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Category Archives: The Digital Age
A Girls’ Night Out with Dante and Virgil: Transforming the Divine Comedy in the Age of Fandom
Since at least the time of Conan Doyle and his Sherlock Holmes stories, every product of popular culture has had its fans (short for “fanatics”). Since at least the time of Star...
Catharsis In the Age of the Metaverse. A Workshop at Brown University, April 17-18, 2023
Technology is the mythology of our time and simulation is the pervasive cognitive mode of contemporary techno-culture. Like such mythological places as Xanadu or Guixu (the location in Chinese mythology where all...
Henry Jenkins + Massimo Riva Online Public Lectures (Interdisciplinary Italy Summer School)
We are delighted to invite you to these free online public lectures: Convergence Culture in the Age of Covid-19: A Fever Dream by Professor HENRY JENKINS (July 2, 17:30-18:30 GMT+1) AND Simulating...
Convergence Culture in the Age of Covid 19: A Fever Dream
“I am Kino-Eye. I am a builder. I have placed you, who I’ve created today, in an extraordinary room which did not exist until just now when I also created it. In...
Opera Aperta: How Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming Literature
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...
De-code Gender: A Knitted Perspective
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...
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?...
Digital Culture Studies in Modern Languages: Theories, Methodologies and Future Perspectives
The ‘digital turn in the humanities’ has inevitably raised a number of questions about how digital technologies have transformed research, teaching and dissemination in Modern Languages. While hybridity still tends to dominate...
Gianni Toti’s Poetronics in Augmented Reality
Gianni Toti (Rome, 24Â June 1924 – 8Â January 2007) was the Italian poet, author, journalist, photographer and filmmaker who created ‘Poetronica’, a fusion of poetry and electronics. The poet demonstrated the potential of...
REWINDItalia. Early Video Art in Italy
In the 70s and 80s, Italy was a fertile ground for the experimentation of video as art practice. At the time, the most relevant Italian video art centres – which included art/tapes/22,...