The ERC project AN-ICON "An-Iconology. History, Theory, and Practices of Environmental Images", in collaboration with Pirelli HangarBicocca, presents the international conference

"Immersed in the Work. From the environment to virtual reality".

The conference is dedicated to the interactions be-tween environmental images, immersive media and contemporary art practices.

The opening day on Monday 13th June, entitled Sur-faces and Depths. Cinema and sculpture in the work of Giorgio Andreotta Calò and Rosa Barba will take place at Pirelli HangarBicocca. The two artists, who have in the past exhibited their works in these spaces, will talk on this occasion with scholars Giuliana Bruno and Ric-cardo Venturi.
The following three days, curated by Elisabetta Mode-na and Andrea Pinotti, will take place in the Sala Napo-leonica of the State University of Milan and will feature national and international artists and figures from the fields of contemporary art history, aesthetics, critical theory, curatorship and media theory.

The guests who will speak are: Alessandra Acocella, Giovanna Amadasi, Giorgio Andreotta Calò, Lucia Aspesi, Mieke Bal, Cristina Baldacci, Rosa Barba, Giuliana Bruno, micha cárdenas, Cristina Casero, Lara Conte, Lucia Corrain, Alessandra Donati, Filippo Fi-miani, Dario Gamboni, Roberto Pinto, Iolanda Ratti, Roberta Tenconi, Francesco Tedeschi, Vincenzo Trione, Annette Urban, Emilio Vavarella, Stefano Velotti, Riccardo Venturi, Giorgio Zanchetti.

The conference will also host the thematic section Dive In: Performance in Immersive Environments curated by Roberto Paolo Malaspina and Sofia Pirandello, which focuses on those artistic practices which, like performance, have addressed and raised questions about the relationship between body and space. The contributions for this section, which are divided between written papers and in-person presentations over the three days of the conference, were selected following a call for abstracts addressed to artists, curators and early career researchers. Among the selected guests: Valen-tina Bartalesi, Anthony Bekirov, S()fia Braga, Anna Calise, Edoardo de Cobelli, Margherita Fontana, Élise Jouhannet, Kenny Kim, Stefano Mudu, Julia Reich, Marion Roche, Thibaut Vaillancourt, Alice Volpi.

The AN-ICON project "An-Iconology. History, Theory, and Practices of Environmental Images" is coordinated by Andrea Pinotti at the State University of Milan and is dedicated to the environmentalisation of contemporary images through technologies such as Virtual or Augmented Reality.

PROGRAM

Monday, June 13th 2022
Pirelli HangarBicocca

18.00
Welcome address

18.15 - 20.00
Superfici e profondità. Cinema, scultura e installazione nell’opera di Giorgio Andreotta Calò e Rosa Barba / Surfaces and depths. Cinema, sculpture and installation in the work of Giorgio Andreotta Calò and Rosa Barba
Conversation between Rosa Barba (visual artist) and Giuliana Bruno (Harvard University)
Conversation between Giorgio Andreotta Calò (visual artist) and Riccardo Venturi (art historian and critic)

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Tuesday, June 14th 2022
Sala Napoleonica, Università Statale di Milano

09.00
Welcome address

Chair:
Andrea Pinotti (Università Statale di Milano)

09.30 - 10.30
Mieke Bal (cultural theorist, critic and video artist)
Con-temporary: Thinking and feeling together
The audience is invited to watch in advance Don Quijote: Sad Countenances. Episode 6: Narrative Stuttering. The video is available at this QR code.

10.30 - 11.30
Lara Conte (Università degli Studi Roma Tre)
La modalità curatoriale di Germano Celant, tra esperienza immersiva e pratica dell’Archivio / Germano Celant’s curatorial approach, between immersive experience and archive practice

11.30 - 12.00
Coffee break

12.00 - 13.00
Annette Urban (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
Mutual assimilations: Unstable relations between work and environment in VR art and exhibitions

13.00 - 14.00
Lunch break

14.00 - 15.00
CHANGE IN SCHEDULE
Giovanna Amadasi and Roberta Tenconi (Pirelli HangarBicocca)
Costruire esperienze. La mostra come dispositivo immersivo in Pirelli HangarBicocca / Constructing experiences: The exhibition as an immersive device at Pirelli HangarBicocca

Chair:
Giancarlo Grossi (Università Statale di Milano)

15.00 - 16.00
CHANGE IN SCHEDULE
Dive In: Performance in immersive environments

S()fia Braga (visual artist), I Stalk Myself More than I Should: Online narratives to disrupt and investigate Interveillance and digital bodies politics within centralized social media platforms
Julia Reich (Ruhr-Universität Bochum), Encountering absent bodies: The artist's doubled and multiplied self in virtual performances
Elise Jouhannet (Université Paris III - Sorbonne Nouvelle), Techniques and poetics of the submarine in film: A pretext for an archeology of immersion

16.00 - 16.30
Coffee break

Chair:
Elisabetta Modena (Università Statale di Milano)

16.30 - 17.30
CHANGE IN SCHEDULE
Cristina Baldacci (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia)
La mostra come ‘scripted space’. Le installazioni immersive di Rosa Barba e Philippe Parreno / The exhibition as a ‘scripted space’: Rosa Barba’s and Philippe Parreno’s immersive installations

17.30 - 18.30
Vincenzo Trione (Università IULM, Milano)
Tra Euripide e Wagner. I concerti rock / Between Euripides and Wagner: Rock concerts

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Wednesday, June 15th 2022
Sala Napoleonica, Università Statale di Milano

Chair:
Federica Cavaletti (Università Statale di Milano)

09.30 - 10.30
Elisabetta Modena (University of Milan)
Immersive stories in contemporary art

10.30 - 11.30
Francesco Tedeschi (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano)
Dall’interno all’esterno (e viceversa) / From inside to outside (and vice versa)

11.30 - 12.00
Coffee break

12.00 - 13.00
Giuliana Bruno (Harvard University)
The environmentality of immersive projection: The nature of scale

13.00 - 14.00
Lunch break

Chair:
Sofia Pirandello (Università Statale di Milano)

14.00 - 15.00
Dive In: Performance in immersive environments
Emilio Vavarella (Harvard University), Other points of view: THE ITALIAN JOB n.3, Lazy Sunday
Dialogue on Laure Prouvost, I wish we could grab your image and touch you:
Valentina Bartalesi (Università IULM, Milano), “Metafisica poetica”: un approccio sensoriale alla performance filmica nell’opera di Laure Prouvost / “Metafisica poetica”: A sensory approach to film performance in Laure Prouvost’s work
Stefano Mudu (Università IUAV di Venezia), Deep See Blue Surrounding You: un ambiente immersivo composto di oggetti / Deep See Blue Surrounding You: An immersive environment made of objects

Chair:
Pietro Conte (Università Statale di Milano)

15.00 - 16.00
Dario Gamboni (Université de Genève)
Mobilis in mobili: The house museum as a self-immersion device

16.00 - 16.30
Coffee break

16.30 - 18.30
Roundtable with Lucia Corrain (Università di Bologna), Filippo Fimiani (Università degli Studi di Salerno) and Stefano Velotti (Sapienza. Università di Roma)
Ieri e oggi: limiti e promesse dell’esperienza immersiva / Yesterday and today: Limits and promises of the immersive experience

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Thursday, June 16th 2022
Sala Napoleonica, Università Statale di Milano

Chair:
Anna Caterina Dalmasso (Università Statale di Milano)

09.30 - 10.30
Giorgio Zanchetti (Università Statale di Milano)
“Looking glass”. Qualche riflessione sulla trasparenza come dispositivo di presentazione e rappresentazione spaziale / “Looking glass”: Reflections on transparency as a device for the presentation and representation of space

10.30 - 11.30
Roberto Pinto (Università di Bologna)
La storia e le storie attraverso le performance di Jeremy Deller / The history and the tales through the performances of Jeremy Deller
11.30 - 12.00
Coffee break

12.00 - 13.00
micha cárdenas (University of California Santa Cruz)
Algorithmic performance from FLUXUS to Augmented Reality

13.00 - 14.00
Lunch break

Chair:
Roberto Paolo Malaspina (Università Statale di Milano)

14.00 - 15.00
Dive In: Performance in immersive environments
Anna Calise (Università IULM, Milano), Inhabiting the museum: A history of physical presence from analog to digital exhibition spaces
Margherita Fontana (Università IULM, Milano), Digital heterotopias in the metaverse: The (g)Ender Gallery by Cat Heines
Alice Volpi (The Bartlett School of Architecture - UCL), ...Or we will do without the theatre: Challenging the urban space, how to draft a new city map through performance

Chair:
Barbara Grespi (Università Statale di Milano)

15.00 - 16.00
Alessandra Acocella and Cristina Casero (Università degli Studi di Parma)
Spazi di stimolazione percettiva. Il contributo dell’arte cinetico-programmata negli anni Sessanta / Spaces of perceptive stimulation: The contribution of kinetic-programmed art in the 1960s

16.00 - 16.30
Coffee break

16.30 - 17.30
Lucia Aspesi (Pirelli HangarBicocca) and Iolanda Ratti (Museo del Novecento di Milano)
Marinella Pirelli. Alle origini dell’immersività / Marinella Pirelli: At the origins of immersiveness

17.30 - 18.30
Alessandra Donati (Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca)
Ambienti immersivi e tutela dell’intenzione dell’artista. Le utilità del diritto / Immersive environments and protection of the artist’s intention: The benefits of law