On gesture, or of the blissful promise

The text opens an invited guest-edited issue of Necsus on gesture. Whilst it introduces the articles comprised in the issue, it also draws on them and on the philosophy of gesture to propose new theory on gesturality broadly conceived across different media. The article as well as the entire issue is available to read online Open Access

Digital Premonitions:Curatorial Notes on Post-Internet Aesthetics

The curatorial text accompanies the third section of the exhibition Video Television Anticipation / New Collections / Desktop Cinema and provides the first critical background to the nascent film genre of desktop cinema

Dwelling with Moving Images

Some filmmakers or artists decide to put art at the heart of their creation, applying not only the relationship between cinema and art to their concept but also to various aspects of the process of creation. Miriam De Rosa addresses this kind of “art contemporary turn” by examining the different incursions of cinema from the point of view of the contemporary art space: “how the contemporary experience of moving images is articulated when it enters art spaces.” The presence of film in this foreign space, transform- ing it into a different and personalised place, can be observed in recent exhibitions: Sleepwalkers (2007); Marta Minujín’s Menesunda Reloaded (2019) at the New Museum in New York; and Sensitive Environments by the Milan-based collective Studio Azzurro

Ten years of NECSUS: A birthday card

Invited contribution tackling the future of media studies focussing on the experience elicited and lived through the media, their environmentalisation and fluid nature across a variety of (postdigital) media configurations

Theaters: Cinematic Vintage magnified

Exhibition review of the show THEATRES at the Deutsches Film Museum in Frankfurt. The critical text offers a reading of the photo series in light of retro-aesthetics and the concept of vintage

Non Non Non – Visiting the exhibition with Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi

Interview to Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi on the occasion of the first Italian personal retrospective exhibition Non Non Non at Hangar Bicocca in Milan

Poetics and politics of the trace: Notes on surveillance practices through Harun Farocki’s work

Found footage and archive images, split-screen or a multiplication of the image on screen, a replacement of the original soundtrack with commentary, a detached voice-over alternating long/silent sequences, an explanatory use of info-graphics and tracking technologies. These elements feature in Harun Farocki’s work on surveillance – work ranging from documentary films to video installations that constitutes a complex imagery based on practices of watching and being watched, control and the gaze, triggered throughout private and public spaces

Crowd, Space and the Movie Theater Lure. Notes on Contemporary Off/Online Moviegoing

The article combines a reflation on contemporary movie going patterns and one on bottom-up logics of distribution