Gianna Angelini, Pier Luigi Capucci, Derrick de Kerckhove, Maura Gancitano, Paolo Granata.
Gianna Angelini, Scientific Director
After graduating in Communication in 2002, she obtained a PhD in Cultural Sciences in Germany. Strategic agency planner for over ten years, TP Vice President from 2011 to 2014, a journalist since 2019, and president of Cr.A.Sh since 2013; she has taught since 2005 the disciplines of Semiotics of multimedia text, Theories of perception and Aesthetics of the visual arts. She has two monographs and articles published in Italian and foreign journals. Since 2019, she has been working in journalism; since 2015, she has been involved in educational planning and communication design. Since 2017, she has held the position of International Program Manager in the academic field.
Pier Luigi Capucci
Has dealt with communication systems and languages since the 1980s, with relationships between artistic forms, sciences, and technologies. He teaches in different institutions. From 2013 to 2018, he was the director of studies for the PhD research program of the T-Node of the Planetary Collegium (University of Plymouth). He is currently the Director and Head of scientific-cultural activities at LABA, Rimini. He has published the books “Realtà del virtuale” (1993), “Il corpo tecnologico” (1994; 2015) and “Arte e tecnologie” (1996; 2013); art*science. “The New and History” (2018); “Arte e complessità” (2018); “Dialogues across the seas: the ocean that keeps us apart also joins us. Charting knowledge and practice in the Anthropocene” (2022). In 2000, he founded Noema, of which he is Chairman, an online journal and network of projects on the relationships between arts, sciences, technologies and society. He is the founder and curator of the three-year research project art*science – Art & Climate Change on art and climate change. He has worked on European cultural projects on communication technologies. He has been part of the International Advisory Board in various editions of Ars Electronica for the Net Communities category. He is a consultant to the European Commission on relations between sciences, technologies, and humanities, particularly about big data and artificial intelligence. He is a member of AICA (Association Internationale des Critiques d ‘Art) and the Order of Journalists.
Derrick de Kerckhove
Received his PhD in French Language and Literature from the University of Toronto in 1974 and a PhD in Sociology of Art from the University of Tours (France) in 1979. He was an associate of the Center for Culture and Technology from 1972 to 1980 and worked with Marshall McLuhan for over ten years as a translator, assistant, and co-author. From 1983 to 2008, he directed the McLuhan Program in Culture & Technology at the University of Toronto. In Italy, he collaborated for thirteen years in the bimonthly communication magazine “Mass Media (magazine)” from 1983 to 1995—Professor of Communication Anthropology at the Politecnico di Milano. Until November 2014, he was a lecturer at the Department of Social Sciences of the University of Naples Federico II. He is currently the Scientific Director of the magazine Media Duemila and scientific advisor of the TuttiMedia Observatory. MIT Press is publishing his latest work on the Ecology of the Quantum Age.
Maura Gancitano
Philosopher, educator and writer. Co-founded Tlon in 2015, a Rome-based publishing house, bookstore-theatre and philosophy school. She has published twelve books translated into eight languages with Einaudi, HarperCollins, Mondadori and Zanichelli, including Specchio delle mie brame (Einaudi, 2022, Premio Rapallo) and Erotica dei sentimenti (Einaudi, 2024). She is philosophical director of the Festival del Pensare Contemporaneo in Piacenza, scientific director of Fondazione WoW, and member of the scientific committee of the Intrecci series at Firenze University Press. Selected by Vanity Fair as one of the protagonists of «Generazione Futuro» in its Italian, French and Spanish editions.
Paolo Granata
He is an associate professor of book and media culture at the University of Toronto, where he studies media ecology, digital sustainability, and the semiotics of culture. In Italy, he published, among other things, “Ecologia dei Media” (Franco Angeli, 2015). Since 2019, he has directed the Media Ethics Lab and has been a Canadian Commission for UNESCO member since 2018.