Conference Program
NOVEMBER 24 - SALONE MARESCOTTI, VIA BARBERIA 4
9:45 Greetings
10:00 Keynote address
WANDA STRAUVEN (Goethe University, Frankfurt), The GIF as Screenic Image
11:00 Coffee break
11:15 The Loop Experience
GUIDO BARTORELLI (University of Padua), Vibrazioni di immagini in loop: tra usi artistici e sociali
RODERICK MILLS (University of Brighton), Absurdity, Memory and the Portraryal of Time
TOMMASO ISABELLA (University of Bergamo), Oddly Satisfying: le GIF animate tra gesto e meccanismo
SOFYA GLEBOVNA (Artist and Independent Researcher, Berlin), The Perfect GIF
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12:40 Discussion
13:00 Lunch
14:15 Keynote address
ARILD FETVEIT (University of Copenhagen), The Uncanny Mediality of the Photographic GIF
15:00 Genealogies I
CRISTINA JANDELLI (University of Florence), Recitazione e divismo, attori e star nella GIF culture
LORENZO MARMO (University of Naples, L’Orientale), Il frammento, il gesto e la reazione: la
storia del cinema attraverso le GIF
MARISA C. HAYES (La Sorbonne Nouvelle – Université de Paris III), Expanded Choreographies:
The Aesthetics of Movement in Animated GIFs
16:15 Discussion
16:30 Coffee break
16:45 Post-cinematic Scenarios
ELISA BIANCHI (University of Florence), From GIFs to Augmented Reality
JEREMY RADVAN (University of Brighton), The Infinite GIF Landscape: A Digital Myriorama
GIUSEPPE PREVITALI (University of Bergamo), Do It Again. Appunti per una prospettiva sulle Gif pornografiche
17:50 Discussion
NOVEMBER 25 - SALONE MARESCOTTI, VIA BARBERIA 4
9:30 Keynote address
OLIA LIALINA (Merz Academy, Stuttgard), Telling GIFs and Animated JPEGs Apart
10.30 Genealogies II
PASQUALE FAMELI (University of Bologna), Combattimento per un’immagine in movimento
MATTEO CREMONESI (Brera Academy, Milan), GIF, dinamismo e arte cinetica
PAOLA DONATIELLO (University of Bologna), Riscrivere la storia dell'arte: il caso Scorpion Dagger
11.45 Coffee break
12.00 Postmedia Art
ALESSANDRA CHIARINI (University of Bologna), (Inter)Net Art and the Archaeology of GIFs
MATTHEW DE KERSAINT GIRAUDEAU (Artist and Researcher at Field Broadcast, London), I Can’t Stop Watching:
Why Do Artists Use GIFs?
ALESSANDRO SCALI (Okkult Motion Pictures, Turin) – GIFmaking as an Artistic Practice
13:00 Discussion
13:15 Lunch
14:15 Know Your Meme
LUCIA TRALLI (University of Bologna), Where GIF Culture and Fandom Culture Collide
GABRIELE PROSPERI (University of Ferrara), SARA CASOLI (University of Bologna), How to Steal an Emotion: the
Memetic GIF as (Re)Mediation of Emotional Contents
ELENA SEMENZATO (Independent researcher), GIF ed evoluzione dello smiley
15:30 Coffee break
15:45 Platforms
RAFFAELE PAVONI (University of Florence), Graphics Interchange Firms. Il ruolo delle GIF nella competizione
tra colossi informatici
JOE MILUTIS (University of Washington, Bothell), From Intermittence to Exploitable: the Aesthetics of GIFs on Dump.fm
SAL VIRAL (Art Collective, Valencia), Preserving the Gifs? On the Destiny of the Cultural Heritage of the Digital Age
16:45 Discussion
17:00 Exhibition/Exposition
VALENTINA TANNI, SAVERIO VERINI (Art critics and curators), Stop and Go. L’arte delle GIF animate