Giacomo Verde's Archive

The I_PAD ProjectScholars of the I_PAD project(Italian Performance Archive in Digital) units from two Italian universities (University of Milan and Link University-Rome) and from CNR Institute-ISTI (Pisa) with different skills in the field of cultural-heritage digitization have been and will be involved in differ-ent stages of the work from 2023 through 2025. The I_PAD project is winner of the competitive call, PRIN 2022–Research Projects of National Relevance, and receives funding from the Ministry of Universities and Research (MUR).1 It is coordinated by a “principal investigator,” the State University of Milan. It was established to reecreating and disseminate a specific artist archive through the rigorous development of high-resolu-tion recording and re-materialization techniques.I_PAD is ongoing and focuses on the archive of the Italian artist Giacomo Verde (1956-2020),2 who worked in the field of video art, performance, and sensory and interactive installations as an author, actor, performer, video-set designer, and director. The aim of the project is to demonstrate the importance of documenting, monitoring, studying, safeguarding, digitiz-ing, promoting, and disseminating the memory of Italian video theater and video art of the 1980s and 1990s starting from the Giacomo Verde Archive. The collection is a testimony to the extraordinary value of the reconstruction of Giacomo Verde’s life + work.