6:30 PM // MOVIE “No Borders”: the Italian documentary of Haider Rashid (2016), with Elio Germano. It will introduce us in the social communities of migrants with the 360° virtual reality.
11:30 – To Work in Cooperation: Meeting with Deputy Minister Mario Giro Presenter: Claudia Fusani 11:30 Saluti Dean of Pisa University Director of the School IMT Alti Studi Lucca ...
18:30-19:30 // SHOW Readings and projections with: Giulia Solano and Daniele Tarini (I Sacchi di Sabbia) Production: Festival delle Generazioni Promoters: FNP-Cisl in collaborazione con Anteas Realization: Nanof e Acquario della Memoria A project by: Lorenzo Garzella,...
16:00-18:00 // PANEL Presenter: Giampaolo Colletti Speakers: Sonia Peronaci, Francesca Barbieri, Andrea Di Caro, Luca Dini, Dirk Pinamonti, Luigi Galimberti It seems like only yesterday, but thirty years have already gone past: in December 1987 the CNR of Pisa was...
In the not too distant future, the world is split into two huge blocks formed by two economic alliances, NewState and TheNation, in a war for global control. The fighters in this war are the Timed: mercenary soldiers with extraordinary abilities, but condemned to...
In the not too distant future, the world is split into two huge blocks formed by two economic alliances, NewState and TheNation, in a war for global control. The fighters in this war are the Timed: mercenary soldiers with extraordinary abilities, but condemned to...
As well as playing, children love to create their own games and invent new stories. Videogames are a great opportunity to help them develop new forms of collaboration and expression, especially emotional. Adults and children take part in the same marathon to create...
IF Game Jam is the Internet Festival video game development marathon. Forty hours to form a team, come up with a concept and develop a game. Game designers, programmers, graphic and sound designers, all taking part in the only team marathon made of pixels and lines of...
IF Game Jam is the Internet Festival video game development marathon. Forty hours to form a team, come up with a concept and develop a game. Game designers, programmers, graphic and sound designers, all taking part in the only team marathon made of pixels and lines of...
10:30-12:30 // WORKSHOP Speaker: Dirk Pinamonti eCommerce is becoming increasingly pervasive, the barriers between online and offline are disappearing, and new models and ways of purchasing are taking hold. CartaSi, the leading Italian digital payment provider, aims...
18:00-19:00 // BOOK PRESENTATION IN COLLABORATION WITH LIBRERIA FELTRINELLI Presenter: Claudia Fusani Speaker: Federica Manzon A love story that feeds on words and the sound of messages arriving rather than caresses. Nonetheless, the love is real, and Federica Manzon...
A path among installations, permanent exhibitions and video projections that put the spectator at the center and invite him to become an integral part of the work. 8 installations, one way to immerse yourself in an active and interactive engagement experience....
17:00-18:00 // BOOK PRESENTATION IN COLLABORATION WITH LIBRERIA GHIBELLINA Presenter: Matteo Pelliti Speaker: Remo Bodei For a long time, passion was condemned as a factor of disturbance or a momentary loss of reason. Several strategies have been so developed to...
16:00-17:00 // BOOK PRESENTATION IN COLLABORATION WITH LIBRERIA FELTRINELLI Presenter: Barbara Sgarzi Speaker: Sabrynex Beck’s life had always been perfect, despite the emptiness she felt over the loss of her Dad: amazing best friends, a caring mother and Ben, a...
15:30-18:30 // WORKSHOP Speakers: Adalbert Diouf, Marco Boscolo, Gaetano Carboni, Riccardo Bocci, Elisabetta Demartis, Giuditta Caimi For thousands of years farmers have selected and cultivated seeds freely, working together, following the principles of cooperation...
15:00-18:00 Presenter: Cora Francesca Sollo Have you ever wondered how the Internet makes us happier? In this session we will explore the relationship between happiness and the Internet, looking at the latest Digital Social Innovation initiatives that unite people,...
15:00-18:00 Presenter: Mario Tedeschini Lalli Digital Graphic Recording: Alessandro Bonaccorsi The pervasiveness of technical-scientific culture has grown, and with it the need to publish the work and the results of research in order to raise awareness and...
14:30-19:00 // WORKSHOP Presenters: Lorenzo Paladini, Beatrice Fantozzi (Rotaract Club Pisa e Rotaract Club Cascina) Speakers: Nicolò Zanotti, Oriana Perrone, Diana Severati, Francesco Di Candio (Eppela), Invasione Creativa (Edoardo Santamato e Benedetto Papi) Digital...
14:00-17:00 // BOOK PRESENTATION + MEET&GREET IN COLLABORATION WITH LIBRERIA FELTRINELLI Presenter: Barbara Sgarzi Speaker: Luciano Spinelli “Dear Diary, at this precise moment I do not know what I should tell you. But the idea of writing my first secret...
12:00-13:00 // BOOK PRESENTATION IN COLLABORATION WITH LIBRERIA FELTRINELLI Presenter: Pierpaolo Penco Speakers: Luciana Squadrilli, Slawka G. Scarso Exports today are more than ever an essential channel for the growth of Italian agri-food companies. Expanding your...
11:00-12:00 // BOOK PRESENTATION IN COLLABORATION WITH LIBRERIA GHIBELLINA Presenter: Claudia Vago Speakers: Massimo Sideri, Umberto Ambrosoli New network-based technologies are undermining social customs rooted in practice and in law. The Internet and social networks...
11:00-12:30 // PANEL Speakers: Adalbert Diouf, Marco Boscolo, Gaetano Carboni, Riccardo Bocci, Elisabetta Demartis, Giuditta Caimi For thousands of years farmers have selected and cultivated seeds freely, working together, following the principles of cooperation and...
11:00-13:00 // PANEL Presenter: Marta Capuano Speakers: Stella Pulpo, Claudia Fusani “I feel therefore I am”. But what do young people feel when they use social networks as the main tool for personal relationships? What are they looking for and what do...
11:00-13:00 // PANEL Presenter: Antonio Pavolini Speakers: Enrico Bufalini, Alessio Falconio, Guido Mesiti, Gianluca Picciotti The talk focuses on the key features of our economy, as they appear after the financial crisis. We will look at the ability of Italian firms...
21:00-22:00 // SHOW Presenter: Matteo Bordone Speakers: Michele Campisi, Jacopo Ceccarelli (aka 2501), Martino Coffa, Patrizio Fariselli, Alessandro Inguglia “Out of the loop” is a phrase that lends itself to interpretations in the social, musical,...
18:00-19:30 // SHOW I Sacchi di Sabbia and Giacomo Verde (scenographer) This technological farce in two episodes is the pretext for talking about Utopia, Technology, and Future. The Sacchi di Sabbia company and Giacomo Verde approach it with irony, gazing over the...
17:00-18:00 // PANEL Presenter: Antonio Rossano Speakers: Arturo Di Corinto, Piero Dominici, Tiziano Toniutti Information seen as a process of comparison/verification, subject to change or confirmation, obtained through the participation of individuals and social...
20:30-21:30 // BOOK PRESENTATION IN COLLABORATION WITH LIBRERIA GHIBELLINA Presenter: Claudia Fusani Speaker: Alessandro Dal Lago The rise of the Internet as a global environment has changed political perspectives. On one hand it creates the illusion of an...
19:00-20:00 // BOOK PRESENTATION IN COLLABORATION WITH LIBRERIA FOGOLA Presenter: Barbara Sgarzi Speaker: Stella Pulpo 90s fashion, summer concert hits, ex-boyfriends. We all have things in the past that we would rather forget. What if they came back? Nina is thirty,...
18:00-19:00 // BOOK PRESENTATION IN COLLABORATION WITH LIBRERIA FOGOLA Presenter: Davide De Crescenzo Speakers: Andrea Michielotto, Mattia Pappalardo Before clickbaiting, far beyond fact-checking, much more than debunking. In a world enveloped by the darkness of...
17:00-18:00 // BOOK PRESENTATION IN COLLABORATION WITH LIBRERIA GHIBELLINA Presenter: Matteo Pelliti Speaker: Antonio Sgobba What are you smiling at, reader? Knowledge makes you happy. You think you know everything around you: apps in your cell phone are able to tell...
16:00-17:00 // BOOK PRESENTATION IN COLLABORATION WITH LIBRERIA FOGOLA Presenter: Claudia Fusani Speaker: Bruno Mastroianni The real change introduced by digital technology has been to put everyone in constant confrontation. On social networks different worlds –...
15:30-18:30 Presenter: Luciana Squadrilli From a popular favourite to a gourmet “dish” capable of representing territorial and gastronomic heritage and bringing together ovens and kitchens, pizza – no longer just a Neapolitan food – has never been so...
15:30-18:00 // PANEL Speakers: Lina Bolzoni, Serena Pezzini, Peppe Servillo Today, it is possible to rediscover the charm of a poem like Ariosto’s classic, which became famous throughout Europe for its presentation of human life and passions, fascinating even...
15:30-18:30 Presenter: Carola Frediani We will talk about cybersecurity from two points of view: that of the State (between hacking, espionage, wars and diplomacy); and that of private citizens, in order to understand the effects of this genuine war on our everyday...
15:00-17:00 // PANEL Organized by the Tuscany order of journalists Presenter: Adriano Fabris Speaker: Marcello Vitali Rosati, Veronica Neri, Carlo Bartoli What does “virtual” mean? Does it exist? Is “virtual” a good thing?; the digital...
15:00-18:00 Presenter: Paolo Chiappini How does the story of a place and the way it is promoted to tourists change in the digital era? While physical distances become shorter, the new frontiers of narrative will push as far as the technology and creativity allow us....
15:00-18:30 Presenter: Raffaele Barberio The legal aspects of the creative industries, between laws, creative commons and piracy; preserving, in the era of easy copying and information at a click, a moral and intellectual principle such as copyright using the new...
15:00-18:30 Presenter: Martina Pennisi The advent of social media and news reporting on a global scale have produced a new way of interpreting reality, upsetting the balance of truth and the credibility of what the Internet creates and disseminates. Internet Festival...
15:00-18:00 Presenter: Mario Tedeschini Lalli Digital Graphic Recording: Alessandro Bonaccorsi The pervasiveness of technical-scientific culture has grown, and with it the need to publish the work and the results of research in order to raise awareness and...
11:00-13:00 // PANEL Presenter: Donata Columbro Speakers: Valeria Villain, Luca Visone, Matteo Brunati, Erika Marconato, Viola Bachini, Daniele Fadda What happens when activists and citizens exploit the power of the Internet to participate in the country’s...
10:30-13:00 // PANEL Presenter: Carola Frediani Speakers: Cecilia Strada, Guglielmo Tamburrini, Francesco Vignarca, Gian Piero Siroli What role do scientists play in the process of disarmament and the abolition of war? What is the environmental, economic,...
11:00-13:00 Presenter: Martina Pennisi The advent of social media and news reporting on a global scale have produced a new way of interpreting reality, upsetting the balance of truth and the credibility of what the Internet creates and disseminates. Internet Festival...
10:00-13:00 // WORKSHOP EMMA (“Enriching Market solutions for content Management and publishing with state of the art Multimedia Analysis techniques”) is a European project funded by the Horizon 2020 program, involving the construction of a digital...
10:00-17:00 // WORKSHOP Speakers: StartupItalia! is the protagonist of Internet Festival for the fourth consecutive year with Bootstrap, once again thanks to the collaboration with Registro.it. The coaching event, which will take place on Saturday, 7 October at the...
10:00-13:00 The legal aspects of the creative industries, between laws, creative commons and piracy; preserving, in the era of easy copying and information at a click, a moral and intellectual principle such as copyright using the new possibilities offered by...
10:00-13:00 // WORKSHOP Presenter: Michele D’Alena Speakers: Vittorio Bugli, Fabrizio Sestini, Nicola Landucci, Vincenzo Gervasi, Deborah Bianchi, Laura Castellani The event presents the technological development trends of the Internet over the next 5-10 years,...
21:00-22:30 // PROJECTION Speaker: Cecilia Strada A documentary dedicated to Emergency’s activity in Afghanistan. One day in Kabul. Eyes, sound, heart. A 35-minute sensory...
21:00-22:00 // PANEL Presenter: Matteo Bordone Speaker: Francesco Berto, Danilo Rea, Federico Bria What is the essence of life? “The consequence of a mechanical repetition: a ‘strange loop’. A constant look in the mirror”, according to...
18:30-19:30 // SHOW I Sacchi di Sabbia and Giacomo Verde (scenographer) This technological farce in two episodes is the pretext for talking about Utopia, Technology, and Future. The Sacchi di Sabbia company and Giacomo Verde approach it with irony, gazing over the...
18:30-20:00 // SHOW Speakers: Paolo Migone, Silvia Benvenuti, Pierluigi Crescenzi, Linda Pagli The development of neural networks has helped train computers to behave intelligently: will they even be able to replace comedians? A very human comedian and an android...
19:00-20:00 // BOOK PRESENTATION IN COLLABORATION WITH LIBRERIA GHIBELLINA Presenter: Matteo Pelliti Speaker: Roberto Emanuelli When true love comes, you recognise it. It overwhelms you, heart and mind, and by then it’s already too late: time, distance, the...
18:00-19:00 // BOOK PRESENTATION IN COLLABORATION WITH LIBRERIA GHIBELLINA Presenter: Giovanni Ziccardi Speaker: Simone Cosimi, Alberto Rossetti You’re born, you grow up, you post. Social networks are full of children: who protects them? The phenomenon of social...
17:00-18:00 // BOOK PRESENTATION IN COLLABORATION WITH LIBRERIA GHIBELLINA Presenter: Claudia Fusani Speaker: Matteo Grandi Insults, discrimination of all kinds, misogyny, instigation of violence, homophobia, racist and anti-scientific fake news, revenge porn…just to...
NOTE: The date and time of the event are changed compared to the booklet. The correct time is reported here. 21:30-22:30 // BOOK PRESENTATION IN COLLABORATION WITH LIBRERIA ORSA MINORE Presenter: Federico Guerri Speaker: Tommaso Novi...
17:30-19:00 // SHOWCASE Speaker: Stefano Cecere The Mozilla Foundation has always been at the forefront of new web technologies and how to use them. With its latest developments (WebAssembly, WebGL 2, asm.js, WebVR, Firefox 57 and numerous subprojects created to make...
17:00-18:00 // KEYNOTE SPEECH Speaker: Francesco Toniolo The growing YouTuber phenomenon introduces a few questions: what is it that makes users feel so attached to these content creators? What emotions are involved in particular? Are YouTubers stars, web celebrities,...
15:00-17:00 // WORKSHOP Speaker: Dario D’Ambra Some video games are not developed just for entertainment, but to represent some sort of emotion or message. Games like Passage, Every Day The Same Dream and Loneliness are short games, but with a strong emotional impact....
15:00-16:00 // KEYNOTE SPEECH Speakers: Ivan Venturi, Giacomo Guccinelli Currently in production, Pride Run is an absolutely innovative game, both for the way it works, its genre, a Musical RTS (real-time strategy) game, and for its theme. Players get to lead the...
15:00-18:00 // LIMITED ACCESS WORKSHOP Presenter: Luca Sparnacci ITACA is a European cooperation initiative sponsored by the Società della Salute di Pisa, promoting disabled accessibility in tourism. The project, funded by the Italy-Maritime France Interreg Program,...
15:00-18:00 // PANEL Speaker: Stefano Gatti Cerved Group SpA, Italy’s largest Information Provider and one of Europe’s leading ratings agencies, meets small innovative ICT companies in a Business Matching meeting. Founded in 1974 as an IT company in the...
15:00-18:00 Presenter: Claudio Giua Techniques, opportunities and risks: the world of advertising is being completely revolutionised by digital innovation. “Programmatic advertising” is gaining ground. Big data analysis, collected by exploring user...
15:00-18:00 Presenter: Mario Tedeschini Lalli Digital Graphic Recording: Alessandro Bonaccorsi The pervasiveness of technical-scientific culture has grown, and with it the need to publish the work and the results of research in order to raise awareness and...
15:00-18:30 Presenter: Federica Meta The legal aspects of the creative industries, between laws, creative commons and piracy; preserving, in the era of easy copying and information at a click, a moral and intellectual principle such as copyright using the new...
15:00-18:00 Presenter: Carola Frediani If you think cybersecurity has nothing to do with you, you’re wrong! Driven by experienced professionals and internationally renowned hackers, we will reflect in this session on how citizens are now part of the digital...
15:00-18:00 // PANEL Presenter: Michele D’Alena Speakers: Vittorio Bugli, Antonio Samaritani, Benedetta Squittieri, Giacomo Mangoni, Laura Castellani The event will offer an opportunity to discuss the issue in seminars, inviting local authorities and representatives...
11:00-13:00 Presenter: Claudio Giua Techniques, opportunities and risks: the world of advertising is being completely revolutionised by digital innovation. “Programmatic advertising” is gaining ground. Big data analysis, collected by exploring user...
11:00-13:00 Presenter: Mario Tedeschini Lalli The aim of this session is to explore the relationship between research, philosophy and innovation, with the help of prominent representatives of some of the world’s largest commercial and academic players. Through...
Thu/Fri/Sat/Sun 09:00-18:00 // INSTALLATION A journey through time, from North to South, through the words of the children, adults, grandparents and great-grandparents of Italy. An exhibition made of people. Faces, meetings and stories surround the spectator,...
Thu/Fri/Sat/Sun 09:00-18:00 // INSTALLATION The installation allows visitors to experience AR (Augmented Reality) and VR (Virtual Reality) and was specially made for the Festival. The experience includes views and monuments in Pisa, which in turn serve as containers...
Gio/ven/sab/dom 09:00-18:00 // INSTALLAZIONE The Machines do not refer to any external theory, nor do they have any symbolic meaning. They are “models” that fully express the desire of sculpture and painting to be used and made, and seem to be re-launched...
9:30 Pisa and Erasmus: 30 years of history together Presenter: Claudia Fusani 9:30 Greatings Dean of Pisa University 9:35 Meeting with Sofia Corradi (Mom Erasmus) 10:20 Debate and comparison with students ...
Thu/Fri/Sat/Sun 09:00-18:00 // INSTALLATION Internet can be represented as an iceberg. The tip represents the “Surface Web”, the digital area we all know. The submerged part of the iceberg, which is more than 90%, represents the “Deep Web”, a...
Thu/Fri/Sat/Sun 09:00-18:00 // INSTALLATION The advent of new information technology has transformed social structures. Communities are no longer defined in strictly geographical terms, but are redefined as the connections between people and their relationships,...
Thu/Fri/Sat/Sun 09:00-18:00 // INSTALLATION A large-scale video projection showing paintings and milestones closely linked to the theme of the Festival. Thanks to an integrated calculator equipped with a special infrared sensor, visitors can use gestures to change the...
Thu/Fri/Sat/Sun 09:00-18:00 // INSTALLATION Wize Mirror, a tool developed as part of the European SEMEIOTICONS project, is an advanced multi-sensor device similar to a mirror, capable of recording, analysing and interpreting signs on the human face in order to...
Thu/Fri/Sat/Sun 09:00-18:00 // INSTALLATION A collective exhibition to stimulate interest in new technologies through an interactive work. Passers-by are involved directly and asked, one at a time, to measure their heartbeat using a small sensor applied to a finger....
Thu/Fri/Sat/Sun 09:00-18:00 // INSTALLATION There was a time when men created robots to help and serve them. Then the robots grew in number and abilities, multiplying out of control, and began to communicate and organise themselves until humans could no longer do...
Thu/Fri/Sat/Sun 09:00-18:00 // INSTALLATION An installation that prompts you to take a deep look at yourself and at the Internet. It is like a micro (or macro?) cosmos where different synergies and feelings are created. An osmotic creature that moves in every...
Thu/Fri/Sat/Sun 09:00-18:00 // INSTALLATION An ostrich egg suspended in the void, an ancient symbol of perfection, rebirth and knowledge to which man aspires. Under it is a “carpet” of small pamphlets destined to be thrown away, simple sheets that...
Thu/Fri/Sat/Sun 09:00-18:00 // INSTALLATION The installation simulates being inside a simple Emergency hospital. The experience begins in the war zone, showing the moment when the patient arrives in hospital. It continues by showing Emergency’s real work, i.e....
Fri/Sat/Sun 09:00-19:00 // GAME CORNER, MixArt – Ludoteca Even before they acquire a narrative, videogames open a field of expression, or evolve as an original form of artistic creativity. By attracting the eye and the ear, inviting players to leave their own...
Fri/Sat/Sun 09:00-19:00 // GAME CORNER, MixArt – Music/Corridor Area The Ogre Coaster is an arcade roller-coaster developed for Virtual Reality, with 2DOF motion sensors to simulate carriage movements. In this experience, players step into the shoes of an...
Fri/Sat/Sun 09:00-19:00 // GAME SHOWCASE, MixArt – Room Mente What is #sentiment? It’s a point of view, an opinion, a feeling about a subject. Today, game designers and developers are exploring the great potential of this digital medium. Videogames can act...
