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Flavio Innocenti was born in Rome on October 17th, 1983 and only after few months moved to Tuscany (Pisa province) where still lives. As a child he laid the foundation of his main interests: music, mountain, photography. At the age of seven, in fact, he started to play the piano and a short time later he received his first manual camera.
Later on, after the scientific A-level and an unsuccessfully attendance at the college of engineering, he attained to be admitted to a vocational course through which he learned the art of “sound engineer”, which he exercises since the end of 2004 in concert halls and recording studios.
In the meantime he diverted his academic career to the liberal-arts college and he obtained his musicology degree in November, 2008. At the moment he is ending his post degree studies (Cinema, Theater and Multimedia production).
Keen on Western art music he has recently introduced an exhibition at the festival “Piccoli Fuochi” of the Teatro Bartolo of Buti. The spectacle, Requiem aus Stalingrad, written with Marcantonio Lunardi and in collaboration with Giacomo Verde, is centred on the relation between musical, literary and video graphical elements (www.stalingrado.it).

I started as comic-strip writer in 2002, when I won the prestigious prize for aspirant comic-strip writers, Pierlambicchi D’Oro.
I cooperated with various relevant artists in this field (Moreno Burattini, Simone Bianchi, Tito Faraci, Marco Turini) and I ventured into comic-strip writer, illustrator and story boarder activity. I have under my belt collaborations and publications with Lamette comics, Deizioni Genovese, Arcadia, Raimbow.
Currently, besides various works as comic-strip writer and copywriter (collaborations with Leoburnett, Ogilvi and others advertising companies), I’m carrying on some individual projects such as two comic strips and the organization of extemporaneous painting exhibitions with my students’ team named Color Proof.

It’s very difficult for me to say who I am or who I’m not. I’m a worker, I’m a craftsman, I’m a documentarist. I’m a person who experiments in visual arts. Formally I’m a documentarist director but the possible contaminations between video and humanistic disciplines get me to confront myself with different art aspects and to collaborate with poets, literary men, musician, photographers and painters. After the education with masters and directors as Micheal Glawogger, Thomas Haise and Sergei Dvortsevoy, my way as video maker has developed following the social documentation and giving ample space even in video-art works to the political component, which I consider at the base of every artistic and cultural expression. With Giacomo Verde and others activist I founded the Colletivo Immagini Appese and the association RECIDIVI (the cinema net in Puglia and Basilicata). I dedicate myself to the investigation about relations between image and society, with a particular focus on social conflicts and multiethnic themes.

I fell head over heels for electronics and informatics when I was a child, and I’ve never recovered. At home, by relatives, in shops: whatever had inside any chip or loop nestled me as a moth a halogen lamp. I HAD TO take it to pieces and understand how was it made. iPad? It’s old hat. At the age of five I had already in mind schematic forms. If only I had earlier discovered patents existence, damn!
I was born in Belgium and grew up in Sicily; my education took place straddle Central European severity and Mediterranean radiance. In 2002 I left the Temple Valley to move to Siena, the city of Palio, where I studied first Informatics and then Communications.
In Siena also accrued my passion for the Web, started in the 90s, in the time of secondary school. In the moments subtracted from study I gained experience in different small and big projects. Some of them led me to poach in the 3D world, in video but above all in photography; all of them realities that I haunt very often.
Reaching the degree, the way I wanted to go through was clear for me: the Web. A (almost) free and (almost) boundless world, where every culture may compare with each other at a cracking pace so nobody could reasonably think to control it.
Currently, besides dealing with web and graphics on a professional level, I continue studying photography (primarily landscape and macro) and I dedicate myself wholeheartedly to the natural environment safeguard.

Ilaria Sabbatini is graduated at the University of Pisa. She has conjugated in her educational training medievalist studies with Neo-Latin philology. She obtained a doctoral degree at the SUM (Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane) of Florence performing research activities on the Near East representation in late medieval pilgrimage diaries. She collaborates with various magazines working on varied aspects of religiousness in history. Since 2006 she belongs to the “La porta d’Oriente” scientific committee; since 2007 she collaborates with PRIN Corpus Italicarum Peregrinationum (CIP). In 2009 she published the critical edition of Bernardino Dinali’s travel book, a merchant from Milan who made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 1492.

She was born in Udine in 1986 and she has always been enamoured by Spanish culture. After the A-level as qualified accountant and foreign languages correspondent she started her academic career at the University of Udine. In 2008 she graduated with a thesis concerning a translation of an essay of Luis Cernuda, followed by professor Renata Londero. Currently she is going on with the studies for the post degree in Spanish language and literature. She occasionally collaborates with a translation agency in Udine and she teaches Spanish at the University of Third Age. Besides Spanish she knows English, French, German and Russian.