Telepresence and Telematic Arts in Le Radici del Nuovo Archive. Interview with Maria Grazia Mattei

Miriam De Rosa researches and teaches Media Archaeology, Visual Cultures and Artists’ Film at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, where she serves as an Associate Professor and leads the MA Economy and Management of Arts and Cultural Activities. She also coordinates the IMACS network and sits on the NECS steering committee. Her last monograph is Camille Henrot: Notes on Desktop Cinema (Mimesis 2024).

Barbara Grespi is Full Professor at the Department of Philosophy “Piero Martinetti,” University of Milan, where she teaches Theories of the Moving Image and Media Archaeology and coordinates the XR-Lab in the frame of EXT—Extended Reality Research Center. Her research has explored the non-ocularcentric dimensions of optical media—from photography to extended realities—focusing especially on gestural practices. Among her publications: Il cinema come gesto (Aracne, 2017), Figure del corpo (Meltemi, 2019), and the co-edited volumes Harun Farocki (Mimesis, 2017), Apparizioni (Aracne, 2018), Bodies of Stone in the Media, Visual Culture, and the Arts (Amsterdam University Press, 2020), Mediarcheologia (Raffaello Cortina, 2023), and Il postfotografico (Einaudi, 2024).

Lorenzo Lazzari is currently a Post-Doc Research Fellow at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and an independent curator. His academic and curatorial research moves at the intersections of contemporary art, cinema, urban studies, and forms of dissent. He recently published the monograph Rivendicazioni in videotape for Carocci Editore.

Maria Teresa Soldani, Ph.D., is Adjunct Professor in Media Archaeology at the University of Milan and in Visual Culture Studies at Università Telematica San Raffaele Roma. She was Research Fellow at the University of Milan – within the ARTCHAE project – and the University of Bologna. She has published the monographs Naked City (Quaderni di CinemaSud, 2013), Made in USA (Mimesis, 2024), and co-edited special issues of journals and books, including Cronofagia e media (Meltemi, 2024). She is Associate Editor of G|A|M|E. The Italian Journal of Game Studies, member of the directorial board of “Afterimage” book series (Aracne), and of the international research group “Musical Lives on Screen.”