Conferences

Enactivism and Inactivism. Media, Migrations, and the Rhetoric of Empathy

11 Jun , 2021 Conferences,Ecology,Empathy,Virtual Reality

It is in the nature or media to provide mediation, that is, a paradoxical and oxymoronic experience that, simultaneously, grants access to inaccessible or distant worlds, and prevents us from its actual dangers; exposes to the thrill of strong emotions and protects from the physical injuries and psychical trauma that they would cause; allows us to meet and interact and yet keeps us at a distance, socially separate, as in the pandemic era we are facing right now.

With the advent of immersive digital media, this dynamic has become more evident. And in front of global crisis and issues, such as migration, media offer empathy as a way to fill the gap, a remedy to the lack of direct experience, allowing people to “share” such suffering. I would like to intervene on its general and generic meaning (putting oneself in the other’s shoes to understand him or her) as it is used to propel …

Enactive Media @NECS2021

8 Jun , 2021 Conferences,Enaction

Enactive Media @NECS2021

The NECS 2021 Conference
Transitions: Moving Images and Bodies
Università degli Studi di Palermo
10 June 2021

Pre-constituted panels proposal “ENACTIVE MEDIA”

Proponents: Enrico Carocci, Adriano D’Aloia and Francesco Parisi

The double pre-constituted panel aims to apply the emerging neo-cognitive approach of Enactivism to the field of media studies in order to explore the epistemological transition from a disembodied to an organism-environment imbricated and technologically-extended media experience.

Enactivism is a theoretical paradigm grounded on a phenomenological, pragmatist, and ecological approach to cognition and experience. It is based on the fundamental ideas that cognition emerges from the dynamic interaction between an organism and its environment (systematicity) and that perception is a kind of activity (performativity). Accordingly, Enactivism comprises a constellation of concepts that can be applied to and renew the study of the media experience and the mediatization of life as one of the main challenging …

Enactive Screens. The Moving-Body and the Moving-Image

15 Oct , 2020 Conferences,Enaction

Enactive Screens. The Moving-Body and the Moving-Image

On October 21, 2020 I will deliver a talk at the Cinema & Media Studies (online) Colloquium of the University of Philadelphia. In the talk “Enactive Screens. The Moving-Body and the Moving-Image” I will critically discuss the relevance of an enactive approach to human cognition for film and media studies. Rooted in J.J. Gibson’s ecological approach to visual perception and in Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology, enactivism is an emerging perspective in cognitive science that promotes the idea that perception and action are fundamentally inseparable in lived cognition and that the latter emerges from the coupling of an organism with its environment. According to enactivists, “cognition depends on an experience that derives from having a body, with its various sensory-motor capacities [that] are themselves part of a wider biological, psychological, and cultural context” (Varela, Thompson, Rosch, The Embodied Mind, 1991). Since the interaction between an organism and its environment through the …

TRAME. La moda tra narrazioni audiovisive e media digitali

22 May , 2020 Conferences,Fashion

TRAME. La moda tra narrazioni  audiovisive e media digitali

 

 

La moda in quanto industria culturale occupa un ruolo centrale e strategico nell’ecosistema mediale contemporaneo. La giornata di studi TRAME. La moda tra narrazioni audiovisive e media digitali si propone di discutere criticamente alcuni aspetti del rapporto di sinergia e di scambio reciproco tra la moda e le forme audiovisive della narrazione, in particolare il cinema e la serialità televisva. Nella discussione rientreranno anche gli effetti della spinta innovativa impressa dalla moda al settore della comunicazione mediale, soprattutto con l’affermazione dei social network e di nuove figure professionali, come l’influencer, che stanno rivoluzionando le dinamiche classiche del giornalismo di moda.

La giornata si svolgerà mercoledì 3 giugno 2020 dalle ore 10 alle ore 17 tramite la piattaforma Zoom e si inserisce nel ciclo “Storie di Architettura e Design” promosso dal Dipartimento di Architettura e Disegno Industriale dell’Università degli Studi della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”.

 

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Viralità mediale. Immaginario e realtà al tempo del virus

6 Apr , 2020 Conferences,Enaction

Viralità mediale. Immaginario e realtà al tempo del virus

Un virus letale si diffonde su scala globale costringendo i governi ad adottare drastiche misure di contenimento del contagio. Le scuole, le fabbriche, i musei vengono chiusi, banditi gli incontri tra le persone, limitata la libertà di circolazione. Le città si trasformano in deserti urbani, mentre gli ospedali sono al collasso. Gli abitanti del pianeta si rintanano nelle proprie case, in attesa di un vaccino che salvi l’umanità… Non è un nuovo episodio della serie tv Black Mirror, specchio distopico di un futuro lacerato dal dominio delle tecnologie sull’umano. È la realtà, è il presente. La finzione letteraria, cinematografia e televisiva ha sempre immaginato scenari apocalittici – anche per esorcizzarne preventivamente il dramma – ma il Coronavirus ha spinto la realtà ben al di là della sua prefigurazione. Ai tempi della viralità della Rete, la pandemia è anche infodemia, la verità è fake, il contagio è algoritmo, la realazione …

Comunicazione e partecipazione pubblica

3 Dec , 2019 Conferences,Events

Comunicazione e partecipazione pubblica

Una serata aperta al pubblico per riflettere sull’informazione, l’impegno politico e il volontariato nell’epoca dei social network, delle migrazioni e dei cambiamenti climatici, tra dimensione locale e scenari globali.

Venerdì 6 dicembre alle ore 20,45 presso l’aula consiliare “Falcone e Borsellino” di Villa Mella (Via Dante Alighieri 38) a Limbiate, si svolgerà un incontro culturale dal titolo “Comunicazione e partecipazione pubblica alla sfida della contemporaneità”. L’evento è organizzato da il Cittadino di Monza e Brianza con il patrocinio del Comune di Limbiate in ricordo dell’ex sindaco di Limbiate Dario Citterio a un anno dalla sua scomparsa. La partecipazione è libera e aperta a tutti i cittadini.

Dopo i saluti iniziali affidati al sindaco di Limbiate Antonio Romeo e al direttore de il Cittadino Claudio Colombo, prenderanno la parola figure impegnate nel campo dell’informazione, del volontariato e della formazione politica, tre fronti decisivi per la partecipazione attiva dei cittadini alla vita …

Mediating Material Engagement

1 Oct , 2019 Conferences,Enaction

Mediating Material Engagement

The best conference ever (on Mediating Material Engagement. Technology, Narrativity, Performance) has just ended in Messina after three days of intense debate on trasformations of media landscape and our plastic relationship with technologies in the light of Material Engagement Theory with Lambros Malafouris, Mauro Carbone, Michele Cometa and many other distinguished scholars in cognitive science, philosophy, aesthetics, linguistics, semiotics, performance and media studies embracing Enaction. 

Even the students strike on global climate crisis we have bumped into this morning seemed integral part of the conference and of a broader rethinking of the interaction between our body and the environment (which is the heart of enaction). 

And eventually I crossed the Strait of Messina by ferry and visually and bodily understood that it is not at a separation between strips of land, but a natural and spiritual link (that cannot be replaced by a physical bridge in any way). 

Many thanks …

Art, Medium and Moving Images Colloquium @ Groningen

17 Sep , 2019 Conferences,Dancing,Neurofilmology

Art, Medium and Moving Images Colloquium @ Groningen

On 19 September at Marie Lokezaal (Harmonie building), University of Groningen, as part of the Colloquium of the theme group ‘Art, Medium and Moving Images’, Dr Ariano D’Aloia of the University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli” will give a guest lecture titled “En… action! A neurofilmological analysis of Spike Jonze’s short films”.

In this lecture he adopts an enactive approach to the human experience in order to discuss the interaction between body and space through the mediation of technology and how this interaction is central in the analysis and interpretation of the contemporary film and audiovisual media experience.

Enactivism is an emerging perspective in cognitive science that promotes the idea that perception and action are fundamentally inseparable in lived cognition. According to enactivists, “cognition depends on an experience that derives from having a body, with its various sensory-motor capacities [that] are themselves part of a wider biological, psychological, and …

Creative Energies » Creative Industries

1 Feb , 2014 Conferences

Creative Energies » Creative Industries

Reflecting on creativity has been central to a great deal of philosophical speculation, production practices and forms of reception of the artistic experience. Notions of creation and creativity concern crucial elements in media industries. Moreover, recent developments in institutional policies refer to the pivotal role of creativity in evaluating and promoting cultural production (see the EC’s most recent cultural program “Creative Europe”).

The 2014 NECS Conference, held in Milan, aims to revise and challenge assumptions on media creation and creativity, by looking at them as discursive formations, sociability instruments, power networks, modes of production and reception undergoing historical, political, theoretical and technological transformations.

Creative Energies » Creative Industries
The NECS 2014 Conference
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Milan, June 19-21, 2014

Conference website at necs.org/conference

Transnational Mediascapes

9 May , 2013 Conferences

Transnational Mediascapes

Transnational Mediascapes: Sound and Vision in Europe
International Conference
14-15 May 2013
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan

Media studies have been forced by convergence, digitization and globalization to look beyond the traditional structure of national media systems, histories and habits, and to begin to analyse their phenomena according to a wider, and more complex, point of view. On one side, they have started to reconstruct the global flows of information and entertainment, the basis of a “mainstream culture” that unifies – at least partially – different geographical, political, social and cultural areas. On the other, they have begun to follow media products and trends in their complex paths across various countries and macro-regions, underlining both the differences and the deep similarities in shapes and meanings, in production processes as well as in consumption practices. Especially in the field of television and sound studies, in recent years, some progresses have …