Lectures, seminars and conferences

• December 14, 2011 – Lecture Marshall McLuhan and Media Aesthetics, Ryerson University Graduate Program in Communication and Culture, Rogers Communication Centre, Toronto.
• December 6, 2011 – Lecture Italo Calvino: Six Memos for the Digital World,  Italian Cultural Institute, Toronto.
• December 5, 2011 – Lecture The Art of Memory. From Plato to Internet, Master in Curatorial Studies, Department of Art, University of Toronto.
• November 24, 2011 – Lecture “Video-type”: Archetypes in Contemporary Italian Video Art, Vtape, Toronto.
• November 7-10, 2011 – Paper The Aesthetics of Marshall McLuhan: the Medium as Expressive Form, Then Now Next McLuhan Centenary International Conference, University of Toronto (Canada).
• October 26-28, 2011 – Paper Probing the Aesthetics of Marshall McLuhan, McLuhan’s Philosophy of Media International Conference, Free University of Brussels (Belgium).
• September 29, 2011 – Lecture Lecture: “Video Ergo Sum”. Video as Symbolic Form, iSchool Colloquium Series, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto.
• August 22-26, 2011 – Paper Toward the Tactile Vision: Probing the Phenomenology of Video-Ludic Environment, 9th International Conference on Word and Image Studies AIERTI-IAWIS, Montreal (Canada).
• July 14, 2011 – Lecture “Video is the message. Oltre il villaggio globale: da McLuhan a Youtube”, with Guido Bartorelli and Silvia Grandi, in collaboration with BoArt, The Village, Bologna.
• June 18, 2011 – Co-moderator “What a Video-Character He Was!”, Meeting the Canadian film-director David Sobelman, with Elena Lamberti and Peppino Ortoleva, Salons McLuhan #3, in collaboration with Biografilm Festival Festival, Bologna.
• April 20, 2011 – Moderator “La ‘consapevolezza integrale’: tra arte e nuovi media”, A Conversation between Derrick DeKerkhove and Renato Barilli, Salons McLuhan #1, in collaboration with Future Film Festival, Bologna.
• January 20-21, 2011 – Paper Video ergo sum: Video Art as Symbolic Form, at Pan, Palazzo delle Arti, Napoli, international conference Officina di Letteratura elettronica.
• October 28, 2010 – Lecture Arte digitale: dall’elettronica ai nuovi media, at Fondazione Palazzo Pretorio, Cittadella (PD).
• October 20, 2010 – Lecture L’estetica alla prova di YouTube, University of Padova.
• July 3, 2010 – Seminar Arte e nuovi media at Asilo Bianco, international workshop on contemporary art, Ameno (NO).
• January 30, 2010 – Presentation of the project Videoart Yearbook at ArteFiera, with Renato Barilli, Alessandra Borgogelli, Silvia Grandi, Fabiola Naldi, Bologna 2010
• October 30, 2009 – Lecture La videoarte italiana contemporanea at Università di Roma Tre, Rome.
• September 19, 2009 – Presentation of the project Videoart Yearbook at ArtVerona 2009.
• September 11, 2009 – Presentation of the project Videoart Yearbook at Biblioteca Civica di Verona.
• September 5, 2009 – Seminar Arte, estetica e nuovi media, with Silvia Grandi, Fabiola Naldi, Marco Senaldi, at IO project 2009, international conference on contemporary art, Macchiagodena (IS).
• May 13, 2009 – Presentation of the project Videoart Yearbook at DOCVA, Documentation Center for Visual Arts, Milano.
• April 19, 2008 – Seminar L’arte di fare network, at Mambo – Museum of Modern Art Bologna, promoted by “Il Mestiere delle Arti”, Bologna.
• June 7, 2006 – Lecture Prendi l’arte e mettila in Rete, at conference “Tecnologia e Cultura” promoted by ASTER Scienza Tecnologia Impresa for the University of Bologna, Department of Music, Cinema and Theatre.
• May 28, 2004 – Lecture L’arte e l’informatica umanistica, at conference “Per un nuovo umanesimo, scientific coordinator” Professor Claudio Meldolesi, University of Bologna.
• May 10, 2004 – Lecture Risorse bibliografiche e metodologie informatiche per la grafica del Novecento, at the University of Bologna, Department of Visual Art.
• April 23, 2004 – Lecture Net Art: arte e comunicazione in rete, at the University of Bologna, Department of Visual Art.

Editorial boards

• Since 2008, member of the editorial board of «Annuario della Scuola di specializzazione in Beni Storici Artistici», Bononia University Press, Bologna.
• 2002-2008, member of the editorial board of «Parol. Quaderni d’arte», Book editore.
• 2003-2004, member of the editorial board of «Bibliografica900», bulletin of Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna.
• 2000-2002, member of the editorial board of «Studi di Estetica», Clueb editore, Bologna.
• 1999-2000, member of the editorial board of «Bollettino di Estetica», Associazione Italiana Studi di Estetica (AISE), University of Siena-Arezzo.

Organisation of conferences and events

• January 27, 2012, Encounter with Luigi Ontani, Bologna ArteFiera 2012 contest, promoted by University of Bologna (Scientific Board and Organization).
• From June 2011 to February 2012, cutarorial and scientific board of Officina Italia 2: New Creativity, an exhibition curated by Renato Barilli –  Bologna, Gambettola (FC), Bergamo, Milano, Padova.
• November 9, 2011, co-curator (with Elena Lamberti and Peppino Ortoleva) of Piazza McLuhan - Placing and Experiencing Change, promoted by Italian Cultural Institute in Toronto and DEW Line Festival – McLuhan100, University of Toronto.
• September-November 2011, member of Conference Organizing Committee of Then Now Next McLuhan Centenary International Conference, University of Toronto (Canada).
• March-July 2011, co-organiser of the International Symposium on ‘Communications Makes the Nations’ (Bologna 24-26 March), and co-coordinator of the new series of ‘Salons McLuhan’.
• Since 2009, member of the Official Committee of the University of Bologna for the Celebrations of Marshall McLuhan’s centenary (Scientific Board and Organization).
• Since 2005, member of scientific board of Videoart Yearbook, annual festival on Italian video art, promoted by Department of Visual Arts, University of Bologna.
• January 28, 2011, Marina Abramovic: Lady Performance, meeting with Marina Abramovic, Bologna ArteFiera 2011 contest, promoted by University of Bologna (Scientific Board and Organization).
• October 2010, January 2011, exhibition Let’s Play: venticinque videoartisti contemporanei, Fondazione Palazzo Pretorio, Cittadella, Padova (Scientific Board and Organization).
• January 2010, exhibition Draft, performing arts, Salone del Podestà, Bologna, promoted by Department of Visual Arts, University of Bologna (Scientific Board and Organization).
• 2002-2006, festival Premio DAMS, promoted by University of Bologna (Founder and organising Board).
• June 2004, exhibition Officina Asia, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna (Organising Board).
• May 28, 2008, Per un nuovo umanesimo, national conference promoted by Faculty of Humanities, University of Bologna (Organising Board).
• September 2001, exhibition Il Sofà delle Muse, Piazza Maggiore, Bologna (Organising Board).
• March 3-4, 2001, Dams: Storia e Prospettive, national conference promoted by Faculty of Humanities, University of Bologna (Organising Board).
• October 25-28, 2000, Frontiers of Transculturality in Contemporaty Aesthetics, promoted by Department of Philosophy, University of Bologna (Organising Board).
• May 11-13, 2000, Poetica medievale: Confronti e incontri, international conference promoted by Department of Philosophy, University of Bologna (Organising Board).

Participation in juries

• From 2005 to 2008, member of jury for “Premio Golden Graal – Student’s Choice Awards”, Roma;
• In 2005 and 2006, member of the jury for “Premio Alta Qualità”, cultural award, promoted by Gruppo Granarolo and the City of Bologna;
• In 2003 and 2004, member of the jury for “Officinema. Festival delle Scuole europee di cinema”, promoted by The Film Archive of Bologna.

• Member of MEA (Media Ecology Association).
• Member of IAMCR – International Association for Media and Communication Research.
• Member of IAWIS – International Association of Word and Image Studies

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