From 8 to 10 May 2017, in collaboration with Ca’ Foscari University and as part of the “Theatre, Research and Innovation project. The digital scene”, funded by the Veneto Region, the Institute of Theatre and Opera is holding a workshop with the Venetian company See-d on the relationship between performers and their digital alter ego: an anthropomorphic avatar created and animated through a motion capture system. The experts involved are from international companies operating in the field of digital animation and artificial intelligence. They will work with a Commedia dell’arte actor and a contemporary dancer in order to map the movements and create animated digital avatars, which will move to a sound base generated by the performers’ movements. The project also aims to create a database to preserve, through a digital 3D transposition, the essence of intangible assets, such as drama, dance and the performing arts, all ephemeral by definition and nature. At the end of the workshop there will be a public demonstration.