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PhD student
University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
Marina Turco earned a ‘post-master’ degree in History
of Contemporary Art at the Università Cattolica of Milan
(Italy). In order to complete her dissertation, she was awarded
a fellowship to research on video art at the University of Utrecht
(The Netherlands). Since 1999 she has been collaborating with various
new media institutes and art magazines. In 2004, she founded the
organization Art-U, together with Isabella Galli, and curated the
media art festival Video Village (in collaboration with the World
Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam) in Milan. In 2005-6 she worked as
a teacher of Italian Literature and History at public high school
in Italy.
In January 2007 she started a Ph.D. project at the Research Institute
for History and Culture (OGC, University of Utrecht). Her research
is an exploration of VJing as ‘performative dispositif’.
She is interested in the relationship between the ‘performative
text’, new media languages and the social and cultural processes
in club culture.
Academic activity includes publications on video art and its relationship
with television (“Changing History, Changing practices. An
Instance of Confrontation Between Video Art and Television”,
E-View, n.2, 2004, http://comcom.uvt.nl/e-view/04-2/turco.pdf),
and on the narrative aspects of VJ-ing (“The Sudwestern Saga”).
The paper 'The Sudwestern
Saga: Live Media Between Commedia dell'Arte and Digital Hypertexts',
was first presented at the conference “MIT4 The Work of
Stories. Fourth Media in Transition Conference”, in May 6-8
2005, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge,
USA.
TEXTS: The Sudwestern Saga:
Live Media and Modular Narratives Between Commedia dell’Arte
and Digital Hypertexts
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