Nationality Italian Website capucci.org | Name Pier Capucci | |
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Residence Milano Marittima (RA), Italy Occupation Theorist, writer and educator | ||
Pier Luigi Capucci is an Italian educator, theorist and writer in the fields of media (both in communication and art realms) and of the relationships among culture, sciences and technologies, as well as an active contributor to the international debate about culture-sciences-technologies-arts.
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Biography
Since the early ‘80 Capucci has been concerned with the communication’s studies, the new media and the new art forms, and with the relations among arts, sciences and technologies. He has been professor at the Universities of Rome “La Sapienza”, Bologna, Florence, at SUPSI - University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland, at the University of Urbino and at NABA in Milan. Currently he is a teacher at the Fine Art Academy of Urbino and in other institutions. Since 2008 he has been working as a supervisor in the (M)T-Node PhD Research Program of the Planetary Collegium (University of Plymouth), and in May 2013 he has been appointed as (M)T-Node's DoS (Director of Studies).
His theoretical activity is concerned with the technologies of representation and communication, with the technoscience-based art forms, and with media archaeology studies. In the field of applied research he works on the opportunities of social relationships raised by online communications and new media.
He had courses, lectures, conferences, lessons, seminars and workshops in Universities [Bologna, Milan (Polytecnic and State), Royal College of Art (London), Modena, Salerno, Florence, São Paulo, Trieste, Chicago, Rome “La Sapienza”, Siena, Udine, Lake Forest College (USA), Urbino, Reggio Calabria, NETTUNO-Network per l’Università Ovunque, Universität für Angewandte Kunst Vienna, MHMK Macromedia Hochschule für Medien und Kommunikation München, SUPSI Lugano, University of Western Australia (Perth), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Trondheim, Norvegia), Plymouth University, Witwatersrand University (Johannesburg, Sudafrica)]. In Institutions and Foundations [among them Domus Academy, Fondazione IDIS, Fondazione Garzanti, Istituto Gramsci, Vidéothèque de Paris, RAI, Goethe Institut, ARCO (Madrid), CINECA, Istituto Nazionale di Architettura, Biennale di Venezia, IRI, ISEA (Istanbul), Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa Venice, Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture (Kefalonia), Open World Forum (Parigi), National Center for Contemporary Arts (NCCA, Moscow), TEKS (Trondheim), SEAFair (Skopje), Swiss Design Network Symposium (Lugano), Kibla (Maribor)]. In Fine Arts Academies and ISIA [Bologna, Rome, Naples, Turin, Urbino, Milan (Brera and NABA), Rimini (LABA), Venice, Lodz (Poland), Carrara, Reggio Calabria, Perugia], in museums, galleries and private institutions.
Capucci published the books Realtà del virtuale. Rappresentazioni tecnologiche, comunicazione, arte (Reality of the virtual. Technological representations, communication, art), 1993, on virtual technologies and the relationships between culture and sensorial representations. Il corpo tecnologico. L'influenza delle tecnologie sul corpo e sulle sue facoltà (The technological body. Technologies’ influence on the body and its faculties), 1994, on the impact of technologies on the human body; and Arte e tecnologie. Comunicazione estetica e tecnoscienze (Art and technologies. Aesthetic communication and technosciences), 1996, about art, sciences and technologies. In 2013 this book has been republished as an eBook in epub, mobi and PDF formats.
He published about 300 texts in books, magazines and conference papers in Italy and abroad. He has organized exhibitions, managed projects and participated to many conferences in Italy and abroad. He has been working in european projects on technological communications. From 2004 to 2007 and from 2009 to 2011 he has been in the International Advisory Board of Ars Electronica of the Net Communities category.
In 1994 Capucci founded and directed the first Italian online magazine, NetMagazine, later MagNet, a research project on the relations between culture and technologies made in conjunction with the universities of Bologna and Rome “La Sapienza”.
In 2000 Capucci founded Noema, a website devoted to culture-new technologies interrelations and influences, with an International Board of scholars, researchers and theorists. In Noema's guidelines “culture” also means “habits”, “lifestyles”, “communications”, “art”, “society”, “economy”, “media”, “sciences”, “philosophy”..., while “new technologies” should be intended in a broader meaning than the digital realm. In 2003 Noema was selected by RAI International (the state Italian television) as best Italian site.
In 2004 Capucci founded <mediaversi>, a book series which he is the director of coproduced by Noema and published by Clueb University Press, focused on new media, arts, sciences, technologies and society, with an international Scientific Committee.
Capucci has also been working as a consultant in the field of new media with public and private institutions and firms. Since 1992 he has been working on European projects about technology and culture.
Books and Articles
Capucci published more than 300 texts in books, magazines and conference papers in Italy and abroad. A complete list of the publications can be found in his personal website