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Category Archives: Blogposts
CALL FOR BLOG POSTS/Collaborative artistic theory and practice
Collaborative work has been one of the underpinning principles of Italian avant-gardist, experimental and interdisciplinary artistic practices. From the early Futurist experiments of collective writing by Gruppo dei Dieci to the later...
Interdisciplinary Futurism at Tate Modern
Monday 13 February, 12-2 pm, a Tate Modern Workshop at Tate Exchange Join us in London, at Tate Modern, on Monday 13 February for an interactive workshop on Italian Futurism. The event...
(Re)constructing Futurist Rome
A work by Mario Schifano shown at the recent exhibition Roma Pop City 60-67 at Rome’s Museum of Contemporary Art (MACRO) is a creative remaking of a famous photograph portraying five members...
In Conversation with Alessandro Baronciani
How can intermediality be conceptualised and expanded within a medium that is already intrinsically intermedial such as graphic novels? The diverse artistic output of Italian graphic novelist and designer Alessandro Baronciani (Pesaro,...
Cthulhu by Komplex: Augmented Reality as Intermedia Fiction and Surfacing Media
(translated by Kate Willman) Augmented Reality (AR) is a medium based on geolocation, computer vision, the use of specific apps (Aurasma, Blipper) and a mobile device (smartphone, tablet). In the last few...
Leonor Fini: A Unique Case of a Well-Rounded Artist
In art history, only a few artists were able to embrace multiple artistic fields like Leonor Fini (Buenos Aires, 1907-Paris, 1996). Cosmopolitan and magnetic, cultured and refined, eclectic and histrionic artist, paradoxically...
Milan Crossroad of Cultures (conference report)
On 22nd and 23rd September 2016 Milan hosted a major international conference, Milan, Crossroad of Cultures. As the result of a partnership between the University of Birmingham, the University of Warwick and...
Interartistic Exchange in Luigi Russolo’s La Musica
If one were to choose an iconic piece of Futurist painting that best encapsulates the potentialities of interartistic exchange, Luigi Russolo’s La musica would be hard to beat. The painting is part...
Bellissima: Between Metacinema and Intermediality
(translated by Kate Willman) Before Luchino Visconti’s film Bellissima, before directing the actors on the set, shooting, editing and cutting for censorship, all of which took place between June and December 1951,...
Textile and Fashion Production in Italy 1945-1985
Italian fashion narratives have often focused on the stylistic trajectories of couturiers and individual stilisti or on the biographies of fashion centres such as Turin during the interwar period, Florence as symbol...