Gravitational Fields. Attraction, Roundness, and Operationality of Immersive Images

Authors

  • Anna Caterina Dalmasso University of Milan
  • Wanda Strauven Columbia University
  • Simone Venturini University of Udine

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54103/2036-461X/20554

Author Biographies

Anna Caterina Dalmasso, University of Milan

Anna Caterina Dalmasso (Ph.D. Philosophy, University of Lyon 3/University of Milan, 2015) is Assistant Professor in Film and Media Studies at the Department of Philosophy “Piero Martinetti” of the University of Milan, where she teaches “Media Archaeology”. She is a member of the ERC research project AN-ICON “An-Iconology: History, Theory, and Practices of Environmental Images”, directed by Andrea Pinotti. She is the author of two monographs on Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy of the visual and to its implications for contemporary mediality and technoculture. By combining phenomenology and aesthetics, with visual culture, film and media studies, her current research focuses on post-cinema, the aesthetics of virtual environments, and immersive media.

Wanda Strauven, Columbia University

Wanda Strauven is Adjunct Professor of Film and Media Studies at Columbia University, New York. Her research focuses on early cinema, marginal film practices, media archaeology, touch-based media, and screen practices of post-cinema. She edited several volumes, among which The Cinema of Attractions Reloaded (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2006). Her most recent book is Touchscreen Archaeology: Tracing Histories of Hands-On Media Practices (Lüneburg: meson press, 2021), which won the Limina Award for Best International Cinema Studies Book.

Simone Venturini, University of Udine

Simone Venturini is full professor in Film Studies at the University of Udine and one of the founders of La Camera Ottica film and video restoration lab. He is the FilmForum scientific coordinator and former director of Udine’s International Master in Cinema Studies (IMACS). His research interests include history and theory of film archiving and philology, media archaeology, cultural history of Italian Cinema and production studies. He has published for Springer, Berghahn, AUP, Carocci, Marsilio, and his work has appeared in scientific journals including Journal of Film Preservation, Cinéma&Cie, Le Temps des médias and Bianco e Nero.  

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2023-09-22

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Dalmasso, A. C., Strauven, W., & Venturini, S. (2023). Gravitational Fields. Attraction, Roundness, and Operationality of Immersive Images. Cinéma & Cie. Film and Media Studies Journal, 23(40), 9–18. https://doi.org/10.54103/2036-461X/20554

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Vol. 23 No. 40 (2023): Archaeologies of the Virtual. Materialities, Senses, Imaginaries

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