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Currently working for Ca’ Foscari University, Venice () and Picapao Srl (www.picapao.it), Venice, Italy.
Silvia Casini è borsista di ricerca (FSE) presso il Dipartimento di Filosofia e di Beni Culturali. Attualmente sta lavorando al progetto “Il visitatore incontra la scienza al museo: percorsi, stereotipi, rappresentazioni” presso il Museo di Storia Naturale di Venezia.
Dopo la laurea in filosofia, ha conseguito un dottorato di ricerca in Visual Studies and Film presso la Queen’s University, Belfast, Regno Unito (Russell Group). La sua tesi di dottorato, finanziata dall’Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) ha esaminato l’utilizzo delle immagini biomedicali nell’arte contemporanea, utilizzando . Come parte del suo dottorato, ha curato la mostra “Marc Didou” presso la Galleria Naughton a Regina e diretto il breve video “265 Looping Snapshots”, pubblicato in un DVD allegato alla rivista ScreenWork.
Oltre a curare una serie di mostre d’arte come free-lance, Silvia ha lavorato per il centro di ricerca Observa – Science in Society a progetti finanziati dall’Unione europea sulla percezione del pubblico e il coinvolgimento con la scienza come “Time for Nano”.
Ha pubblicato per Dublin Four Courts Press, Visual Studies, Contemporary Aesthetics, The Journal of Media Practice, MusemsETC, Digimag, CIRCA, Parallax. Tra le sue pubblicazioni più recenti vi sono “The Aesthetic of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI): from the Scientific Laboratory to a Work of Art” per la rivista internazionale peer-reviewed Contemporary Aesthetics e il capitolo “Art in Science Centres: a Challenge to Visitors and Evaluators” pubblicato nel volume The Science Exhibition: Communication and Evaluation, MuseumsEtc, Edinburgh.
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Silvia Casini is a research fellow (FSE) at Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage. Currently she is working on a project on museum visitors at the Natural History Museum in Venice.
After her first degree in Philosophy, she was awarded a PhD in Visual Studies and Film at Queen’s University, Belfast, UK (Russell Group). Her doctoral dissertation dealt with the study of biomedical images in contemporary art practices. As part of her PhD, she curated the exhibition “Marc Didou” at the Naughton Gallery at Queen’s and directed the short video “265 Looping Snapshots” published in a DVD enclosed with ScreenWork.
Besides curating a number of art exhibitions as free-lance, Silvia has worked for the research centre Observa – Science in Society on several EU-funded projects dealing with public perception and engagement with science such as “Time for Nano”.
She has published for Dublin Four Courts Press, Visual Studies, Contemporary Aesthetics, The Journal of Media Practice, MusemsETC, Digimag, CIRCA, Parallax. Among her recent publications there are “The Aesthetic of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI): from the Scientific Laboratory to a Work of Art” for the international peer-reviewed journal Contemporary Aesthetics and the chapter “Art in Science Centres: a Challenge to Visitors and Evaluators” published in the edited book The Science Exhibition: Communication and Evaluation, MuseumsEtc, Edinburgh.
For more information please write at silvia.c.casini@gmail.com or silvia.casini@unive.it