VII ° Edition of the International Festival of theater, art and new technologies “The Wonders of the Possible” -2020
Wednesday 16 December 2020 at 11.00 a.m
ONLINE CONFERENCE / WEBINAR
“THE EYE OF THE MACHINE – DIGITAL VISION” lead by Prof. Simone Arcagni, Professor of new media and new technologies at Palermo University, writer of the books: “The Eye of the Machine”, “Digital visions” and “ Immersing in the future”.
Prof. Simone Arcagni will talk about some of the important topics of his book called “The eye of the machine” together with Prof. Carlo Infante, professor of New Technologies at Mercatorum University and founder of Urban Experience, a national reference point for performing media projects.
Short presentation
“If each era offers a specific look at the world, then what is the logic and nature of the contemporary eye? The eye of the machine connects the history of information technology with visual thought, and proposes examples, stories and suggestions; it shows how hardware and software are working and describes media and devices. Interrogates thinkers in a vast field ranging from Mathematics to Futurology. Tackles the story of a mathematical eye, with its matrix well rooted in Cybernetics. A computer eye that develops in fields such as Imaging, Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality. An eye of Sensors and Artificial Intelligence, which thrives on Information and Database. The eye of Robotics and Home Automation, of flying drones, self-driving cars, Google, Netflix and Amazon algorithms. The eye of our machines, the ones we use every day and that help us to see, take photos, take, visualize “ (Simone Arcagni).
With “electric eyes on the planet theater” the impact of the videoteatro in the eighties and today 40 years later we play the double game between technologies that extend our body, both on perceptual and cognitive level.
It has been going on for at least two generations an anthropological and cultural mutation that presupposes our own sensitive interaction with digital systems that offer opportunities evolutionary, like the one suggested by Howard Rheingold in 1993 argued that virtual reality was a microscope for mind … Then the paradigmatic leap of the virtual was that of make it possible to act within a vision, could not be seen e enough, it was experienced. The world is increasingly saturated with
representation, there is a need for action, perhaps expanded with the awareness of the use of performing media, even to play that anthropological bet that answers this question: If it is true that every 18 months digital systems double their potential, it’s not time to ask … and us? ”
(Carlo Infante)
LINKS:
http://www.simonearcagni.net/
https://www.urbanexperience.it/
