January 21 2004- February 29, 2004 Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela Spain

With the supervision of Roberta Bosco, CGAC organized a 3 days event that was be held during the opening of the Pure Form Exhibition in Santiago de Compostela. The event proposed to visitors seminars from invited speaker on the theme of “Novel technological interfaces for the perception and fruition of artworks”.
The new technological interfaces – electro-mechanical prosthesis, exoskeletons, sensor systems, internet and different software, directly influence the relationship of the visitor with the artwork, allowing him to attain a degree of interaction and participation that never has not been experimented before.

The invited participants represented, both from a theoretical and practical point of view, different trends in the investigation of use of such interfaces and outstanding key-persons in this arts field:
- Marcel.lí Antúnez - Artist - España
- Claudia Giannetti - Expert - España
- Ken Rinaldo, Artist - United States
- Stelarc - Artist/Expert- Australia
The Pure Form exhibition lasted during all the month of February with very good results in terms of public affluence and user’s satisfaction. With an opening schedule of 3 days per week, more than 400 of people from different nationality tested the system and experienced the sense of being in the Museum of Pure Form.

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London, Computer Science Department of the University College of London, November 14, 2003

The first realization of the Museum of Pure Form within a CAVE-like environment was performed at Computer Science Department of the University College of London on 14 November 2003.

Visitors were able to navigate through the simulated museum, select a specific sculpture and interact with it. The interaction with the selected sculptures was obtained through the sight, using the CAVE system, and the haptic sense, using a force-feedback exoskeleton for the arm.

The realism of the virtual simulation was extremely high, giving users the real feeling of touching the surface being visualized and placed in the space under their own hands.

Pisa, Museo dell’Opera del Duomo, September 23, 2003

On September 26, 2003, on the occasion of the conference on High technology in the management of “Miracle Square” (September 26, 2003) held at Opera Museum OPAE a new multimedia room within the museum hosting the Museum of Pure Form was opened to the public. Visitors entering in the room are immersed in a quiet atmosphere, with suffused lights and soft music. On one wall of the room a stereoscopic 3D projection of a virtual environment is presented to the visitor, that is free to interact with the contents of the environment through the haptic interface system standing in front of the wall. An audio narration explains the visitor historical notes and details about the works on display. The room is currently open to the visitors of the museum.

March 2003

2 sculptures have been digitalized at the Nationalal Museum of Fine Arts, in Stockholm.

November 18-22, 2002

The digitalization at CGAC of some pieces of modern art took place on November 18-22, 2002. The Galician Center for Contemporary Arts has contributed to the virtual gallery with pieces of contemporary arts by Stephan Balkenhol and Xavier Toubes, that are part of its permanent collection. They exploit the usage of materials like wood and ceramics.

November 25-29, 2002

Digitalization at National Museum &Galleries on Meyerside in Liverpool

May 13-17, 2002

The first digitalization phase has been successfully completed at OPAE museum in Pisa. Several sculptures belonging to the XIII century of the have been digitalized.