Università Roma Tre

The representation of the body in audiovisual experimentation
Central and privileged object of the history of traditional art, the human figure has undergone, especially in the last forty years, an iconic and cultural modification, reconfiguring itself through the body-screen relationship, which redefines the theories and expressive practices acquired by the system of media and contemporary arts. The course aims to analyze the prevailing relationships between the human figure and statuary, tracing an iconographic mapping of the most recent and significant representations of the body in the field of artistic experimentation: from underground and artist cinema to photography, from sculpture to performance, to video art. Using a versatile methodology that combines visual and cultural studies with the theories of media and plastic arts, we want to reflect on some characteristic figurations of contemporary bodies and on their processes and representative models. The focus of interest is linked to the widespread and pervasive role that media devices and their extensions and technological applications have taken on our perceptual, iconographic and identity regimes.

Giacomo Ravesi, Le maschere di Dioniso. Figure del corpo tra arti visive, media e tecnologia, Armando, Roma 2021.
A selection of texts edited by the teacher, available at the beginning of the course at the photocopy shop of via G. Rocco 11.