Panel
Diego Grammatico
Architecture, videogames, animation and virtual and augmented reality are narrative tools that are different from one another, but united by the ability to build realities that are likely or imaginary, to the point of confusing the boundaries between what is real and what is not. The panel will explore the way in which these different artistic fields create, alter and propose their realities.
- Domiziana Suprani, Studio Evil producer
- Owen Hopkins, senior curator of exhibitions, education at Sir John Soane’s Museum
- Antonino Cardillo, architect
- Ivan Cappiello, movie director, CGI artist, animator
- Diego Grammatico, innovation, development policy consultant, moderator
From Zak McKracken to House of Dust
Antonino Cardillo
Let me tell you my story. Twelve years ago I started building a series of Imaginary Houses. I wanted to communicate my architecture. Thus, I produced seven houses in virtual reality, sending computer-generated images to the most influential architecture magazines on the planet. From 2007 to 2012, more than one hundred and fifty publications, from Australia to California, reproduced these works. For at least six years, many believed the existence of these houses, coming to define a phenomenon of simulated reality. […]
