THURSDAY,
NOVEMBER 3rd
morning TORINO INCONTRA
CONVENTION CENTRE
8:30 Registration
and opening of the XBOX Room, of the Immersive ART Room and of the exhibition
stands
Cavour
Hall
9:00 welcome and introduction
Gianfranco Balbo Computer Science Department's Vicerector at the University of Turin and President of the Virtuality Organizing Committee.
10:00 tribute to
The Moving Picture Company (MPC)
With Michael
Elson Executive Director of Production at MPC
Moving Picture Company, MPC, is one of the most important studios worldwide concerning animation and
digital effects for commercials, television and cinema. MPC created very high
profile advertising campaigns for clients like Nike, Levis, Stella Artois and
Adidas, TV programs for BBC, Channel 4 and Discovery Channel, and it took care
of the visual effects for many blockbusters: from Tomb Raider to
the Harry Potter series, from Troy to Alien
vs Predator, from Batman Begins to the recent Charlie and the Chocolate
Factory and the coming Wallace & Gromit:
The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. During the MPCs presentation, Michael
Elson traces its history, telling it through its most important productions.
11:15 animation and visual
effects. session i
invited talk
The Past, Present and Future
of Motion Capture
Alberto
Menache Digital
Effects Supervisor at Sony Pictures Imageworks
A motion capture pioneer, Alberto
Menache collaborated with most of the test Sony Pictures Imageworks
productions, including the recent The Polar Express and the Academy Award nominated Stuart Little2 and Superman Returns. He has worked on many TV commercials and videogames,
and he is the author of Understanding Motion Capture
for Computer Animation and Video Games, a fundamental text about the use
of
motion capture in modern animation.
12:15 invited talk
Light Them in Post: The Light Stage
Performance Relighting Process
Paul Debevec
expert
in techniques of 3D synthetic illumination, Director of the Institute
for Creative Technology of the USC-University of Southern California, winner of
the 2004
Siggraph award and of the 2004 Ars Electronica prize for his famous digital reconstruction
of the Parthenon.
A Master in 3D synthetic illumination, Paul
Debevec will present new techniques for filming an actor's performance in such
a way that the lighting on the actor can be designed and modified in
postproduction. These techniques allow the actors to be realistically composited into a background plate
or a virtual set to appear as if they were truly there. The talk will overview
previous light stage processes used to create digital actors with realistic
reflectance in recent feature films and present the latest results in lighting
actors with spatially varying illumination such as shadows from leaves and
Venetian blinds.
Giolitti
Hall
9:25 MIMOS.
Simulation
in the Field of Aerospace
MIMOS Association (Italian Movement
for Modelling and Simulation), which hosts boards, companies, professionals,
and universities working in the simulation and virtual reality field, organizes
on the same days as Virtuality Conference its 5th annual
technical-scientific symposium. At MIMOS about forty personalities, among the
most qualified Italian and foreign experts, give an encompassing description of
the most up to date instruments and application methods now available in the
simulation field. To see the complete program of MIMOS, please visit
http://www.mimos.it/Eventi/Programma.pdf.
Einaudi Hall
9:00
Siggraph
Reloaded
From the most important worldwide
trade show on digital graphics and interactive techniques, which takes place in
Los Angeles, a video section shows the entire Electronic Theater
and Animation Theater programs, the most important and
significant international collections.
Virtuality's Collection. Video
Art from the World
A selection of the best
videos submitted to Virtuality from all over the world.
The alternate screening of
Virtuality Collection and Siggraph Reloaded continue for the whole duration of Virtuality
XBOX Room
9:00 Try
the XBOX 360!
Organized by Microsoft
Ten demo stations of the upcoming XBOX 360, to
be tried by the public.
Continues for
the whole duration of Virtuality
Virtual Theater
9:00 VR
Show: Interactive VR Art Exhibit.
Ten installations of artists from all
over the world let the public experience immersive art. Art takes the passion
of cutting edge technology in order to expand its sphere of creativity to the
whole of visual perception. Featuring works by Josephine Anstey, Bino & Cool, Franz
Fischnaller, Hans Hauska, Torbjorn Johansson, Jackie
Matisse, Dan Neveu, Dave Pape, Agueda Simo, these installations are
created for
VR CAVE systems or CAVE-like VR systems: large-screen projection-based
displays, with interactive 3D stereo graphics, and tracking systems for user
interaction.
Continues for
the whole duration of Virtuality
afternoon TORINO INCONTRA CONVENTION
CENTRE
Cavour Hall
2:00 haute voltige. Joint plenary session with mimos
A real-time exhibition of
Virtual Haute Voltige Team, the first virtual acrobatic patrol in the world currently
part of the FAI, International Aeronautical Federation, and made up of five
pilots and a video maker shows what is possible by making the most of modern
flight simulators made for personal computers, and the possibility they provide
to fly multiplayers through the internet. The show, lasting about 20 minutes,
draws attention to the difficulties of flying in virtual formation and the
cleverness of the pilots who trained themselves in the last three years by
flying through the net.
2:30 intuition. Joint plenary session with mimos
With Bruno Arnaldi Computer Graphics Researcher at the
INRIA-Institut National de Recherche in Informatique et en Automatique, Angelos Amditis Professor at the ICCS-Institute of
Communication and Computer Systems, Teresa De
Martino Scientific
Officer at the European Commission, Enrico Gaia Aerospace Engineer
Alcatel Alenia Spazio, Nicoletta Marchiandi Quatraro Director of the
Innovation & Technology department of the Turin Camera di Commercio, Fabio Salsedo Senior Research Engineer at Scuola superiore
Sant'Anna
Chair Giuseppe Varalda Senior Project
Manager at CRF-Centro Ricerche Fiat
A Network Of Excellence
founded by the European Union, INTUITION works to promote virtual reality and
virtual environment applications for future workspaces. The forum aims to provide
an effective and vital opportunity for Italy to develop technologies and
virtual applications coherently with the general objectives pursued by the
network at an international level.
Giolitti Hall
5:00 MIMOS.
Territory and Virtual Reality
Einaudi Hall
2:00 Siggraph
Reloaded
Virtuality's
Collection. Video Art from the World
XBOX Room
2:00 Try
the XBOX 360!
Virtual Theater
2:00 VR
Show: Interactive VR Art Exhibit.
5:45 special event in collaboration
with GIOVED�scienza
Love and Other Special Effects. From the Magic of the
Couple to Cinema and Internet
Piero Angela Writer and Journalist,
creator of the television science program Quark, Gabriele Cipollitti Director of the television science series Speciali
di Superquark, Flavia Sparacino Founder of the interactive design company Sensing Places and Researcher
at the MIT-Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab
Chairs Piero
Bianucci Director of
TuttoScienze, science weekly of the "La Stampa" newspaper.
Starting from his latest
novel, dedicated to that extraordinary "special effect" called love, Superquarks
author explains why evolution invented sex, what relation love holds with sex
and sexual reproduction, and what makes people fall in love. With his
director's help, Piero Angela shows the backstage of the most important and
popular Italian TV program. A surprise conclusion will show a special effect
about love designed by Boston's Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
MediaLab. Two very recent technologies will be showcased: City of News,
a 3D browser which gives the opportunity to meet on the web with a telepresence
from remote places, and the wearable computer Museum Wearable, an
augmented reality interactive tool designed as an individual audiovisual media
for museum visitors, which can be used as a future instrument to identify
spiritual affinities and to find the twin soul.
Gioved�Scienza is organized by
Extramuseum, coordinated by Pino Zappal�/span>
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER
4th
morning TORINO INCONTRA CONVENTION CENTER
Cavour Hall
9:00 invited talk
animation and
visual effects session ii
Pixar
Animation Studio's Production Pipeline
and
Integration of Third-Party Applications
With Michael Shantzis Graphics Software Engineer Pixar Animation
Studios, Academy Award winner.
Academy Award winner in 1991, achieving scientific and engineering goals
for CAPS, the digital ink & paint system developed in collaboration
with Disney, Michael Shantzis talks about the increasingly frequent use of
this software in the creation process of animation features, and about its
complex management and integration of new packages into the studios' production
environments.
Followed by presentations by Rania Khairy Assistant Lecturer in
Computer and Information College, Assuit University, Egypt, Carlo Alfano Animation Director Lumiq Studios, Gianluca
Dentici
Supervisor Videa Visual Effects and Fabio Interlenghi, Technical
Director and DMCube Product Manager for Omicron Group
Chair Vincenzo Lombardo Professor from the University of Turin, MULTIDAMS
11:45 invited talk
From
Special Effects to Reality, from Movies to Interactive Narrative Spaces: the
Illusion Comes True
With Flavia Sparacino Founder of the interactive
design company Sensing Places and Researcher at the MIT-Massachusetts
Institute of Technology Media Lab
Nicholas
Negroponte's dearest student will talk about the technological advances that
have occurred in the last ten years in the field of digital imagery, and will illustrate
the inventions, the result of her most recent researches, presenting in
particular the interactive holographic television, its world premi�e with a
demonstration for the audience. Created through an expHand combination, also
known as Minority Report Interface a last generation installation allowing one
to surf a 3D space using just hands with a 3D holographic screen, the new
television, which has a diverse array of potential applications, is considered
one of the most innovative products in the area of future technology.
Giolitti Hall
9:00 MIMOS.
Virtual Reality and Medicine
11:10
MIMOS. The Artificial
Subject: Simulation and Construction of an Artificial Mind
Einaudi Hall
9:00 Siggraph
Reloaded
Virtuality's
Collection. Video Art from the World
XBOX Room
9:00 Try
the XBOX 360!
Virtual
Theater
9:00 VR
Show: Interactive VR Art Exhibit.
afternoon TORINO INCONTRA
CONVENTION CENTER
Cavour
Hall
2:00 architecture and computer
graphics
Kim Baumann Larsen Architect, Director of the Norwegian 3D design company
Placebo Effects, Stefano Boeri Architect and Urban Designer,
Director of "Domus" magazine, Benedetto Camerana Architect, Member of the
Scientific Committee IED-Istituto Europeo di Design and Director of the Camerana
& Partners design company, Maurizio Cilli Architect
Chair Paolo Verri Director
of Torino
Internazionale
Four experts working
on different aspects of Virtual Architecture: Kim Baumann Larsen, Placebo
Effects' CEO the Norwegian company producing 3D special effects for
architectural projects Stefano Boeri, director of "Domus" magazine, who will
talk about globalization and investigate everyday spaces; Benedetto Camerana,
coordinator of the Olympic village's project, the most important work achieved
for Turin's Olympics 2006; Maurizio Cilli, author of "The beach" project, the
metropolitan beach in Turin at Pos embankments and coordinator of the glocalmap.to
workgroup, planned for Turin's Culture Olympics 2006.
4:15 from cinema to automotive
design
With designers from leading automotive design companies: Autostudi,
Bertone, Carcerano, Fiat-Centro Stile, Fioravanti, Idea Institute,
Italdesign (EdenLab), Pininfarina, Stola, Tesco TS
Chair Lorenza Pininfarina Member of the board of
directors of Pininfarina S.p.A and President of the Gruppo Carrozzieri
Italiani ANFIA
Presentation of images and videoclips
focusing on the role of 3D - advanced computer graphics, virtual reality and
rendering in the automotive industry. Emphasis will be put not only on the
design aspect, giving a particular relevance to new technologies that are
fundamental for coachbuilders, but also on the products' promotion.
6:45
tribute to
Bruno Bozzetto Author, Director and Producer
of animation movies
Introduced
by Dino
Aloi Cartoonist
and Illustrator
One of the fathers of Italian animation will talk about his
works, his glorious "studio", his new activity as a free lancer, and the new
technologies that fascinate him, such as 3D, which he is experiencing with a
team of young and talented artists. Devoted above all to creativity, the
director is completing, together with Massimo Carrier Ragazzi's "Maga" Studio,
a TV series for children created entirely in 3D.
Giolitti
Hall
2:00 MIMOS.
Virtual Reality and Crime Repression
2:50 MIMOS.
Simulation in Integrated Design
Einaudi Hall
2:00 Siggraph
Reloaded
Virtuality's
Collection. Video Art from the World
XBOX Room
2:00 Try
the XBOX 360!
Virtual Theater
2:00 VR
Show: Interactive VR Art Exhibit.
evening HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR
Start 10:30 digital delirium
Project
coordinated by the Video Artist Alessandro Amaducci
In a dizzying live
mix, digital images created by artists and experts active in Turin and works
selected from the most interesting screenings at Virtuality Conference will be
video-projected on many different screens and accompanied by a selection of
electronic music by dj and singer MGZ. The show's theme is digital madness colliding
into the world of moving images: 3D and 2D visualizations, but also
post-production, compositing and a lot of other techniques. For watching and
dancing all night ...
SATURDAY,
NOVEMBER 5th
morning TORINO INCONTRA CONVENTION CENTER
Cavour
Hall
9:00 invited talk
The
making of MADAGASCAR
Luca Prasso
Senior
Character Technical Director PDI/DreamWorks, Academy Award winner
Senior
Character Technical Supervisor at PDI DreamWorks, and part of the technical
cast of Shrek (Academy Award winner for best animation
feature in 2001), Luca Prasso discusses his latest labour, Madagascar, which required the overcoming of many technical,
creative and artistic challenges. What we see on the screen is the result of the
work of 300 people, which lasted more than three years, besides the
intervention of four psycotic penguins ...
Followed by portfolio exhibit review live
Portfolio
Exhibit Review Live is
the chance for any video director to expose his/her work to the comments of
Academy Award winner Luca Prasso of PDI/Dreamworks. Each participant, whose
submission was selected from all the works sent to Virtuality Conference, will have
the unique opportunity to be part of the Portfolio Exhibit Review Live
and to show a 2 minute reel of his/her work and Luca Prasso will comment in the
next 2 minutes. In a maximum time of 5 minutes it will be the next candidate's
turn. No prizes, just the satisfaction of the discussion with experts and the public.
10:45 invited talk
Future Media: Hopes, Possibilities, Limits
Ted Nelson Visiting Professor at Oxford University, Philosopher of Computer Science, Creator of Hypertext
Followed by presentations by Joseph
Conte Professor
of American Literature and Postmodern Theory at SUNY Buffalo, Carlo Infante Professor of Performing Media at Lecce University,
at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Macerata and at Istituto Europeo di Design di
Torino
Giolitti
Hall
8:45 MIMOS. Virtual
Reality and Cultural Heritage
Einaudi Hall
9:00 Siggraph
Reloaded
Virtuality's
Collection. Video Art from the World
XBOX Room
9:00 Try
the XBOX 360!
Virtual Theater
9:00 VR Show: Interactive VR Art
Exhibit.
afternoon TORINO INCONTRA
CONVENTION CENTER
Cavour Hall
2:00 virtuality 2005
international student prize
Award ceremony for the winners of the
Worldwide Competition for Best Short Digital Video made by using Visual Effects
and/or 3D Animation. Screening of the award-winning works.
3:00 tribute to
Dante Ferretti Scenographer for cinema and theatre, Academy Award
winner
Introduced by Alberto Barbera Director of the National Museum of Cinema
The
Italian scenographer will trace the stages of his career crowned, in 2004, with
an Academy Award for The Aviator: from his long-time
collaboration with Pasolini, to the David di Donatello won for The Name
of the Rose (1986), to his Hollywood debut with Martin Scorsese,
to many features (The Age of Innocence in 1993, Casino
in 1995, Kundun in 1997, Gangs of New York in
2002) leading up, year after year, to his international consecration,
with the successful collaboration of his wife Francesca Lo Schiavo as interior
designer.
4:30 fashion, design
and cinema
With Marina Garzoni Fashion Expert, Creator of the "Fashion and
Technology" talkshow,
Gabriella Pescucci Costume
Designer, Academy Award winner, Javier Reyes Founder and Director of R&D Reyes Infogr�ica Madrid.
Chair Flavia Sparacino, Founder of the
interactive design company Sensing Places and Researcher at the MIT-Massachusetts
Institute of Technology Media Lab
A virtual fashion
show will introduce the presentation of Virtual Fashion Works, the first
and only fashion design software system allowing one to create simulated
clothes, produced by the Madrid based company Reyes Infogr�ica. At the same
time, set design and spatial "special effects" and new body tracking (motion
capture without any kind of marker use) techniques will be showcased: drawn
up first by MIT's MediaLab and then by Sensing Places, they have the potential
to revolutionize both the presentation of clothing products to the public and
the shopping experience. During this panel, the 3D Open Fashion Design Contest,
promoted internationally by Reyes Infogr�ica in collaboration with the Italian
National Chamber of Fashion, will be announced.
Einaudi Hall
2:00 Siggraph
Reloaded
Virtuality's
Collection. Video Art from the World
XBOX Room
2:00 Try the XBOX
360!
Virtual Theater
2:00 VR
Show: Interactive VR Art Exhibit
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6th
TORINO INCONTRA
CONVENTION CENTER
Cavour Hall
12:45 virthualis
Presentation of the Virthualis
European Project, aiming to develop the technological standard which allows for
the reduction of the percentage of "human mistakes" in the industrial sector.
1:15/2:00 virtual theater
With Carlo
Infante, Theoretician
and Professor of Performing Media at Lecce University,
Antonio Pizzo Professor at DAMS, Torino
University.
XBOX Room
2:00 Try
the XBOX 360!
Virtual Theater
2:00 VR
Show: Interactive VR Art Exhibit.
Cavour Hall
2:00 virtual theater
The new perspectives of scenic art in the light of the Virtual
Reality Technologies
With Franz Fischnaller, Chief designer, Production and Project
Manager F.A.B.R.I.CATORS, Italia,
Bino
& Cool Virtual Reality Artists, Hans Hauska Senior Lecturer
at the Stockholm Royal Institute of Technology, Torbjorn Johansson IT Coordinator
at Ume�University, Jackie Matisse Artist
, Agueda
Sim� Visiting Professor at the University of
Beira Interior
Chair Josephine Anstey, Professor at SUNY at Buffalo
4:00 next gen console
With Fabrizio Vagliasindi Strategic Consultant of Direction of Leader and Professor
of Digital Entertainment Design at IULM, Milan, Roberto Marino Professor of Interactive
Design at Nuova Accademia delle Belle Arti, Milan, Federico Rampolla Strategic Consultant of
WPP Group, Mauro Dapit CEO of Videogame, Massimiliano Catanzaro, Project Manager of
Mediaset Televisione digitale terrestre
With XBOX 360, commercially
released by Christmas and showcased in its Italian premi�e at Virtuality
Conference, we enter the so called Next Gen Console era. But what does it mean
having consumer machines provided with extreme technology and power to
"play videogames" in our lounges? Perhaps, it means that we should reconsider
this word, limited and obsolete, in order to move towards a dimension more
related to cinema than to what we could consider the new digital cinema, and
that we are on the threshold of another technological evolution (or
revolution). These topics will be discussed in this session dedicated to those
who want to play and to those who want to make the people play. But is "play"
still the correct word?
4:45 The role of the ludic video editors associations in Italy and Europe
With Thalita
Malag�Secretary
General of AESVI Italian Ludic Video Editors Association
5:00 Next Gen Console: online multiplayer technology and potential
With Evita
Barra Marketing
Manager Xbox & games of the Home Entertainment Division of Microsoft Italia
5:20 Next Gen Console: design and creativity: how
interactive projects of the new generation are designed and realized in Italy
With Antonio Farina President of Milestone
5:40 Cinema and Video Games
With Michael
Jones Education
Officer in Digital Media Services at Powerhouse Museum, Sidney
6:00 Invited
talk
Next Generation game graphics of Need for Speed Most Wanted on the XBox
360
Habib Zargarpour Senior Art
Director for Electronics Arts Canada, twice nominated for the Oscars
A
graphic artist and special effects wizard (he obtained two Academy Award
nominations, for Twister and The Perfect Storm),
Habib Zargarpour has worked for more than 9 years at George Lucas's Industrial
Light & Magic (ILM). Besides his activity in cinema he is currently
working, with great success and excellent visual results, in the videogames
field. At Virtuality he is going to present the Italian premi�e of his latest
project, Need For Speed Most Wanted, the next generation title
for which he has been the artistic director.
Close of the Convention
