IED and C2C present “Integalactic” at Pitti Immagine

Intergalactic is an interactive portal that combines art, fashion, and technology—a project by IED in collaboration with C2C Festival and Mirror Digital Agency, to be presented during the new edition of Pitti Immagine Uomo 108. Curated by the exceptional artist, musician, and designer Bill Kouligas, Intergalactic brings together different creative practices to subvert traditional modes of artistic experience. The space, set up inside the former Teatro dell’Oriuolo, transforms into a reactive ecosystem with a post-human choreography where fabrics, projections, sounds, and bodies interact in real time. A luminous structure made of smart fabric comes to life thanks to motion sensors, responding to the movements of performers wearing garments designed by IED students from the Italian and Spanish campuses. With support from C2C, sound becomes an integral part of a map that responds to every gesture of the visitor: each stimulus generates a multisensory response from the room, creating new connections and a continuous transformation of the artwork.

Intergalactic is created by IED students from all Italian and Spanish campuses of the institute and is the result of an interdisciplinary workshop that brought together different skills to create a comprehensive artistic experience. Fashion and sound design, visual and textile communication: an open system is born, fueled by interpersonal creative exchanges. During the workshop, Kouligas acted as a mediator, encouraging collaboration among all the students, initiatives that contributed to the project, and the collective nature of the outcome. The authors of Intergalactic from the IED student body are Giorgia Gardinali, Rachele Manconi, Cesare Recchioni, Ana Kapanadze, Gabriele Curatolo, Nicholas Franceschi, María Mur, Giona Vezzali, Lorenzo Zoppi, and Gonzalo Muñoz. The digital agency Mirror contributed by providing technological structure and creative direction to the project through motion detection, computer vision, and shading technologies in a complex visual-sound landscape. Intergalactic will be inaugurated on Wednesday, June 18, and will open to the public on Thursday, June 19, visitable from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.