Roberto Vitalini

Roberto Vitalini was born in Lugano, Switzerland, in 1971. A lateral thinker by nature (media artist) and a vertical thinker by education, he enjoys envisioning futuristic products. Roberto gained an MBA from the University of St.Gallen and he specialized in Media and Communication at Saint Mary’s College of California.

In 2006 he filed the patent "Instinctive Communication Channel for the perception of Multivariate Data Changes" and the same year he founded BASHIBA.com to design and deliver immersive design experiences. The flagship product, BASHIBA Panorama, allows organizations to display changes in their important data by way of a beautiful three dimensional seascape. BASHIBA’s video installations are integrated in the architecture, they interact and transform the architectural object; they lighten its physical weight. Other applications have come from the Opera house where the system has been employed to create spectacular natural landscapes that react in real-time to input from data streams and/or controllers.

In March 2008 Roberto was granted the "Venture Leaders 2008" award and in June 2008 he offered a Tech Talk at the Google Headquarters in California about Real-Time Data Metaphors.

Roberto Vitalini has been video set designer for the opera "L'Amour de Loin" (English National Opera 2009, Vlaamse Opera 2010, Canadian Opera Company 2012), for "Donka - A Letter to Chekhov" (Finzi Pasca Company, 2010 + world tour) and for the opera "Aida" (Mariinsky Theatre 2011, nominated to 4 Golden Mask).

Before founding BASHIBA, Roberto led the Research and Prototyping Competence Centre within the Fantastic Corporation. There, he explored future media experiences and their enabling technologies, such as the real-time integration of live sport events with broadband-enabled gaming consoles.

// Additional Information

» Video
http://www.vimeo.com/bashiba
http://www.youtube.com/bashibatv

» Photography:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bashiba
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vitalini
http://www.vita.ch/


// BASHIBA.com

http://www.bashiba.com

Live, Immersive Design Experiences.
We design and deliver sensitive environments, where technology is married to narration and space. We invent, design and market futuristic products or services.

LARGE SCALE PROJECTIONS + VIDEO DESIGN:

2012
The Canadian Opera Company presents the Canadian premiere of acclaimed Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho’s Love from Afar (L’amour de loin), a haunting and vivid musical creation that has become one of the most performed and successful operas composed of this century.

Roberto Vitalini, Video Designer, mise en scène par Daniele Finzi Pasca.
>> http://www.bashiba.com/works.php

THESTAR.com Review: 4 star rating (out of 4)
>> http://www.thestar.com/article/1125668--review-love-from-afar-is-modern-opera-at-its-very-best

2010
BASHIBA Video Scenography at the Mossovet Theatre, Moscow
>> http://www.bashiba.com/donka.html
>> http://www.vimeo.com/23761988

2010
BASHIBA Panorama at FONDS'10
>> http://www.bashiba.com/sgam.html

2009
BASHIBA Video Scenography at the English National Opera
>> http://www.bashiba.com/works.php
Financial Times Review (5 star rating):
http://www.vitalini.com/FT_july6_2009.jpg
YouTube trailer:
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfHqNCae1Lo

2008
BASHIBA PANORAMA Google Tech Talk in Mountain View
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMwBGOrbhZ4&fmt=18

// The Product: BASHIBA PANORAMA

When ‘The Big Movie’ Is More Useful Than a Big Picture
When situations are complex, sensing data changes of multiple variables through a real-time data metaphor like BASHIBA Panorama might be the best way to "smell" the situation and respond to it.

Take the following example: If you are snowboarding, and you see an avalanche, do you try to escape the trajectory of the avalanche or do you worry about variables like external temperature, wind force etc?

Similarly, in business environments, we tend to double-check and re-read variables that in moments of crisis might be irrelevant. BASHIBA Panorama has been built as a natural visual complement (The Big Movie) so that you and your team can share a common picture of reality and openly discuss counter-measures. If the avalanche is imminent, you don’t want to lose time in discussing the density of the snow!

BASHIBA Panorama, allows organizations to display changes in their important data by way of a beautiful three dimensional seascape. Information is transformed from up to one hundred individual data streams into competing environmental forces which affect the scenery in subtle and often surprising ways. Trends and eventual problems appear as anomalies in the weather conditions and the surface of the sea. The BASHIBA Panorama is instinctively legible and transits emotional sensations together with vital information.

BASHIBA Panorama Description DE:
KOMPLEXE VERÄNDERUNGEN VERSTEHEN, OHNE ZAHLEN ZU LESEN
Eine unaufdringliche, permanent aktive, intelligente Oberfläche, die die Art
und Weise wie Menschen komplexe Datenänderungen aufnehmen, verändert. Wir
transformieren massive Datenmengen in ein sinnvolles Bild (Real-time
Daten-Panorama), das ohne kognitive Anstrengungen interpretiert werden kann.


BASHIBA Panorama Description FR:
COMPRENDRE LES CHANGEMENTS COMPLEXES SANS LIRE DES CHIFFRES
Un langage audiovisuel pour faciliter la compréhension des changements
complexes. Nous transformons vos données en images (real-time data panorama)
pour vous permettre de percevoir les changements, en temps réel, sans aucun
effort cognitif (perception périphérique).

BASHIBA Panorama Short Description:
BASHIBA Panorama, allows organizations to display changes in their important data by way of a beautiful three dimensional seascape. Information is transformed from up to one hundred individual data streams into competing environmental forces which affect the scenery in subtle and often surprising ways. Trends and eventual problems appear as anomalies in the weather conditions and the surface of the sea. The BASHIBA Panorama is instinctively legible and transits emotional sensations together with vital information.

2007: BASHIBA PANORAMA received the ated-ICT award
>> http://www.bashiba.com/award.htm

2007: BASHIBA PANORAMA mentioned on infosthetics.com:
>> http://infosthetics.com/archives/2007/10/bashiba_real-time_d...

2004 BASHIBA META-GAMING
BASHIBA CrossPlay
The natural evolution of network gaming: Meta-gaming and Meta-competition.
>> http://www.bashiba.com/crossplay.php



// 1996-2002: The Fantastic Corporation | First in Broadband Mulitmedia

2001 FANTASTIC GAMING
Produced prototype of real-time racing game via satellite. Rather than watching the Formula 1 race in the conventional manner on TV, fans can get an intimate experience by participating in it using their gaming stations.


1998 FANTASTIC BROADBAND MEDIA
Produced the first broadband channels for premium content providers such as Eurosport, MTV and Reuters.


// My Brain Extension: Wheii.com > Be in the Know

Wheii.com is a knowledge portal dedicated to monitoring and understanding global trends, the market and emerging technologies.

Selected Lectures:

2009
Lecturer, University of St. Gallen:
"Envisioning Future Products"

2007
Lecturer, SUPSI:
"Ghost in the Machine"

2006
Lecturer, University of Art and Design HGKZ Zurich:
"Information Aesthetics"

2005
Lecturer, University of Art and Design HGKZ Zurich:
"Science Fiction, Utopias and Mobile Visions"

2004
Guest Lecturer, University of Lugano:
"Technology is not a limiting factor > Cultivate Your Dreams"