Marconi Galaxy: Technology, Cultural Models, Myth-Making Conference

International Interdisciplinary Conference

Marconi Galaxy: Technology, Cultural Models, Myth-Making

ISA TOPIC 2009

Monday 27 – Tuesday, April 28, 2009.

R. Philharmonic Academy of Bologna, Sala Mozart

Via Guerrazzi 13, Bologna, Italy

 

Scientific Board: Maria Cioni, Barbara Crow, Gabriele Falciasecca, Seth Feldman, Elena Lamberti, Michael  Longford, Sanja Obradovic, Kim Sawchuk, Martin Stiglio, Barbara Valotti

 

Project assistant: Cecilia Ghetti

 

Organization: Sara Cwynar, Mel Hogan, Tracy Ma, Tiziana Miano, Christopher Moorhead, Luna Pagani, Carlo Settembrini, Andrea Zeffiro

 

Webcast: With the collaboration of TRADINVEST.TV (www.tradinvest.tv) the conference is broadcast live at the address: www.tradinvest.tv/livetv/

 

Information: Guglielmo Marconi Foundation, Tel. 051-846121 - www.fgm.it

Centre for Canadian Studies ‘Alfredo Rizzardi’, Tel. 051-2097190 - www2.lingue.unibo.it/ canada/

Project “Marconi Galaxy”: www.marconigalaxy.net

 

Languages: Italian & English (simultaneous translation available)

 

Programme

 

Monday, April 27, 2009.

 

9:00 am: Opening and Welcome Remarks

Speakers:

Roberto Grandi, Provost of International Affairs, University of Bologna

Dario Braga, Director, Institute of Advance Studies (ISA – University of Bologna)

Gabriele Falciasecca, President Guglielmo Marconi Foundation

Giovanna Franci, Director Centre for Canadian Studies “Alfredo Rizzardi” University of Bologna

Daniela Gallingani, Dean Faculty of Modern Languages – University of Bologna

Keir D Elam, Chair Department of Modern Languages – University of Bologna

Ravetti Dario, Art Counsellor, R. Philharmonic Academy Bologna 

Luigi Bruti Liberati, President Italian Association for Canadian Studies 

Martin Stiglio, Director Italian Cultural Institute in Toronto

Barbara Crow, York University, Toronto

 

9:30 am: The Marconi Galaxy: introducing the project and the research group

Speakers:

Barbara Valotti, Guglielmo Marconi Foundation

Michael Longford, York University, Toronto

Elena Lamberti, University of Bologna

 

10:00 am – 1:00 pm: Guglielmo Marconi: Man, Myth, History, Heritage

Chair: Dario Braga, ISA – University of Bologna

 

Barbara Valotti, Guglielmo Marconi Foundation

Guglielmo Marconi and the Origins of ‘Wireless’: between History and Myth

 

Seth Feldman, York University, Toronto

Guglielmo Marconi, Canadian

 

Kim Sawchuk, Concordia University, Montréal

Tales from the Marconi Trail

 

Michael Longford, York University, Toronto

Fogo Island: Process, Communication and Change

 

Lunch Break

 

2:45 pm – 3:45 pm: Voices from the Past: Radio, Witnesses, Imagination

Chair: Seth Feldman, York University, Toronto

 

Chris Brookes, Battery Radio Toronto

The View from Signal Hill

 

3:45 pm – 5:30 pm: Music in the Galaxy (Part One)

Chair: Loris Azzaroni, President R. Philharmonic Academy Bologna

 

Lelio Camilleri, Conservatory of Music G.B. Martini, Bologna

Sound Transmission: Electro-acoustic Music and Radio

 

Riccardo Piacentini, composer & Tiziana Scandaletti, soprano, Duo Alterno 

The Poetic of “Photo-Sound”

 

Coffee-Break

 

5:45 pm – 7:15 pm: Music in the Galaxy (Part Two)

 

Riccardo Piacentini, composer & Tiziana Scandaletti, soprano, Duo Alterno

From Telescope to Telegraph, to Photomusic , (1609 – 1909 – 2009)

 

Concert performance with video projections set in Guglielmo Marconi’s lounge.

Music by: Francesco Paolo Tosti, Gian Francesco Malipiero; Alfredo Casella; Riccardo Piacentini.

Lyrics by: Luigi Cesana, Gabriele D’Annunzio, Galileo Galilei, Trilussa, Francesco  Cimmino

 

Tuesday, April 28, 2009.

 

9:30 am – 12:30 pm: The Marconi Galaxy: Exploring the Infosphere

Chair: Francesco Paresce, Institute of Space Astrophysics and Cosmic Physics, National  Institute of Astrophysics, Bologna

 

Gabriele Falciasecca, Guglielmo Marconi Foundation

A Few Steps into the Infosphere

 

Barbara Crow, York University, Toronto

Retooling for the 21st Century: Digital Citizenship

 

Sanja Obradovic, York University, Toronto

Archaeology of Radio Technologies and Cultural History of Imagination

 

Massimo Temporelli, Museum of Science and Technology, Milan

Exhibiting Actuality: New Museum Models between Obsolescence and What Is Known

 

Lunch Break

 

2:30 pm – 5:15 pm: Marconi Galaxy: Cultural Models, Imaginary, Media

Chair: Roberto Grandi, University of Bologna

 

Peppino Ortoleva, University of Turin – Mediasfera Firenze

The Second Marconi Revolution

 

Elena Lamberti, University of Bologna

Primitives of a New Sensibility: Wireless Imagination from the Radio to the Global Village

 

Simone Natale, University of Turin

Magic and Occult Imagination: the Dynamic between Wireless Communication and Telepathy

 

Maria Cioni, writer, Toronto

The Net Generation and International Education in the Marconi Galaxy

 

Coffee  Break

 

5:30 pm: Further Explorations

Conference wrap up and presentation of future events and research activities.

 

In collaboration with:

Guglielmo Marconi Foundation; Centre for Canadian Studies Alfredo Rizzardi – University of Bologna; Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna; ISA – University of Bologna; York University, Toronto; Concordia University, Montréal; Italian Cultural Institute, Toronto; National Committee for the Celebration of the Nobel Prize to Marconi; Emilia-Romagna Region; University of Turin; National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo Da Vinci, Milan; R. Philharmonic Academy, Bologna; Research Workshops on the Cities – ISS University of Bologna; ETNP – Acume2; City of Sasso Marconi

 

Supporting Institutions and Sponsors:

Marconi Foundation, Centre for Canadian Studies Alfredo Rizzardi – University of Bologna; Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna; National Committee for the Celebration of the Nobel Prize to Guglielmo Marconi; Institute of Advanced Studies

ISA – University of Bologna; Faculty of Modern Languages – University of Bologna; R. Philharmonic Academy of Bologna; Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies, York University, Toronto; Mobile Media Lab , Concordia University, Montréal & York University, Toronto;  Italian Cultural Institute, Toronto; Embassy of Canada in Rome; The Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council, Canada; ETNP, Acume2; City of Sasso Marconi;  Tradinvest.tv.