Publications by Giacomo Alliata

The Transduction of the Archive as an Embodied Space

Sarah Irene Brutton Kenderdine, Giacomo Alliata

Following the mass digitization of archives and the growing production of born‑digital material, we explore how interactive and immersive technologies can enable new modes of access to these collections in situated contexts. Drawing on Gilbert Simondon’s c ...

Edizioni Ca Foscari2025

The BiographScope: Exploring Early Cinema in an Immersive Environment

Sarah Irene Brutton Kenderdine, Giacomo Alliata, Yuchen Yang, Loïc Guillaume Serafin

This paper presents a new interactive installation, the BiographScope, meant to immerse visitors in an archival collection of early silent films from the turn of the twentieth century. It further investigates certain important aspects through a pilot study ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2024

AI-Driven Workflows for Unlocking Switzerland's Collective Memory: Distant listening of the RTS Archive

Sarah Irene Brutton Kenderdine, Kirell Maël Benzi, Giacomo Alliata, André Rattinger

2024

Augmenting the Metadata of Audiovisual Archives with NLP Techniques: Challenges and Solutions

Giacomo Alliata, Sarah Irene Brutton Kenderdine, Yuchen Yang

Alliance of Digital Humanities Association (Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung - Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities, University of Graz)2023

Redefining Access to Large Audiovisual Archives through Embodied Experiences in Immersive Environments: Creativity & Cognition 2022 - Graduate Student Symposium

Giacomo Alliata

Audiovisual archives are the mnemonic archives of the 21st century, with important cultural institutions increasingly digitizing their video collections. However, these remain mostly inaccessible, due to the sheer amount of content combined with the lack o ...

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)2022

Towards Immersive Generosity: The Need for a Novel Framework to Explore Large Audiovisual Archives through Embodied Experiences in Immersive Environments

Sarah Irene Brutton Kenderdine, Giacomo Alliata, Lillian Hibberd

This paper proposes an innovative framework to explore large audiovisual archives using Immersive Environments to place users inside a dataset and create an embodied experience. It starts by outlining the need for such a novel interface to meet the needs o ...

2021