Flavia Sparacino
Museum of the Future Media in Performance
MIT Media Lab
flavia@media.mit.edu
Resume
Education
Ph.D. in Media Arts and Sciences
MIT Media Lab
Master of Science Degree in Media Arts and Sciences
MIT Media Lab
Master of Science Degree in Cognitive Sciences (DEA)
Ecole Polytechnique & Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes & Universite' Paris VI-Jussieu,
Paris, France
European Honorary Degree Award from T.I.M.E.
Top Industrial Managers for Europe
Jointly from Ecole Centrale Paris and Politecnico di Milano
M-Eng. Degree in Industrial Engineering
Major: Robotics
Ecole Centrale Paris, France
M-Eng Degree in Electrical Engineering
Major: Mathematics, minor: Artificial Intelligence
full grades with honors from Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Secondary School Graduation Certificate in the Humanities
Core disciplines: Literature, Philosophy, History, ancient Latin and Greek
Technology demonstrations at conferences and universities
with: the great improv. actress Kristin Hall and technical support from Eric Trimble
co-authors: Christopher Wren, Glorianna Davenport and Alex Pentland
The Sixth Biennal Symposium on Arts and Technology 97
Center for Arts and Technology @ Connecticut College, February 27-March 2, 1997
Meta-City Sarajevo
presented in video format
Ars Electronica 98, Linz, Austria
Linz, September 1998
DanceSpace
installation open to the public
at the International Dance and Technology 99
IDAT 99, Arizona State University, Feb. 25-28, 1999
Unbuilt Ruins
Interactive Museum Installation
MIT Compton Gallery
February and March 1999
Unbuilt Ruins
Interactive Museum Installation
at the International Conference on Hypertext and Interactive Museums
ICHIM 99, Washington, DC, Sept. 22-26, 1999
City of News and Wearable City of News
SIGGRAPH 99, Emerging Technologies
Los Angeles, August 8-13, 1999
The Museum Wearable
Museums and the Web 02
Boston, April 17-20, 2002
Interactive Transportable Architecture: a computer vision interface a la "Minority Report"
SIGGRAPH 03, Emerging Technologies
San Diego, July 27-31, 2003
Invited Talks
Digital Circus: a computer-vision based interactive Virtual Studio
IMAGINA 1999
Montecarlo, Monaco, 18-20th January 1999
Dance Space and Improvisational Theater Space
UCI, University of California Irvine, USA
Invited lectures at the School of Arts of UCI
Irvine, 1-5 March 1999
Dance Space
talk at the Boston Ballet, June 99
Boston, USA, invited presentation with Yacov Sharir and Todd Winkler
Wearable Cinema/Werable City: bridging physical and virtual spaces through wearable computing
IMAGINA 2000
Montecarlo, Monaco, January 31st-February 3rd 2000
Nouvelles Scenographies et Multimedia Interactives
New Technologies for Museums
Louvre Museum in Paris, France
Communication to a selected public of museum curators and experts
Paris, France, February 4th 2000
Media in performance: smart spaces and wearables for dance, theater, and museum exhibits
The Kitchen, New York, NY
@Whatstage? The Impact of Technology on the Performing Arts
March 15 - 17, 2000
financed by the Ford Foundation, with:
Tony Giovannetti, Metropolitan Opera/lighting designer
Clara Miller, Non-Profit Finance
Naomi Okuyama, Zeum
Jonathan Secor, MassMoca
Moderator: Ellen Lampert-Greaux, Theatre Crafts/Lighting Dimensions
Technologies and methods for interactive exhibit design: from wireless
object and body tracking to wearable computers
AAM: American Association of Museums, Annual Conference
with; Peter Samis (SFMOMA) and Scott Sayre, Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Baltimore, USA, 14-18 May 2000
Wearable Cinema/Wearable City
en.red.ando Conference, Barcelona, Spain
in teleconference from Boston
October 27 2000
Interactive Louis Kahn and City of News
Institut Francais d'Architecture: IFA, Paris, France
Paris, France, December 8th 2000
City of News and Wearable City
ISEA, International Symposium on Electronic Art, Paris, France
Panel discussion: Computer Programming and the Conception of Cities
Debate and encounter with the public: with Marcus Novak, Ammar Eloueni,
IAN+, GRUPPO A12
Paris, France, December 9th 2000
Augmented Performance: DanceSpace and Improvisational Theater Space
Panel discussion: New Interfaces For Dance
with: Scott de Lahunta, Robert Wechsler, Armando Menicacci, Emanuele Quinz, Joe Paradiso,
and Stelarc
ISEA, International Symposium on Electronic Art, Paris, France
Paris, France, December 10th 2000
Internships
Visiting researcher, trajectory planning for intelligent robots
