A world of imprints. The epistemology of visual evidence in digital and virtual media-ecologies
Rosa Cinelli
research: Seminar
A world of imprints. The epistemology of visual evidence in digital and virtual media-ecologies
Rosa Cinelli
Historically, one of the important functions of the technical image has been to be used intensively as evidence, and therefore as proof. The emergence of a 'forensic gaze', which from the 19th century onwards has widely used mechanical images as a system for managing a precise 'economy of traces', has intended images as an instrument of investigative knowledge in relation to their supposed objectivity. From photographic theories to XR media, the current project aims to draw a new perspective on visual evidence, both in its theoretical aspects and in a precise enunciative context, by analysing a case study: the "historical trials" of the 2015 Paris terrorist attacks (V13).
Biography
Rosa Cinelli
Rosa Cinelli graduated from the University of Milano in 2021 with a thesis centered on the uses of digital photography as a means of self-presentation in everyday life. Currently, she is a Ph.D. student adjoint to AN-ICON ERC advanced program, where she conducts her research on the contemporary conjugations of the concept of indexicality within digital and virtual images, as well as on the mutations of the epistemological paradigm of photography as visual proof. She also attended the two-year photography program from CFP Bauer in Milano.
research: seminar
A world of imprints. The epistemology of visual evidence in digital and virtual media-ecologies
Rosa Cinelli
Historically, one of the important functions of the technical image has been to be used intensively as evidence, and therefore as proof. The emergence of a 'forensic gaze', which from the 19th century onwards has widely used mechanical images as a system for managing a precise 'economy of traces', has intended images as an instrument of investigative knowledge in relation to their supposed objectivity. From photographic theories to XR media, the current project aims to draw a new perspective on visual evidence, both in its theoretical aspects and in a precise enunciative context, by analysing a case study: the "historical trials" of the 2015 Paris terrorist attacks (V13).