Calibro

Calibro is an interactive installation realised on the occasion of the 2020 edition of the Tensioni Festival, organised by La Fabbrica dello Zucchero. The project involved the realisation of three 1-metre posters displayed in the city of Rovigo, coming to life thanks to augmented reality.

The idea for Calibro was born during the first lockdown imposed by the Pandemic from Covid-19 and is the result of a reflection on the gestures made by hands at a ‘safe distance’. Calibro encodes an alphabet of new gestures, an illustrated labyrinth of hands that intertwine and, draw the variable geography of (new) interpersonal relationships, moving apart and coming together. A mosaic of connections, greetings, unions but also detachments, bans and loneliness, narrated by hands that join, greet, separate – a web that represents a new collectivity.

Hands move apart, entangle and separate, within a forced space, only to live outside this boundary. New relationships and new approaches in digital space originate through augmented reality.

Calibro’s installation spreads on the web, through digital storytelling that took place on Ida Studio’s Instagram channel for the duration of the installation.

Video and animation: Samuele Grando

AR experience realised with Artivive