SHARED Physical (Installation), curated by the “Alfredo Casella” Conservatory of Music and Academy of Fine Arts in L’Aquila
SHARED VR, a virtual reality experience curated by the Polytechnic University of Turin
Shared is an interactive musical-visual work that explores the boundary between man and machine. Gestures are transformed into sound and image by Artificial Intelligence, in an experience that combines sculpture, music, and virtual reality.
The Polytechnic University of Turin brings its technological expertise to ItARTS with Shared VR, a virtual reality performance adaptation of Michelangelo Lupone’s Shared that invites the audience to enter a shared auditory and visual environment—one that is constantly evolving and open to participants’ contributions. Wearing a VR headset, each participant takes on a digital avatar with which they can explore the virtual space, select and manipulate sound forms that—translated into light trajectories—give rise to ever-changing audiovisual landscapes. In this process, gesture and listening become tools for collective creation. The generative core at the heart of the experience collects and transforms the contributions of those present: sounds and movements are absorbed, reworked, and rendered as new configurations, creating a narrative flow that belongs not to a single individual but to the temporary community that
forms within the work’s space.
Shared VR thus brings art, technology, and human sensibility into dialogue, exploring the delicate balance between the individual and the collective, between control and surrender, and questioning the contemporary meaning of “sharing.”
Throughout the Festival, from stage to stage, the results of user testing will guide the subsequent phases of the project. The final version will be unveiled at the conclusion of the ItArts Festival, as the outcome of a research process that intertwines artistic, scientific, and technological approaches.