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The aim of this paper is to survey the artistic production of four italian pioniers of interactive installation art in Italy: Mario Canali, Piero Gilardi, Giacomo Verde, and the group of artists Studio Azzurro. Their experimental works have played an important role in the critical and aesthetical investigation of digital interactivity. Yet their contribution to the history of New Media Art is scarcely known abroad and is not sufficently recognised in important scolarly studies.