About presence: perception, technologies, immersive environments.
Enrico Pitozzi
research: Seminar
About presence: perception, technologies, immersive environments.
Enrico Pitozzi
Starting from the analysis of a few case studies such as Dumb Type and Ryoji Ikeda, Shiro Takatani and Ryūichi Sakamoto, Granular Synthesis and Angelin Preljocaj among others, we will focus our analysis on the concept of presence on the contemporary scene. We cannot define present only what is felt by the senses. In order to detect these presences - all those entities that act at the limit of the resolution power of the sensory organs - it is necessary to develop a strategy that makes them visible and audible. This observation introduces a reflection on the relationship between art and technologies: every work of art involving technology clarifies the limits of human perception and at the same time allows it to be intensified. In other words, technology, before being an instrument, is a form of thought: it makes visible and audible what it is not yet. Starting from an investigation that interweaves knowledge related to the body, perception and technologies on the contemporary performance scene, theseminar aims to define the aesthetic framework of the notions of immersive environment.
Biography
Enrico Pitozzi
Enrico Pitozzi is associate professor at the University of Bologna. He has taught at the universities of Venice (IUAV) and Padua, Paris, Montréal, Valencia and Frankfurt. He is a director of the master degree IKONA. Produzione, curatela digitale e valorizzazione del patrimonio audiovisivo dello spettacolo dal vivo. He directs, with Ermanna Montanari, the «Malagola» international vocal center founded in Ravenna (UBU special prize 2022 - Italy's most important theatre award). He is a member of the Scientific Committee for performing arts of the Emilia-Romagna Region (LR13/99 art. 6 - Regional Council of 12/07/2021, DGR n. 1118/2021). He is a member of several international research projects, such as the project « Extended Reality Research and Creative Center XR²C²» at the Université Côte d’Azur de Nice (France) and the «Sensory Studies» of Concordia University (Canada). Among his recent publications, with I. Choinière and A. Davidson, Through the Prism of the Senses. Mediation and New Realities of the Body in Contemporary Performance. Technology, Cognition and Emergent Research-Creation Methodologies, Bristol, Intellect Books, 2019 and with Ermanna Montanari, Cellula. Anatomia dello spazio scenico | Anatomy of the scenic space, Macerata, Quodlibet, 2021.
research: seminar
About presence: perception, technologies, immersive environments.
Enrico Pitozzi
Starting from the analysis of a few case studies such as Dumb Type and Ryoji Ikeda, Shiro Takatani and Ryūichi Sakamoto, Granular Synthesis and Angelin Preljocaj among others, we will focus our analysis on the concept of presence on the contemporary scene. We cannot define present only what is felt by the senses. In order to detect these presences - all those entities that act at the limit of the resolution power of the sensory organs - it is necessary to develop a strategy that makes them visible and audible. This observation introduces a reflection on the relationship between art and technologies: every work of art involving technology clarifies the limits of human perception and at the same time allows it to be intensified. In other words, technology, before being an instrument, is a form of thought: it makes visible and audible what it is not yet. Starting from an investigation that interweaves knowledge related to the body, perception and technologies on the contemporary performance scene, theseminar aims to define the aesthetic framework of the notions of immersive environment.