L'articolo Conference ‘Il Gruppo 63 e le arti’ (16-17 November, Berne) sembra essere il primo su Interdisciplinary Italy.

Please see below the program of the 2023 Annual Conference of the Associazione svizzera di letteratura generale e comparata (ASLGC/SGAVL) titled Sull’orlo del visibile: Letterature comparate e visualità (November 16-17, Lugano – Università della Svizzera Italiana).

L'articolo Conference ‘Sull’orlo del visibile: Letterature comparate e visualità’ (Nov. 16-17 – Lugano) sembra essere il primo su Interdisciplinary Italy.

L'articolo 29-30 November 2018/Concordi Lumine Maior. Doppi talenti nella letteratura italiana, Pisa sembra essere il primo su Interdisciplinary Italy.

The event will take place at Bourne Lecture Theatre 2, Royal Holloway, 1-2pm, as part of a series of workshops and lectures organised to celebrate international womenâ€s art and activism. It will ask: (how) can art change the world? Its focus in particular is on womenâ€s voices in French, German, Italian, and Spanish-speaking contexts. Please find the full programme of the day here.

L'articolo 2 March 2018/Gender Politics and Gendering Politics: Visual Poetry and the Italian neo Avant-Garde, Royal Holloway sembra essere il primo su Interdisciplinary Italy.

Call for Papers

The World Wide Web is commonly perceived the ultimate tool of homogenizing culture through dominant platforms such as Google and Facebook and consequently as the major culprit in the loss of ground of local cultures. Digital cultures are in reality plural, however, in terms of both form and language, and they not only continue pre-digital traditions through new modes of expression and in a new space for creativity in specific languages, but also invite us to rethink the nature and role of cultural heritage, language, identity, and their relationships today. At the same time, the web remains a fluid and open space that allows for the mixing and cross-fertilization of cultures more than any other previous mode of interaction. Artists and authors who engage in digital creativity often live in and between different cultures and languages that feed into their works; they translate their own or others†works; engage with audiences across cultures; and are critical of dominant platforms and discourses, which they often hijack. The digital has never been neutral, as Alexandra Saemmer notes, and creatively engaging with it entails questioning established modes of thinking and writing as well as the relationship between language, tradition, and identity. The work of multilingual authors and artists such as Gregory Chatonsky, Alexandra Saemmer, Serge Bouchardon, Canan Marasligil, Lou Sarabadzic, María Mencía, Guillaume Vissac, or Belén Gache, to mention only a few, well illustrate the centrality of these concerns to born digital literature across languages. The importance of the linguistic identity and hybridity of electronic literature is still largely unexplored, however.

This symposium will be the inaugural event of The Creative Web of Languages, a two-year project addressing these questions, funded by the ‘Multilingualism: Empowering Individuals, Transforming Societies†AHRC Open World Research Initiative (www.meits.org). The project aims to bring together researchers and artists across languages and specialisms to enable a rich dialogue and a comparative approach. The symposium benefits from additional support from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the Department of Languages and Cultures of Lancaster University, and will happen in partnership with the Electronic Literature Organization (https://eliterature.org/).

Confirmed speakers:

Serge Bouchardon; Canan Marasligil; María Mencía; Alexandra Saemmer; Lou Sarabadzic; Claire Larsonneur (Paris 8); Emanuela Patti (Royal Holloway); Claire Taylor (Liverpool University)

200-word proposals for 20-minute papers are invited on digital authors and creative works with a focus on the role of language and languages. Contributions discussing ongoing or completed web-based projects, including blogs, vlogs, microblogs, or social media experiments are particularly welcome. Topics may include, but need not be limited to:

• The coexistence or mixing of languages and cultures in digital works and projects
• Linguistic and cultural identity in and through digital creativity
• Creative web-based communities across languages
• Linguistic border crossing in digital works and projects
• Translation and self-translation of digital works
• The creative web and the politics of language / language and the politics of the creative web

Postgraduate students and early career scholars are particularly encouraged to submit proposals. Two small bursaries for postgraduate speakers will be available to help with the travel and accommodation costs.

Please send your proposal by Friday the 2^nd of February to the organizer, Erika Fülöp at e.fulop@lancaster.ac.uk.

L'articolo 8-9 March 2018/Multilingual Digital Authorship, Lancaster University, sembra essere il primo su Interdisciplinary Italy.

Italy’s “Expanded Cinema”: Cinema and The Electronic Arts

Cinema has, since its very origins, been a plural medium, one which encompasses theatre, photography, music and other forms. However, since the sixties, its relations with arts, media and technology have been in a state of constant flux, and what “cinema” means has been transformed as cinema touches adjacent forms. Despite the evident changes in what “cinema” means, research into Italian cinema still often treats films as if borders of the medium were unchanging. This panel challenges the static notion of the medium, by presenting some of the tears in its form, attempting to pinpoint some of the key moments in which it bleeds into other forms. We are interested in tracing these transformations and through them understanding what the term “Italian cinema” means today. Is cinema re-totalising itself, or disintegrating?

This panel will explore the experiments, collaborations and tensions that have arisen between Italy’s cinema and its electronic arts from the sixties to the present. In particular, we will investigate three particular moments: cinema’s relationship with experimental television, with video art and with augmented reality. In doing so, we will focus attention on individuals and groups who have been actively engaged in creative boundary-crossing and on institutions and technologies which fostered or hindered it. Case studies we will consider include video artists Gianni Toti, Studio Azzurro, Fabrizio Plessi and others.

The panel will start by examining the first theoretical debates within journals such as Marcatré and the early experimentation within the RAI Servizio Programmi Sperimentali the late 1960s to early 1970s. In their double paper, Emanuela Patti and Clodagh Brook will look at the interplay between the theoretical debates in journals such as Marcatré, Cinema Nuovo, Videocritica and creative practice. Particular emphasis will be devoted to the Italian critical reception of the notion of “expanded cinema” in the 1967 triple special issue of Marcatré (n. 34/35/36) and how this was negotiated with local theorists’ perspectives such as Carlo Lizzani’s “La quarta età  dell’immagine in movimento” (1969) and the neo-avandgardist debates of the same decade (following Eco’s “opera aperta”). The paper will examine how such debates gave impulse to a new era of cinematic experimentation leading to video art and how this developed in the following decades. Patti will concentrate on Gianni Toti (1924-2007), better known as the founder of poetronica, a mix of poetry and electronics. After a long experience as a journalist, poet and experimental film maker – from 1958 to 1969 he made the newsreels (cinegiornali) in collaboration with Cesare Zavattini and Jean-Luc Godard –, in the early 1980s Toti began mixing cinema, poetry text and electronic images in his video poems, giving rise to a number of derivative artefacts such as “Videopoemopera”, “videopoemetti” and “videosyntheatronica”. Brook will focus on the experience of the Milanese collective, Studio Azzurro, who have been working across cinema, theatre and video since 1982. Brook’s paper will explore in particular the place of artistic collaboration in “expanded cinema”. In the third paper, Mirko Lino will look at how cinema intersects with augmented reality, focusing on the project Komplex, as a case study.

Papers

Clodagh Brook and Emanuela Patti (double paper) Italy’s Expanded Cinema in Practice: Gianni Toti (Patti) and Studio Azzurro (Brook)

Mirko Lino – Interferenze intermediali: le esperienze cinematiche in Realtà Aumentata. Il caso di Komplex – Live Cinema Group

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They will be looking in particular at questions like: What are the risks and opportunities of transcending borders in languages-based research? What skills, knowledge and perspectives are needed to cross borders in modern languages research?

L'articolo November 2016 / Panel, Crossing Disciplines in Modern Languages Research sembra essere il primo su Interdisciplinary Italy.

Speaker: Clodagh Brook. 

Public Research Seminar, University of Birmingham

Venue: Room LG14, Learning Centre (R28 on the map, near University train station), University of Birmingham.

Dr Clodagh Brook will present the new phase of the Interdisciplinary Italy project (2015-2018) for which she is Principal Investigator. The seminar will be informal and introductory, outlining the principal questions and ideas that underlie the collective project, its aims and aspirations, and presenting some of the findings that have emerged thus far.

L'articolo November 2015 / Papers or Invited Talks, Experimentation and Transgression across the Arts, University of Birmingham sembra essere il primo su Interdisciplinary Italy.