Rome Video Game Lab 2019

Rome, 11 May 2019

‘From Zak McKracken to House of Dust’ conference part of the Rome Video Game Lab 2019 festival of the Istituto Luce in the Cinecittà Studios

Istituto Luce Cinecittà

Panel

Diego Grammatico

Architecture, videogames, animation and virtual and augmented reality are narrative tools that are different from one another, but united by the ability to build realities that are likely or imaginary, to the point of confusing the boundaries between what is real and what is not. The panel will explore the way in which these different artistic fields create, alter and propose their realities.

Domiziana Suprani, Studio Evil producer
Owen Hopkins, senior curator of exhibitions, education at Sir John Soane’s Museum
Antonino Cardillo, architect
Ivan Cappiello, movie director, CGI artist, animator
Diego Grammatico, innovation, development policy consultant, moderator

From Zak McKracken to House of Dust

Antonino Cardillo

Let me tell you my story. Twelve years ago I started building a series of Imaginary Houses. I wanted to communicate my architecture. Thus, I produced seven houses in virtual reality, sending computer-generated images to the most influential architecture magazines on the planet. From 2007 to 2012, more than one hundred and fifty publications, from Australia to California, reproduced these works. For at least six years, many believed the existence of these houses, coming to define a phenomenon of simulated reality. […]

Antonino Cardillo, Da Zak McKracken a House of Dust, paper presented to the Rome Video Game Lab 2019, Istituto Luce Cinecittà, Theatre 11, Rome, 2019. Photography: Danilo Balducci

Publications

Domenico Misciagna, ‘Le avventure LucasArts e Lucasfilm Games nella storia dei videogiochi’, lucasdelirium.it, Rome, 9 Nov. 2023.
Domenico Misciagna, ‘Antonino Cardillo, House of Dust e Zak McKracken’, lucasdelirium.it, Rome, 27 May 2019.
Antonino Cardillo, ‘Da Zak McKracken a House of Dust’, paper presented to the Rome Video Game Lab 2019, ed. Diego Grammatico, Istituto Luce Cinecittà, Rome, 11 May 2019. Transcript published on antoninocardillo.com, 4 June 2019.
Diego Grammatico, ‘Videogiochi e architettura: al di là di reale e fantastico nella narrazione’, Rome Video Game Lab 2019, Istituto Luce Cinecittà, Rome, 6 May 2019.