When Umberto Eco published his seminal essay Opera aperta [The Open Work] in 1962, a number of experiments across literature and computer machines had set the ground of what we call today...
This summer in Edinburgh, at the conference of the Society for Italian Studies, the first entirely cognitive-oriented panel was presented. The transdisciplinary perspective allowed by the cognitive lens enabled the panellists to...
Emma Dante, the groundbreaking director of plays and operas, works on textuality with a visual and visionary eye. Through contextual codes borrowed from a number of media she builds a network of...
During the International Conference, Interart/Intermedia Experimentation in Italy Through the Ages, Royal Holloway 12-13th April 2019, I had the honour of presenting the collaborative and cross-disciplinary project </unravel;> which I have worked...
How can we identify meaningful transmedial points of contact between cultural practices in a way that doesn’t overlook the specific modes of expression inherent to different medial forms? My doctoral research has...
The conference ‘Sites of Cultural Agency: Creative Knowledge Production in the Arts and Humanities’, held at and in collaboration with the British School at Rome (BSR) examines the intimate link between material...
Cultural history is full of examples of the fascinating interactions between art and literature. The verbal representation of an image known as ‘ekphrasis’, famously seen in Homer’s description of the shield of...
What is peculiar to interdisciplinary projects that bring together literature and digital tools? Technological instability, I would suggest. This immediately raises issues concerning fruition and accessibility. But is this instability a failure?...
In 1986, the Venice Biennale gave much attention to a renewed interest in the relationship between art and science: a thematic umbrella under which the latest developments in the field of communication...
The Making of Modern Italy: Art and Design in the early 1960s (Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art between, 29 January-7th April 2019) curated by Giuliana Pieri, offered the opportunity to organize...