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The State of the Civil Society in Morocco Four Years Since the 20th of February Movement and the Constitutional Reform.
2021
In 2019 the ERC project AN-ICON lead by Prof. Andrea Pinotti and Casa degli Artisti in Milan decided to join each other to create a virtual atelier, the 12° Atelier, a digital reconstruction of the Casa degli Artisti, realized on Mozilla Hubs by the developer Enea Le Fons. Mozilla Hubs is a VR chatroom system designed for every headset and browser, designed to give the possibility to have both an immersive and screen experience. The 12° Atelier was conceived to host an art residency program, curated by the AN-ICON team (Elisabetta Modena and Sofia Pirandello), aiming at realizing original artworks in Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Mixed Reality both in-person and remotely. The artists were invited to reflect on the relationship between the concrete physical environment (the eleven physical ateliers in Casa degli Artisti) and the virtual one (the 12° Atelier), investigating the perceptive and agentive possibilities that the new virtual technologies allow. The final exhibition was intended to be installed both physically and online, constructing an interactive and mixed narrative. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, our project completely changed its design and goals, revealing unexpected pros and cons. We were forced to push aside the physical installation of the artworks in the concrete exhibition space, annihilating the AR and MR part of our research. Together with Luca Pozzi, the first artist in residence, we then decided to realize a VR artwork, entitled Rosetta Mission 2020, inspired by the homonymous European Space Agency mission which took place between 2004 and 2016. The comet 67.P Churyumov Gerasimenko, which was reached by the mission, is transformed from a physical celestial body into a digital convergence point for different disciplines. Luca Pozzi conceived the artwork as a new collaborative environment to teleport travellers in. We had to imagine a new way of working together and designing the complete experience. The present intervention will explain how we experienced the virtual environment as a fruitful workspace, where we felt more present than in ordinary online social platforms. Using both Mozilla Hubs and Unity, we thought about the narrative to introduce the artwork as a virtual immersive travel space mission to reach the comet in outer space. While museums were closed, we were able to continue the residency program. Furthermore, we were able to use the Pozzi’s artwork as a place for academic seminars and other didactic activities. https://zip-scene.mome.hu/#about https://an-icon.unimi.it/12atelier/
2021
In the Middle Ages puppets were used in Italy by the Church for the representation of the mystery of the Nativity and for other important events in the life of God. In particular, fantocci (an italian way to call dummies) were used in situations in which human beings were not allowed for safety reasons, such as for special flights or scenes of violence (for example: decapitations). From the church the puppets went out in the street, in square, in all occasion to entertain people. People in the Middle Ages were certainly familiar with the glove-puppet, for jugglers and mountebanks used to delight their audiences. In this context, a new technique of representation was born: it was called marionette a tavoletta (marionnette à la planchette or jigging puppets) and was mainly used by musicians. This consisted of a short plank with an upright post at one end, to which was attached a piece of string threaded through two jointed figures and ending in a slip-knot. The musician, having gathered his audience, placed the plank on the ground, slipped the loop about his leg, then placed his foot on the board and moved his leg in such a way that the figures danced while he accompanied their steps with music from a bag-pipe, or pipe and tabor. This proposal aims to present this animation technique from its development in the Middle Ages until its use in the 20th century. Inside Hortus deliciarum, the work of the abbess Herrad von Landsberg (who lived in the 12th century) there is a miniature in which we can see two people animating two puppets, jigging on a table through strings. It isn’t a particular animation technique, but this movement can be associated with the one developed in squares and streets by the musicians with their jigging puppets. Starting from that and going through some other iconographic works, whose subject is the technique of jigging puppets, I would like to analyze its development in the 20th century: in the popular culture (it is still used during folk events in the south of Italy) and in some performative contexts (i.e. some shows or films, like Cabiria by Giovanni Pastrone). The goal of this study is to highlight the peculiarities of this animation technique, which was born during the Middle Ages, and it is still present today in Italy and in the rest of the world.
Nell’ambito di un più ampio progetto PRIN dedicato allo studio e alla catalogazione dei manoscritti purpurei, o con pagine purpuree, realizzati tra la tarda Antichità e il Novecento, il contributo che qui si propone intende indagare le modalità di costruzione dello spazio nelle immagini dipinte su pagine tinte di porpora, e dunque su un fondo difficilmente neutro, nella sua carica cromatica e simbolica. La riflessione su quest’aspetto ancora poco esplorato dei codici purpurei miniati muove i suoi passi dalla ricognizione delle diverse modalità di interazione tra le immagini dipinte, o solo disegnate, e il fondo porpora negli esemplari tardoantichi, al fine di individuare gli elementi volti a definire e costruire lo spazio, e a meglio comprendere il ruolo del colore purpureo in tale costruzione. Di grande interesse si rivela l’analisi dei celebri codici Sinopensis (Parigi, Bibliothéque nationale de France, Suppl. Grec. 1286) e Rossanensis (Rossano Calabro, Museo Diocesano, codice senza segnatura) e della Genesi di Vienna (Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, ms. Theol. Gr. 31), le cui miniature saranno poste a confronto per far emergere convergenze e differenze significative. Il diverso sentimento dello spazio degli artisti coinvolti sembra infatti emergere dalla presenza o meno di alcuni elementi, come un suppedaneo roccioso che in alcune miniature del Rossanensis e della Genesi di Vienna identifica l’ambito dell’azione, del tutto assente nel Sinopensis, o ancora nella rappresentazione di un burrascoso ambiente marino nel codice viennese, che si distacca dalle altre miniature direttamente campite sul fondo porpora, segnalando così come quest’ultimo non sempre fosse avvertito come bastevole a creare un’adeguata ambientazione per le storie narrate.
The workshop will explore new methods of lexicographical research in the field of the history of the Arabic language. Participants will be asked to contribute with their expertise to elaborate on a new research platform for the Arabic language including a digital database of Arabic epigraphic sources and an analytical dictionary of the Early and Classical Arabic poetry. The project aims to set up a European research network to shed light on the early history of the Arabic language in secular genres or sacred texts.
2022
Several new insights into life and work of architect Nikola Dobrovic, 1897-1967.
Conference program "Socialism in the Baltic Sea region" (Sozialismus im Ostseeraum) 14.-16. December 2007