Hephaestus Reloaded: Composed for Ten Hands / Efesto Reloaded: Composizioni per 10 mani

Biographies

• Brunella Antomarini

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  John Cabot University

  Brunella Antomarini(opens in new tab) has a PhD in Aesthetics from Università Gregoriana, Rome, and she teaches Contemporary Philosophy and Aesthetics at John Cabot University, Rome. She is the author of The Maiden Machine: Philosophy in the Age of the Unborn Woman (Edgewise, 2013), Thinking Through Error: The Moving Target of Knowledge (Lexington Books, 2012), La preistoria acustica della poesia (Aragno Editore, 2013), L'errore del maestro: Una lettura laica dei Vangeli (Derive&Approdi, 2006), and La percezione della forma: Trascendenza e finitezza in Hans Urs von Balthasar (Aesthetica Edizioni, 2004). She is co-editor (with Adam Berg) of Aesthetics in Present Future: The Arts in the Technoogical Horizon (Lexington Books, 2013), and she has also written the children's book Denizens of the Forest (Poligrapha Ediciones, 1992).

• Adam Berg

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  Otis College of Art and Design, California Institute of the Arts

  Adam Berg(opens in new tab) has a PhD in philosophy from the Department of Philosophy, University of Haifa, Israel, and he teaches at Otis College of Art and Design and at Cal Arts, both in Los Angeles. Recent publications include Phenomenalism, Phenomenology, and the Question of Time (Lexington Books, 2016), Aesthetics in Present Future: The Arts and the Technological Horizon (co-edited with Brunella Antomarini) (Lexington Books, 2013), Adam Berg: Evidence (Charta, 2010), Adam Berg: Correspondence (Barbur Books, 2010), Adam Berg: Archipelago (Charta, 2008), and Adam Berg: Conversations with Giordano Bruno / Alexandrian Encounters (Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, 1997). Recent solo shows include: In the blink of an eye, Edward Cella Art and Architecture, Los Angeles (2016), Pier Paolo’s Fountain, Piomonti Arte Contemporanea, Rome (2014), Endangered Spaces, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California (2012), Evidence, Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Florence (2010), and Archipelago, Tel Aviv Museum of Art** (2008).

• Vladimir D’Amora

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  Vladimir D'Amora lives and writes in Naples and Milan. He is trained as a classical philologist and is also a translator from Latin and Greek. He was a co-editor-in-chief of Vulgo.net, a philosophical multilingual digital journal, and he has published the poetry collection Pornogrammia (Emilio Mazzoli Edizioni, 2015), which was a finalist at Premio Poesia Città di Fiumicino in 2015, and Neapolitana Membra (Arcipelago Itaca, 2016), which received a special mention at Premio Montano di Poesia in 2015.

• Alessandro De Francesco

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  European Graduate School

  Alessandro De Francesco(opens in new tab) is a poet, artist, and essayist based in Brussels and Basel who holds a PhD in Poetics from the University of Paris-Sorbonne and has taught at the European Graduate School, the Sorbonne, the École Normale Supérieure, and elsewhere. In 2015-2016 he was an artistic research fellow at the Research Centre for Visual Poetics at the University of Antwerp. He has read, performed, or exhibited at venues such as the Kelly Writers House at University of Pennsylvania, the Louis Vuitton Foundation, the Centre Pompidou (Paris), the MAMCS in Strasbourg, the Berlin University of the Arts, and the Kunsthalle Basel, among other venues. His recent books include: Continuum: Writings on Poetry as Artistic Practice (Uitgeverij, 2015), La Vision à distance (Èditions MIX, 2015), and Remote Vision: Poetry 1999–2015 (punctum, 2016).