Ivrea
I studied computer science at the ITIS C. Olivetti technical school in Ivrea, Adriano Olivetti's town: an idea of enterprise where technology, culture, design and community belong together. It is still a reference.
Work
With MindContact I design and build custom software, apps and interactive systems: from the analysis of the problem to the code, down to the electronics.
- Hagal+Clinic my management software for outpatient clinics and medical centres, multi-site included. In production since 2016. Find out more
- Shelf Planner demand forecasting for online shops, together with IKIGAI. Full-stack development.
- Perfecto matchmaking for B2B trade fairs and events, which I help build for IKIGAI. Full-stack development.
- PuntoColf domestic work: contracts, payslips, contributions. Full-stack development.
- Physical interfaces ordinary objects made interactive for museums, exhibitions, theatre and events: OGR Torino, Toronto Biennial of Art 2019, the Cesare Pavese Museum, the Partisan Airfield Museum in Vesime.
Objects that respond
My speciality is physical interfaces. I take an ordinary object, such as a desk, a set of mechanisms or a board, and make it interactive. Sensors and electronics disappear inside the object, which stays as it was but now notices who is using it and responds. A screen is something you look at; an object is something you touch, open, move. Perception widens, instead of shrinking to a glowing rectangle.
I follow the whole technical chain: sensors, electronics, firmware and software. For the set-up I work with professionals in the field.
Roots
Theatre
At the MultiDams in Turin I studied with Antonio Pizzo, Vincenzo Lombardo and Edoardo Fadini: interactive drama as a system of rules, multimedia theatre, video theatre, new theatre.
Officine Sintetiche
In 2008 and 2009 I took part in the Officine Sintetiche workshops and found interactive systems: the one thing that held all my passions together.
Reading
Myron Krueger, Brenda Laurel, Steve Mann and his “humanistic intelligence”, Studio Azzurro, Lev Manovich and “augmented space”.
Passions
Electronics
As a kid I had an “electronics lab” where I ran experiments in my spare time: a maker before the word existed.
Computers
Commodore 64, then MS-DOS, Amiga 1200, Windows, and finally Linux and embedded systems. I never quite left the C64.
Music
Music and theatre are the heart of my studies. Today the music comes out of an emulated SID chip, with hexline.
Games
As teenagers, Demis and I had a group for inventing video games. Today I make platformers and chiptune tools that run in the browser, with an 8-bit soul, on mindcontact.io.
Fellow travellers
Friends and former classmates from the ITIS Olivetti, whom I work with today.
- Simone FestucciaIKIGAI. A first-rate developer and above all a project manager who keeps me on my toes.
- Demis BoatoTAKEMAKE Studios. Game designer and a professional in web, communication and marketing.
- Roberto BlefariHikimi. A creative through and through, lecturer at IED Turin. He brought the MindContact logo to life.
- Lorenzo GuglielmoIntegrations, project management, analysis and client relations. With him and Simone I started working for international clients.
- Fabrizio RapelliAn extraordinary developer, my Mr. Wolf: when a problem looks like a dead end, he solves it.
Elsewhere
Write to me
For a project, a collaboration or a chat about the SID: the contact form is on mindcontact.net.