Brera Academy

Abstract What is a virtual tour? Is a virtual tour the same as an online guided tour? When museums throughout Europe were closed during the lockdown they tried to offer their public digital experiences. This paper will analyse four cases (in Belgium, UK and Italy) and will attempt to identify and describe the different communication strategies and user experience models they adopted. The paper is based on notes collected using qualitative methods (case study, digital ethnography, narrative inquiry, grounded theory). Focus will be placed on the guided tours organized by Gallerie Estensi (Italy). The paper is also an attempt to define what an online guided tour is and the key elements of its design.

Las transferencias culturales entre arte contemporáneo y artesanía han provocado la proliferación de proyectos artísticos que recurren al sincretismo de técnicas y materiales. Este artículo analiza la producción artística de la autora basada en la técnica del repujado de estaño e inspirada en la fabricación de exvotos, fenómeno extendido en países católicos o protestantes, siendo Andalucía una de las regiones de España con más incidencia. Se presentan varias obras en las que se reinterpreta esta tradición, generando un nuevo universo simbólico con exvotos artesanales.

En este artículo, a la luz de lo que se desprende del análisis de Bruno Latour en el libro Investigación sobre los modos de existencia, investigo algunas relaciones entre las categorías literarias calvinianas de la ligereza, de la velocidad, de la exactitud, la visibilidad, la multiplicidad y la consistencia, transfiriéndolas a diferentes contextos artísticos y científicos y poniendo de relieve los flujos de intercambio en las fronteras entre los diferentes territorios del conocimiento artístico y matemático, en particular. Comparadas, las obras de algunos artistas contemporáneos (Joseph Beuys, Michele Guido, Silvia Hell, Roni Horn, Armin Linke, Mark Lombardi, Sergio Lombardo, Sol Lewitt, Bruno Munari, Jackson Pollock, Tomas Saraceno, Luigi Veronesi) y las obras de los matemáticos contemporáneos Alexander Groetendieck y Fernando Zalamea, revelan la reciprocidad epistemológica en función de la ampliación de la percepción humana. Utilizando los métodos de la filosofía pragmática, a través del uso de la hoja-mundo y de los gráficos existenciales de Charles Peirce, la lógica de las analogías, de las similitudes y de los contrastes dialécticos y la lógica intuicionista, surgen, en las obras estudiadas, las relaciones fenomenológicas entre los elementos expresivos de las obras de los artistas investigados y los significados actuales, vinculados a los diferentes ámbitos disciplinarios. Por último, con las herramientas ofrecidas por la A/R/ Tografía, se traza un mapa de relaciones entre los elementos icónicos, las categorías calvinianas y los conceptos matemáticos de homotetia, isomorfismo, lista, red, superficie, proceso estocástico.

Nel bene e nel male, l’arte ha sempre ricadute politiche, ma il legame tra etica ed estetica e spesso scomodo. Nel tempo sono state elaborate strategie raffinatissime per neutralizzarne le potenzialita emancipatorie. L’analisi parte da lontano, dalla “Lotta per l’arte” svoltasi in Germania alla fine degli anni Venti e dalle azioni del GAAG Guerilla Art Action Group, portate avanti dal 1969 in poi, per approdare al presente che ha visto azioni di protesta prendere forma e propagarsi proprio perche costruite intorno a comunicazioni artistiche potenti, come la performance Un violador en tu camino che dal Cile ha fatto il giro del mondo.

The article analyzes the history of restoration and decoration, at the end of the nineteenth century, of the entrance porch and ground-floor mosaic of the Ca’ d’Oro Palace on the Grand Canal in Venice. A letter written in 1897 by Camillo Boito to Giorgio Franchetti, recently found, confirms the involvement of Boito, so far only mentioned in literature, on the restoration of the building.

This article interrogates platform-specific bias in the contemporary algorithmic media landscape through a comparative study of the representation of pregnancy on the Web and social media. Online visual materials such as social media content related to pregnancy are not void of bias, nor are they very diverse. The case study is a cross-platform analysis of social media imagery for the topic of pregnancy, through which distinct visual platform vernaculars emerge. The authors describe two visualization methods that can support comparative analysis of such visual vernaculars: the image grid and the composite image. While platform-specific perspectives range from lists of pregnancy tips on Pinterest to pregnancy information and social support systems on Twitter, and pregnancy humour on Reddit, each of the platforms presents a predominantly White, able-bodied and heteronormative perspective on pregnancy.

Geometry accompanies the knowledge of space and places both intuitively and through cultural education. Some innate elements are at the base the instantaneous perception and processes of visual recognition of forms. Moreover, the theorical teaching and practical activities allow to structure visual and tactile and knowledge of primary geometric shapes, as well as the capacity for the mental modelling of space. Following a similar procedure in our Design Laboratory, both analogue and digital modeling methods are coherently explored through the assigned project. The results of some case studies, recently concluded, are presented here, oriented to the composition of elementary geometric elements for the construction of reticular architectural structures, and for the radio centric enquiry of vegetal elements. The aim of these experiences concerns the possibility of experimenting visual understanding, on the bases of drawing, modeled in an analogue way by hand, and then verified through digital procedures by means of modeling and rendering software. A further example concerns a modeling exercise, based on the Made in Italy Design collection of Triennale di Milano. These specific training courses took place within the framework of the new training methods defined in Italy in the recent Alternanza Scuola Lavoro guidelines (in collaboration with Parco Nord Milano and the Accademia—Fondazione Fiera Milano), where the training focus on soft skills is integrated with the learning in specific and ordinary didactic disciplines.