Artist Giacomo Lion is holding a digital art lab with 27 students from Class 2L at the Istituto comprensivo Parco Della Vittoria in Rome for the BNL Media Art Festival.

 

The objective of the #EmoticonVideoMoment workshop is to develop a live performance in which the students act wearing masks they have created and interact with an audience via live streaming.

 

During the first phase, the young students will build their masks with cardboard and paper and paint them. The masks will allow the children to conceal their identity and fully express themselves without fears or shame.

 

The performance will be live, but there will be no audience in the room with them. Interaction will take place via the web, allowing the audience to ask questions, express opinions and participate in the performance.

 

Interaction with the Festival audience, which becomes an integral part of the performance, is the thread that unites all of Giacomo Lion’s labs for the BNL Media Art Festival. The artists is also working with students at the Liceo artistico Sant’Orsola who are developing 3D objects that visitors at the BNL Media Art Festival will be able to rearrange, thereby giving rise to new works of art.

 

The result is a live, interactive performance that unites classical acting with digital filming techniques in streaming to confront the challenge of digital art. As twelve-year-old Alessandro reminds us, it’s a way of uniting two distant worlds like acting and new technologies into one new concept.