News of the second phase of...
We are delighted to announce that we have won an AHRC standard grant of £680,000 to enable us to continue this project from summer 2015 until the end of 2018....
Bianca Battilocchi
The First Edition of Emilio Villa’s Tarot Poems
My thesis, supervised by Dr Giuliana Adamo, aims to provide the first critical edition of a still unpublished collection of Tarot texts by the multilingual and visual poet Emilio Villa (1914-2003). My...
8-9 March 2018/Multilingual Digital Authorship, Lancaster University,
The inaugural symposium of The Creative Web of Languages (MEITS flexible funding project) Call for Papers The World Wide Web is commonly perceived the ultimate tool of homogenizing culture through dominant platforms...
Interart in Schools Project/Programme of Events 2018
We are delighted to announce a series of exciting events organised by Prof. Giuliana Pieri in collaboration with schools. Please get in touch (g.pieri@rhul.ac.uk) if you’d like to be involved in any of...
Network Culture, aActivism and New Media Art in Italy
Institutional, historical and artistic contexts in which new media art occurred in Italy are examined in my doctoral research project, entitled Network culture in Italy in the 1990s and the making of...
Material and Intellectual Lightness: Reading Bruno Munari à la Calvino
A new publication about the Milanese artist Bruno Munari (1907-1998), titled Bruno Munari: The Lightness of Art, has been released by Peter Lang this month. The volume, edited by Pierpaolo Antonello, Matilde...
Collaborative Artistic Theory and Practice. ‘Le ragioni dei gruppi’. Collective Writing in Futurism
Co-authorship in fiction is a complex and multifaceted phenomenon that entails different types of collaboration. In my opinion, it can be seen as a planned and deliberate collaboration between two (or more)...
Collaborative Artistic Theory and Practice. ‘Le ragioni dei gruppi’. Wu Ming and Scrittura Industriale Collettiva
In the 21st century social media has created great opportunities for collaborative writing (Rettberg 2013 and 2014). Collaboration and interactivity have become common and ordinary practices on the web. Communities of users...
Collaborative Artistic Theory and Practice. ‘Le ragioni dei gruppi’. TwLetteratura
Social networks offer unique opportunities for collaboration. In 2012, aiming to harness the creative potential of Twitter to promote literary works, three Italian friends from Turin and Milan – all of them...
Collaborative Artistic Theory and Practice. ‘Le ragioni dei gruppi’: Gruppo 70
In 1962, the journal Questo e altro, in a position article, questioned the traditional boundaries of literature: Quali sono oggi i confini della letteratura, tra l’arcadia e il proclama, il laboratorio e...
Collaborative Artistic Theory and Practice. ‘Le ragioni dei gruppi’: Polystyrene Moon Above A Plastic Colosseum
[translated by Georgia Wall] In the catalogue accompanying the 1990 exhibition Roma anni ’60. Al di là della pittura, the founder of Rome’s Tartaruga Gallery, Plinio De Martiis, declares, ‘if you went...