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WRITINGS, REWRITINGS, TRANSLATIONS


Art in the Age of AI: A Conversation with Mario Klingemann
Interview with Mario Klingemann, Pioneer of AI-Generated Art: On Authorship and Collective Imagery

Diego Ferrante
Apr 22, 2024


The space of a lapse: Photographic errors and epiphanies of language
The invention of photography has been accompanied, from the very beginning, by a production of manuals and pamphlets to guide photographers

Diego Ferrante
Apr 9, 2024


Flourishes for different times: The Vegetarian by Han Kang and vegetal metamorphoses
One February night, Mr. Cheong wakes up and notices that Yeong-hye, his wife, is not beside him

Diego Ferrante
Feb 14, 2023


"Translation is a losing game". An interview with Susanna Basso
"Translation is a losing game". An interview with Susanna Basso

Diego Ferrante
Apr 6, 2022


Reality in a Detail. An interview with Beppe Madaudo
Casanova, Satyricon for Corto Maltese, and the search for shadowless painting with gold ground: An Interview with Beppe Madaudo

Diego Ferrante
Mar 19, 2022


Gerhard Richter, Epigenetics, and the Transcription of Memory
What connects photography, painting, and memory? Can trauma be passed down from one generation to the next?

Diego Ferrante
Jan 24, 2022


Boarding Passes: "Biglietti agli amici" by PierVittorio Tondelli
The notes are filled with kilometers traveled by train or plane, with waiting rooms, with past loves

Diego Ferrante
Jul 16, 2021


Only the Future Survives
Since 1970, 3 billion birds have disappeared in North America. What happens if a piece of the future disappears with them?

Diego Ferrante
Dec 14, 2020


Along the Dotted Line: An Interview with Saleh Kazemi
"I often pair more detailed objects with simpler ones. Perhaps it’s this balance that allows me to convey a sense of lightness"

Diego Ferrante
May 26, 2020


The House of Asterion: Inhabiting Distances to Learn How to Breathe
The House of Asterion is the title of a short story included by Borges in the first edition of El Aleph, one of his most famous works

Diego Ferrante
May 14, 2020


Le Corbusier’s New Algiers
If Algiers shook Le Corbusier’s faith in architecture as a tool for social reform, his projects reproduced the colonial conflict

Diego Ferrante
Dec 13, 2018


Binding to the mountain: the art of Maria Lai
In Maria Lai’s art, knots are bonds that connect without altering things—for a knot, after all, can always be untied

Diego Ferrante
Oct 29, 2018


Taking the stage away, an Interview with Massimo Sgorbani
“Togliere di scena,” an expression also used by Bene, is something much more concrete than one might think.

Diego Ferrante
May 18, 2017


The Still Face, an Interview with Renata Soro
"The surface of a painting becomes a place of great solitude—a silent, aphasic space, yet one inhabited by countless invisible presences"

Diego Ferrante
Apr 20, 2017


Love’s Fast: A Brief Morphology of Eating Disorders
In 1922, Kafka published A Hunger Artist, which traces the professional life of a rather unusual artist—a fasting artist.

Diego Ferrante
Nov 10, 2016


Interview with Roberto Esposito: What Future for Europe?
"At what stage is the development of Roberto Esposito’s 'affirmative biopolitics'?"

Diego Ferrante
Jun 5, 2016

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