Italian Experimental Cinema and Moving-Image Art: New Paths, New Perspectives

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Rossella Catanese (PhD) is a research associate at the University of Tuscia Viterbo and adjunct professor of History of Italian Cinema at NYU Florence. Previously she has been a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Udine and IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca. Her books include Lacune binarie. Il restauro dei film e le tecnologie digitali (2013) Bill Morrison Decasia: the State of Decay (2023) and the collections Futurist Cinema. Studies on Italian Avant-garde Film (2017) and From Sensation to Synaesthesia in Film and New Media co-edited with Francesca Scotto Lavina and Valentina Valente (2019). She also received the Sixth Marcel Duchamp Research Grant from the Staatliches Museum Schwerin (Germany) (2023). Jennifer Malvezzi (PhD) is a researcher at the University of Parma. She teaches New Media Aesthetics Film History Principles and History of Radio and Television. Her research focuses on the relationship between the moving image and other arts experimental film and video. She has written essays for journals and volumes and co-curated several exhibitions. She is the author of the monograph Remedi-action. Dieci anni di videoteatro italiano (2015) and Taroni Cividin. Performance Video Expanded Cinema (1977-1984) edited with Flora Pitrolo. She collaborates with the Home Movies Archive for the Art & Experimental Film project dedicated to films by Italian artists and filmmakers. Additionally she is a member of the scientific board of the Umberto Bignardi Archive and series editor of ExSeries a multilingual book series devoted to experimental cinema.