Tele-experience in the contemporary mediascape

Workshop organized by Andrea Pinotti, University of Milan, Italy / Paris IAS Fellow.

“TELE-EXPERIENCE IN THE CONTEMPORARY MEDIASCAPE” is the International Symposium of the ERC Projects “DEMOSERIES. Shaping Democratic Spaces: Security and TV Series” (PI: Prof. Sandra Laugier) and “AN-ICON. An-Iconology: History, Theory, and Practices” (PI: Prof. Andrea Pinotti). The discussion will be first triggered by Andrea Pinotti’s research topic of his IEA writing residency (“Cyber-Theo. Reflections on the theological roots of contemporary digital technologies”), and will then expand to address the simple, yet fundamental, polarisation of the experience of distance in the anthropology of everyday life. On the one hand, in our hyper-connected world we frequently experience distant things as if they were present in our spaces, so close to be sometimes suffocating; on the other, distance seems to constitute an essential condition for critical understanding, reflexive pausing, conceptualisation and rationalisation as opposed to irreflexive and instinctive animal reactions. Indeed, the prefix “tele”, widely used in many different fields nowadays (i.e. tele-communication; tele-presence; tele-medicine etc.) immediately introduces us to the constitutive ambivalence of distance, in the multiple forms of human experience.

The workshop will lay the basis for the elaboration of a collaborative research proposal on an European scale.

With the participation of :

Sandra Laugier (Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne)

Toma Tasovac (Belgrade Center for Digital Humanities)

Ilaria Ampollini; Fabrizia Bandi; Federica Cavaletti; Rosa Cinelli; Pietro Conte, Margherita Fontana; Barbara Grespi; Sofia Pirandello; Martino Quadrato (University of Milan)

Giancarlo Grossi (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan)

Sylvie Allouche; Quentin Gervasoni; Thibaut de Saint Maurice, Tatsiana Zhurauliova (Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne)