Aesthetics and Digital Devices: Mediations and Transformations of Experience in the Digital Age

The conference aims to explore the transformation of the concept of experience in the digital age through interaction with digital devices. The implementation of increasingly advanced technologies raises significant questions that go beyond the aesthetic domain to encompass ethical, social, and cultural dimensions.  

The discussion thus places technological mediation at the center, conceived not as a mere alteration of traditional aesthetics but as a profound and complex transformation that simultaneously redefines the contours of our presence in the world and the ways in which we assign meaning to the places and spaces we inhabit. The growing interaction with digital technologies is reshaping our perception of the environment and the territory in which we are immersed, with implications for the relationship between physical and virtual dimensions.  

At stake is not only the reshaping of individual aesthetic experience but also the collective one. Through dialogue with scholars from various disciplines, the event aims to shed light on the benefits and risks of the digitalization process, offering perspectives that open up innovative experiential landscapes, relational dynamics, and novel cognitive territories. This will hopefully enable the development of conceptual tools to understand the ongoing transformation.  

Organizers: Federica Porcheddu, Guido Seddone  

Morning

9:00 - 9:10: Opening of the conference and introduction

9:15 - 10:00: Gianluca Beccari (Academy of Fine Arts, Sassari)
Reconfigurations of Existence: Artistic and Multimedia Language in the Digital Age

10:00 - 10:45: Silvano Tagliagambe (UNISS)
The Landscape of Sardinia and the Digital Twin of the Nuraghi

10:45 - 11:00: Break

11:00 - 11:45: Dario Giugliano (Academy of Fine Arts, Naples)
Space and Aisthesis in the Digital Age

11:45 - 12:30: Giovanni Maciocco (UNISS)
City Planning: Aesthetic and Technical Conception

12:30 - 12:45: Break

12:45 - 13:30: Fabrizia Garavaglia (UNICA)
Digital Shadows: Constructing Perceptive Spaces Between Body and Screen

13:30 - 15:00: Lunch Break

Afternoon

15:00 - 15:45: Riccardo Manzotti (IULM)
The Digital Subject: Value Creation and Content Generation. The Inflation of Meaning and the Loss of Existence

15:45 - 16:30: Antonello Marotta (UNISS)
Abstract Machines and Generative Diagrams

16:30 - 17:00: Break

17:00 - 17:45: Luca Taddio (UNIUD)
Body, Perception, and Digital Worlds

17:45 - 18:30: Federica Porcheddu (UNISS)
From the Lens to the Code: Toward a New Regime of Vision?

18:30 - 19:00: Closing Remarks

Discussants: Gavina Cherchi, Massimo Dell’Utri, Sebastiano Ghisu, Ludovica Lorusso

This project received funding from the European Union - Next Generation EU DM737/2021