Wanda Strauven, Touchscreen Archaeology. Tracing Histories of Hands-On Media Practices, Lüneburg: meson press, 2021, pp. 260 (Limina Award 2021)

Barbara Grespi is Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy “Piero Martinetti” of the University of Milan, where she teaches Media Archaeology and Theories of the Image in Motion. Her research has investigated on different levels the non-ocularcentric dimensions of optical media, such as photography, cinema and recently the extended realities. Her focus has been for a long time on gestures and their crucial role of interface between the body and media technologies. Her most recent publications include Il cinema come gesto (2017), Figure del corpo (2019), Harun Farocki (co-ed. 2017), Bodies of Stone in the Media, Visual Culture, and the Arts (co-ed. 2020). She is editor of the journal “Cinema & Cie” and affiliated member of the ERC project: AN-ICON. An-iconology: history, theory, and practices of environmental images.