Prof. dr. Miriam De Rosa (Ca’ Foscari) will give a guest lecture entitled “Dwelling with moving images” on Friday, March 1, 10:00-12:00, in room K.2.51, VUB campus Etterbeek.
This event is organized by Katarzyna Ruchel-Stockmans as part of the mobility program supported by the EUTOPIA LW Grant.
The lecture will offer an overview on interactive surfaces and screens in contemporary art. Drawing in particular on moving image installations that are activated by the public by way of sensors or touching the actual surface, the session will highlight the key role of the visitors when it comes to participatory art practices. Also, a specific emphasis will be given to the spatial element: installations are set in space and the visitors come to share the same context with the artworks in a mechanism of co-habitation. The lecture will propose to consider participatory art practices in the light of this phenomenological co-existence which elicits a potential to dwell in space with and through art. Ultimately, by way of consuming such participatory art pieces, the visitors gain a better understanding of spatiality, of their own inhabitable space and of the opportunities they have to dwell therein in their full potential.
Miriam De Rosa is Associate Professor in Film and media at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, where she teaches visual cultures, new media and media archaeology. Her research focuses on film and media theories, experimental cinema and visual studies. She has published in these areas in multiple international and national outlets. She is also active within the European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECS) where she sits on the Steering Committee and where she initiated the Cinema and contemporary Visual Arts workgroup. She collaborates with various institutions as an independent film curator; her last curatorial project was desktop cinema (Marseille and Milan, April and May 2023).