Physical and digital conservation: Centrica’s work on the Pannunzio Fund of the National Central Library of Florence.
Today, the backlit screens of our phones are our eyes on the world: a simple gesture of the finger is enough to scroll through the latest news, from politics to gossip. But even before the advent of smartphones and tablets, a similar gesture was enough to change the subject: turning the pages of newspapers, periodicals, […]
The Sanremo Festival and its importance in the Italian musical tradition: a rare image of Mina resurfaced thanks to the digitisation of the Pannunzio Fund
The Sanremo Festival has just ended. It is certainly much more than a music competition: it has now become the television event of the year with record share. The enormous media resonance is measured by the number of talk shows, articles and debates ranging from gossip to music criticism. From 1951 to the present day, […]
“Wulz Photography. Trieste, the family, the atelier”: digitisation for the valorisation of archives.
Three generations of photographers telling the story of the city of Trieste, with its important socio-historical changes, through their lens: this is the fil rouge of the exhibition ‘Wulz Photography. Trieste, the family, the atelier‘, open to the public from 14 December 2024 to 27 April 2025 at the Magazzino delle Idee in Trieste. The […]
Longhi Foundation: the project to digitize Roberto Longhi’s photo library
Since 2022, the project to digitize the photographic fund of the Roberto Longhi Foundation for Art History Studies has been underway by Centrica’s Digital Imaging department. The Foundation promotes the development of art history studies by keeping alive the cultural legacy and method of art historian Roberto Longhi through research grants and awards, courses and […]
CCI Thrive– IMZ International Music + Media Centre
The consortium for CCI Thrive meets today, September 28th! We are happy to welcome our partners Ars Electronica, Centrica – Imagine more, Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid, SpielFabrique, BetaSeries + project lead BGZ Berliner Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit mbH. CCI Thrive explores cutting-edge digital technologies as a means to increase the competitiveness of the creative […]
Marco Cappellini at Sant’Anna School in Pisa
Last Thursday, September 15th, Marco Cappellini donned the role of professor at Sant’Anna School in Pisa, where he gave a lecture at the event Il Bello di Pisa Summer School. The Beauty of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. The initiative took place thanks to Project Erasmus+, Integrated Interdisciplinary Education Module on Art, Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Science. Marco‘s talk, New Experiences with Arts – Centrica, focused on […]
ArtCentrica in .ART’s article
Following the announcement a few weeks ago, that ArtCentrica had joined the Digital Innovation in Art Award 2022 Longlist, today we share with you another important piece of news: an article dedicated to our startup by .ART, partner in the initiative. READ THE FULL ARTICLE We remind you that ArtCentrica has been longlisted for the Digital Innovation in Art Award 2022 along with 19 […]
Buonarroti House: Digitization of Madonna della Scala
Last August 2nd, part of the digitization department’s team – Paolo De Rocco (COO, CKO) and Pamela Ferrari (Digital Archivist) – were busy in the acquisition campaign of “La Madonna della Scala,” by Michelangelo, exhibited at Casa Buonarroti in Florence. It is one of his earliest masterpieces, sculpted at only 15 during his apprenticeship in the Garden of San Marco under Bertoldo, Donatello‘s last apprentice. The digitization of this […]
ArtCentrica at Didacta Colonia
From June 7th to 11th, our CEO Marco Cappellini and Michele Ancillotti (Sales & Marketing) attended at Fiera Didacta Colonia. The event has been dedicated to the world of education, and they presented the EdTech startup ArtCentrica. The event was aimed at encouraging discussion on education among institutions, associations and entrepreneurs. All of this in […]
ArtCentrica at Fiera Didacta Italia 2022
From May 20 to 22, the ArtCentrica team (which became a startup a few months ago) participated in the fifth edition of Fiera Didacta Italia, held at the Fortezza da Basso in Florence.For those who don’t know, Fiera Didacta is the event dedicated to the world of schooling – of all levels – whose goal […]
