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JAMES ELKINS

James Elkins website
One of the most important art historians and critics in activity, his books have been translated into many languages and read all over the world. His writing focuses on the history and theory of images in art, science, and nature. Some of his books are exclusively on fine art (What Painting Is, Why Are Our Pictures Puzzles?). Others include scientific and non-art images, writing systems, and archaeology (The Domain of Images, On Pictures and the Words That Fail Them), and some are about natural history (How to Use Your Eyes).
James Elkins teach in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism, at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

ANDRAS BENEDEK

Andras Benedek website
Professor of Education of the Department of Technical Education, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, and DSc of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He directs the Laboratory of Visual Learning. He was the Director of Vocational Training (1984-89), then Director General (1989-90) at the National Pedagogical Institute. As its first Director General in 1990, he established the National Institute for Vocational Education. He was involved in numerous UNESCO and ILO projects and continues to participate in the preparation of various World Bank and Phare projects in the area of human resource development. He directs the publishing series for the international publisher PETER LANG named VISUAL LEARNING.

RAFFAELE MILANI

Laboratorio di Ricerche sulla Città
Full Professor of Aesthetics in the Department of Education Sciences at the University of Bologna, visiting professor in many universities and author of numerous books, as The Aesthetic Categories, The Art of the Landscape, The Faces of Grace. Philosophy, Art, and Nature, The Art of the City, some of which translated in various languages and awarded with International Prizes. He has contributed widely to important Italian journals of aesthetics. He is Director of the Laboratory for Research on the Cities (Institute for Advanced Studies) and the Summer School Italian Design. Art, Society and Industry (University of Bologna – Osaka University). He is also a member of the European Commission at the French Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development on the topic: De la connaissance des paysages à l’action paysagère (from 2004). He is the Italian delegate at the International Association for Aesthetics.

NICOLÒ DEGIORGIS

Nicolò Degiorgis page
After studying Chinese at Ca ‘Foscari University in Venice, he moved to work in Hong Kong and later in Beijing for study purposes. His photography work was start with a stage at the Magnum Photos in Paris and continues in 2008 with the acquisition of a scholarship at Fabrica, the research center for communication of Benetton Group.
In 2009 he began working as a researcher in the field of immigration at the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Trieste and at the same time he was assigned an artist’s residence at the Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation in Venice. Since 2009 he has been exhibiting in numerous galleries in Italy and abroad, and in 2017 he is guest curator of Museion, Museum of Contemporary Art in Bolzano

TERESA GRANGE

Teresa Grange page
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Italian citizen since 1977 is full professor of experimental pedagogy. After graduating in mathematics, he has conducted research in the CNR Didactic Research Center headed by Elisa Gallo, University of Turin, from 1985 to 1990. In 1994, he met  Marcel Crahay in Geneva, and an intense scientific work began on the analysis of teaching processes with the Exegal Service de Pédagogie of the University of Liège. Since 1999 he has been teaching and research at the university site of Aosta and at the University of Liege, where in 2000 he has been employed as a researcher at the Service de Didactique Générale directed by Jacqueline Beckers.
Since 2003, he has collaborated with the Université Libre de Bruxelles, where he has been visiting teaching professor at the new DEPHI Center (Didactique et éthique de la philosophie). Since 2004 he has collaborated with the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He is head of the Aosta Training Faculty, Director of SSIS Valle d’Aosta and a delegate for international relations.

OLIVIERO TOSCANI

Oliviero Toscani studio
Son of the first photo-journalist of the Corriere Della Sera, studied photography and design at the University of the Arts in Zurich from 1961 through 1965. He is internationally renowned as the creative force behind some of the world’s most successful brands, creating through the years corporate images and advertising campaigns for companies such as Esprit, Chanel, Fiorucci, Prenatal and many more. From 1982 to 2000 he built the identity, corporate image, communication strategy and online presence of United Colors of Benetton transforming it into one of the world’s most recognized brands. From 2008 is travelling all around the world with his project RAZZA UMANA. A project with the aim to discover the variety of human morphology and conditions.

ANDREA PINOTTI

Seminari di filosofia dell’immagine
Full Professor of Aesthetics at the Università Statale di Milano. Deals with theories of empathy and image, visual culture, theories and practices of contemporary monumentality. Is fellow for various international research institutions (including the Italian Academy at Columbia University in New York, the EHESS of Paris, the Warburg Institute in London, the ZFL Berlin) Among his publications volumes: Cultura visuale (with A. Somaini, Einaudi 2016); Empatia. Storia di un’idea da Platone al postumano (Laterza 2011); Estetica della pittura (Il Mulino 2007). With A. Somaini he edited Teorie dell’immagine. Il dibattito contemporaneo (Cortina 2009) and the collection of texts by Walter Benjamin, Aura e shock. Saggio sulla teoria dei Media (Einaudi 2012).

PIETRO PIETRINI

IMT Lucca School for Advanced Studies
Professor of Clinical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. He graduated in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Pisa Medical School as a Intern Fellow of the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa in 1986, where he also obtained his Ph.D. in Neuroscience. He received his board-certification in Psychiatry from the University of Pisa Medical School. In 1989 he moved to the United States, where he spent over ten years first at the Laboratory of Neuroscience and then at the Cognitive Neuroscience Section of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda,Maryland, working on the study of the brain bases of mental function in health and disease. In 2000, he was appointed as full-professor and Chair of Clinical Biochemistry at the University of Pisa Medical School. In November 2015 he became Director of IMT School for Advanced Studies.

STUART MEDLEY

Stuart Medley page
Associate professor at Edith Cowan University and professional illustrator, his book The Picture in Design : What Graphic Designers, Art Directors and Illustrators Should Know about Communicating with Pictures seeks to explain the psychology of the communicative potential of the drawn image to art directors and designers. His clients have included the Imperial War Museums UK and Berg’s Publishing. He has presented character design workshops in the UK, Europe and Australia and is currently researching cartooning to improve public health. He is also art director and illustrator for Hidden Shoal, a critically acclaimed record label in its tenth year with a roster of international artists.

GIORGIO CAMUFFO

Bodoni
Associate Professor at the Free University of Bozen. He has conceived and curated various design exhibitions, among them Graphic Design Worlds and TDM5: Grafica Italiana held at the Triennale Design Museum of Milan. In 2016, he was a member of the scientific committee of the XXI Triennale di Milano International Exhibition and he worked as a curator with Silvana Annachiarico for the Italian pavilion of the first London Design Biennale. For more than twenty years, before he began teaching, Giorgio directed Studio Camuffo, in his hometown of Venice. He has collaborated with many companies and institutions, such as Fabrica and Benetton Group, Coin, Palazzo Pitti, Palazzo Grassi, Fondazione Bevilaqua La Masa, Fondazione Querini Stampalia and La Biennale di Venezia.