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UniSR at 13th edition of MIA Photo Fair with Art&Science format

14 April 2024
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For the 6th consecutive year, UniSR is participating in MIA Photo Fair, the most prestigious Italian fair entirely dedicated to the photographic image, with the talk "Photography in mutation: the performative dimensions of the image". The 13th edition of MIA Photo Fair will be held April 11-14, 2024 at ALLIANZ MiCo in Milan.

On the occasion of the 13th edition of MIA Photo Fair, ICONE, UniSR's European Research Center for History and Theory of the Image, in collaboration with the Research Center for Advanced Technologies for Health and Well-being at IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, will be present at MIA Fair, the most prestigious Italian fair dedicated to the photographic image, of which UniSR has been a scientific partner since 2019.

The Art&Science format

The new appointment of the Arte&Scienza format will be dedicated this year to reflect in a transdisciplinary sense on the evolution of the contemporary photographic image in relation to technological innovation, exploring its different expressions of identity from artistic creativity, to narrative, to performative.

The Art&Science format is now an established and recurring presence within the Cultural Program of MIA Photo Fair, with the aim of placing at the center of reflection the complex and ramified relationships that today connect image and technologies, in the expanded sensory and immaterial landscape of the post-digital horizon.

Photography in mutation: the performative dimensions of the image

The cultural meeting, scheduled for Sunday, April 14, at 2 pm, will be devoted to the changing identities of the contemporary photographic image, whose evolutionary dynamics are now located at the intersection of the natural and the artificial, expressions of the intertwining of technological innovation and creative experimentation. In the context of such hybrid ecosystems, photography is projecting itself into renewed expressive frontiers, experimenting with new material media that allow for unprecedented forms of experience: from the roots of the digital format, to the moving image, to generative photography.

This identity metamorphosis finds its highest expression in the performative dimension of the image, tending toward the kinematic, just as the emerging frontiers of the virtual redefine the traditional paradigms of storytelling, where the word becomes an immersive image and the narrative becomes a first-person lived experience shared in real time. The meeting is dedicated to reflect in a transdisciplinary key on the evolution of the different identity expressions of the contemporary image, made possible by the new technological frontiers, ranging from artistic creativity to storytelling and performance.

These issues will be discussed by Raffaele Ariano and Francesca Pola, professors of the Master's Degree Program in Theory and History of the Arts and Image at the Faculty of Philosophy, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, in conversation with Davide Maria Coltro, digital artist.

Appointment for Sunday, April 14, 2 pm
Allianz MiCo Milano Congressi
Via Gattamelata, 13 Milan - Gate 16

Download the Cultural Program and make reservations for the events on the MIA Fair website.

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