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Interventions, Productions and Collaborations:the relationship between RAI and visual artists
Full text linkOn the 17th May 1952, before RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana Studios began their regular broadcast from Milan, the Spatialist painter and sculptor Lucio Fontana broadcast his own experimental ‘artwork’ on Italian television, beginning a fruitful relationship between RAI and visual artists. For some, it provided careers as designers and art directors, such as the painter Mario Sasso and the Arte Povera artist Pino Pascali, while for others, who were given unique access to RAI’s television apparatus, it was an opportunity to explore their own artistic experimentations with an expensive and exclusive medium, such as Carlo Quartucci and Gianni Toti. RAI also hosted seminal artists’ performances on screen including John Cage and Fabio Mauri. This article, based on documents and interviews collected during the Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project REWINDItalia, discusses these and other seminal cases as well as tracing and assessing the history of this fruitful and complex exchange between RAI and visual artists
Between Cinema and Poetronic (and beyond)
No full textUn saggio dedicato al poeta e artista video italiano Gianni Toti, soprattutto per quanto riguarda il suo rapporto con il cinema. An essay about the italian poet and video-artist Gianni Toti, mainly on his dialogue and tribute to cinema
Making Politics
Full text linkIn this interview, Joseph DeLappe describes a lineage of works and circumstances that led to a series of community-based and crowdsourced projects to encourage participation and creative critical action with participants, volunteers, and collaborators. This chapter describes DeLappe’s transformation from solo practitioner to socially engaged artist, illustrated by explicating upon works developed since 2008 that involved people in various modes of participation. Throughout, Laura Leuzzi and DeLappe uncover an engagement of the digital as a fulcrum for action, as process or platform. Woven through all of the works described is a keen sensibility of engaging issues surrounding memory, violence, peace, and social justice. Such projects have involved either the creation of temporary, large-scale low-polygon sculptures and installations created on site with local communities/collaborators; internet-based engagements, including an early experimental global sing-a-long; and a series of crowdsourced rubber-stamping projects to intervene with political symbols on cash
The time is right for ... [Film screening]
Full text linkThis film screening, curated by Laura Leuzzi and Adam Lockhart, was performed as part of the exhibition of the same name, which was held in August and September 2017 at Summerhall, Edinburgh. The exhibition aimed to highlight a selection of early women's video art that had been investigated as part of the European Women's Video Art in the 1970s and 1980s (EWVA) project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). This screening presented several specific works and was accompanied by a panel discussion with Federica Marangoni (artist), Elaine Shemilt (artist and EWVA principal investigator) and Laura Leuzzi (EWVA research fellow)
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Perceptions of a real event:tensions between the seen and the unseen in performance and its video distribution
No full textItaly was a vibrant centre of video art production and exhibition throughout the 1970s and 1980s. This early experimentation attracted artists from all over the world and laid the foundation for video art. However since then, early Italian video art has received only scant international exposure. Its contribution to the history of video as an art form has for too long escaped the recognition that it so unequivocally deserves.Edited by Laura Leuzzi and Stephen Partridge, REWINDItalia Early Video Art in Italy aims to bring the Italian, seminal, early video experimentation back into the international spotlight and provide a a unique resource for research and study.The volume includes seminal essays, translated for the first time into English, plus newly commissioned texts by leading scholars and artists, and a wide selection of video stills and other images.Authors include: Renato Barilli, Maria Gloria Bicocchi, Lola Bonora, Silvia Bordini, Paolo Cardazzo, Cinzia Cremona, Sean Cubitt, Bruno Di Marino, Simonetta Fadda, Vittorio Fagone, Marco Maria Gazzano, Luciano Giaccari, Mirco Infanti, Laura Leuzzi, Sandra Lischi, Adam Lockhart, Stephen Partridge, Cosetta G. Saba, Emile Shemilt, Studio Azzurro, Valentina Valentini, Grahame Weinbren.Foreword by Don Foresta; introduction by Stephen Partridge; the volume closes with The Chronology of Video Art in Italy (1952–1992), by Valentino Catricalà and Laura Leuzzi. Translation by Simona Manca.<br/
MADELON HOOYKAAS: VIRTUAL WALLS | REAL WALLS EXHIBITION and LIVE PERFORMANCE, 14 May - 26 July 2018, Threshold artspace, Perth Concert Hall and Theatre
No full textPerth Concert Hall and Perth Theatre's Threshold artspace hosted the first solo exhibition and only UK showing of 'Virtual Walls l Real Walls' by Dutch video art pioneer Madelon Hooykaas, curated by Laura Leuzzi and Iliyana Nedkova.Curator Laura Leuzzi received Creative Scotland funding to co-curate with Iliyana Nedkova, the first solo exhibition and only UK showing of performative project "Virtual Walls | Real Walls" by the Dutch video art pioneer Madelon Hooykaas - showcasing her latest moving image works at Perth’s Threshold artspace. The project was an investigation into the cultural perceptions of walls as barriers and symbols of both confinement and unification.Hooykaas’ artist’s films will show in an UK institution for the first time alongside a new artist’s limited edition and a new publication.The opening event included Madelon Hooykaas' live performance "Virtual Walls| Real Walls", a curated screening of Hooykaas' latest films and a post-show audience discussion with the artist and exhibition curators.Perth was the only UK performance destination following Venice, Amsterdam and Berlin. The exhibition investigated what are our cultural perceptions of walls –marking a territory, taming nature, separating and protecting people?Curated by Laura Leuzzi and Iliyana Nedkova Produced by Horsecross Arts. Supported by Creative Scotland Open Project Fund
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