Inventario delle cose italiane. Mappature, movimenti di esplorazione e (ri)costruzione dell’Italia postbellica nella stampa periodica illustrata

Questo progetto di ricerca indaga le modalità con cui alcuni tra i più diffusi periodici illustrati del secondo dopoguerra ("Epoca", "Tempo", "La Settimana Incom Illustrata", "Le Vie d'Italia", "L'Illustrazione Italiana") abbiano partecipato alla messa in immagine del Paese dopo la guerra. I periodici vengono indagati come dispositivi che regstrano, intercettano e producono un nuovo regime del visibile. La tesi si concentra sullo specifico linguaggio fotografico adottato dalle diverse testate...

The Metaverse And Its Double: Toward Phygital Anthropologies

Immersive media offer a privileged site for examining contemporary transformations of reality, presence, embodiment, and mediation. This study approaches extended reality (XR) and the broader imaginaries associated with the metaverse as hybrid environments in which bodies, images, screens, gestures, and technical supports enter into increasingly dense relations. Drawing on media studies, visual culture, media archaeology, the anthropology of media, and performance theory, it develops a geneal...

From immersion to donation: neurophysiological evidences on AR/VR museum experiences in Italy and the United States

The measures implemented for museums during the COVID-19 pandemic reduced in-person visits and made access to digital content a strategy for resilience. In this context, many museums accelerated the implementation of new technologies, which were then further consolidated even after the emergency. Meanwhile, the reduction and instability of traditional revenues (e.g., ticket revenue) reinforced the urgency of identifying alternative sources of sustainability, prompting some institutions to tes...

Le dimensioni dell'Im-spazio. Teoria e storia

What is the Im-spazio? Coined in 1967 by the Italian art critic and curator Germano Celant, this term refers to the hybridisation of image and space that occurs within environmental works of art. Indeed, when artists create an environment, they work within the conceptual and architectural dimensions of the room, as they identify the image with a delimited space. Thanks to the enclosed totality of the room, a visionary process leads to a confusion of the difference which we conventionally reco...

Instant Biopic. Il racconto biografico nelle piattaforme di streaming

This dissertation explores the emergence of the instant biopic (Sheehan, 2013), a contemporary form of biographical narration that has developed within the ecosystem of streaming platforms. By focusing on living subjects and “lives in progress,” the instant biopic redefines the relationship between biography, the instantaneous temporality of social media, and the cultural experience of the present. Combining genre theory as a cultural category (Mittell, 2004) with production studies (Caldwell...

Ripensare il monumento. Attraverso e oltre il Novecento.

In the 1930s, Robert Musil famously spoke of the “invisibility” of monuments. Yet the recent global wave of fallen statues reveals that the monument is anything but invisible: it remains a living field where symbolic, political, and identity-related tensions continue to converge. Starting from this premise, this research offers a theoretical and art-historical re-reading of the anti-monument, with the aim of reconstructing its genealogy across and beyond the Twentieth century. Examining the E...

«O forse non è così». Narrazioni e contro-narrazioni nel cinema campano contemporaneo.

The research investigates how contemporary Campanian cinema constructs, consolidates, or deconstructs the image of Naples and its liminal zones, by setting dominant narratives and counter-narratives in critical tension. Cinema is conceived as a device of power and knowledge, capable of shaping and simultaneously destabilizing the collective imaginary. The title O forse non è così (“Or Perhaps It Is Not So”) evokes precisely this suspension—the awareness that every image of Naples bears within...

Paesaggi di resti. Fatiscenza e incanto negli Stati Uniti del Sud di William Eggleston e Cormac McCarthy

The research focuses on the contemporary landscape of the southern United States and how it can be experienced aesthetically. Following the transformations undergone by the landscape in the capitalist and post-capitalist eras during the second half of the 20th century, the increasingly evident emergence of a landscape of ruins, dotted with the debris of a broken civilisation, came to light. The mixture of fascination and terror that the 'Deep South' immediately evokes is the complex result of...

Partire, conoscere, condividere. Il viaggio in Afghanistan di Ella Maillart