Press Bulletin N° 6
SIB HOSTS INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS
ON THE NEW FRONTIERS IN CONTEMPORARY SCENOGRAPHY
At Rimini Fiera, thanks to “The Scenographer”, great theatre director and scenographer Hugo De Ana,
a magician of digital cinema and theatre: from Harry Potter to the Golden Compass and the Divine
Comedy, the production designers of RAI and Al Jazeera. Plus Sanctuary, the first TV movie conceived
and distributed only on the Web
Rimini, 5th April 2008 - SIB 2008 hosts an unprecedented event for professionals involved in theatre, cinema, TV and
shows in general. The 21st International Exhibition of Technology for Show Business, Installation and Broadcast,
organized by Rimini Fiera with the sponsorship of TEN and SILB, is hosting international meetings on the new
frontiers in contemporary scenography organized by SIB in collaboration with the magazine The Scenographer and
Peroni. An absolutely new high profile feature, with meetings, live events, projections, shows, performances and
installations. Internationally famous architects, scenographers, directors, experts in digital technology, lecturers, scholars
and researchers will alternate in the suggestive scenic space designed, in collaboration with Peroni, in Hall C7 for what
promises to be the largest event ever organized in Italy on cinema, theatre and television scenography.
Numerous interesting appointments are planned for the four days of SIB, with the participation of important guests at
world level and students from major Italian and foreign Universities and Academies.
PERFORMING ARTS AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES. On Saturday 5th April, the inaugural day will be dedicated to the
relationship between Performing Arts and new technologies. From 3.00 pm, after an introduction by The Scenographer,
speeches will be given by: Paolo Miccichè (director, visual director and designer, scenographer of the musical The
Divine Comedy. The opera) Sceno-Graphy: An age-old combination divided. New lighting and projection technologies
for new dynamic design; a video recorded speech by Cristina Mazzavillani Muti (Chairperson and Artistic Director of
Ravenna Festival) on Musical theatre: a new visionary approach; scenographer and designer Ezio Antonelli on La
pietra di diaspro inspired by the system of image projection in the catoptric theatre of Athanasius Kircher; Luca Dalcò
(virtual image consultant lecturer in 3D computer graphics and vector animation) on 3D projections on scenic supports
and the simulation of projected images; Roberto Paci Dalò (director, scenographer, composer, artistic director of
Giardini Pensili and Velvet Factory) on Camera obscura: live video and sound in the performing arts; Giorgio Molinari
and visual technology expert Gianni Guerrini for the presentation of Pandora’s Box, a new system of video compositing.
FILM DESIGN: PRESENT AND FUTURE Sunday 6th April, from 10.00 am, space for the new digital scenographic
frontiers in films. Tino Schaedler, architect and digital set designer, in his speech on Architecture and Films will present
examples of 4D modelling in the films Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Tim Burton and V for Vendetta;
Cinesite’s Sue Rowe, one of the top contemporary visual effects supervisors, will cover the issue Creating 3D
environments and animals, large-scale digital matte painting, presenting some stages in the team’s work on The Golden
Compass, X-Men and Animal Farm. Then Paolo Zeccara, senior visual effects supervisor with Proxima, on Visual
Effects, the state of the art Italy. The morning session will be close by special guest Toni Ludi, production designer and
founder of the National Association of German Scenographers, who will host a workshop on the film design profession.
At 3.00 pm, the afternoon session will be opened by the round table Scenic Architecture and Urban Theatre with an
introduction by architect Marco Petreschi (Valle Giulia Faculty of Architecture - “La Sapienza” University, Rome) and
speakers will include architects Silvia Cattiodoro (IUAV Faculty of Architecture of Venice), Isabella Vesco (Department
of History and Design in Architecture – University of Palermo), Lucio Antarelli and Gianni Accasto ("Ludovico Quaroni"
First Faculty of Architecture, Rome). At 5.00 pm, the round table Scenography - from vocational training to
profession introduced by Daniele Paolin (Lecturer in Spatial Theory at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera, Milan) with
speeches by Roma Patel (Digital set designer, Lecturer in Narrative and Interactive Arts at the School of Art and Design,
Nottingham Trent University, Great Britain) and Alfio Mongelli (President, Rome University of Fine Arts).
MEETING WITH HUGO DE ANA. On Monday 7th April, the day dedicated to theatre will be inaugurated, at 10.00 am,
by the eagerly awaited public meeting with the great Hugo De Ana. The famous Argentinean theatre director,
scenographer, costume designer and lighting designer - who, in the course of his long career has directed over sixty
productions, the most recent of which are La Sonnambula (Verona’s Teatro Filarmonico), La Damnation de Faust and
Barbiere di Siviglia (Verona Arena) – will meet theatre students and fans, after being introduced by Sergio Metalli. At the
end of the meeting, he will hold an exclusive seminar on the analysis, planning and realization of sets, reserved for
educators and student. This will be followed by a speech by Sergio Metalli on The production of virtual sets for theatre.
Implementation of HDTV technology and Claudio Ceroni from Av Comm-Tec, with the presentation of Computer based
broadcast systems. Dataton’s Watchout. In the afternoon, from 3.00 pm, speeches by artist Ivana D’Agostino on New
frontiers in theatre design- between visual arts and new technologies and director Sandro Vanadia on Theatre in
television.
NEW FRONTIERS IN TELEVISION PRODUCTION DESIGN On Tuesday 8th April, from 10.00 am, the day dedicated
to TV will be opened by the presentation of the new series of publications The History of Television Production Design by
The Scenographer. There will be speeches by Antonin Di Santantonio (head of “Project Ratings Sector”, RAI) and
Beatrice Gallo (set decorator, RAI) on 50 years of TV production design under the of RAI banner; Giovanni Licheri,
Alida Cappellini and Eugenio Tavassi on Evolution in television production design: contemporary designers. The
morning’s proceeding will conclude with Dureid Yaghi (senior set designer) and Jihad Shanehsaze (head of set design
department) of Arabian TV Al Jazeera for the presentation of Al Jazeera Children's Channel. In the afternoon, from
3.30 pm, the focus will be on Virtual Reality from Real-Time Visual Simulation to Virtual Sets. An introduction by TV
director Gabriele Cipollitti will be followed by speeches by the production designers of Quark, Vincenzo Falcone and
David Migliacci, on Virtual reality in TV series featuring science, technology, culture and the arts and some
examples of realizations with Virtual Exhibitor by Raimondo di Persio of Infobyte SpA. The proceedings will be
concluded with an in-depth look at Web TV, with the presentation of exclusive material (pilot episodes, backstage shots,
the “making of” and interviews with the authors) on Sanctuary, the first science fiction TV movie produced and
broadcast exclusively for and on the Web.
The international scenography meetings are organized by SIB 2008 and The Scenographer magazine, in
collaboration with Peroni.
TIME + AIR DANCE: VIRTUAL REALITY AND INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA In the Peroni area (hall C7) hosting the
International Scenography Meetings, virtual reality and interactive multimedia are combined in the extraordinary
installations by LIMEart, a creative group specializing in live interactive media. R # 5: TIME + AIR DANCE investigates
the relationship between advanced technology for interaction and dance, by means of three different
installations on high-impact maxi screens. In TIME 1, three cameras cover the observer/actor/dancer from different
viewpoints which, thanks to processing by specific software, project the “sum” of the different views on the screen. TIME
2 proposes not only different viewpoints but also different times: the coverage shows the movement of the
observer/actor/dancer in real-time, after one or two seconds and after a few more seconds, but the relative images are
projected simultaneously. AIR on the other hand, is an installation based on motion-capture technology. The camera
shoots the performer, but the special software only recognizes the movement, leading to the creation of a sort of dense
homogeneous coloured air that only thins out in the area in which the action takes place and, according to the
movement, allows parts or all of the performer’s body to appear. Like all LIMEart projects, R # 5: TIME + AIR DANCE is
an “open” installation, at the disposal of performers, dancers, athletes and whoever during SIB wants to try to be the star
of these fascinating large images. R # 5: TIME + AIR DANCE is directed by Ezio Cuoghi, director of the Institute of New
Art Technologies and lecturer in Multimedia Direction at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera (Milan). The scenography is
by Daniele Paolin, installation direction by Carlo Ansaloni and technical design by Daniele Suffritti. Music by Marco
Giommoni. Interface development by Luca Orlandi and IT research by Riccardo Gherardi.
STAGE COSTUMES BY PRESTIGIOUS COSTUME MAKERS TIRELLI The area hosting the International meetings on
new frontiers in contemporary production design in Hall C7 will be embellished by an exhibition of costumes made by the
legendary theatre and cinema costume makers Tirelli Costumi. They are some of the most beautiful costume designed
by Hugo De Ana for the operas he directed. Tirelli costume makers was founded in 1964, and was responsible for
making the costumes for extremely famous films and shows, including those of almost all the films by Luchino Visconti. It
worked on making the costumes for "Casanova" by Fellini, "Chariots of fire", "Amadeus", "Cyrano de Bergerac", "The
age of innocence", "The English patient", "Titanic", "Elisabetta", “The legend of the pianist on the ocean”, “Moulin
Rouge”, “Cold Mountain”, “Charlie and the chocolate factory”.
SIB 2008 AT A GLANCE
Organizers: Rimini Fiera SpA with the sponsorship of TEN and SILB; Frequency: biennial; admittance: trade members only;
hours: 10.00 am - 6.30 pm; Web site: www.sibinternational.com
PRESS CONTACTS:
Rimini Fiera SpA Communication and Media Relations Service: +39 0541 744510 press@riminifiera.it
manager: Elisabetta Vitali; press office coordinator: Marco Forcellini;
press staff: Nicoletta Evangelisti and Alessandro Caprio; media consultant: Gabriele Pizzi.