The Future of the Past. Arnheim and Film Today

Adriano D’Aloia is Associate Professor of film and media studies at the Università di Bergamo, where he teaches Visual culture and History of cinema. His research focuses onthe aesthetic, intersubjective and enactive features of media experience. He is the author of Neurofilmology of the Moving Image. Gravity and Vertigo in Contemporary Cinema (Amesterdam University Press, 2021) and curator of Rudolf Arnheim’s Italian writings on cinema (I baffi di Charlot. Scritti italiani sul cinema 1932-1938, 2009). He is the co-editor with Ruggero Eugeni of Neurofilmology. Audiovisual Studies and the Challenge of Neuroscience (Cinéma & Cie 22-23) and of a reader on contemporary film theories (Teorie del cinema. Il dibattito contemporaneo, 2017).

Ian Verstegen is the Associate Director of Visual Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He works on early modern and modern art history, theory and historiography. His current writing and teaching are focused on the cognitive semiotics of images and pictures. Current writing projects center on the Vienna School of Art History and an intellectual biography of Rudolf Arnheim. He has written a series of works on art and psychology, including Arnheim, Gestalt and Art: A Psychological Theory (Springer, 2005), Cognitive Iconology: When and How Psychology Explains Images (Rodopi, 2014), and Arnheim, Gestalt and Media: An Ontological Theory (Springer, 2019). He is series editor of Routledge Studies and Research in the Psychology of Art.