MATTEO BITTANTI

CHART: 2022_MY FAVORITE PODCASTS OF THE YEAR (NOT RANKED)

Eavesdrop until you drop Being a voyeur is so 20c. Eavesdropping - i.e. the act of stealthily listening to the private conversation or communications of others without their consent in order to gather information - is the hic et nunc. In the age of podcasts, everyone is an eavesdropper although a kind of consent is given, I suppose. As I... Read more →

CHART: 2021_MY FAVORITE TV STUFF OF THE YEAR

...Death, more death, even more death, some poverty porn, a dash of entitlement porn, a bit of pandemic porn, bleakness galore, and some hedge fund horror. As I reach senility, I find it increasingly hard to invest time and energy for tv. It's too much work. It's just not worth it. Random comments: 01_ Black Summer (S02) The zombie apocalypse... Read more →

CHART: MY FAVORITE TV STUFF OF 2020

I love John Wilson. We were so lucky to show Road to Magnasanti, his amazing short about New York City turning into a real life version of SimCity at the Milan Machinima Festival in 2018. Unsurprisingly, his latest project, How to do With John Wilson is pure genius. It reminds me of the idiosyncratic, highly original, meta-series like Caveh Zahedi's... 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 Danily C. and Laura Louise Bell Professorship in the Humanities,... Read more →

PRESENTAZIONE: A NEW AMERICAN DREAM: UN POST-MORTEM (08 GIUGNO 2018, MILANO)

Ciò che segue è la trascrizione del mio recente intervento nel panel POST-FOTOGRAFIA, organizzato dall'Università IULM di Milano l'8 giugno scorso nell'ambito di Photo Week Milano 2018 e moderato da Gemma Fantacci. A NEW AMERICAN DREAM: UN POST-MORTEM Buongiorno. Il mio nome è Matteo Bittanti e oggi vorrei parlarvi di un progetto intitolato A NEW AMERICAN DREAM. Prima di avviare... Read more →