Entrance to The Divine Comedy, 2019, by Alfredo Jaar. Photo Credit: Mona/Jesse Hunniford. Image courtesy of MONA, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia by Francesco Giusti Celebrations for the 700th anniversary of Dante’s death (1321–2021) are taking “place” all over the world, albeit displaced due to the current circumstances. They have been somewhat reduced in number and altered in […]
Author: 'Re-' Interdisciplinary Network
Responsibility beyond music: cosi fan tutte?
by Lars Harald Maagero In the fall of 2020, I was appointed by the Opera Academy at Oslo National Academy of the Arts to direct a production of Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte with the students on their foundation course. This was an exciting and intriguing task: working with a group of students in their early […]
How Facebook’s democratic ideals are reversed by its practices
Orysia Hrudka, of the National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy, discusses her just published article ‘Pretending to favour the public’: how Facebook’s declared democratising ideals are reversed by its practices‘ for AI and Society Journal Facebook seems to offer an ideal democratic space. It is open, accessible, inclusive, and participatory; it encourages social networks to […]
Introducing the Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER)
How do our instruments of measurement, and philosophical understandings/definitions of the observable world, affect the experience of visibility – and the visibility of experience?
Reenactment: rethinking the history of visual and performing arts
By the ‘Re-‘ Interdisciplinary Network, Nov 7th 2020 An online international conference about the special relationship between ideas of reenactment and multifold arts historiographies and methodologies, November 19th/20th 2020. Co-organized by ‘Re-‘ Network convenor Cristina Baldacci,1 this first major event in Susanne Franco‘s Ca’ Foscari University of Venice plurennial research project Memory in Motion: Remembering […]