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BEYOND MEDIA / OLTRE I MEDIA , Florence, May 2-5, 2002
LAB[au]
laboratory for architecture and urbanismManuel Abendroth,
Jéröme Decock
Alexandre Plennevaux
iMage
6th international festival of architecture in video
> B E Y O N D M E D I A / O L T R E I M E D I Ainternational architectural conference
> Florence, May 2-5, 2002
> Ospedale degli Innocenti, Salone Brunelleschiano
The International Festival of Architecture in Video is an event created by the Department of Architectural Technology and Design "Pierluigi Spadolini" of the University of Florence, sponsored by the Tuscan Region, the Province of Florence, the Province of Prato and by the Municipality of Florence, and organised by iMage.The International Festival of Architecture on Video is a meeting point for a discussion on communication technology in architecture, and its aims include the presentation of the most recent works of communication, documented on video, film and the new media; studies on project methodology based on the application of audiovisual tools and digital systems for architecture; research on teaching applications; a discussion on new theories.
> SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Giandomenico Amendola, Cosimo Carlo Buccolieri, Romano Del Nord, Alberto Di Cintio, Paolo Felli, Enzo Legnante, Italo Moscati, Peppino Ortoleva, Gianni Pettena, Carlo Terpolilli (co-ordinator)
> CURATOR Marco Brizzi
> ORGANISED BY iMage
international architectural conference
Florence, May 2-5, 2002
Ospedale degli Innocenti, Salone Brunelleschiano
BEYOND MEDIA/OLTRE I MEDIA
> PREVIOUS EDITIONS2000
THE FUTURE AND THE CITY >
( with the participation of LAB[au] > )1999
NEW MEDIA, CINEMA, INNOVATION1998
COMMUNICATING ARCHITECTURE1997
ARCHITETTURA IN MOVIMENTO
The theme of the 2002 edition of the International Festival ofArchitecture
on Video (Florence, May 2nd-5th 2002) is BEYOND MEDIA/OLTRE I MEDIA. What is the role of architectural communication technology today? How do architects use the new media? What new patterns are emerging in connection with architectural technology? What vocational prospects are there for the new generations?
BEYOND MEDIA/OLTRE I MEDIA will emphasize the most significant aspects of the changes produced by the media. It will present a picture of the most interesting researches and draw attention to the consequences of using the media, due to a forthcoming definition of new application scenarios.
PREVIEW OF THE PROGRAM
During the international meetings, projections and presentations will follow debates dealing with the most current topics, such as the role of
television in monitoring urban phenomena, especially after 9/11 when it
demonstrated all over the world the dramatic immediacy of real time
observation of events. Architecture will be shown as it is depicted in music videoclip or in tv commercials, and the relations between architecture and videogames will also be investigated. Issues arising from the teaching of architecture in the digital era will be dealt with. The most interesting researches developed in the Internet will de documented as well as the birth of new architectural languages. The topic of the transformation of public space due to the development of technologies of digital communication will be considered. The results of the latest researches in the field of digital production of architecture will be shown. Cinema will be one of the topics of discussion, especially those Italian authors who, mostly in recent times, offered some original readings of the city and the territory. Also meetings with authors of special effects and simulations will foresee some facets of our near future.
The participation, among others, of Bernard Cache, Giandomenico Amendola, Pippo Ciorra, Luca Molinari, Kas Oosterhuis, Carlo Lizzani, Italo Moscati, Stefano Boeri, Stefano Bartezzaghi is expected. Works by young Italian and foreign architects will be devoted a consistent segment of the event.
Among
these groups are nicole_fvr, Metrogramma, IaN+, ma0, amgod#n, AKD,
Anguilla Metrica, Studioata, 5+1, A12, LSB/BLS, dECOI, Franken, Splitterwerk, SYNTAX, beige, as_architecture, Eloueini, HOV, Maurer, Vaccarini, MKT.A, LAB[au], Cliostraat...
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