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The Centro Sperimentale MEDIARS is a non-profit cultural association that fosters mobility, research, education and production working with a multidisciplinary process on art, culture and technology. The center, funded in 2006 with a public start-up grant from the Regione Lazio, runs its activities between the castle of Contigliano, in Rieti and Los Angeles.
Over the years MEDIARS built an international network that includes universities, companies, individuals and the local municipality.
Mediars main goal is to create innovation and increase the
capabilities for action of small and medium sized towns within the internationalization of their relations context.
Collaborating with private and public entities, MEDIARS uses the new media as a glue for the different disciplines and fields represented by the members involved in each project, either educational or artistic, our goal is always to work across cultural differences and identities.
In collaboration with the local municipality MEDIARS runs a yearly workshop on "Interactive Media and Culture" in the Castle of Contigliano, one outside of Rome.
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Alessandro Marianantoni, Alvaro Patacchiola, Alessandro Martellucci, Luca Martellucci e Tommy Gentile
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The Centro Sperimentale MEDIARS is a non-profit cultural association
that fosters mobility, research, education and production working with a
multidisciplinary process on art, culture and technology. The center,
funded in 2006 with a public start-up grant from the Regione Lazio, runs
its activities between the castle of Contigliano, in Rieti and Los
Angeles.<br />
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Over the years MEDIARS built an international network that includes
universities, companies, individuals and the local municipality. Mediars
main goal is to create innovation and increase the capabilities for
action of small and medium sized towns within the internationalization
of their relations context.<br />
<br />
</p>
<p>
Collaborating with private and public entities, MEDIARS uses the new
media as a glue for the different disciplines and fields represented by
the members involved in each project, either educational or artistic,
our goal is always to work across cultural differences and identities. <br />
<br />
</p>
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In collaboration with the local municipality MEDIARS runs a yearly
workshop on “Interactive Media and Culture” in the Castle of
Contigliano, one hour off Rome.
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Computer vision, ntsc IR cameras, FluXsensi 1.0b, framegrabber, DMX, architectural fixture lightings, java + C++
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FANTASTIC JOURNEY AROUND CONTIGLIANO'S CASTELLO SENSIBILE<br />
(ANSA) - RIETI, 3 AGO - This year Contigliano's traditional re-enactment<br />
of the historic assault on the local castle, which takes place August 4-7,<br />
will be accompanied by an interactive multimedia installation called 'II<br />
Castello Sensibile'. The installation has been prepared by the Mediars<br />
Centre of Interactive Media for Art and Entertainment (Centra sperimentale di Media Interattivi per l'Arte e lo Spettacolo Mediars). "The event focuses on interaction between people and public spaces, in this case the historic castle," said Alessandro Marianantoni, the director of Mediars and a visiting artist at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). "To do this we will use a coloured light set up at a strategic site in the town, the main gate. As visitors pass through, the lights will change colour to express the relationship between visitor and castle". The colour sequences will depend on the flow of visitors: when they enter the lights will be red, when they leave green and when they stop blue. The sensors used will also reveal the number of people passing through - the more people there are the lighter the colour tone will be. The decision to use lights did not come about by chance - colours are a language people respond to consciously and subconsciously, giving real emotional experiences. The public will become an active part of the event by setting the colours and amplifying the castle's identity. The installation will be<br />
created by a group of IT graduates who are members of Mediars: Alvaro<br />
Patacchiola, Alessandro Martellucci, Luca Martellucci and Tommy Gentile.<br />
The initiative is funded by the Lazio Regional Government and carried out<br />
in collaboration with the Consigliano council. Martellucci and Gentile won<br />
scholarships funded by the Rieti Provincial Government and the<br />
Fondazione Varrone. The six-month scholarships for the 2005-06<br />
academic year were granted as part of the 'Quartieri della Memoria'<br />
(quarters of the memory) project - a oral history interactive installation<br />
set up by UCLA for the city of Rieti. The oral history was collected by<br />
communications science graduate Susanna Gnan. The huge number of<br />
visitors who come to Consigliano for the historic re-enactment will enable<br />
Mediars to test new mobile-telephone software that enables visitors to<br />
access local cultural and tourist information. "It is an application in the<br />
initial stages of development that could be used regularly in the future at<br />
cultural tourism events," Marianantoni concluded.
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