Artist Rosa Barba will be in conversation with Roberta Tenconi, curator at Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan.

NOVEMBER 17 AT 3:00PM
Florence Academy of Fine Arts, Aula del Cenacolo 

English language
Free entry

Inhabiting the film. Cinema and immersive XR

Conversation with Barbara Grespi and Andrea Pinotti (An-icon research project, University of Milan). Moderator: Paola Valentini (University of Florence)

The conversation will illustrate some forms of experimentation emerging between art and cinema, questioning the nature and the potential of the an- iconic forms and the goals achieved today by extended reality (VR, AR, MR).

NOVEMBER 18 AT 3:00PM
Cinema La Compagnia

Italian language
Free entrance

Curating the Immaterial: Moving Images Between Physical and Digital Space

Participants include:
Sophie Cavoulacos, curator Department of Film/MoMa;
Andrea Lissoni, artistic director Haus der Kunst Munich;
Valentine Umansky, curator International Art/Tate Modern.
Moderator: Erika Balsom, lecturer in Film Studies at Kings College London.

This in-depth discussion is intended to reflect on the ways in which the curating of moving images has been transformed in recent years, and in particular on the post-pandemic scenarios between physical space and the digital dimension, between cinema and contemporary art institutions.

NOVEMBER 19 AT 3:00PM
Altana di Palazzo Strozzi

English language
Free entrance

Lecture by artist Assaf Gruber
introduced by Gerhard Wolf, director Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz

NOVEMBER 21 AT 3:30PM 
Fototeca of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut, Palazzo Grifoni Budini Gattai

English language
Free entry