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Digital Humanities Summer School: Tran(s)missions

The "digital revolution" forces us both to rethink the correspondences between art and science and to reconsider the role of technologies in literature. The Summer School Tran(s)missions: how multimediality shapes interdisciplinary research in the field of Italian and Visual Culture Studies explores the meaning of interdisciplinarity and multimediality using a synergistic approach that combines different methodologies coming from the field of Italian Studies, Digital Humanities, studies on digital cultures and research methods focused on the materiality of the object. Through the application in a laboratory form of the devices used in Digital Humanities, the Summer School stimulates innovative interdisciplinary thinking, and provide participants with the tools suitable for the identification of relationships that affect the multimediality from the textual, visual and spatial point of view, and how it is presented in different media, forms and literary sources in the early modern and contemporary world. The inclusion of scholars and artists working in the international field, and coming from different sectors, is seen in a dialogical key to widen the debate around Digital Humanities and digital cultures, in order to encourage a comparison between different methodologies and alternative procedures involving the field of Italian Studies.

 

The program, in hybrid format online and in person at the Department of Humanities of Roma Tre (via Ostiense 234, Rome), includes morning classes and afternoon workshops dedicated to the realization of a research project and a finalexhibition. The lessons will be held in Italian and English. Among the proposed activities are round-tables, one-to-one tutorials and group workshops, visits to institutions and informal discussions on the topics addressed by the Summer School. The visits will take place at the Gagosian, Lorcan O'Neill, Gladstone and Frutta Galleries, the Domus Transitoria, Santa Maria Antiqua, Palazzo Valentini, the Centrale Montemartini and the Giardino degli Aranci, while the exhibition will take place in virtual form on the New Art City Virtual Art Space (https://newart.city/) and on site at Spazio Taverna (Palazzo Taverna, Rome). The research and discussion results will be published on the GitHub platform. It will also be possible to participate in a conference and produce a special edition in the form of a catalogue with the presentation of the works and theoretical contributions made in occasion of the Summer School. 

 

The call to participate in the Summer School is open to students and researchers, artists, curators, library science specialists, engineers, technicians-archivists who conduct interdisciplinary studies in the field of Italian and Cultural Studies, opening their perspectives of investigation to the relationship between word and image, visual culture, media studies, material culture studies, film studies, digital storytelling, creative writing, digital and public humanities, visual arts, art history, history, and computer science. A good knowledge of English is desirable.

 

To participate you should send a short c.v. accompanied by a headshot, and a motivational letter (500 words) with a presentation of the project you intend to carry out during the Summer School to the email address: transmissions2021@gmail.com. The deadline for pre-applications is July 15, 2021. 
The tuition fee is 250€, the deadline for payment is September 7, 2021. The application tender (TBC) is available at: https://www.uniroma3.it/didattica/offerta-formativa/post-lauream/bando-di-ammissione/#_Toc75169018. For information visit the Summer School website: https://multimedialitysummerschool.github.io/transmissions/Index.html.

 

Scientific Committee
Luca Marcozzi, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, director
Manfredi Merluzzi, Università degli Studi Roma Tre
Giuditta Cirnigliaro, Università degli Studi Roma Tre
Angelica Federici, Università degli Studi Roma Tre
Valeria Federici, CASVA, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Maurizio Fiorilla, Università degli Studi Roma Tre
Massimo Riva, Brown University

Elisa Giardina Papa, Digital Artist, University of California, Berkeley

Gino Roncaglia, Università degli Studi di Roma Tre

Rhiannon Noel Welch, University of California, Berkeley

Emanuela Patti, Royal Holloway, University of London
 
Lecturers

Claudia Bolgia, Università degli Studi di Udine 
Raffaele Carlani, Progetto KatatexiLux

Giuditta Cirnigliaro, Università degli Studi Roma Tre
Angelica Federici, Università degli Studi Roma Tre
Valeria Federici, CASVA, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Arturo Gallia, Università degli Studi Roma Tre
Luca Marcozzi, Università degli Studi Roma Tre
Emanuela Patti, Royal Holloway, University of London
Paolo Rigo, Università degli Studi Roma Tre
Massimo Riva, Brown University
Gino Roncaglia, Università degli Studi Roma Tre

Francesca Serra, Université de Genève
Rhiannon Noel Welch, University of California, Berkeley

Paul Gabriele Weston, Università di Pavia
 

Artists
Marco Bassan, Artist Curator, Spazio Taverna

Francesco Clerici, Filmmaker, Università degli Studi di Milano

Elisa Giardina Papa, Digital Artist, University of California, Berkeley

Greg Niemeyer, Data Artist, University of California, Berkeley

 
Admin and Logistics

Donatella Montemurno, MECS Project manager, Università degli Studi Roma Tre
Emanuela Lucchetti, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma

September 10, 2021 to September 19, 2021 12:00 am

Department of Humanities of Roma Tre

Event type: Conference