Deep Space: World Cultural Heritage in Italy – Pompeii and Pisa

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Fri Aug 21, 2020, 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm
All times are given in Central European Summer Time (CEST / UTC +2).

These days you can visit unique cultural treasures without travel. Ars Electronica Home Delivery does not just bring impressive images directly to you: With the help of sophisticated laser scans and 3D technology cultural heritage can be explored spatially in the Deep Space. In today’s segment we are off to Italy where numerous historic monuments are to be discovered. After centuries and millennia, the preservation of these art-historical masterpieces is a challenge, and 3D scans are one of the many tools in the archaeological fight against time. Among others, Pompeii and Pisa have been captured three-dimensionally and can be presented in this manner in the Deep Space on a grand scale.