FABRICA PER AQUAGRANDA
COMMEMORATIONAL PROJECT ABOUT THE BIG FLOOD IN VENICE 2016-1966
ABSENCE
By Fuse Tsang
FONDAZIONE BEVILACQUA LA MASA IN ST. MARK SQUARE - VENICE
AQUAGRANDA EFFECT
By Daniel Benítez
Medium: Interactive animation on the website of Corriere della Sera, www.corriere.it
The idea is to create a temporary graphic animation in the online version of the leading national Italian newspaper, Corriere della Sera, on 4 November 2016, the day of the fiftieth anniversary of Aquagranda. The animation simulates for a few seconds a flood that rises up to cover the entire screen and then disappears. On the same page, visitors can access an article explaining the intervention, recalling the flooding while also presenting other online creative interventions designed by Fabrica (gif, videos, photographs, writing).
By Daniel Benítez
Medium: Interactive animation on the website of Corriere della Sera, www.corriere.it
The idea is to create a temporary graphic animation in the online version of the leading national Italian newspaper, Corriere della Sera, on 4 November 2016, the day of the fiftieth anniversary of Aquagranda. The animation simulates for a few seconds a flood that rises up to cover the entire screen and then disappears. On the same page, visitors can access an article explaining the intervention, recalling the flooding while also presenting other online creative interventions designed by Fabrica (gif, videos, photographs, writing).
Other projects
ABSENCE
By Fuse Tsang Medium: GIF, in repetition.
How does water affect the Venice landscape? From historical images of the great flood that struck Venice on 4 November 1966, Fabrica questions the relationship between man and environment.
The process of water removal from the archive pictures plays on the concept of absence of memory: outside Venice not many people are aware of Aquagranda because the event did not receive an appropriate coverage at national and international level, put in the background by the similar flood that happened in Florence at the same time, severely damaging the city.
Project by Fabrica, the research centre for communication of Benetton Group, realised in collaboration with the City of Venice. To see the other interventions realised on archival material from their collection, please visit the website www.fabrica.it.
The line on this poster shows the real level reached by water the day of the flood, 194 cm at sea level, the most dramatic moment of 1966, during which no photograph was taken.
CORRUPTED FILE
LEVELS
By Bianca Ghiuzan
Medium: GIF, in repetition.
