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The PhD in Visual and Media Studies at the IULM University of Milan is a place of convergence of theoretical knowledge and operational strategies related to the study of media, visual languages and literature.

In order to direct its research activities towards innovative areas of shared and strategic interest at an international level, it has chosen to deepen its study of media and visual culture from an interdisciplinary perspective, drawing on experiences such as those of the UCLA School of Theatre, Film and Television in Los Angeles, New York University and Chicago University.

Curricula activated 

  1. Visual Arts
  2. Film and Media Studies
  3. Literature and Transmedia Studies

Duration of the Doctorate

3 years

The main areas of research:

Film and Media Studies
Within a perspective of Visual Culture - attentive to the historical, culturally and socially determined dimension of images - the curriculum of Film and Media Studies focuses on the study of audiovisual media, starting with cinema. In particular, there are some lines of research related to the different areas of media theory and history (photography, cinema, television / digital culture / critical theory of Internet / game studies). The first path, more directly linked to Film Studies, includes: media archaeology; the relationship between image and memory, not only in the historical or testimonial sense; visual memory in cinema and the arts; amateur practices and non-theatrical production; the relationships between cinema and photography: film and photography, still image and moving image; visual aesthetics of the contemporary; aesthetics and narratives of digital.
Another line of research specifically concerns contemporary television production, with particular attention to: forms and techniques of television serial productions; practices of television and media consumption; analysis of media narratives. A further course focuses on the history of the media (application of models of economic history, long-term historiography and social construction of technologies) and the history of the cultural industry (analysis of cultural markets, models of quantitative history, production and distribution cycles).
The study of Digital Humanities - with particular attention to the critical theory of the Internet, the political economy of the Web and the relationship between online and offline behaviour practices - and Game Studies, also in their art-related dimension, complete the research paths of the curriculum in Film and Media Studies.

Visual Arts
Part of the PhD in Visual and Media Studies, the curriculum of Visual arts falls within the sphere of visual studies adopting the same perspective and methodology towards the study of the image, but choosing as a specific field of investigation the system of visual arts. Languages investigated according to a specific in-depth study of the individual disciplines or from an intermedia point of view, open to bringing out the links that exist between the different disciplines, aimed at tracing their cultural and social effects, and at comparing and developing practices and exhibition media.
In particular, various research areas are covered by the teachers involved in the curriculum of Visual arts: Visual Culture; History of Medieval Byzantine Art; History of Modern Art; History of Contemporary Art; Art and Cinema; Art and Media; Photography; Video Art; Art and Television; Museology; History of Collecting; Exhibition Curatorship, Iconography and Iconology; Aesthetics.

Literature and Transmedia Studies:
As part of the PhD in Visual and Media Studies, the curriculum in Literature and Transmedia Studies focuses on the evolution of literary polysystems in the light of multiple historical and geographical contexts, specific media landscapes and different cultural backgrounds. Comparing different methodological perspectives, the didactic project aims in particular to explore the changing boundaries between the tools of artistic communication, the technological potential of individual media and their correlations, with a specific focus on the hybridization between various languages and various devices.
The activities of analysis and research range across the methodological horizons of literary historiography, narratology, comparative literature, integrating them into an interdisciplinary approach to the practice of writing. Along these main axes, we propose to offer the essential hermeneutical keys useful to measure ourselves both with the historical evolution of the art of storytelling and with problems connected to the increasingly frequent synergies between different sectors of the market for the production of symbolic assets: from infra- and intersemiotic translation to the policies of adaptation, from the theories of rewriting to the various declinations of intermediality.

Academic Year 2018/2019
  • Gianfranco Noferi: Deputy Director Rai Cultura Palinsesti e Piani, will hold a seminar at PhD in Visual and Media Studies on 10 June 2019 at 14.00. The title of the speech is L'esperienza di Rai Cultura nella evoluzione della comunicazione in Italia (Rai Culture experience in the evolution of communication in Italy)
  • Arturo Galansino: General Manager of the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi held a seminar entitled Palazzostrozzi. New Renaissance for Florence
  • Paola Dubini: Professor at Bocconi University, held a seminar entitled Measuring the value of culture

  • Makoto Sekimura, professor of Aesthetics and Philosophy at Hiroshima University, held a seminar entitled Spatiality and human beings in Japanese cultures.Click hereto download the abstract and the short bio

  • Emanuele Zinato:Associate professor of Contemporary Italian Literature at the University of Padua, he held a seminar entitled Starting with Huysmans: the aesthete, the objects and the technical reproducibility. Theoretical and methodological issues.Click here to download the abstract and the short bio

  • Pierluigi Pellini:Director of the Department of Philology and Criticism of Ancient and Modern Literatures at the University of Siena, he is full professor of Contemporary Italian Literature. He held a seminar Statutes of the symbol between naturalism, symbolism and modernism. Click here to download the abstract and the short bio

  • Bart Van Den Bossche: Professor of Italian Literature at KU Leuven University. He will hold a seminar on 26 February at 1.30 p.m. entitled Images and words: the use of literature in the modernist period Click here to download the abstract, the short bio and the bibliography

  • Antonio Pizzo teaches Performance Dramaturgy at the DAMS of the University of Turin. He will hold a seminar on 29 January at 13.30 entitled "The forms of digital performance between theories and praxis". Click here to download the abstract and bibliography

  • Massimiliano Rossi: Full Professor of History of Art Criticism and Museology at the University of Salento since 2003. It will hold a seminar on 17 January at 10:30 entitled "Poetics and rhetoric for images: literary artists and literary clients in the early modern age. Click here to download the abstract and bibliography

  • Paolo Coen: Associate Professor in History of Modern Art at the University of Teramo. Prof. Coen will hold a seminar on 21 January at 15.00 entitled "From Primo Levi, with Primo Levi, to Primo Levi. Art and museums of the Holocaust, silent but not silent witnesses of Memory". Click here to download abstracts and biography.

  • Nicola Dusi: Professor of Intermediate Languages and Critical Analysis of Film at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Department of Communication and Economics. Click here to download abstracts and biography.

Academic Year 2017/2018

  • John Crawford: associate Dean with the Academy of Arts at the University of California Irvine. Prof. Crawford gave a lecture entitled "Exploring the use of processed digital media and computer-based interactivity in live performance".

  • Tom Konyves: one of the founders of the collective The Vehicule Poets held two lessons entitled: Approaching Videopoetry: Origins, Constraints, Categories - Evaluating Videopoetry: Selection, Modification, Juxtaposition.

  • Prof. Boris Groys: Professor of Aesthetics, Art History and Media Theory at the Center for Media Art and Theory in Karlsruhe, Germany, and Global Professor at New York University in the United States. He is considered the leading scholar of media theory and has given two lectures entitled: An alternative history of modernism I: Kandinsky and art as the medium of affects - here you can find the poster; An alternative history of modernism II: Malevich and Cosmic imagination.

  • Carlo Fontana: Theatre Director and President of A.G.I.S. (Associazione Generale Italiana dello Spettacolo) from 12 September 2013. Carlo Fontana gave a lecture entitled Working in Culture: History of Operations and Institutions. Click here to download the poster!

  • Prof. Joshua Yumibe: Associate Professor of Film Studies at Michigan State University. Prof. Yumibe will be the guest of the PhD on May 3 to give a lecture entitled: Chromatic Modernity: Silent Cinema and the Legacies of Color

  • Prof. Federico Vercellone: Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Turin. Vercellone gave a lecture entitled "Modern Revolutions of Katechon. Starting with Anselm Kiefer"

  • Prof. Christine Macel: since 2000 she has been Chief Curator of the Musée national d'art moderne - Centre Pompidou in Paris, where she is responsible for the Department of "Création contemporaine et prospective" that she founded and developed. She has been curator of the French Pavilion at the Biennale Arte 2013 (Anri Sala), of the Belgian Pavilion at the Biennale Arte 2007 (Eric Duyckaerts), and director of the Biennale d'Arte 2017 Viva, arte viva!... He gave a lecture entitled: "The Experience of the General Director of La Biennale Arti Visive Venezia 2017.

  • Prof. Richard Dyer: Emeritus Professor at King's College London gave a lecture entitled "Is It Their Song? The Use of Song in Film Melodrama".

  • Prof. Giancarlo Alfano: Associate Professor of Italian Literature at the University of Naples Federico II held a lecture entitled With the face page. Narration, photography and typography in
    Sebald's work.

  • Prof. W.J.T Mitchell: Professor of "English and Art History" at the University of Chicago

  • Prof.ssa Cristina Baldacci: Fellow at ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry gave a lecture entitled: The Wandering Archive as a Metaphor and Symptom in Contemporary Art.

  • Michele Cometa: Professor of History of Culture and Visual Culture at the University of Palermo. At this link you can download the abstract of his speech: On the origins of make-image. The Visual Culture of the Palaeolithic and here you can download the poster of the intervention.

  • Riccardo Falcinelli: one of the most appreciated visual designers on the Italian graphic scene and author of Cromorama,. He gave a lecture entitled "Colour as a mass medium. Design, perception, communication"

  • Prof. Salvatore Silvano Nigro: Emeritus Professor of Italian Literature

  • Prof. Emilio Sala: Associate Professor of Music at the University of Milan.

  • Prof. Michele Dantini: Professor of Contemporary Art History at the University for Foreigners of Perugia and Visiting Professor at IMT Scuola di Alti Studi Lucca. He gave a lecture entitled Continuity|Discontinuity. Visual arts, society and politics between fascism and neo-avant-garde.

  • Prof.ssa Anna Maria Lorusso: associate professor at the Department of Philosophy and Communication of the University of Bologna, where she teaches Semiotics, Semiotics of Culture and Semiotics of Journalistic Texts. Controversial images, between information, denunciation and self-representation. He gave a lecture entitled: Controversial images, between information, denunciation and self-representation.

  • Prof. Guglielmo Pescatore: Full Professor of Cinema, Photography, Television at the University of Bologna. He gave a lecture entitled: Narrative ecosystems. A new approach to serial narratives, scheduled for 21 and 22 November, in Room 157.

  • Prof. Carole Talon-Hugon: Professor at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Nice-Côte d'Azur

Academic Year 2016/2017

  • Paolo Baratta: President of the Venice Biennale.

  • Francesco Casetti: Professor of Humanitics and Professor of Film Studies at Yale University.

  • Franco Farinelli: Full Professor of Geography Director of the Department of Philosophies and Communication - University of Bologna.

  • Francesco Valagussa: Professor of Aesthetics and forms of doing and Metaphysics of the practices of the University Vita-Salute San Raffaele

  • Chus Martìnez : Director of the Art Institute of the FHNW Academy of Arts and Design in Basel, Switzerland Watch the interview

  • Boris Groys: Professor of Aesthetics, Art History, and Media Theory at the Center for Media Art and Karlsruhe Theory, Germany Global Professor at New York University

  • Prof. Arturo Mazzerella: Full Professor of Literature and Visual Arts and Theories and Techniques of Narrative Department of Philosophy, Communication








Pierluigi Pellini

Bart Van Den Bossche

Antonio Pizzo

Massimiliano Rossi

Paolo Coen

Nicola Dusi

Medial intertwining conference. Articulations of the iconic in contemporary visual culture

Click here to download abstracts and biographies of the teachers who will speak at the conference

Academic Year 2017/2018

John Crawford

Tom Konyves

Prof. Boris Groys

Carlo Fontana

Prof. Joshua Yumibe

Prof. Federico Vercellone

Prof. Christine Macel

Prof. Richard Dyer

Prof. Giancarlo Alfano

Prof. W.J.T Mitchell

Prof.ssa Cristina Baldacci

Prof. Michele Cometa

Riccardo Falcinelli

Prof. Salvatore Silvano Nigro

Prof. Emilio Sala

Prof. Michele Dantini

Prof.ssa Anna Maria Lorusso

Prof. Guglielmo Pescatore

Prof.ssa Carole Talon-Hugon

Academic Year 2016/2017

Paolo Baratta

Francesco Casetti

Franco Farinelli

Francesco Valagussa

Chus Martìnez

Prof. Arturo Mazzerella


Arturo Galansino

Arturo Galansino, General Manager of the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, will hold a seminar entitled Palazzo strozzi. New Renaissance for Florence, May 6 at 10:30 a.m., in Room 152. Download here
the poster.

Paola Dubini

Prof. Paola Dubini, professor at Bocconi University, will hold a seminar on 8 April at 10.30 a.m. on Measuring the value of culture. Download the poster!

Makoto Sekimura

Makoto Sekimura, professor of Aesthetics and Philosophy at Hiroshima University, will hold a seminar on March 19 at 13.30 entitled Spatiality and human beings in Japanese culture. Click here to download the abstract and the short bio.

Emanuele Zinato

Emanuele Zinato, Associate Professor of Contemporary Italian Literature at the University of Padua, will hold a seminar on 8 March at 10.30 a.m. entitled Starting with Huysmans: the aesthete, objects and technical reproducibility. Theoretical and methodological questions. Click here to download the abstract and the short bio.

Pierluigi Pellini

Pierluigi Pellini, Director of the Department of Philology and Criticism of Ancient and Modern Literatures at the University of Siena, is full professor of Contemporary Italian Literature. He will hold a seminar on 28 February at 10.30 a.m. entitled Statutes of the symbol between naturalism, symbolism and modernism. Click here to download the abstract and the short bio

Bart Van Den Bossche

Bart Van Den Bossche teaches Italian Literature at KU Leuven University. He will hold a seminar on 26 February at 13.30 entitled Images and words: the use of literature in the modernist period. Click here to download the abstract, short bio and bibliography.

Antonio Pizzo

Antonio Pizzo teaches Performance Dramaturgy at the DAMS of the University of Turin. He will hold a seminar on 29 January at 13.30 entitled "The forms of digital performance between theories and praxis". Click here to download the abstract and bibliography.

Massimiliano Rossi

Massimiliano Rossi has been full professor of History of Art Criticism and Museology at the University of Salento since 2003. He will hold a seminar January 17 at 10:30 a.m. entitled "Poetics and rhetoric for images: artists and writers commissioners in the early modern age. Click here to download the abstract and bibliography.

Paolo Coen

Paolo Coen is associate professor in History of Modern Art at the University of Teramo. Prof. Coen will hold a seminar on 21 January at 15.00 entitled "From Primo Levi, with Primo Levi, to Primo Levi. Art and museums of the Holocaust, silent but not silent witnesses of Memory". Click here to download the abstract and bibliography.

Nicola Dusi

Click here to read the biography of Nicola Dusi, professor of Intermediate Languages and Critical Analysis of the film at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Department of Communication and Economics. Nicola Dusi will hold a seminar on January 15 at 10.30 a.m.


Conference Medial braids. Articulations of the iconic in contemporary visual culture
Click on hereto download the abstracts and biographies of the teachers who will speak at the conference

John Crawford

John Crawford is associated with Dean at the Academy of Arts at the University of California Irvine. Prof. Crawford will be the guest of the PhD on June 22nd to give a lecture entitled "Exploring the use of processed digital media and computer-based interactivity in live performance". Click here to download the poster!

Tom Konyves

Click here to download the curriculum of Tom Konyves, one of the founders of the collective The Vehicule Poets who will be a guest of the Doctorate on 6 and 7 June to hold two lectures entitled Approaching Videopoetry: Origins, Constraints, Categories - Evaluating Videopoetry: Selection, Modification, Juxtaposition.

Prof. Boris Groys

Click here to download the resume of Boris Groys, professor of Aesthetics, History of Art and Media Theory at the Center for Media Art and Theory in Karlsruhe, Germany, and Global Professor at New York University in the United States. He is considered the leading scholar of media theory and will be a guest of the PhD on 14 and 15 May to give two lectures entitled: An alternative history of modernism I: Kandinsky and art as the medium of affects - here you can find the poster; An alternative history of modernism II: Malevich and Cosmic imagination - here you can find the poster.

Carlo Fontana

Click here to download the curriculum of Carlo Fontana, Cultural Manager and Theatre Director and President of A.G.I.S. (Associazione Generale Italiana dello Spettacolo) since 12 September 2013. Carlo Fontana will be a guest of the Doctorate on 8 and 9 May to give a lecture entitled Working in Culture: History of Operations and Institutions. Click here to download the poster!

Prof. Joshua Yumibe

Click here to download the resume and abstract of Joshua Yumibe, associate professor of Film Studies at Michigan State University. Prof. Yumibe will be the guest of the PhD on May 3 to give a lecture entitled: Chromatic Modernity: Silent Cinema and the Legacies of Color. Click here to download the poster!

Prof. Federico Vercellone

Click here to download the curriculum of Federico Vercellone, professor of Aesthetics at the University of Turin. Vercellone will be a guest of the Doctorate on Tuesday, April 17 to give a lecture entitled "Modern Revolutions of Katechon. Starting with Anselm Kiefer". Click here to download the poster!

Prof. Christine Macel

Christine Macel has been Chief Curator of the Musée national d'art moderne - Centre Pompidou in Paris since 2000, where she is responsible for the Department of "Création contemporaine et prospective" which she founded and developed. She has been curator of the French Pavilion at the Biennale Arte 2013 (Anri Sala), of the Belgian Pavilion at the Biennale Arte 2007 (Eric Duyckaerts), and director of the Biennale d'Arte 2017 Viva, arte viva!... He will be a guest of the Doctorate on Wednesday, April 11 to give the lecture entitled: "The Experience of the General Director of La Biennale Arti Visive Venezia 2017 Click here to download the poster!

Prof. Richard Dyer

Click here to download Richard Dyer's resume, Professor Emeritus at King's College London, and the abstract of his lecture entitled "Is It Their Song? The Use of Song in Film Melodrama". Click here to download the poster!

Prof. Giancarlo Alfano

Click here to download the curriculum of Giancarlo Alfano, Associate Professor of Italian Literature at the University of Naples Federico II, while at this link you can download the abstract of his lecture entitled With the face page. Narration, photography and typography in Sebald
's work.

Prof. W.J.T Mitchell

Click here to download the resume of W.J.T Mitchell, Professor of "English and Art History" at the University of Chicago. Click here for the lesson poster of 12 March and here for the lesson of 13 March.

Prof.ssa Cristina Baldacci

Click here to download the curriculum of Prof. Cristina Baldacci - Fellow at ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry - who will give the lecture entitled: The Wandering Archive as a metaphor and symptom in contemporary art.

Prof. Michele Cometa

Click here to download the curriculum of Michele Cometa, professor of History of Culture and Visual Culture at the University of Palermo. At this link you can download the abstract of his speech: On the origins of make-image. The Visual Culture of the Palaeolithic and here you can download the poster of the intervention.

Riccardo Falcinelli

RIccardo Falcinelli is one of the most appreciated visual designers on the Italian graphic scene and author of Cromorama, here you can download the poster of his lesson entitled "Il colore come mass medium. Design, perception, communication".

Prof. Salvatore Silvano Nigro

Click here to download the curriculum vitae of Prof. Salvatore Silvano Nigro, full professor of Italian Literature.

Prof. Emilio Sala

Click here to download the curriculum vitae of Prof. Emilio Sala, Associate Professor of Music at the University of Milan.

Prof. Michele Dantini

Click here to download the curriculum vitae of Michele Dantini, professor of contemporary art history at the University for Foreigners of Perugia and Visiting Professor at IMT Scuola di Alti Studi Lucca. While at this link you can download the abstract of his paper Continuity|discontinuity. Visual arts, society and politics between fascism and neo-avant-garde.

Prof.ssa Anna Maria Lorusso

Click here to download the curriculum of Anna Maria Lorusso, associate professor at the Department of Philosophy and Communication at the University of Bologna, where she teaches Semiotics, Semiotics of Culture and Semiotics of Journalistic Texts. At this link you can download the abstract of his speech: Images of controversy, between information, complaint and self-representation.

Prof. Guglielmo Pescatore

Click here to download the curriculum of Guglielmo Pescatore, Full Professor of Cinema, Photography, Television at the University of Bologna. At this link you can download the abstract of his speech: Narrative ecosystems. A new approach to serial narratives, scheduled for 21 and 22 November, in Room 157.

Prof.ssa Carole Talon-Hugon

Click here to download the curriculum vitae of Prof. Carole Talon-Hugon, professor at the Department of Philosophy at the Université de Nice-Côte d'Azur.




Paolo Baratt

Paolo Baratta is the President of the Venice Biennale.

Francesco Casetti

Francesco Casetti is Professor of Humanitics and Professor of Film Studies at Yale Universi.

Franco Farinelli
Franco Farinelli is Full Professor of Geography Director of the Department of Philosophy and Communication - University of Bologna.

Francesco Valagussa

Francesco Valagussa is Professor of Aesthetics and forms of doing and Metaphysics of the practices of the University Vita-Salute San Raffaele. Click here to download the resume.

Read the abstract of the lesson

Chus Martìnez

Click here to download the CV of Chus Martìnez, Director of the Art Institute of the FHNW Academy of Arts and Design in Basel, Switzerland Watch the interview

Boris Groys

Click here to download the curriculum of Boris Groys, Professor of Aesthetics, History of Art, and Media Theory at the Center for Media Art and Theory of Karlsruhe, Germany Global Professor at New York University

Prof. Arturo Mazzerella

Click here to download the curriculum of Arturo Mazzerella, Full Professor of Literature and Visual Arts and Theories and Techniques of Narration Department of Philosophy, Communication and Entertainment University of Rome Three


Annual PhD Conference in Visual and Media Studies


Since 2017, the Doctoral School of IULM University has been organizing an annual conference to share and make visible the results of studies conducted by doctoral students and lecturers. The most innovative research topics are discussed in a critical encounter with authoritative scholars, both Italian and foreign, in order to intensify study and find new keys to interpretation. The conferences are open to the public.

21 November 2018 Medial braids. Articulations of the iconic in contemporary visual culture - PhD in Visual and Media Studies
The second conference of the IULM Doctoral School was an opportunity to intensify study and discuss the following question: how can we rethink the concept of media today? Doctoral students and scholars in the field discuss it from three interdisciplinary perspectives: aesthetics and politics of staging, multidimensional relationships between image and word, dynamics of sensitive affection.

Click here to download the programme of the Conference on Intertestuality Issues and here to download the poster

15 November 2017 Intertestuality issues - Phd in Visual and Media Studies


Intertextuality issues is the title of the first conference promoted and organized by the Doctoral School of the IULM University.

The PhD students proposed a day of reflection on the theme of intertextuality, analyzed from three different perspectives: that of Visual Arts with a focus on "rewriting the look"; that of Film Studies focused on "traumatic visions in contemporary non-fiction" and that of Writing, Translation, Creativity oriented towards the concept of "estrangement as a critical interface".
Click here to download the programme of the Conference on Intertestuality Issues and here to download the poster

Editorial series Visual and Media Studies Notebooks

The Visual and Media Studies Notebooks intend to be a place of convergence of theoretical knowledge and operational strategies related to the study of media and visual languages in an interdisciplinary perspective, offering PhD students a space that collects and makes visible the best results of their work. Questions of intertextuality inaugurates the series created as part of the PhD course in Visual and Media Studies.
The volume alternates between work by young scholars and reflections by renowned professors specialised in the theme of rewriting, analysed here from three perspectives: that of Visual Arts, with a focus on rewriting the gaze, that of Film Studies, focused on "traumatic visions in contemporary non-fiction" and that of Writing, Translation, Creativity, oriented towards the concept of "estrangement as a critical interface".

IULM University offers interdisciplinary courses aimed at developing the skills necessary for a researcher in training: communication, design and technical research funding, protection of intellectual property and skills in innovation and digital communication - the strength of our University.

The implementation of these training courses takes place according to the European recommendations on the development of doctoral education: in 2011, the European Commission includes the "Transferable Skills" among the basic principles for innovation of doctoral training courses.

The aim of the interdisciplinary courses is the development of skills that encourage, beyond the academic career, also the inclusion in roles of high responsibility in bodies, institutions, research centres and companies.

English Academic Writing

The course provides practical tools related to:

  • Elements that make up an academic text
  • Call for papers submission: the construction of the abstract
  • Writing a paper
  • Quoting, paraphrasing, referencing techniques
  • Presentation of a research paper
  • Construction of an academic bio short

Copyright

The course provides an introduction to the themes of intellectual property and legal protection of creative activities. The themes of copyright on products of university research and some problematic aspects of the application of rules on intellectual property to activities and works characteristic of the contemporary art scene are the subject of in-depth study.

Theory and practice of European design for cultural and creative enterprises

Training objectives:

  • Acquisition of skills in the analysis of European Union research and development policies for "Cultural and Creative Industries - CCI";
  • Acquisition of the design logic required for participation in European Union Calls for Proposals;
  • Research and analysis of good practices in the field
  • Acquisition of a forma mentis of research oriented to the consideration of the concrete benefits for the whole society, not only for the specific scientific community of reference, in relation to the fruits of its research work.

Contents:

  • EU direct funds for research and development in the field of Cultural and Creative Industries CCIs
  • The logic of European design: the Logical framework approach
  • The matching between the objectives of the European programme and the objectives of the project
  • Project evaluation: the point of view of the European external evaluator
  • Needs analysis and definition of objectives
  • Expected results and result indicators
  • European added value and partnership building
  • Risk analysis
  • Dissemination and use of results
  • Impact and sustainability of the project
  • Project management and reporting
  • Drafting of the project draft
  • Monitoring of calls for CCI grants


The Visual and Media Studies Notebooks aim to be a place of convergence of theoretical knowledge and operational strategies related to the study of media and visual languages in an interdisciplinary perspective, offering PhD students a space that brings together and makes visible the best results of their work.

Questions of intertextuality inaugurates the series created as part of the PhD course in Visual and Media Studies.

The volume alternates between work by young scholars and reflections by renowned professors specialised in the theme of rewriting, analysed here from three perspectives: that of Visual Arts, with a focus on rewriting the vision, that of Film Studies, focused on "traumatic visions in contemporary non-fiction" and that of Writing, Translation, Creativity, oriented towards the concept of "estrangement as a critical interface".

Theme training activity 2019/2020 - Transmediality and cross-media: new perspectives
The reflection on the relationships between the arts and the corresponding expressive codes played a central role in the history of the Western canon well before aesthetics was established as an autonomous discipline. From classical antiquity to the fertile experiments of comparative poetics of German Romanticism, this line of study has crossed the various eras, proposing in ever new ways the ancient dilemma regarding the specificity of the Muses and their languages.
Looking back at the twentieth century, it is no less evident how, alongside long-term issues - such as the relationship between narrative (telling) and exhibition (showing) modes - new problems have gradually been added to the materiality of individual media and their specific potential, as well as the affirmation of new types of use, not least the unprecedented interaction with the user made possible by digital technologies.
The XXXV cycle of the Doctorate of Media and Visual Studies aims to investigate this broad horizon of issues in a dual historical and theoretical perspective, offering its students a comprehensive overview of multi-, trans- and cross-media processes.
In accordance with this objective, the educational project will focus on various topics related to the above issues, including:

  • definition of the similarities and differences between multimedia and its most recent evolutions in the modern and postmodern era (trans- and cross-media);
  • adaptation policies and rewriting theories;
  • media archaeology;
  • media reinventions;
  • hybridizations between artistic languages in different eras and in different geographical contexts;
  • theories and practices of intertextuality;
  • visual remedies;
  • rebuilds, devices and new interfaces.

IULM University offers interdisciplinary courses aimed at developing the skills needed by a researcher in training: communication, planning and techniques for research funding, protection of intellectual property and skills in innovation and digital communication - the strength of our University.
The implementation of these training courses takes place according to the European recommendations on the development of doctoral education: in 2011, the European Commission includes the "Transferable Skills" among the basic principles for innovation of doctoral training courses.
The aim of the interdisciplinary courses is the development of skills that encourage, beyond the academic career, also the inclusion in roles of high responsibility in bodies, institutions, research centres and companies.

English Academic Writing
The course provides practical tools related to:

  1. Elements that make up an academic text
  2. Call for papers submission: the construction of the abstract
  3. Writing a paper
  4. Quoting, paraphrasing, referencing techniques
  5. Presentation of a research paper
  6. Construction of an academic bio short

Copyright
The course provides an introduction to the topics of intellectual property and legal protection of creative activities. The themes of copyright on products of university research and some problematic aspects of the application of rules on intellectual property to activities and works characteristic of the contemporary art scene are the subject of in-depth study.

Theory and practice of European design for cultural and creative enterprises

Training objectives:

  • acquisition of skills in the analysis of research and development policies of the European Union for the "Cultural and Creative Industries - CCI";
  • acquisition of the design logic required for participation in European Union Calls for Proposals;
  • research and analysis of good practice in the field;
  • acquisition a form of research minds oriented to the consideration of the concrete benefits for the whole society, not only for the specific scientific community of reference, in relation to the fruits of their research work.


Contents:

  • EU direct funds for research and development in the field of Cultural and Creative Industries CCIs
  • The logic of European design: the logical framework approach
  • The matching between the objectives of the European programme and the objectives of the project
  • Project evaluation: the point of view of the European external evaluator
  • Needs analysis and definition of objectives
  • Expected results and result indicators
  • European added value and partnership building
  • Risk analysis
  • Dissemination and use of results
  • Impact and sustainability of the project
  • Project management and reporting
  • Drafting of the project draft
  • Monitoring of calls for CCI grants

Visual Design and coding fundamentals

  • Introduction to website analysis and visual structure
  • Comparison and monitoring of websites divided by different degrees of conceptual complexity (e.g. from the uniformity of sites in wordpress to the so-called responsive web design)
  • Wireframe and user-experience hints of websites
  • Monitoring sites and platforms useful to collect images without copyright (eg Unsplash)
  • First theoretical elements on the concept of "feed" applied to websites
  • Writing article for the web on the theme of "feed" and declined according to our disciplines (5000 characters)
  • Introduction to the use of the Are.na sharing platform
  • Use of Are.na platform to connect together text, images and videos
  • Using Atom software for computer writing
  • Basic HTML writing for building a web page
  • Basic CSS writing
  • Work on jpeg, png and gif images. Difference between raster and vector graphics
  • Choice of the "visual concept" for the creation of the website
  • Upload article and images to the website

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