Cecilia Lascialfari

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Bio:

With a thesis on Contemporary African Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, she specialized in video at RAI thanks to a Master in Multimedia Content Design organized by the Faculty of Engineering (UNIFI).

In March 2020 she opened the online journal ARea6DoF.com and became an international journalist in the field of innovative technologies (AI/AR/VR/XR).

She joined the AWE community (New York) and since January 2021, she has organized the “AWE Nite Florence”.

In February 2022, she joined the GatherVerse Community (Silicon Valley) of which she became an international speaker.

She created the project “Flying Into The Metaverse Through Books & Culture” with the intention of merging the world of culture with that of technology.

Photographer contributing to Getty Image and IStock, in 2022 she created the research group “Future of Creativity in the XR World”, where professionals from all over the world make contributions and study the AI sector with the aim of understanding how the future of Art and Creativity is going to develop.

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Talk Title:

Why do we need our body as well as our mind in the XR world? We are made of blood and bones before being digital holograms.

Talk Description :

In an increasingly digital world, we need to rediscover the well-being of our body. We can’t live on online relationships and we can’t make love with a computer. We can’t “imagine” the person we love. We must have the courage “to meet” that person in real life. How dissatisfied are we with our relationships in real life and how much do we hide in a digital life? We canâ€™t think that avatars are better than real people. Living in the digital world should allow us to rediscover the pleasure of meeting each other as it happens in real life. We canâ€™t think of having an active brain without having an active body. We must vibrate on a higher level. We are made of blood and bones before being digital holograms.