The prototype created by TEA sas' AIVES project was presented to convey art through sensations.
The final event of the AIVES project, funded by the Calabria Region and started in November of 2017, was held at the prison “Ugo Caridi” of Catanzaro last 11 November.
AIVES, acronym for “Art and Innovation: Visions, Emotions, Sensations” has experimented with a new way of enjoying works of art, especially paintings, frescoes, mosaics, decorations on vases, for the blind, through an approach that involves as many senses as possible and that makes the experience interesting, innovative and accessible to the wider public.
AIVES has created a multisensory system consisting of tactile pictures, replicated with the same materials of which the objects represented are made, animated videos and with 4D effects that, thanks to sounds, perfumes, vibrations, accompany the user on a journey within and beyond the work.
Among the reproductions made for the project there are “The Arles room” by Vincent Van Gogh, which boasts the exceptional collaboration of Roberto Vecchioni as a narrator and of Alessandra DeLuca, actress and voice actress, ed “Europe on the bull“, Pompeian fresco preserved at the National Archaeological Museum of Naples which authorized the experimentation on this work.
The latter reproduction was made with the contribution of the prisoners of the prison of Catanzaro and is told by the actors Francesco Colella, Romina Mazza e Salvatore Conforto.
The project and the results obtained thanks to the experiments carried out, both at IRIFOR, Research Institute, training and rehabilitation, section of Catanzaro that at the Cavazza Institute of Bologna and the National Archaeological Museum of Naples, were presented by the partners:
- Elena Console, for the TEA company of Catanzaro, lead party;
- Valentina Rossetti, for the DIMEG of the University of Calabria;
- Stefania Mancuso, for the OMNIARCH company of Lamezia Terme;
- Paola Rotella, for STUDIO RUBINO in Catanzaro;
- Luciana Loprete for IRIFOR, research institute of the UICI, section of Catanzaro.
At the event, by title “Aaccessibility and innovation: experiences at your fingertipso”, the Undersecretary of State of MIBACT participated, Anna Laura Orrico, the regional councilors Maria Francesca Corigliano (Education and Cultural Activities) and Angela Robbe (Work), the Director of the National Archaeological Museum of Naples, Paolo Giulierini, the national president of IRIFOR, Mario Barbuto, the Coordinator of the Museum Accessibility Thematic Commission for ICOM Italy, Lucilla Boschi, and the Artistic Director of the Tolomeo Museum in Bologna, Fabio Fornasari. The Director of the Prison of Catanzaro Angela Paravati did the honors.
