Ph.D. Thesis Project - The Obscene Device: Pornographies Between Cinema, Art, and Virtual Reality

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https://doi.org/10.54103/2036-461X/20561

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  • Roberto Paolo Malaspina, University of Milan

    Roberto Paolo Malaspina completed his BA degree in History and Conservation of Cultural Heritage at the University of Florence in 2016, with a thesis on the relationship between museology and new media. In 2019 he graduated (MA) at the University of Bologna in Visual Arts, presenting a dissertation on postmodern architecture. Between 2019 and 2020 he attended CAMPO, course for curators of the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo. He is currently a PhD student at the University of Milan, Department of Philosophy and Human Sciences (supervisor professor Andrea Pinotti), and member of the ERC project AN-ICON, where he is conducting research on immersive media and pornography.

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Published

2023-09-22

Issue

Vol. 23 No. 40 (2023): Archaeologies of the Virtual. Materialities, Senses, Imaginaries

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Projects & Abstracts

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Ph.D. Thesis Project - The Obscene Device: Pornographies Between Cinema, Art, and Virtual Reality. (2023). Cinéma & Cie. Film and Media Studies Journal, 23(40), 183-185. https://doi.org/10.54103/2036-461X/20561