Silvia Casini
Professoressa Associata
Università di Udine - Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici e del Patrimonio Culturale
silvia.casini@uniud.it
Silvia Casini è Professoressa Associata in Cinema, cultura visuale e media presso il DIUM di Udine e honorary Reader presso ll’Università di Aberdeen (UK). Nella sua ricerca, condotta sia in archivi sia attraverso metodologie di indagine etnografica, esplora la cultura visuale della medicina e della scienza, il cinema scientifico e i suoi festival, con un’attenzione costante alle tecnologie emergenti e ai new media come spazi in cui si ridefiniscono l’immagine, il dato e la soggettività.
Ha ricevuto fondi di ricerca su base competitiva da enti inclusi il Leverhulme Trust, il Carnegie Trust e lo Scottish Crucible. Ha pubblicato le monografie Giving Bodies Back to Data (MIT Press, 2021), Il Ritratto Scansione (Mimesis, 2016) e numerosi saggi in riviste internazionali quali Cinéma & Cie, Configurations, Leonardo, Nuncius: Journal of the Material and Visual History of Science, Science as Culture, Studi di Estetica, The Senses and Society, Visual Culture Studies.
Ultime pubblicazioni
(2025), Casini, S.. How to re-activate the endangered archive of a historical science film festival: a speculative approach. In Devices, Dispositifs, and Moving Images. Eds. G. Fossati, A. van den Oever. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
(2025) Casini, S. and Ksenia Fedorova, Theorizing media art in light of STS: Factura of ephemeralities. Artnodes. Journal on Art, Science, and Technology Studies, Online journal.
(2025) Casini, S. and Ilona Sagar, After Images. Technologies of the Body and the Archive. In Art and the Critical Medical Humanities. Eds. F. Johnstone, A. Morehead, I. Wiltshire. London: Bloomsbury.
(2024) Casini, S., Paolo Magaudda and Federico Neresini, Communicating Science Through Films: The Case of the International Festival of Scientific and Educational Film (1956–1975), Science as Culture 34(1): 89-113.
(2023) Casini, S., Visibilizing the Patient’s Body through Anticipation: A Matter of Care. Reti Saperi Linguaggi. Italian Journal of Cognitive Studies 2: 291-312.
(2023) Casini, S., That Obscure Object of Desire. Some Notes for a Slow Art-Science. Tecnoscienza. Italyn Journal of Science and Technology Studies, 13(2): 87-104.
(2023) Casini, S., Alice Cati and Deborah Toschi, Sick and Injured Bodies: Medical Imagery and Media Practices of Care. Cinéma & Cie 22(39): 9-20.
(2023) Casini, S. Images, Data-Visualization and the Narratives They Create: The Narrative Function of Images in Fostering MRI Innovation. In Scientific Visual Representations in History. Eds. M. Valleriani, G. Giannini, E. Gianetto. Cham: Springer Verlag. 287-314.
(2022) Casini, S., A Missed Encounter between Species: The Interplay of Scientific Realism and Aesthetics in Painlevé’s Cinematographic Experiments on the Octopus. Studi di Estetica, 24(3): 127-156.
(2022) Casini, S., The Space between Bodies: Exploring Contagion without Contact from Cohl’s Animated Cephaloscope (1910) to Feuerstein’s Borgy & Bes (2018). Visual Culture Studies, no. 3-4: 33-57.