BRIGHT FESTIVAL 2024

Alterego and Mitilanti together again to present a brand new version of Metapoetry!

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Alterego Digital Lab and Mitilanti participated in the 2024 edition of Bright Festival at the Stazione Leopolda in Florence on April 20 and 21, 2024. It was a unique opportunity to present a different vision of our hybrid experience between poetry and virtual reality, along with a unique, site-specific set-up designed ad-hoc for the event and its distinctive location.

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THE VR EXPERIENCE:

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Once the visitor put on the visor, inside the set-up designed by Alterego, he or she was able to independently experience one of the five poems that together make up the supporting skeleton of “Metapoetry.” By scanning QR codes set up at the entrance to the dedicated space, it was possible to preview the texts composed by the Mitilanti collective, expressing a preference as to which of the five experiences one wished to visit.

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THE LIVE READING PERFORMANCES:

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The enjoyment of “Metapoetry” was only one of two parts of the experience proposed for the festival by Alterego and Mitilanti. The two collectives, which have always focused on the interpenetration of physical and virtual, also offered visitors a series of live readings that were interspersed with time slots dedicated to the enjoyment of the virtual experience.

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THE SETTING:

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The installation designed for the 2024 edition of the Festival, consisted of a series of five light arches, coupled with five cones of light that described on the ground five circles corresponding to the area available for physical exploration of each virtual experience. The light arches referenced both the “Home” environment of the original version of “Metapoetry” and the characteristic arches of the Stazione Leopolda, echoing their proportions.

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YOU CAN FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE PAST EDITION OF THE FESTIVAL
ON ITS WEBSITE AND DEDICATED PAGES:

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