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Category Archives: Blogposts
April 2016 / Workshops, Making Places, University Roma Tre
Workshop Two: “Making Places” Monday, 18th April 2016, University Roma Tre Hosted by the University of Rome (Roma Tre) with the support of the British School at Rome (BSR), our second workshop...
Borders-Translations-Norms. The Medium Matters. Materialism And (Artistic) Media
Since the 1960s there has been an interest in (artistic) media from (tending towards) the technologically deterministic of Marshall McLuhan, to critics on the left such as Raymond Williams (Contact: Human Communication...
The Postmedium Condition, or Better: Art-at-Large
Rosalind Krauss’ development of the idea of the postmedium condition (1999a) was inspired by Walter Benjamin and his conception of the redemptive characteristics of the obsolescence of the medium: the medium is...
In Conversation with Tullio Pericoli
[Testo in Italiano] When some years ago I went to see Tullio Pericoli in his studio in Milan, to interview him on his pictorial work around Robinson Crusoe, on which I was...
21st Century Autofiction
Autofiction – blurring the lines between an author’s real-life experiences and invention – is an example of a frequently intermedial and interartistic practice that has particularly flourished in recent years. It has...
March 2016 / Workshops, Visual Storytelling: Examples from Italy, University College London
Workshop One: “Visual Storytelling: Examples from Italy” Wednesday, 2nd March 2016, 3pm-7.30pm Institute of Advanced Studies University College London South Wing, Room G09 Gower Street, London Organized by the AHRC-funded research project...
Curating Italy’s Architectural Nightlife
Too often research is confined to words expressed on paper, in conferences or in the classroom. Still rare is the opportunity (or the desire) to communicate our ideas in other media for...
Does Nobody Take Photos at the Cinema? Between Re-Location and Re-Relocation of the Spectatorial Experience
In the last few weeks, I’ve seen some films. Some on the television and computer. Others on the big screen, in different cinemas, in different cities. One afternoon, in a seat near...
La Galleria delle Mappe: Prima Variazione
[You can find the English translation here] A partire da un errore, nel traduttore automatico di Google, nel trasferire alcune termini dall’inglese all’italiano, relativi al testo che illustra i criteri con cui...
Media Art. Towards a New Definition of Arts in the Age of Technology
Review of: Media Art. Towards a New Definition of Arts in the Age of Technology (Rome: Fondazione Mondo Digitale, 2015) Edited by Valentino Catricalà Review by Emanuela Patti Between 25th February and...