Simone Casini
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 693317 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Simone Casini |
| NOMBRES | Simone |
| APELLIDO | Casini |
| FIRMA | CASINI S |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Toronto Mississauga |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5819-5128 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2011 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Theorizing media art in light of STS
Throughout history, and particularly in recent decades, art has developed unique media-specific characteristics to address the impact of the techno-scientific paradigm on culture and society. Parallel reflections have occurred in the social sciences, especially within science and technology studies (STS). Some of its most influential methodological insights and concepts – such as actor-network theory, nonhuman agency, boundary objects, trading zo…
Common Challenges, Shared Priorities
This article considers current educational perspectives related to experiential learning (EL) with reference to the concept of democratic linguistic education as laid out in the GISCEL Ten Theses, a foundational work in the area of linguistic and semiotic research. It looks at general educational processes as related to the dynamics of symbolic use through language and communication. Starting with an analysis of the semiotic and theoretical princ…
Communicating science through films
The Rassegna Internazionale del film Scientifico-didattico (International Festival of Scientific and Educational Film [IFSEF]) was a pioneering science-based public event held at the University of Padova from 1956 to 1975 in collaboration with the Venice International Film Festival. The IFSEF is treated as a case of a multiform space to question the permeable boundaries between hard scientific content and its aesthetic dimension, educational role…
Challenges and opportunities for teaching Italian as a second language
This article analyses the current condition of teaching Italian abroad and the ways in which second-language programmes can engage learners and meet their educational goals. While we are aware of the need for systematic action amongst various actors to ensure the future of Italian-language teaching, we choose to focus on the concept of Experiential Learning (EL). EL is a didactic action (i.e. a linguistic policy) which can be directly implemented…
Stiamo (ancora) tutti bene? L'italiano all'estero
Il contributo propone una analisi linguistica e politico-linguistico-educativa sulla attuale condizione dell'insegnamento dell'italiano all'estero, a partire dai dati sul numero delle iscrizioni ai corsi di lingua presentati dalla MLA (2022) e dal College Board (AP courses). Il dato generale sui numeri delle iscrizioni ai corsi e sugli esami AP è poi considerato a titolo esemplificativo nel contesto economico professionale della Greater Toronto A…
A Novel Ex Vivo Approach Based on Proteomics and Biomarkers to Evaluate the Effects of Chrysene, Mehp, and PBDE-47 on Loggerhead Sea Turtles (Caretta caretta)
The principal aim of the present study was to develop and apply novel ex vivo tests as an alternative to cell cultures able to evaluate the possible effects of emerging and legacy contaminants in Caretta caretta . To this end, we performed ex vivo experiments on non-invasively collected whole-blood and skin-biopsy slices treated with chrysene, MEHP, or PBDE-47. Blood samples were tested by oxidative stress (TAS), immune system (respiratory burst,…
Elements of language creativity
This paper proposes a concept of creativity that stems from a semiotic and linguistic theoretical perspective, in which the formal frame of reference for variation and linguistic change considers and evaluates both the process of general interaction and the contact of languages as a global phenomenon. This method proposes an analysis of creativity that ranges from reflections of ancient philosophy to a contemporary linguistic perspective, incorpo…
Il convivio linguistico. Riflessioni sul ruolo dell'italiano nel mondo contemporaneo
Questioni di teoria linguistica
Il contributo delinea il paradigma teorico della creatività intesa, da una prospettiva semiotica e di linguistica teorica, come il quadro di riferimento formale per la variazione e il cambiamento linguistico sia nei processi di generale interazione che, su piani quantitativamente maggiori, nei fenomeni in cui lingue e identità in contatto interagiscono per negoziare il senso comunicativo. Il percorso propone una analisi della creatività che spazi…
In principio erat verbum? Tullio De Mauro e le riflessioni americane di educazione linguistica democratica
Il contributo si pone l'obiettivo di rileggere la lezione di Tullio De Mauro attraverso il concetto di educazione linguistica democratica, proposto come fondamento teoretico della ricerca linguistica e semiotica non solo in riferimento ai processi generalmente educativi, ma entro le stesse dinamiche di uso simbolico attraverso le lingue e i linguaggi. Partendo dalla analisi dei principi semiotici e teorici che alimentano l'educazione linguistica,…
Beyond the Neuro-Realism Fallacy
This article examines visual practices inside the laboratory and in the arts, highlighting a problem of reductionism in the transformation from data to images and in the visual incarnation of the neuro-realism fallacy, that is the extreme images of brain scan. Neurosciences are not inherently reductionist. John R. Mallard’s work around data visualisation problems in the development of biomedical imaging shows how scientists themselves can be atte…
Scanning, Framing and Close-Up
This article stems from a broader research project that explored the aesthetics of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Here the author focuses on firsthand experience of undergoing an MRI as an experimental subject within two different laboratory projects. The self-produced video created after the two examinations, 265 Looping Snapshots, muses on the role played by MRI sound and images, the notion of surveillance and the experience of undergoing a …
Synesthesia, transformation and synthesis
Peer reviewed
The Aesthetics of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
October 01 2015 The Aesthetics of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI): Setting MRI in Motion from the Scientific Laboratory to an Art Exhibition Silvia Casini Silvia Casini Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Silvia Casini Online Issn: 1530-9282 Print Issn: 0024-094X ©2015 ISAST2015 Leonardo (2015) 48 (5): 477. https://doi.org/10.1162/LEON_a_01155 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Sha…
Sensing Nanotechnologies through the Arts
The author assesses the role played by the surface in selected nanoscience and nanotechnology (N&N) practices by examining the interaction between surfaces and their viewers. In N&N, issues of scale and perception challenge those involved in science-art projects, forcing them to engage with nano-objects and surfaces by using either highly specialized instruments or metaphors. The most interesting examples of nano-based artworks give the audience …
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) as Mirror and Portrait
The essay examines the configuration of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the scientific laboratory and in selected artworks. By drawing upon fieldwork undertaken in MRI labs and artists' ateliers, I argue that MRI has a "look" in the same way that the portrait has-that is, it has the capacity of being performative, thus resisting its being regarded as a transparent window onto the self. As will be shown, the look of MRI is acoustic more than v…
What is contemporary art
by Terry Smith Chicago, IL and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2009, 344 pages ISBN: 13: 978-0-226-76431-3 Price ISBN: 10: 0-226-76431-1 Price $25.00 Reviewed by Silvia Casini, Observa - S
Synesthesia, transformation and synthesis
Peer reviewed
Challenges and opportunities for teaching Italian as a second language
This article analyses the current condition of teaching Italian abroad and the ways in which second-language programmes can engage learners and meet their educational goals. While we are aware of the need for systematic action amongst various actors to ensure the future of Italian-language teaching, we choose to focus on the concept of Experiential Learning (EL). EL is a didactic action (i.e. a linguistic policy) which can be directly implemented…
Stiamo (ancora) tutti bene? L'italiano all'estero
Il contributo propone una analisi linguistica e politico-linguistico-educativa sulla attuale condizione dell'insegnamento dell'italiano all'estero, a partire dai dati sul numero delle iscrizioni ai corsi di lingua presentati dalla MLA (2022) e dal College Board (AP courses). Il dato generale sui numeri delle iscrizioni ai corsi e sugli esami AP è poi considerato a titolo esemplificativo nel contesto economico professionale della Greater Toronto A…
In principio erat verbum? Tullio De Mauro e le riflessioni americane di educazione linguistica democratica
Il contributo si pone l'obiettivo di rileggere la lezione di Tullio De Mauro attraverso il concetto di educazione linguistica democratica, proposto come fondamento teoretico della ricerca linguistica e semiotica non solo in riferimento ai processi generalmente educativi, ma entro le stesse dinamiche di uso simbolico attraverso le lingue e i linguaggi. Partendo dalla analisi dei principi semiotici e teorici che alimentano l'educazione linguistica,…
What is contemporary art
by Terry Smith Chicago, IL and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2009, 344 pages ISBN: 13: 978-0-226-76431-3 Price ISBN: 10: 0-226-76431-1 Price $25.00 Reviewed by Silvia Casini, Observa - S
Questioni di teoria linguistica
Il contributo delinea il paradigma teorico della creatività intesa, da una prospettiva semiotica e di linguistica teorica, come il quadro di riferimento formale per la variazione e il cambiamento linguistico sia nei processi di generale interazione che, su piani quantitativamente maggiori, nei fenomeni in cui lingue e identità in contatto interagiscono per negoziare il senso comunicativo. Il percorso propone una analisi della creatività che spazi…
Beyond the Neuro-Realism Fallacy
This article examines visual practices inside the laboratory and in the arts, highlighting a problem of reductionism in the transformation from data to images and in the visual incarnation of the neuro-realism fallacy, that is the extreme images of brain scan. Neurosciences are not inherently reductionist. John R. Mallard’s work around data visualisation problems in the development of biomedical imaging shows how scientists themselves can be atte…
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) as Mirror and Portrait
The essay examines the configuration of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the scientific laboratory and in selected artworks. By drawing upon fieldwork undertaken in MRI labs and artists' ateliers, I argue that MRI has a "look" in the same way that the portrait has-that is, it has the capacity of being performative, thus resisting its being regarded as a transparent window onto the self. As will be shown, the look of MRI is acoustic more than v…
What is contemporary art
by Terry Smith Chicago, IL and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2009, 344 pages ISBN: 13: 978-0-226-76431-3 Price ISBN: 10: 0-226-76431-1 Price $25.00 Reviewed by Silvia Casini, Observa - S
Sensing Nanotechnologies through the Arts
The author assesses the role played by the surface in selected nanoscience and nanotechnology (N&N) practices by examining the interaction between surfaces and their viewers. In N&N, issues of scale and perception challenge those involved in science-art projects, forcing them to engage with nano-objects and surfaces by using either highly specialized instruments or metaphors. The most interesting examples of nano-based artworks give the audience …
The Aesthetics of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
October 01 2015 The Aesthetics of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI): Setting MRI in Motion from the Scientific Laboratory to an Art Exhibition Silvia Casini Silvia Casini Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Silvia Casini Online Issn: 1530-9282 Print Issn: 0024-094X ©2015 ISAST2015 Leonardo (2015) 48 (5): 477. https://doi.org/10.1162/LEON_a_01155 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Sha…
Beyond the Neuro-Realism Fallacy
This article examines visual practices inside the laboratory and in the arts, highlighting a problem of reductionism in the transformation from data to images and in the visual incarnation of the neuro-realism fallacy, that is the extreme images of brain scan. Neurosciences are not inherently reductionist. John R. Mallard’s work around data visualisation problems in the development of biomedical imaging shows how scientists themselves can be atte…
Scanning, Framing and Close-Up
This article stems from a broader research project that explored the aesthetics of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Here the author focuses on firsthand experience of undergoing an MRI as an experimental subject within two different laboratory projects. The self-produced video created after the two examinations, 265 Looping Snapshots, muses on the role played by MRI sound and images, the notion of surveillance and the experience of undergoing a …
Synesthesia, transformation and synthesis
Peer reviewed
Questioni di teoria linguistica
Il contributo delinea il paradigma teorico della creatività intesa, da una prospettiva semiotica e di linguistica teorica, come il quadro di riferimento formale per la variazione e il cambiamento linguistico sia nei processi di generale interazione che, su piani quantitativamente maggiori, nei fenomeni in cui lingue e identità in contatto interagiscono per negoziare il senso comunicativo. Il percorso propone una analisi della creatività che spazi…
In principio erat verbum? Tullio De Mauro e le riflessioni americane di educazione linguistica democratica
Il contributo si pone l'obiettivo di rileggere la lezione di Tullio De Mauro attraverso il concetto di educazione linguistica democratica, proposto come fondamento teoretico della ricerca linguistica e semiotica non solo in riferimento ai processi generalmente educativi, ma entro le stesse dinamiche di uso simbolico attraverso le lingue e i linguaggi. Partendo dalla analisi dei principi semiotici e teorici che alimentano l'educazione linguistica,…
Elements of language creativity
This paper proposes a concept of creativity that stems from a semiotic and linguistic theoretical perspective, in which the formal frame of reference for variation and linguistic change considers and evaluates both the process of general interaction and the contact of languages as a global phenomenon. This method proposes an analysis of creativity that ranges from reflections of ancient philosophy to a contemporary linguistic perspective, incorpo…
Il convivio linguistico. Riflessioni sul ruolo dell'italiano nel mondo contemporaneo
A Novel Ex Vivo Approach Based on Proteomics and Biomarkers to Evaluate the Effects of Chrysene, Mehp, and PBDE-47 on Loggerhead Sea Turtles (Caretta caretta)
The principal aim of the present study was to develop and apply novel ex vivo tests as an alternative to cell cultures able to evaluate the possible effects of emerging and legacy contaminants in Caretta caretta . To this end, we performed ex vivo experiments on non-invasively collected whole-blood and skin-biopsy slices treated with chrysene, MEHP, or PBDE-47. Blood samples were tested by oxidative stress (TAS), immune system (respiratory burst,…
Challenges and opportunities for teaching Italian as a second language
This article analyses the current condition of teaching Italian abroad and the ways in which second-language programmes can engage learners and meet their educational goals. While we are aware of the need for systematic action amongst various actors to ensure the future of Italian-language teaching, we choose to focus on the concept of Experiential Learning (EL). EL is a didactic action (i.e. a linguistic policy) which can be directly implemented…
Stiamo (ancora) tutti bene? L'italiano all'estero
Il contributo propone una analisi linguistica e politico-linguistico-educativa sulla attuale condizione dell'insegnamento dell'italiano all'estero, a partire dai dati sul numero delle iscrizioni ai corsi di lingua presentati dalla MLA (2022) e dal College Board (AP courses). Il dato generale sui numeri delle iscrizioni ai corsi e sugli esami AP è poi considerato a titolo esemplificativo nel contesto economico professionale della Greater Toronto A…
Communicating science through films
The Rassegna Internazionale del film Scientifico-didattico (International Festival of Scientific and Educational Film [IFSEF]) was a pioneering science-based public event held at the University of Padova from 1956 to 1975 in collaboration with the Venice International Film Festival. The IFSEF is treated as a case of a multiform space to question the permeable boundaries between hard scientific content and its aesthetic dimension, educational role…
Theorizing media art in light of STS
Throughout history, and particularly in recent decades, art has developed unique media-specific characteristics to address the impact of the techno-scientific paradigm on culture and society. Parallel reflections have occurred in the social sciences, especially within science and technology studies (STS). Some of its most influential methodological insights and concepts – such as actor-network theory, nonhuman agency, boundary objects, trading zo…
Common Challenges, Shared Priorities
This article considers current educational perspectives related to experiential learning (EL) with reference to the concept of democratic linguistic education as laid out in the GISCEL Ten Theses, a foundational work in the area of linguistic and semiotic research. It looks at general educational processes as related to the dynamics of symbolic use through language and communication. Starting with an analysis of the semiotic and theoretical princ…
Art (10 obras) · Computer Science (7 obras) · Aesthetics (6 obras) · Sociology (6 obras) · Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition (5 obras) · Psychology (5 obras) · Visual arts (5 obras) · Humanities (4 obras) · Aesthetic Perception and Analysis (3 obras) · Artistic and Creative Research (3 obras)