Information Technologies for Set-designers

Abstract

The project The set-designer and the instruments of his days–New information technologies for the theatre was proposed in the second edition of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation competition, Impresa & Cultura, Intrapresae Collezione Guggenheim enterprise, being awarded a mention by the jury for the originality of the application in a typical Italian field, the opera theatre, in need of deep innovations. The complete system used for the project consisted of a powerful computer along with specialized software for solid modelling, ALIAS, and a sophisticated program for modifying photographs and image processing used to apply materials to the graphic structure. The author, graduated from the Art Academy of Brera in Milan, was hired to lead the technical part of the project. He had used information technology preparing his exams at the Academy, where he had already realized virtual set-design. On the occasion of the introduced project was trained in the Alias software secrets and he could work closely with the professionals of the Stage setting departments of the theatres involved in the experimental project. At the same time he could finished his studies with a thesis on the use of computer technologies in the theatre.