CICCIO Gallery 2008_05_20Some sewn pieces of nylon in the shape of either a torpedo, or a sphere or a donut, then a small blower, a computer, few sensors, a projector, an optimistic look at the future, the desire to experiment and then here we are! CICCIO or the Curiously Inflated Computer Controlled Interactive Object. CICCIO is light, inflatable, transportable, white, neutral, bright, coloured, projected; it has been hung and laid down and it has been used either as vertical or horizontal space; we've made it in the shape of a donut, a torpedo and sphere; we've built it in Ivrea but then we've inflated it in Rome, Florence, Milan, Turin, Genoa, London, Bankok, Beijing, Venice and the next one will be in Lille. CICCIO is totally an opensource platform that everyone can use, copy, modify, distribute in order to learn how to teach; to learn how to learn both space and interactivity; to learn how to make a fast prototype of spatial interfaces; to learn how to experiment simple technologies that in the next future will be implanted in our quotidian living environment: houses, shops, square, cities. CICCIO is a teaching experiment born in May 2003 at [ Interaction Design Institute Ivrea ]where some students and professors started to collaborate for an architectural competition called EUROPAN 7. Walter
Aprile, Dario Buzzini, Eyal Fried, Daniele Mancini and Stefano Mirti
have been working togheter since the beginning. Then many others
started to contribute to the development of the platform designing many
different projects based on CICCIO: Giovanni Cannata, Line Ulrike
Christiansenn, Karmen Franinovic, Sergio Paolantonio, Anurag Sehgal,
Luther Thie, Andreea Chelaru, Ben Dove, Noel Perlas, Thomas Stovicek,
Luca Poncellini, Matteo Pastore, Britta Boland, Francesca Sassaroli. CICCIO as teaching platform has been used to develop thesis projects, prototypes and many interactive installations. All of them are documented on the CICCIO_WIki at the page http://www.interaction-ivrea.it/ciccio. [ Link alla versione italiana ] |
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13_CICCIO_FIRENZE_FESTA_GEOGRAFIA_2005An interactive experience of a virtual flight over Tuscany takes place in an inflatable environment made of white nylon material (CICCIO). Interaction-Ivrea will transport to the Geography Fair event in Florence, a CICCIO (curiously inflated computer controlled interactive object). Inside the CICCIO there will be an interactive system based upon radio tag technology, which produces projections on the external walls of the inflatable structure. This projection will be also visible from the inside. Project by: Daniele Mancini and Francesca Sassaroli
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12_CICCIO_TORINO_GIOVANI_IDEE_2004Ciccio
inspired impromptu performances by passerby at Fiera delle Idee (Ideas
Fair) held on November 2004 in Turin. The piece included placing booths
beneath a canopy of colored lights in front of the town hall.
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CICCIO as Children Workshop Space . "The workshops deliberately employ
a low tech approach and is based around the theme of comunication.
Starting from a simple activity like drawing their own portrait, the
kids are confronted with different technologies; from the pencil to the
computer (passing through a whole series of different tools) "
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10_CICCIO_BEIJING_2004 An interactive, inflatable environment into which to enter, look, touch and try out. After Milan and Florence,
the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea departs for China, to the first
Architecture Biennale in Beijing. New media projects have been
presented in the heart of Tien An Men!
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09_CICCIO_WORLD_VISION_2004
The Inflatable Portable Museum becomes the Intercative Portfolio of the
most recent projects by students, reserchers and professors at
Interaction Design Institute Ivrea. This new versione is a vastly
improved CICCIO, made in fireproof fabric, with a heavier canvas floor
and stiffened with fiberglass rings. Visitors enter and explore a
fascinating jugle of coloured and weaving interactive stripes.
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08_PORTABLE_MUSEUM_2004
The Portable Museum Kit is an inflatable interactive system for
collecting, documenting and presenting in an exhibition the experience
of travel through particularly meaningful objects. The kit is a set of
instruments packed in a custom designed white travel bag. Radio
Frequency Identification tags (RFID tags) allow each object to store
and release upon demand selected visual or acoustic memories.
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07_AUDIOGRAFFITI_2004
We can leave tracks behind us through an "audio imprint", just by going
into the stomach of Ciccio, an inflatable fabric tunnel, and activating
one of the microphones that are ready to record and broadcast whatever
we like, in a sort of melodic loop: it may be a raucous noise, a short
poem, an exclamation or a smacking kiss.
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06_CREATIVE_COLLISION_2004
Painting digital pictures by throwing rubber pebbles against an
inflatable equipped with suitable sensors. The shape and size of the
pictures depend on the intensity and the way in which you throw the
pebble. The same operation can be repeated several times, using
different colours, enabling you to create your own graphic.
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05_SYMBOLIC_HOUSE_2003
Symbolic House is an exploration in using the Ciccio as a platform for
interactive reactive sound and video space, authenticity issues related
to mental projections of the self onto the other, the everyday home
objects invested with memory that evoke emotions associated with our
use of domestic space.
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04_ELIO_MOLE_2003In November 2003 Interaction Ivrea (IDII) designed the launch event for Cluster, a bilingual Torino based magazine that focuses on innovation in all its forms. The event took the shape of a large party inside the Mole Antonelliana in Torino, where IDII installed an airborne projection screen, interactive inflatable modules (CICCIO) and the face2face2face project. Projects by: Stefano Mirti, Walter Aprile, Sergio Paolantonio, Line Ulrike Christiansenn, Giorgio Olivero, Yaniv Steiner,
Mathias Dahlström, Massimo Banzi.
Video by Simone Muscolino
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03_INTIMACY_FLORENCE_2003October 2nd 2003: INTIMACY opens in Florence at Spazio Alcatraz and Ospedale degli Innocenti. The exhibition in Spazio Alcatraz features 19 schools and 51 architects from all over the world. The photograph presents one of the inflatable interactive environments developed for the show. Project based on CICCIO by: Dario Buzzini, Massimo Banzi, Stefano Mirti, Walter Aprile, Britta Boland, Daniele Mancini, Line Ulrike Christiansenn, Karmen Franinovich, Eyal Fried. - Wiki Documentation Page
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02_CICCIO_REGGIO_2003We were invited by Marialuisa Palumbo to join the workshop in Reggio Calabria with the students from Corso IFTS 'Esperto dello sviluppo e dell'utilizzazione di tecnologie interattive e multimediali e tecniche di ritocco fotografico' . The inflatable contained a marine environment; sea themed projections and the blue glow were playfully aided by the inflatable dolphin. CICCIO Workshop by: Walter Aprile, Eyal Fried, Stefano Mirti - Wiki Documentation Page
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01_EUROPAN_2003In May 2003 we took part in a competition for architects called EUROPAN7. Our proposal was an inflatable prototype for an innovative living unit: the first CICCIO! Team: Walter Aprile, Dario Buzzini, Line Ulrike Christiansenn, Karmen Franinovich, Eyal Fried, Daniele Mancini, Stefano Mirti
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INARCH_WORKSHOP_2004The INARCH (Istituto Nazionale di ARCHitettura) is an architecture research and education institute in Rome. They kindly invited us to do a two-day workshop within their master's program , Lo spazio in-forme . We brought a CICCIO and a prototype of part of DanieleMancini 's thesis work. This was the basic technology we were offering, and the students chose to organize an event that would take place in the CICCIO, a dinner were each of them would bring some specific food that he felt was very meaningful to him. Workshop by: Walter Aprile, Daniele Mancini, Stefano Mirti
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LOVE_IS_IN_THE_AIR_2004Over
the tropical sky of Bangkok, the last project by the Bangkok
Superlover: an installation with 172 CICCIOs, 156 sources of light and
just a 40.000 euro of budget. - Contact Bangkok Superlover
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THE_BAUSTELLE_BAND_ON_MTVThe videoclip for 'Arriva lo ye-ye' by Baustelle has been shot in Ivrea in one day (March 6th 2004), at Interaction Design Institute Ivrea in collaboration with many students and professors. CICCIO featured as guest star being the stage for mostly the whole video.
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THE_PORTABLE_MUSEUM_ON_CUT_TV Link to:
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CICCIO_OPEN_SOURCE_PLATFORM_DO_IT_YOURSELFLink to: - Parametro, n.260, Dicember 2005, Italy - read the pdf
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web site curated by Daniele Mancini
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CICCIO Group @ Interaction Design Institute Ivrea 2005 |