marco maria gazzano

marco maria gazzano

 

Film Theorist, Electronic Arts and Intermediality Theory, PhD 1987, since 1980 he has been a university professor. Since 2003 he has been an associate professor at the University of Roma Tre (Philosophy, Communication and Spectacle Department) where he teaches «Cinema, electronic arts and intermedia» and «Theories of intermediality» and where he has edited numerous international conferences and is a member of the Academic Council of the Doctorate (Ph.D.) «Landscapes of the contemporary city. Political, technical and visual studies.

Since 1984 he has taught at various Italian and European universities and collaborated on the cultural programs of the experimental RAI [Italian Radio and Television] and TSI [Swiss Italian Television].

From 1984 to 1996 he was artistic director of the “Videoart Festival” in Locarno (Switzerland) and from 1997 to 2001 of “Art and Communication. International Biennial of Electronic Arts, Quality Television, Publishing and Media” and curator in Europe of individual exhibitions by artists such as Nam June Paik, Steina and Woody Vasulka, Robert Cahen, Gianni Toti, Mario Sasso, Adriana Amodei , Ida Gerosa, Federica Marangoni, Alba D'Urban, Marianne Strapatsakis, Carlo Quartucci, Carla Tato, Edison Estudio, among others.

Author of numerous scientific conferences and of the international exhibition project “Torre de la Paz. The strategies of art against violence” (2002-2013), and the European satellite television channel “ArsTv”; since 1989 he is president of the Kinema Cultural Association in Rome (www.kinema-arstv.com).

He directs the chain of books “Immagini. In movimento” (Exorma, Rome) and is a member of the steering committee of the magazines “Nuovo Cinema”, “Praxis”, “Imago. Studi di Cinema e Media” (Roma Tre University / Sapienza University of Rome); He has edited special issues of the history magazine of the Rome Experimental Cinematography Center “Bianco e Nero”. Consultant to the Municipality of Rome for the projects “Rome Creative City of Film/Unesco 2016” (www.romecityoffilm.com).
He published a collection of his theoretical essays (1976-2012) on cinema in its relations with the other arts in the volume “Kinema. Il cinema sulle tracce del cinema: dal film alle arti elettroniche andata e ritorno” (Exorma, Rome 2012, 2014); the volume “Edison Studio. Il silent film e l'elettronica in intermediale relationship”, (Exorma, Rome, 2014). His critical essays in the volume “Rewind Italia. Early videoart in Italy/I primi anni della videoarte in Italia”, curated by Laura Leuzzi and Stephen Partridge (Libbey, UK 2016).

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