[This post gathers some preliminary ideas developed during the RHUL Research Training Programme in Interart/Intermedia methodologies] The Futurist opera d’arte totale (or ‘total work of art’) consisted of the decoration of environments...
[This post gathers some preliminary ideas developed during the RHUL Research Training Programme in Interart/Intermedia methodologies] Can movement be an effective and important characteristic of a work of art? The use of...
My thesis, supervised by Dr Giuliana Adamo, aims to provide the first critical edition of a still unpublished collection of Tarot texts by the multilingual and visual poet Emilio Villa (1914-2003). My...
Institutional, historical and artistic contexts in which new media art occurred in Italy are examined in my doctoral research project, entitled Network culture in Italy in the 1990s and the making of...
Social networks offer unique opportunities for collaboration. In 2012, aiming to harness the creative potential of Twitter to promote literary works, three Italian friends from Turin and Milan – all of them...
How can we look beyond national borders in language-learning? What could a ‘transnational’ language teaching approach look like in practical terms? In light of exciting contemporary perspectives which seek to undermine the...
In art history, only a few artists were able to embrace multiple artistic fields like Leonor Fini (Buenos Aires, 1907-Paris, 1996). Cosmopolitan and magnetic, cultured and refined, eclectic and histrionic artist, paradoxically...
On 22nd and 23rd September 2016 Milan hosted a major international conference, Milan, Crossroad of Cultures. As the result of a partnership between the University of Birmingham, the University of Warwick and...
Italian fashion narratives have often focused on the stylistic trajectories of couturiers and individual stilisti or on the biographies of fashion centres such as Turin during the interwar period, Florence as symbol...
