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Papers by Valeria Federici
AIDAInformazioni, 2024
The term datafication has the ability to embrace a series of aspects that span from the field of ... more The term datafication has the ability to embrace a series of aspects that span from the field of computer science to social and cultural studies. While the process of datafication (taking aspects of life and turning them into data) is surrounded by a lure of abstraction and neutrality; similarly to other computational processes, datafication reflects cultural biases, flaws, and implications that affect knowledge and knowledge production. This article explores datafication as related to the semantic web, web ontologies, and other systems of classification as both method and structure of art historical analysis. By analyzing two digital repositories that run on MediaWiki, the goal of this investigation is to incentivize a model that, under the umbrella of digital art history, unifies aspects pertaining to digital curatorship and digital preservation. The two case studies are: The History of Early American Landscape Design (HEALD)and The Educational Encyclopedia of Digital Arts (EduEDA).
Valeria Federici. Review of "Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today" by Eva Respini
Representations of Female Identity in Italy - From Neoclassism to the 21st Century, 2017
In this chapter, I analyze women's role models in television and cinema in early 1950s Italy by e... more In this chapter, I analyze women's role models in television and cinema in early 1950s Italy by exploring who decided on these models and if they were addressed toward women of a specific class. Through this investigation, I highlight how the proper, upstanding woman of the TV represented by Signorine Buonasera (female TV announcers) apparently clashes with the more attractive and tempting diva of cinema while in fact, these contiguous representations of women constitute a reiteration of the subordinate role of the woman in Italian society. I compare images, scripts and ways of speaking of the Signorine Buonasera, with similar features of female characters in three Italian movies released in 1954, the year of the official birth of television in Italy. The movies cited are: Senso by Luchino Visconti, which made use of highly sexualized opera costumes; L'oro di Napoli by Vittorio De Sica, starring Sophia Loren, soon the be a cinema icon and object of desire for many; and Pane, Amore e Gelosia by Luigi Comencini, starring Gina Lollobrigida, another woman who became a starlet. In addition, I consider material from popular newspapers and posters used during the national elections of 1953. Through the analysis of all these elements, I contend that although the image of Signorine Buonasera is used to display good morals in contrast to the image of movie starlets, both representations form a monolithic identity of a woman who is ultimately described as occupying a secondary role in the Italian society, subordinate to men. Finally, I explore the role of the major political parties of the time, the Christian Democratic party, and the Communist party, in defining how women ought to be portrayed in the media, and the influence of the Catholic Church in providing censorship guidelines for both television and cinema.
Exhibition brochures of "A Lot of Possibilities" a project by artist Anna Lise Jensen that belon... more Exhibition brochures of "A Lot of Possibilities" a project by artist Anna Lise Jensen that belongs to a practice of contemporary art that reflects the concept of artwork as communal and participatory.
XMALIA is a performance created by C. Ryder Cooley, an inter-disciplinary artist, musician and pe... more XMALIA is a performance created by C. Ryder Cooley, an inter-disciplinary artist, musician and performer. Weaving together found materials with chimeric images, her work reveals a terrain of lost dreams and phantom memories.This interview was published in Positive-Magazine.com http://www.positive-magazine.com/xmalia-a-graveyard-cabaret/
Bureau for Open Culture (BOC) is a non-profit nomadic organization for the contemporary arts that... more Bureau for Open Culture (BOC) is a non-profit nomadic organization for the
contemporary arts that operates through unlimited forms of representation in and outside of the gallery space. This conversation with founder and curator of BOC, James Voorhies was published on Positive-Magazine.com http://www.positive-magazine.com/bureau-for-open-culture-2/
Virginia Inés Vergara was born and raised in NYC. After receiving her BFA from Rhode Island Schoo... more Virginia Inés Vergara was born and raised in NYC. After receiving her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and her MFA in photography from Hunter College, she has maintained a studio practice in Brooklyn, NY. this interview was published on Positive-Magazine.com http://www.positive-magazine.com/virginia-vergara-quantity-and-form-of-a-substance/
Ven Voisey is a multidisciplinary artist, working in sculpture, installation, painting, and sound... more Ven Voisey is a multidisciplinary artist, working in sculpture, installation, painting, and sound. His practice, however an overarching interest in communication — the possibility or impossibility of translation — between each other and o across circumstance and species, and through time and technology. This interview and his work was featured on Positive-Magazine.com http://www.positive-magazine.com/ven-voisey-visceral-vs-intellectual-knowledge/
This is a blogpost regarding an yearly event celebrating Jazz culture that takes place on Governo... more This is a blogpost regarding an yearly event celebrating Jazz culture that takes place on Governor Island in New York. It was published in the Culture section of Positive-Magazine.com http://www.positive-magazine.com/goodbye-mr-moon/
Sandra Mack Valencia is a New York-based artist originally from Medellin, Colombia. This intervie... more Sandra Mack Valencia is a New York-based artist originally from Medellin, Colombia. This interview was published on Positive-Magazine.com http://www.positive-magazine.com/sandra-mack-valencia/
Liz Nofziger is a site-specific installation artist whose work examines the relationships to spac... more Liz Nofziger is a site-specific installation artist whose work examines the relationships to space within the physical, architectural, political, and pop-cultural landscape. She works and lives in Boston. this interview was published on Positive-Magazine.com http://www.positive-magazine.com/interview-with-liz-nofziger/
AIDAInformazioni, 2024
The term datafication has the ability to embrace a series of aspects that span from the field of ... more The term datafication has the ability to embrace a series of aspects that span from the field of computer science to social and cultural studies. While the process of datafication (taking aspects of life and turning them into data) is surrounded by a lure of abstraction and neutrality; similarly to other computational processes, datafication reflects cultural biases, flaws, and implications that affect knowledge and knowledge production. This article explores datafication as related to the semantic web, web ontologies, and other systems of classification as both method and structure of art historical analysis. By analyzing two digital repositories that run on MediaWiki, the goal of this investigation is to incentivize a model that, under the umbrella of digital art history, unifies aspects pertaining to digital curatorship and digital preservation. The two case studies are: The History of Early American Landscape Design (HEALD)and The Educational Encyclopedia of Digital Arts (EduEDA).
Valeria Federici. Review of "Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today" by Eva Respini
Representations of Female Identity in Italy - From Neoclassism to the 21st Century, 2017
In this chapter, I analyze women's role models in television and cinema in early 1950s Italy by e... more In this chapter, I analyze women's role models in television and cinema in early 1950s Italy by exploring who decided on these models and if they were addressed toward women of a specific class. Through this investigation, I highlight how the proper, upstanding woman of the TV represented by Signorine Buonasera (female TV announcers) apparently clashes with the more attractive and tempting diva of cinema while in fact, these contiguous representations of women constitute a reiteration of the subordinate role of the woman in Italian society. I compare images, scripts and ways of speaking of the Signorine Buonasera, with similar features of female characters in three Italian movies released in 1954, the year of the official birth of television in Italy. The movies cited are: Senso by Luchino Visconti, which made use of highly sexualized opera costumes; L'oro di Napoli by Vittorio De Sica, starring Sophia Loren, soon the be a cinema icon and object of desire for many; and Pane, Amore e Gelosia by Luigi Comencini, starring Gina Lollobrigida, another woman who became a starlet. In addition, I consider material from popular newspapers and posters used during the national elections of 1953. Through the analysis of all these elements, I contend that although the image of Signorine Buonasera is used to display good morals in contrast to the image of movie starlets, both representations form a monolithic identity of a woman who is ultimately described as occupying a secondary role in the Italian society, subordinate to men. Finally, I explore the role of the major political parties of the time, the Christian Democratic party, and the Communist party, in defining how women ought to be portrayed in the media, and the influence of the Catholic Church in providing censorship guidelines for both television and cinema.
Exhibition brochures of "A Lot of Possibilities" a project by artist Anna Lise Jensen that belon... more Exhibition brochures of "A Lot of Possibilities" a project by artist Anna Lise Jensen that belongs to a practice of contemporary art that reflects the concept of artwork as communal and participatory.
XMALIA is a performance created by C. Ryder Cooley, an inter-disciplinary artist, musician and pe... more XMALIA is a performance created by C. Ryder Cooley, an inter-disciplinary artist, musician and performer. Weaving together found materials with chimeric images, her work reveals a terrain of lost dreams and phantom memories.This interview was published in Positive-Magazine.com http://www.positive-magazine.com/xmalia-a-graveyard-cabaret/
Bureau for Open Culture (BOC) is a non-profit nomadic organization for the contemporary arts that... more Bureau for Open Culture (BOC) is a non-profit nomadic organization for the
contemporary arts that operates through unlimited forms of representation in and outside of the gallery space. This conversation with founder and curator of BOC, James Voorhies was published on Positive-Magazine.com http://www.positive-magazine.com/bureau-for-open-culture-2/
Virginia Inés Vergara was born and raised in NYC. After receiving her BFA from Rhode Island Schoo... more Virginia Inés Vergara was born and raised in NYC. After receiving her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and her MFA in photography from Hunter College, she has maintained a studio practice in Brooklyn, NY. this interview was published on Positive-Magazine.com http://www.positive-magazine.com/virginia-vergara-quantity-and-form-of-a-substance/
Ven Voisey is a multidisciplinary artist, working in sculpture, installation, painting, and sound... more Ven Voisey is a multidisciplinary artist, working in sculpture, installation, painting, and sound. His practice, however an overarching interest in communication — the possibility or impossibility of translation — between each other and o across circumstance and species, and through time and technology. This interview and his work was featured on Positive-Magazine.com http://www.positive-magazine.com/ven-voisey-visceral-vs-intellectual-knowledge/
This is a blogpost regarding an yearly event celebrating Jazz culture that takes place on Governo... more This is a blogpost regarding an yearly event celebrating Jazz culture that takes place on Governor Island in New York. It was published in the Culture section of Positive-Magazine.com http://www.positive-magazine.com/goodbye-mr-moon/
Sandra Mack Valencia is a New York-based artist originally from Medellin, Colombia. This intervie... more Sandra Mack Valencia is a New York-based artist originally from Medellin, Colombia. This interview was published on Positive-Magazine.com http://www.positive-magazine.com/sandra-mack-valencia/
Liz Nofziger is a site-specific installation artist whose work examines the relationships to spac... more Liz Nofziger is a site-specific installation artist whose work examines the relationships to space within the physical, architectural, political, and pop-cultural landscape. She works and lives in Boston. this interview was published on Positive-Magazine.com http://www.positive-magazine.com/interview-with-liz-nofziger/
Annali d'italianistica, 2023
Book Review of Lindsay Caplan. Arte Programmata. Freedom, Control, and the Computer in 1960s Ital... more Book Review of Lindsay Caplan. Arte Programmata. Freedom, Control, and the Computer in 1960s Italy. U of Minnesota P, 2022. Pp. 319.
Review of the book "Disrupting Business: Art and Activism in Times of Financial Crisis" edited by... more Review of the book "Disrupting Business: Art and Activism in Times of Financial Crisis" edited by Tatiana Bazzichelli and Geoff Cox (DATA browser 05, Autonomedia, 2013), published on the Oxford Art Journal