Sensing Cinema Heritage. For a multisensory approach to film heritage
Andrea Mariani, Eleonora Roaro
research: Seminar
Sensing Cinema Heritage. For a multisensory approach to film heritage
Andrea Mariani, Eleonora Roaro
The seminar stems from the first experimental outcome of the MISTI Global Seed Project "Sensing Dolce Vita", which sees the University of Udine (and in particular the Digital Storytelling Lab) and the MIT LIST Center collaborating on a reflection on AR, VR, XR applications for the enhancement of the environments of the past film experience and in general for civic media activism interventions in urban spaces. Before going into the merits of the project - with the presentation of the work in progress of the immersive experience that has as its theme the premiere of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in January 1939 at the Odeon Cinema in Udine - the seminar will explore the theoretical premises that guided the work. It will focus on mulsensoriality in historiographical approaches to film from two theoretical perspectives: the first linked to the framework of media ecology and in particular to the infrastructural approach to media; the second to the weight of the phenomenology of film in the re-conceptualisation of the cinematic device in the media-archaeological context. In the wake of these premises - where the body/environment relationship is redefined - a reflection on film as a complex media event is articulated, which is also provoking the most recent debate on heritage cinema.
The visual artist Eleonora Roaro, who collaborates with me in the development of the immersive environment of the Cinema Odeon, will also be present: with her, the research on the sources that allowed a reconstruction of the material characteristics of the environment will be illustrated.
Biography
Andrea Mariani
Andrea Mariani is assistant professor at the University of Udine, where he teaches Media Theory and Criticism and Film Philology. He deals with media archaeology, history and theory of amateur and experimental cinema and digital storytelling. He is the scientific head of the Digital Storytelling Lab projects at the University of Udine. He directs the PRID 2020 project "The Fates of a Format. Policies and cultures of the reduced pitch in Italy (1944-1956)" and is part of the projects: PRIN 2017 "Per una storia privata della critica cinematografica italiana"; Misti-Global Seed 2019 "Sensing Dolce Vita", in collaboration with MIT Boston; SSHRC 2019 "International Amateur Cinema Between the Wars (1919-1939)". His curatorships include Archeologia dei media (2018 con G. Fidotta), Ephemera (2020 con M. Comand) and the critical edition of Prassi e cinema (2020). He is author of Gli anni del Cineguf (2017) and Effemeridi del film (2020, con M. Comand).
Eleonora Roaro
Eleonora Roaro is a visual artist and researcher living in Milan. Her work has been exhibited since 2011 in numerous museums and galleries such as La Triennale (Milan), Fabbrica del Vapore (Milan), MACRO (Rome), CAMeC (La Spezia), Museo Diffuso (Turin), Maison de la Culture (Clermont-Ferrand), Istituto Italiano di Cultura (Madrid), La Friche (Marseille), E-Werk (Freiburg), Fiesta Cultural Center (San Paulo). She took part in the following artist residencies: Cittadellarte-UNIDEE (Biella, 2019), Casa degli Artisti (Milan, 2020) and viafarini (Milan, 2022). In 2019 she was a research fellow at the University of Udine for the project "Augmented reality and virtual reality for the enhancement of artistic and cultural heritage". In 2020-22 she is part of the winning project of the MISTI Global Seed Fund of MIT (Boston) and the Friuli-Venezia Giulia Region entitled "Sensing Dolce Vita: An Experiment in VR Storytelling". She currently teaches Aesthetics of New Media and History of Modern Art at NABA (Milan).
research: seminar
Sensing Cinema Heritage. For a multisensory approach to film heritage
Andrea Mariani, Eleonora Roaro
The seminar stems from the first experimental outcome of the MISTI Global Seed Project "Sensing Dolce Vita", which sees the University of Udine (and in particular the Digital Storytelling Lab) and the MIT LIST Center collaborating on a reflection on AR, VR, XR applications for the enhancement of the environments of the past film experience and in general for civic media activism interventions in urban spaces. Before going into the merits of the project - with the presentation of the work in progress of the immersive experience that has as its theme the premiere of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in January 1939 at the Odeon Cinema in Udine - the seminar will explore the theoretical premises that guided the work. It will focus on mulsensoriality in historiographical approaches to film from two theoretical perspectives: the first linked to the framework of media ecology and in particular to the infrastructural approach to media; the second to the weight of the phenomenology of film in the re-conceptualisation of the cinematic device in the media-archaeological context. In the wake of these premises - where the body/environment relationship is redefined - a reflection on film as a complex media event is articulated, which is also provoking the most recent debate on heritage cinema.
The visual artist Eleonora Roaro, who collaborates with me in the development of the immersive environment of the Cinema Odeon, will also be present: with her, the research on the sources that allowed a reconstruction of the material characteristics of the environment will be illustrated.