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....
Category Archives: Blogposts
Modern Languages and the Digital: Towards ‘Digital Cultural Histories’
[This post was originally published in the Language Acts and Worldmaking blog] Last June I had the pleasure to give a talk at the workshop Mapping Multilingualism and Digital Culture organised by...
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...
Collaborative Artistic Theory and Practice: Le ragioni dei gruppi
A few weeks ago, Interdisciplinary Italy launched a call for blog posts on the topic ‘Collaborative Artistic Theory and Practice’. Please find below our opening position paper. In a 1963 seminal article published in...
Interdisciplinary Italy and Tate Exchange: Some Students’ Perspectives
In 2017, we have partnered up with two schools (in Surrey and Yorkshire) and have brought together historians, art historians, designers, and students of Italian to rethink the way we approach and...