[Commlist] Amateur Practices and Technologies of Vision - International Conference - Program

We are delighted to announce the program of the forthcoming 
international conference Amateur Practices and Technologies of Vision:


Università IULM, Milano


Communication, Arts and Media Department


May 23rd and 24th 2019


Amateur Practices and Technologies of Vision


Organizing Committee

Luisella Farinotti, Elena Gipponi, Chiara Grizzaffi (Università IULM, 
Milano); Alice Cati (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano); 
Diego Cavallotti, Simone Dotto, Andrea Mariani, Simone Venturini 
(Università degli Studi di Udine)



Scientific Board

Jaimie Baron (University of Alberta), Elena Mosconi (Università degli 
Studi di Pavia), Roger Odin (IRCAV – Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – 
Paris III), Laura Rascaroli (University College, Cork), Masha Salazkina 
(Concordia University), Alexandra Schneider (Johannes Gutenberg 
Universität, Mainz), Pierre Sorlin (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 
III), Charles Tepperman (University of Calgary), Patricia Zimmermann 
(Ithaca College).


Thursday, May 23rd

Sala dei 146 (IULM 6)


9.30 a.m./ Greetings

Gianni Canova, Chancellor

Paolo Giovannetti, Head of the Communication, Arts and Media Department

Luisella Farinotti, Head of the Organizing Committee

The Man Who Looks

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10.30—11.30 a.m. / Keynote Speech

Benoît Turquety (Université de Lausanne)

On Low Media


Introduced by Matteo Bittanti (Università IULM, Milano)


Q&A Session

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Coffee Break

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11.45 a.m.—1.30 p.m. / First panel: Machines/Technologies/Dispositifs

Chair: Simone Venturini (Università degli Studi di Udine)


-Elena Gipponi (Università IULM, Milano)

Techno-enthusiasts and Eclectic Bricoleurs: Intermedial Occurrences in 
the Italian Amateur Cinema of the 1950s and 1960s


-Diego Cavallotti (Università degli Studi di Udine)

Amateur Teratologies: A Technological Bestiary Between the End of the 
1960s and the 1990s


-Rossella Catanese (IMT, School for Advanced Studies, Lucca)

Film Artisans Amateurs, Artist-run Labs and Devices of Analog 
Counter-Culture


-Simone Dotto (Università degli Studi di Udine)

Practicing Distant Vision. How Early Italian Radio Amateurs Re-imagined 
Radio as a Technology of Vision


Q&A Session

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Lunch Buffet

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2.30—4.30 p.m. / Second panel: Amateur/Amateurs

Chair: Alice Cati (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano)

-Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes (University of Cambridge)

Facebook Avant la Lettre: Films and Issues of Intention in Mid-Twentieth 
Century Amateur Cinema


-Chiara Grizzaffi (Università IULM, Milano)

“Is it ‘Action’ Enough?” Addressing Technological Fetishism and 
Eagerness for Mobility of Action Cam Amateur Users


-Sergio Minniti (Yachay Tech University, ECU)

“Buy Film Not Megapixels”: Resistant Amateurism and the 
Rematerialization of Photography in the Digital Age


-Giulia Simi (Independent Researcher)

“Come Into My Eye Sooner Than Into My Feeling”: Mario Schifano Between 
Amateur Cinema and Painting


Q&A Session

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5.00—7.00 p.m /Small Gauges

 From the Archive: Practices of Creative Rewriting


Re-framing Home Movies: Home Movies from the Archive to their Public 
Valorization– Karianne Fiorini and Gianmarco Torri

Introduced by Elena Gipponi (Università IULM, Milano)

Screening of selected films

Gli anni, Sara Fgaier 2018, 20’

Le grand viveur: studio per un film, Perla Sardella 2019, 22’

I fiori blu,Guglielmo Trupia2019, 25’

Francesca o Francesi, Giuseppe Ferrari e Nicoletta Traversa 2019



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Friday, May 24th

Sala dei 146


9.30—10.30 a.m. / Keynote Speech

Susan Aasman (Groningen University, NL)

Amateur Media Dispositif(s): Mapping Complexities and Contradictions in 
Home Videos


Introduced by Chiara Grizzaffi (Università IULM, Milano)


Q&A Session

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Coffee break

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11.00 a.m.—13.30 p.m. / Third Panel: Institutions and Disciplines

Chair: Carmelo Marabello (IUAV, Venezia)


-Andrea Mariani (Università degli Studi di Udine)

A Trans-Atlantic Experiment.Amateur Cinema League and the Emergence of 
the Cineguf Movement in Fascist Italy


-Giuseppina Sapio (Université Toulouse II Jean Jaurès / Chercheure 
associée à l'IRCAV – Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle)

Films and Family Secrets: An Epistemological Experience


-Enrique Fibla-Gutiérrez (Filmoteca de Catalunya, Barcelona)

A Vernacular National Cinema: Amateur Film Technologies and Mediated 
Regionalism in Catalonia (1932–1936)


-Simona Pezzano (Università IULM, Milano)

Rural Epic. Farm Day Labourers and Visual Memory from the Archive of 
Lega di cultura di Piadena


Q&A Session


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Lunch Buffet

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3.00—5.30 p.m. /Small Gauges


 From the Archive: History(ies) of Amateur Cinema


Paolo Simoni and Mirco Santi (Home Movies, Bologna)with Jennifer 
Malvezzi (Università degli Studi di Parma)


Introduced by Diego Cavallotti (Università degli Studi di Udine)

Screening of selected films

First screening of the digital restoration of

La fiera Campionaria di Milano, Enrico Chierici, 1940, 8mm, b/n, 7’

Re-enactment of amateur/experimental cinema

Screening of analogue selected footage and excerpts from the Home Movies 
archive


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