Anthony Stagliano is a filmmaker, media artist, and theorist based in Rome. His films and videos have screened in festivals and galleries around the world. He is an assistant professor of communication and media arts at John Cabot University.

“By highlighting experimental art as rhetorical deliberation on contemporary projects of control and as maps of disobedient avenues pointing toward new worlds, Stagliano shows a vital new direction for conceptualizing rhetoric in the present.”—Andrew Pilsch, author of Transhumanism: Evolutionary Futurism and the Human Technologies of Utopia“In Disobedient Aesthetics: Surveillance, Bodies, Control, Anthony Stagliano brings theories of rhetoric and media to bear on compelling examples of embodied protests against control society technology. His discussion of facial recognition as a form of production posits the human face in posthuman terms--face as an interface of control, face as a site of demand, face as an index of unrecognizable traits, and face as a locale for deception and truth—thus upending a purely representational approach to aesthetics.”—Annette Vee, author of Coding Literacy: How Computer Programming is Changing Writing

Anthony Stagliano is a filmmaker, media artist, and theorist based in Rome. His films and videos have screened in festivals and galleries around the world. He is an assistant professor of communication and media arts at John Cabot University.

“By highlighting experimental art as rhetorical deliberation on contemporary projects of control and as maps of disobedient avenues pointing toward new worlds, Stagliano shows a vital new direction for conceptualizing rhetoric in the present.”—Andrew Pilsch, author of Transhumanism: Evolutionary Futurism and the Human Technologies of Utopia“In Disobedient Aesthetics: Surveillance, Bodies, Control, Anthony Stagliano brings theories of rhetoric and media to bear on compelling examples of embodied protests against control society technology. His discussion of facial recognition as a form of production posits the human face in posthuman terms--face as an interface of control, face as a site of demand, face as an index of unrecognizable traits, and face as a locale for deception and truth—thus upending a purely representational approach to aesthetics.”—Annette Vee, author of Coding Literacy: How Computer Programming is Changing Writing

Anthony Stagliano is a filmmaker, media artist, and theorist based in Rome. His films and videos have screened in festivals and galleries around the world. He is an assistant professor of communication and media arts at John Cabot University.

“By highlighting experimental art as rhetorical deliberation on contemporary projects of control and as maps of disobedient avenues pointing toward new worlds, Stagliano shows a vital new direction for conceptualizing rhetoric in the present.”—Andrew Pilsch, author of Transhumanism: Evolutionary Futurism and the Human Technologies of Utopia“In Disobedient Aesthetics: Surveillance, Bodies, Control, Anthony Stagliano brings theories of rhetoric and media to bear on compelling examples of embodied protests against control society technology. His discussion of facial recognition as a form of production posits the human face in posthuman terms--face as an interface of control, face as a site of demand, face as an index of unrecognizable traits, and face as a locale for deception and truth—thus upending a purely representational approach to aesthetics.”—Annette Vee, author of Coding Literacy: How Computer Programming is Changing Writing