply linking to our server for the high fidelity version. […]
Read more »The first half of this year was taken up by two large projects for BCC ICCREA. We’re doing the immersive components of the BCC Innovation Festival (a startup festival, we were among the winners of the first edition) and of BCC Arte & Cultura (an effort to catalogue the art and cultural heritage artifacts belonging […]
Read more »Just sharing this MIT Technology Review article on digital archives, a cause that’s close to our hearts: https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/19/1096284/data-archives-archeologists-tiktok-future-wayback-machine/?src=longreads It is always a good occasion to mention: donate to the Internet Archive, it is such an important resource, and it’s constantly under attack. Donating to them was the first thing I did when I got my […]
Read more »Read the latest developments on the rules regarding Open Access and cultural heritage in the Italian legislative system: https://www.wikimedia.it/news/il-cammino-verso-lopen-access-in-italia/ Our own position is that eventually openness will win out, simply because the state is trying to charge for something that people are not willing to pay for, and the state has very little enforcement power […]
Read more »People expected big changes after the release of the Apple Vision Pro, and some are visibly disappointed. Apple tends to have a big effect on the mainstream, lots of people seem to think that they invented the smartphone, when the iPhone came out I was using my third smartphone. XR technology has been commercially available […]
Read more »Last year a mandatory fee regime was introduced for images of publicly-owned cultural heritage artifacts. This is morally wrong, but it is also impractical. A new regulation came out in March modifying the rules and introducing exemptions. Wikimedia Italia wrote about it on their Arkivia blog. Academic works and news are now exempted from the […]
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