MATTEO BITTANTI

CFP: BOOK REVIEWS AND BEYOND (DEADLINE: MARCH 1 2020)

Book Reviews and Beyond. The Transformations of Literature and Art Criticism in Periodicals Between the 18th and the 21st Centuries 1st International Conference Università IULM – Milan, Italy June 03-05 2020 Although unquestionably all-pervasive within the history of modern and contemporary press, the ‘review form’ has been to present an... Read more →

EVENT: FRANCO MORETTI AT IULM UNIVERSITY (JANUARY 29 2020, MILAN)

Franco Moretti (Source: New York Times) Franco Moretti will deliver a lecture titled "Simulare l'intreccio. Un nuovo approccio per lo studio della letteratura" (Simulating the plot. A new approach to studying literature") at IULM University on January 29 2020 in Aula dei 146, IULM Open Space. Franco Moretti is The... Read more →

NEWS: MILAN MACHINIMA FESTIVAL 2020: IT'S WEIRD, EERIE, AND UNREAL

The theme of the 2020 MILAN MACHINIMA FESTIVAL is The Weird, the Eerie, and the Unreal. Inspired by Mark Fisher’s last book, The Weird and the Eerie (2017), the theme tries to capture the essence of machinima, like the previous two, Aesthetics of game-based cinema (2018) and Uncanny (2019). The... Read more →

CHARTS: MY FAVORITE VIDEO GAMES OF 2019

I was asked by Swiss RadioTwo's host Daniel Paul Bilenko to share my favorite video games of the year. My original list was much longer, but Daniel was inflexible: no more than six. So, here are my frivolous judgments about unforgettable (strictly unranked) playful experiences... The podcast is available here.... Read more →

ART: THIS IS COLL.EO

Hundreds of Colleen Flahertys and Matteo Bittantis, imagined by a GAN (generative adversarial network), are now floating on the internet. LINK: This is COLL.EO Read more →