Mediatic Handology. Shaping Images, Interacting, Magicking

Ada Ackerman works as a Permanent Researcher at THALIM/CNRS. She focuses on the relations between art (mainly cinema and painting) as well as on cultural exchanges between Soviet Union, Europe and the United States. Among her most recent publications: A biblioteca infinita de Sergei Eisenstein/The infinite Library of Sergei Eisenstein (2019) and Eisenstein et Daumier, des affinités électives (2013). She has curated the show "The Ecstatic Eye", for the Centre Pompidou-Metz. Andrea Pinotti is professor in Aesthetics at the department of Philosophy, State University of Milan, and fellow of IEA, Paris and ZfL, Berlin. His research focuses on image theories and visual culture studies; among his publications: Empathie (2016) and Cultura visuale (with Antonio Somaini, 2016). Awarded with the Wissenschaftspreis der Aby-Warburg-Stiftung, he is currently directing an ERC project (An-Iconology. History, Theory, and Practices of Environmental Images.

• Ada Ackerman, Barbara Grespi, Andrea Pinotti - Mediatic Handology?Greta Plaitano - Technologies de l’oeil, psychologie de la main : Nicolae Vaschide et la photographie médico-artistiqueRegina Karl - Technological reproduction at odds: Hand and cinematography in Robert Wiene’s The Hands of OrlacMarie Martin - ‘Rêve d’un geste’ ou la main et l’oeil dans quelques films du handicap sensorielLucia Ruprecht - Minor Gestures: Chantal Akerman’s Un jour Pina a demandé…Petra Löffler - Hands-on Film: Media Archaeology as Gestural PracticeFilippo Fimiani - Dancing Fingers: Moving Mimicry and Abstract TactilityRebecca Puchta - Refining Data by Pointing the Index FingerFederica Cavaletti - Disclosing the (Temporal) World of Depression, by Means of Audiovisual Media: An Exploration between Cinema and Virtual RealityOlga Moskatova - Vertical Screening: Aesthetics and Formatting of RelocationReviews / Comptes-rendusProjects & AbstractsContributors / Collaborateurs

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