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   Ada Ackerman, PhD in Art history at University Paris-Ouest-Nanterre-
la Défense and Université de Montréal, works as a Permanent Researcher at
THALIM/CNRS (French National Research Center). A former student of Ecole
Normale Supérieure, Paris, and a specialist of Sergei Eisenstein’s work, she has
published A biblioteca infinita de Sergei Eisenstein/The infinite Library of Sergei
Eisenstein (2019) and Eisenstein et Daumier, des affinités électives (2013). She
focuses on the relations between art (mainly cinema and painting) as well as on
cultural exchanges between Soviet Union, Europe and the United States. She
has curated the show “The Ecstatic Eye: Sergei Eisenstein at the crossroads of
arts”, for the Centre Pompidou-Metz, and edited its catalogue (2019–2020). She
has also curated for the Jewish Museum in Paris the show Golem! Avatars d’une
légende d’argile (2017) and directed its catalogue.

  Federica Cavaletti obtained her PhD degree in Humanities (curriculum:
Communication, media and performing arts) at the Catholic University of the
Sacred Heart of Milan. Her dissertation consisted in a theoretical and empirical
exploration of time perception in the audiovisual experience. She was recently
appointed as Post-Doc researcher in Aesthetics at the University of Milan, within
the ERC project ‘AN-ICON – An-iconology. History. Theory and Practices of
Environmental Images’. In the context of this project, she works on several
experiential aspects of virtual reality, and on this medium’s applications in
professional domains such as psychology and medicine.

   Filippo Fimiani, PhD in Philosophy at Paris 8-Saint-Denis and the University
of Naples, is Full Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Salerno. Visiting
Professor at the EHESS, Paris 7-Diderot, University of Pau, he is Member of
the Italian Society of Aesthetics and of many academic centers — among which
Institute of Arts Creations Theories Aesthetics (ACTE, Paris 1 Panthéon-
Sorbonne-CNRS), International Laboratory for Research in Art-Visual and
Performance Studies (LIRA, Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3), Canter Inter-Critical
of Arts and Discourses on Arts (CICADA, Pau). Devoted of rhetoric issues in
visual and literary culture, aesthetics and media, Fimiani is co-editor of ‘Aisthesis’.

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   Barbara Grespi is Associate Professor at the department of Philosophy “Piero
Martinetti”, State University of Milan, where she teaches cinema and visual
culture studies. She has written extensively on the theme of gesture, on the
relationship between cinema and photography, and on the theories of montage.
Her essays have appeared in several international journals among which Acoma,
Agalma, Aisthesis, Interface, Cinema&Cie (of this last she is also editor). Her
main publications include Memoria e Immagini (ed., 2009), Cinema e montaggio
(2010), Gus Van Sant (ed., 2011), Fuori quadro (co-ed., 2013), Overlapping
Images (co-ed., 2016), Harun Farocki (co-ed., 2017), Il cinema come gesto (2017),
Apparizioni (co-ed., 2018), Figure del corpo (2019), Bodies of Stone in the Media,
Visual Culture and the Arts (co-ed., 2020).

   Regina Karl is Assistant Professor of German Studies and Film&Media at
Rutgers University. She received her PhD from Yale University. Her current book
project entitled ‘Manipulations: The Hand as Symbol and Symptom’, reassesses
the impact of technological reproducibility based on a sweeping emergence of
hands in German and French literature, photography, and film after the turn
of the century. She has co-edited several volumes in the series Unbedingte
Universitäten (diaphanes 2010). Amongst more recent publications is an essay
on the question of technology in Paul Valéry and Walter Benjamin included
in Entwendungen. Walter Benjamin und seine Quellen (Paderborn: Fink, 2019).

   Petra Löffler is Professor for History and Theory of Contempory Media
at the Carl von Ossietzky University, Oldenburg. She has held research
and teaching positions at the Universities of Cologne, Regensburg, Vienna,
Weimar and Lüneburg and was Guest Professor at the University of Siegen,
at the Bauhaus University, Weimar and at the Institute for Cultural Studies of
Humboldt University, Berlin. She is author of several edited volumes and books
on media archaeology, ecology and media practices, Verteilte Aufmerksamkeit.
Eine Mediengeschichte der Zerstreuung (2014) and Bilder verteilen. Fotografische
Praktiken in der digitalen Kultur (2018) among others.

   Marie Martin, Associate Professor in Film Studies at the University of Poitiers
since 2009, wrote a PhD entitled: ‘Poétique du rêve. L’exemple de l’avant-
garde cinématographique en France (1919–1934)’. She focuses on film theory,
psychological processes, intermediality. She was coeditor of two books: with
Laurence Schifano, Rêve et cinema: Mouvances théoriques autour d’un champ
créatif (Presses Universitaires de Parie Ouest, 2012) and with Véronique Campan
and Sylvie Rollet, Qu’est-ce qu’un geste politique au cinéma? (Presses Universitaires
de Rennes, 2019). She is also editor of the issue of CiNéMAS dedicated to « secret
remakes » (Le Remake: Généalogies secrètes dans l’histoire du cinéma).

  Olga Moskatova is Assistant Professor for Media Studies at Friedrich-
Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg. Between 2012 and 2018 she

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worked as Media Studies researcher and lecturer at the Bauhaus University
Weimar. Her main research fields include theory and aesthetics of analogue and
digital visual media, experimental and avant-garde film, materiality of media, and
philosophy of relations. She is the author of Male am Zelluloid. Zum relationalen
Materialismus im kameralosen Film (transcript 2019).

   Greta Plaitano got her Bachelor’s Degree in Cultural Heritage Studies at the
University of Milan, moving then to the University of Udine for her Master’s
Degree in Art History and Heritage Preservation. She’s currently doing her PhD
at the same University in Art History, Film Studies, Media Studies, and Music;
her research project investigates the relationships between art and medicine, and
the pedagogical use of photographic and pre-cinematographic devices between
the xix and xx centuries.

   Andrea Pinotti is professor in Aesthetics at the department of Philosophy
“Piero Martinetti”, State University of Milan, and fellow of international
institutions such as the IEA in Paris and the ZfL in Berlin. His research focuses
on image theories and visual culture studies, memorialisation and monumentality,
empathy theories. Among his publications the volumes Empathie. Histoire d’une
idée de Platon au post-humain (Vrin 2016), Cultura visuale. Immagini sguardi
media dispositivi (in collaboration with Antonio Somaini, Einaudi 2016). In 2018
he was awarded the Wissenschaftspreis der Aby-Warburg-Stiftung in Hamburg.
He is currently directing an ERC-Advanced project entitled An-iconology.
History, Theory, and Practices of Environmental Images.

   Rebecca Puchta has been a PhD Candidate in the research collective
‘Configurations of Film’ at Goethe University, Frankfurt, since 2017. In her PhD
project she deals with the notion of documentary after Snowden and combines
perspectives from media and cultural theory and governmentality studies. She is
associated member of the DFG research group ‘Media and Participation’ that is
based in Constance.

   Lucia Ruprecht is a Fellow of Emmanuel College and an affiliated Lecturer
at the Section of German and Dutch, University of Cambridge, UK. She is
author of Gestural Imaginaries: Dance and Cultural Theory in the Early
Twentieth Century (OUP, 2019) and Dances of the Self in Heinrich von Kleist,
E. T. A. Hoffmann and Heinrich Heine (Ashgate, 2006; special citation of the
de la Torre-Bueno Prize, 2007), edited Towards an Ethics of Gesture (special
section of Performance Philosophy, 2017), and co-edited New German Dance
Studies (University of Illinois Press, 2012), Cultural Pleasure (special issue of
German Life & Letters, 2009), and Performance and Performativity in German
Cultural Studies (Lang, 2003).



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