Lectures

The Society for the History of Technology is dedicated to the historical study of technology and its relations with politics, science, and the arts. The 2019 SHOT annual meeting focused on the subject: “Exploring the interface between technology, art, and design.” Marco Mancuso was invited by Laura Ronzon director at Museo della Scienza e della Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci to organize the Opening Panel and to lecture within the conference.... READ MORE...

Presented by CUBO - business museum of the Unipol group as part of the DAS - experimental artistic dialogues within the Arte Fiera 2019 program, "Phantomology: from micro to macro to real phenomena" is a curatorial project conceived by Marco Mancuso , in collaboration with Daniela Tozzi from Adiacenze. The project was characterized by a series of conferences and panels with both the artists involved and some important theorists.... READ MORE...

a terza edizione della rassegna Saperi Proibiti è dedicata al rapporto tra tecniche/tecnologie, tradizionali e contemporanee, e gli stati modificati di coscienza. In collaborazione con SISSC – Società Italiana per lo Studio degli Stati di Coscienza. Marco Mancuso è stato invitato dal gruppo di Saperi Proibiti a partecipare al panel dal titolo "Internet è la nuova Lsd" insieme al Gruppo Ippolita, Marco Philopat e Matteo Saltalamacchia?... READ MORE...

Nell'ambito del programma di conferenze e incontri di Arte Fiera 2018, Adiacenze e la Traffic Gallery hanno organizzato un panel su "Arte, Scienza ed Ecologia nell'era dell'Antropocene", invitando alcuni artisti, critici e curatori che si occupano di questi temi a livello nazionale. Marco Mancuso è stato invitato da Daniela Tozzi e Roberto Ratti come relatore della conferenza a presentare il numero 77 del Digimag Journal dal titolo “The Arts Ecosystem”.... READ MORE...

Organizzata nel centro storico della città, la Bologna Design Week è un evento che mappa e riunisce le eccellenze culturali, formative, creative, produttive e distributive del territorio. Il processo di mapping avviene attraverso principi di co-design e di progettazione partecipata. Marco Mancuso è stato chiamato dalla direttrice Elena Vai a curare e moderare un panel a partire dalle sue ricerche sulle Art Industries e i nuovi paradigmi di produzione nella New Media Art contemporanea.... READ MORE...

Marco Mancuso joined the closing panel of the exhibition The "Dark Bodies, Dark Identities" at Spektrum Berlin which focused on the fundamental state of media obliquity, re-interpreting Boris Groys: if techniques of mechanical reproduction gave us (sub)jects without aura, digital production generates aura without (sub)jects, transforming all its materials into vanishing markers of a self-advertised present as a constant imperative ruling the online comedy.... READ MORE...

Founded in 2000, the Arts in Society Research Network offers an interdisciplinary forum for discussion of the role of the arts in society. It is a place for critical engagement, examination and experimentation. The Ninth International Conference on the Arts in Society in 2014 was focused on the subject "The Lives of Art" and featured plenary sessions by some of the world’s leading thinkers and innovators in the field.... READ MORE...

Marco Mancuso was called by Stefano Mirti and Aurora Rapalino of Abadir - Academy of Design and Visual Arts, to lead the first talk of the cycle of meetings with teachers and professionals within the program of the first Master in Relational Design. The Master defines a new professional figure, able to intercept the needs and desires of a changing market and society.... READ MORE...

Marco Mancuso was called by Cristina Barbiani, head of the MI-A Master of the Iuav of Venice, as a speaker in the cycle of meetings organized within the didactic program of the Master with professionals, curators, critics and teachers of the sector. The seminar is organized through a historical-critical path aimed at highlighting contemporary research paths.... READ MORE...

re:Source / Transmediale, Sebestian Fuller, Leah Stuhltrager for Cyberfest, have invited Marco Mancuso to join this international panel of critics and bloggers at The WYE in Berlin, to discuss about art has expended in form, function and voices. This panel explored these realities and their implications. It was also followed by an open, earnest, face to face Q&A discussion between the critics, bloggers and the audience... READ MORE...

CYLAND Media Art Lab (St Petersburg, Russia) & Centro Studi sulle Arti della Russia (CSAR), Ca' Foscari University in Venice, presents a panel curated and introduced by Marco Mancuso. The meeting aims to focus on the analysis of those intermediary territories connected to the impact of digital technologies and open networks on art, design and contemporary art.... READ MORE...

Nato nell'ambito della partecipazione al bando "Che Fare" del 2013, "Trasformazioni Affini" è un evento pensato come una giornata di incontri e presentazioni, con lo scopo di raccontare storie ed esperienze, monitorare progetti di eccellenza a livello nazionale e internazionale, che indagano l’impatto delle tecnologie digitali e delle scienze sull’ambito creativo, artistico e sociale contemporaneo.... READ MORE...

Marco Mancuso was selected to join the 17th edition of the ISEA – International Symposium on Electronic Art, the leading world conference and exhibition event for art, media and technology. The Symposium was the outcome of the synergy that was developed between the Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the Sabanci University of Istanbul.... READ MORE...

Marco Mancuso was invited by Prof. Marco Maria Gazzano to present at the 16th International Conference of Film Studies. The Conference for 2010 will be on the relationship between “Cinema and Energy”, being energy a concept that invest social life all over the world (besides of human science and scientific research).... READ MORE...

Marco Mancuso and Claudia D’Alonzo were invited by curator, artists and theorist Shu Lea Cheang to the LaptopsRus festival, in association with Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, at the “Generation Laptop Real Time” mini-conference.... READ MORE...

Marco Mancuso was invited from Ariennal Vidach and Claudio Prati - DiDstudio to have a lecture about the artistic applications of researches in audiovisual studies to interaction design technologies and theories applied specifically to dance and theatre, and to the relationships between a body in movement and the space surrounding it.... READ MORE...

Direct Digital was a new media art event presented by the cultural association Artegenti. As in the program of Direct Digital event, the symposium organized and directed by Marco Mancuso focuses on the growing merge between productions, language and aesthetics of digital art and design, as a method of creative design between interactivity, space and eco-system audiovisual production.... READ MORE...

The workshop “Art and Science” held at Città della Scienza was a two days of study a meeting / comparison on the convergence between the languages of art and science in the areas of scientific communication. Marco Mancuso were invited to speak about the possibile connection between art and sciences on the border of contemporary technological art and design.... READ MORE...