(August 29, 2017) The Return of the Ancient through virtual reality: this will be the theme of the conference that Alessandro Furlan, head of Altair 4 Multimedia, will hold at the Italian Cultural Institute Library in Tirana on September at 11. During the conference, 3D video will be screened, rebuilding sites of the Italian archaeological heritage such as Pompeii, ancient Rome, Agrigento and the Mediterranean. Altair 4 Multimedia was founded by the same artist group founded in 1995. Alessandro Furlan, Pietro Galifi and Stefano Moretti, founders of Altair 4, conceived the studio as a true art shop where they co-exist and operate, in a continuous dialogue between each other, different technological and artistic disciplines. Altair 4's productions mainly focus on the dissemination and enhancement of cultural heritage. In this context, the extensive production of three-dimensional archaeological reconstructions made by the atelier for museums, TV and Web productions, 4K and 360 ° Video, Enhanced Reality, Interactive apps for iOS, Android and WIN8 platforms. (Red)

ABOUT / THE IIC

The Italian Cultural Institute of Tirana was born in 1981 and for about ten years it worked as a simple Cultural Office of the Italian Embassy. In this period IT works in the cultural field in a restricted way, maintaining almost exclusively relations with the Department of Culture of the Albanian Foreign Ministry. In addition to the organization of several exhibitions, the office has hosted Italian language courses for Albanian students, their enrollment in Italian universities, the issue of academic titles and scholarships, and so on. So over the years, the Institute's activity has been increasing not only in the academic field, but also in the organization of events, until 1999, when the simple Embassy Office assumed the functions of a true Institute of Culture, with its own headquarters.