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Category Archives: Blogposts
Conference Announcement: Sites of Cultural Agency (Rome, Friday 18 October 2019)
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...
Writing in Images: Interartistic Encounters and the Genesis of Creative Writing in Leonardo Sciascia
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...
When Literature and Technology Fail to Align
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?...
Curating New Media Art in Italy in the 1980s: The Uneasiness of Medium Contingency
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...
Italian Language in the Gallery
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...
Sirio Luginbühl: Experimental Films
“Sirio Luginbühl: film sperimentali”, an exhibition curated by Guido Bartorelli and Lisa Parolo, was held at Palazzo Pretorio, Cittadella, Italy (April- September 2018). Promoted by the Fondazione Palazzo Pretorio Onlus in collaboration...
Creative Thinking Labs: Logos, Techne, and Critical Thinking
When do conferences break new ground? One can think about individual presentations, or panels, that stand out as paradigm shifting – though this is often a tall order in the short twenty-minute...
Verga and Duse: Shaping an Italian Identity on Stage
My contribution at the recent Interart/Intermedia conference looked at the interartistic collaboration between Verga and Duse and the effect their collaboration had on Italy’s artistic creativity: observations which have been inspired by...
Making Moves: Three Positions. Three Days of Sound, Dance and Experimental Art Making (May 16-18 2019, Tate Modern)
Join staff and students from Royal Holloway’s departments of Drama, Theatre & Dance, Geography, Modern Languages, Music, and Electronic Engineering for three days of sound, dance and experimental art making. The three-day...
Wu Ming: Boundaries of Human and Posthuman Collaborations
Every time that someone asks me to explain what my research is about, I mumble and mumble without knowing where to start from. Are Wu Ming simply a ‘writing collective’? Wondering ‘what...