Ph.D. Thesis Project - The Obscene Device: Pornographies Between Cinema, Art, and Virtual Reality

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  • Roberto Paolo Malaspina University of Milan

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https://doi.org/10.54103/2036-461X/20561

Author Biography

Roberto Paolo Malaspina, University of Milan

Roberto Paolo Malaspina completed his BA degree in History and Conservation of Cultural Heritage at the University of Florence in 2016, with a thesis on the relationship between museology and new media. In 2019 he graduated (MA) at the University of Bologna in Visual Arts, presenting a dissertation on postmodern architecture. Between 2019 and 2020 he attended CAMPO, course for curators of the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo. He is currently a PhD student at the University of Milan, Department of Philosophy and Human Sciences (supervisor professor Andrea Pinotti), and member of the ERC project AN-ICON, where he is conducting research on immersive media and pornography.

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2023-09-22

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Malaspina, R. P. (2023). Ph.D. Thesis Project - The Obscene Device: Pornographies Between Cinema, Art, and Virtual Reality. Cinéma & Cie. Film and Media Studies Journal, 23(40), 183–185. https://doi.org/10.54103/2036-461X/20561

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

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Projects & Abstracts

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