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Alessandro Bertinetto

Alessandro Bertinetto is Full Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Turin and the scientific coordinator of ART. He has been visiting scholar at the Universities of Madrid (Complutense and Autónoma), Murcía, Toulouse, Kanazawa, Luxembourg, FU Berlin, Valencia, Belo Horizonte. His research interests include German Idealism, aesthetics, hermeneutics, philosophy of music, creativity and improvisation. His research is now mainly focussing on the topic of "aesthetic habits". From 2012 to 2018, he has been member of the Executive Committee of the European Society for Aesthetics.

Selected publications:

• Estetica dell'improvvisazione, il Mulino 2021; Eng. trans. Aesthetics of Improvisation, Fink/Brill 2022 [monograph].

• With M. Ruta (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Improvisation in the Arts, Routledge 2021 [edited book].

• Eseguire l'inatteso. Ontologia musicale e improvvisazione, il Glifo 2016 [monograph].

• Il pensiero dei suoni. Temi di filosofia della musica, Bruno Mondadori 2012; French trans. Pensée des sons. Introduction à la philosophie de la musique, Delatour 2017 [monograph]. 

Personal webpages:

https://sites.google.com/site/alessandrobertinetto/

https://unito.academia.edu/AlessandroBertinetto

http://www.dfe.unito.it/do/docenti.pl/Show?_id=abertine#profilo

GIACOMO ALBERT

Giacomo Albert is Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of Turin. He is member of the steering committees of the Italian Musicological Society (SIdM), and of the Italian Association for Music Informatics (AIMI). Together with Laura Zattra he coordinates the research group "RiSME digitali" and the workgroup on "Digital cultures and technological innovation" of the Italian Association of University Music Professors (ADUIM). His main research topics are XXth and XXIst centuries music (particularly creative process, compositional structures, and the relationship between technology and musical thought), music and intermedia (particularly sound art, multimedia art, sound design, sound and music in videoart, mainstream and experimental cinema), and the representation of music, drama, and melodrama through digital ontologies.

Selected recent publications:

• Remediating Bellini through sound and video art: Christian Marclay's "Maria Callas" in context, in E. Sala, G. Seminara, E. Senici (a cura di), Bellini on stage and screen (1935-2020), Bloomsbury 2024 [chapter].

• Towards a new audiovisual counterpoint: sound in Italian experimental cinema between the 1950s and 1970s. Deconstructions, asynchronies, remediations, and collages, in F. Sciannameo (a cura di), Italian Film Music 1950s to 1970s, Brepols 2023 [chapter].

• With G. Vinay, Nei deserti di Varèse e Viola, Chigiana, n. 51, 2022 [article].

• Drammar, uno strumento digitale per la didattica del teatro musicale, Musica Docta. Rivista digitale di Pedagogia e Didattica della musica, XI, 2021 [article].

MICHELA BLOISI

Michela Bloisi is a PhD student at the Northwestern Italian Philosophy Consortium (FINO), University of Turin. Her research interests interweave pragmatist aesthetics, philosophy of dance, phenomenology and theories of embodiment. Her doctoral project is devoted to improvisation in dance and its political relevance.

sofia boz

Sofia Boz is PhD candidate in Pedagogical, Educational and Instructional Sciences at University of Padua. Her research focuses on the possibilities of de-structuring the traditional school curriculum by re-evaluating the beneficial effects of jazz's own concept of improvisation, with a view to creative, inclusive, dialogic and explorative education.

serena feloj

Serena Feloj is Associate Professor in Aesthetics at the University of Pavia. She has been visiting scholar at Harvard University and at the Universities of Heidelberg, Marburg (DAAD fellowship), Cologne, Frankfurt am Main, and visiting professor at the University of Halle. Her main interests are in Kantian philosophy, German classical aesthetics and analytic aesthetics.

Selected publications:

• Il dovere estetico. Normatività e giudizi di gusto, Mimesis 2018 [monograph].

• Estetica del disgusto. Mendelssohn, Kant e i limiti della rappresentazione, Carocci 2017 [monograph].

• Ästhetik, Wissen und Chaos. Die symbolische Erkenntnis der ästhetischen Idee bei Husserl und Kant, in C. Asmuth, P. Remmers (eds.), Ästhetisches Wissen, De Gruyter 2014 [chapter].

• Towards an Alternative: Crisis of the System or Mediation Between Nature and Freedom?, in S. Bacin, A. Ferrarin, C. La Rocca, M. Ruffing (eds.), Kant und die Philosophie in weltbürglicher Absicht, De Gruyter 2013 [chapter].

Jacopo frascaroli

Jacopo Frascaroli is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Psychology at the University of Turin and a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities Research Centre at the University of York. He obtained his PhD in Philosophy in York in 2022 as part of a Leverhulme-funded interdisciplinary project entitled "Learning from Fiction". Jacopo's research brings together aesthetics, philosophy of language and mind, and cognitive science. His current work explores the potential of predictive processing as a general framework for the study of the arts and aesthetics. Jacopo is currently editing a theme issue on this topic for Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.

Selected publications:

• Currie, G. Friend, S., Ferguson, H., Wimmer, L., Frascaroli, J., and Green, K. Learning from Fiction, in The Routledge Handbook of Fiction and Belief. Forthcoming [chapter].

• Frascaroli, J., Van de Cruys, S., Leder, H., and Brattico, E. (Eds.). Art, aesthetics and predictive processing: theoretical and empirical perspectives, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. vol. 379, 2024 [theme issue].

• Van de Cruys, S., Frascaroli, J., and Friston, K.J. Order and Change in Art: Towards an Active Inference Account of Aesthetic Experience, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, vol. 379 [article].

• Currie, G., Frascaroli, J. (2021). Poetry and the Possibility of Paraphrase, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 79(4), 428-439 [article].

PAOLO FURIA

Paolo Furia currently works as a postdoc researcher at the Department of Humanities of the University of Turin (Italy). He has been working as a postdoc at the University of Turin since November 2017. He is a member of the Italian Society of Aesthetics, the Interuniversity Center of Morphology, the Centro Studi Luigi Pareyson and the Society for Ricoeur Studies. He participated in international conferences and seminars in Berlin, Paris, Palermo, Rome, Chicago, Los Angeles, Detroit, Leuven, Ljubljana, Bratislava and was a member of project teams in Paris (EHESS and Paris Nanterre) and Slovakia (BISLA). He is the authour of three monographs in Italiana and various articles in English, French and Italian. He obtained his Scientific Qualification in Aesthetics in November 2020.

Selected publications:

• Spaesamento. Esperienza estetico-geografica, Meltemi 2023 [monograph].

• Estetica e geografia. Spazio, luogo, paesaggio, Mimesis 2020 [monograph].

• Rifiuto, altrove, utopia. Una fenomenologia estetica del riconoscimento a partire da Paul Ricoeur, Mimesis 2019 [monograph].

Lisa Giombini

Lisa Giombini is Research Fellow in Aesthetics at Roma Tre University (Italy), Department of Philosophy. She is a member of various philosophical associations, including the Italian Society for Aesthetics (SIE), the European Society of Aesthetics (ESA) and the American Society for Aesthetics (ASA); she is currently the Secretary General of the International Association for Aesthetics (IAA). Besides long-term interest in the philosophy of music, Lisa's current research focuses on the philosophy of art conservation, the ethics of cultural heritage and environmental aesthetics.

Selected publications:

• Music, Ontology and the Need for History: A Critical Discussion, Culture and Dialogue, n. 9 (2021) [article].

• Respect in Conservation Ethics. A Philosophical Inquiry, Studies in Conservation, n. 67, 1/2 (2021) [article].

• Reconstructing Heritage. Places, Values Attachment, Contemporary Aesthetics, n. 18 (2020) [article]. 

• Musical Ontology. A Guide for the Perplexed, Mimesis 2017 [monograph].

francesca monateri

Francesca Monateri is PhD candidate at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, working on the link between aesthetics and political philosophy. Her doctoral project is dedicated to Carl Schmitt's aesthetics. 

Selected publications:

• Katechon. Filosofia, politica, estetica, Bollati Boringhieri 2023 [monograph].

• Carl Schmitt's Morphology. From Political Theology to Aesthetics, in L. Follesa, F. Vercellone (eds.), Bilddenken und Morphologie, De Gruyter 2021  [chapter].

• Teologia politica del corpo. Un'estetica dell'incarnazione in Schmitt, Kantorowicz e Balthasar, Annuario Filosofico, n. XXXVI (2020) [article].

• Estetica e istituzioni. Forma e vita nell'Institutional Turn di Carl Schmitt, Studi di Estetica, n. 18 (2020) [article].

francesca perotto

Francesca Perotto is PhD candidate in Philosophy at the Northwestern Italian Philosophy Consortium (FINO). Her research interests range from Gilles Deleuze to morphology and post-structuralist French philosophy. She is currently visiting student at the EHESS in Paris. Her latest research deals with the concept of the virtual in Gilles Deleuze's thought from an aesthetic perspective.

Selected publications:

• Is the Virtual of Virtual Technologies the Deleuzian Virtual?, Aisthesis, n. 16/1 2023 [article].

• Immersivity, Individuation and Art, Azimuth, n. 20/2 (2022) [article].

• Filter Bubbles. Arte e mondi digitali, Aisthesis, n. 14/2 (2021) [article].

leonardo pietropaolo

Leonardo Pietropaolo is a BA and MA graduate in Philosophy at the University of Turin. In 2020 he was awarded with a scholarship by Fondazione Cecilia Gilardi. During the summer 2021 he spent a research period at Freie University of Berlin thanks to this funding. In 2022 he studied at CAMPO22, the course for curatorial studies and practices promoted by Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo. Among his research interests, the concept of "death of art" and the relationship between the notions of authenticity and style in aesthetics. His latest research focuses on the notion of style in the work of Arthur Danto.

ivan quartesan

Ivan Quartesan is PhD candidate at the Northwestern Italian Philosophy Consortium (FINO). His research interests include visual studies, iconology, and morphology.

Selected publications:

• La nuova iconologia di Horst Bredekamp. Storia dell'arte, morfologia e il potere delle immagini, Mimesis 2024 [monograph].

• Morphology as a Language for Aesthetics. From J.W. von Goethe to Olaf Breidbach, Aesthetica Preprint, n. 123 (2023) [article].

amalia salvestrini

Amalia Salvestrini is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Philosophy "Piero Martinetti" of the University of Milan (Cariplo Foundation Grant, project HarmoPicta: "Harmonia and affectus. Franciscan Aesthetics, Giottesque Painting and the Humanists"). After a Second Level Academic Diploma in Viola at the Milan Conservatory, a BA and a MA in Philosophy (UNIMI), she obtained a PhD in co-tutorship between the FINO Consortium and the EPHE (Paris) and she had a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the IISF (Naples). Her research currently concerns the pre-modern origins of aesthetics, the relationships between Late Medieval-Renaissance art and philosophy, music and rhetoric, the art paragon, musica spatiality, and some aesthetic and phenomenological issues. 

Selected publications:

• Abito mentale e abito estetico. Una fenomenologia dell'ornamento tra medioevo e rinascimento, in A. Bertinetto, L. Davico, P. Furia (eds.), AbiTO. Abitudini estetiche e arte pubblica. Il caso Torino, Franco Angeli 2024 [chapter].

• Musical Spatiality, International Lexicon of Aesthetics, Spring 2024 [lexicon entry].

• L'artefice nel pensiero francescano, preface by Olivier Boulnois, Milano University Press 2023 [monograph].

• Bellezza retorica. Un percorso tematico in Nicola di Autrecourt, Mimesis 2021 [monograph].

Luisa sampugnaro

Luisa Sampugnaro (PhD in Humanities) is an independent researcher. In 2018 she was a visiting student at CEHTA/EHESS in Paris. She collaborates with the University of Turin and is a member of the Italian Society of Aesthetics (SIE). Her research interests include aesthetic reception theories, philosophy of painting and philosophy of history. Currently her work focuses on the various rhetorics of the "end" qualifying the transition Modernism/Postmodernism, both in the theoretical discourse about the arts and in the structure of artistic poiesis. 

Selected publications:

• Un art purifié. Logique et histoire du modernisme chez Clement Greenberg, in A. Rieber, B. Tochon-Danguy (eds.), La Modernité en art, Classiques Garnier (2022) [chapter].

• Danto, l'arte e i regimi di storicità. Un percorso di lettura, Rivista di Estetica, n. 77 (2021) [article].

• Fisica e metafisica del sublime in Barnett Newman, Itinera, n. 21 (2021) [article].

• The Work of Man and the End-of-History. Hegel Transfigured by Kojeve's Thought, in S. Achella et al. (eds.), The Owl's Flight. Hegel Legacy to Contemporary Philosophy, De Gruyter 2021 [chapter].

Carlo serra

Carlo Serra teaches Media and Image Aesthetics at the University of Turin and Image and Sound Theory at the University of Calabria. His research revolves around philosophy of music, with particular attention to phenomenological issues linked to the forms of listening. 

Selected publications:

• Come suono di natura. Metafisica della melodia nella Prima Sinfonia di Gustav Mahlet, Galaad 2020 [monograph].

• La voce e lo spazio. Per un'estetica della voce, Il Saggiatore 2012 [monograph].

• Musica corpo espressione, Quodlibet 2008 [monograph].

Gregorio tenti

Gregorio Tenti is Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona. His project deals with the theoretical, aesthetical and political interactions between language and extinction. His research interests include the history of German philosophy, 20th-century French aesthetics and environmental humanities. 

Selected publications:

• With A. Bardin, M. Ferrari, A. Nony (eds.), The Edinburgh Companion to Gilbert Simondon, Edinburgh University Press (forthcoming) [edited book].

• L'estetica di Schleiermacher, ETS 2023 [monograph].

• Estetica e morfologia in Gilbert Simondon, Mimesis 2020 [monograph].