Is a cultural manager and lecturer in the field of live performing arts. She provides ideation, artistic programming, strategic design and management for public institutions and independent organizations at local and international level. Active in the cultural sector since 1999, Giuliana has, among other collaborations, been the head of organization and production for the Italian (Ministry of Culture-funded) international theatre festival, Napoli Teatro Festival, for which she also co-authored the awarded proposal. Author and producer of various performances and large-scale cultural projects (hosted by La Mama Theatre, NY, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, etc.) Giuliana is presently the co-curator and project manager (with Luca Ricci) of Be SpectACTive!, EU-funded large-scale project on active spectatorship. Starting from October 2016 she is a researcher at ARIA (the Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts) in Belgium.

Is Adjunct Professor of New Media at Accademia delle Belle Arti di Palermo. He is member of the editorial board of the journals ‘Carte Semiotiche. Rivista internazionale di semiotica e teoria dell’immagine’, ‘Fata Morgana. Quadrimestrale di cinema e visioni’ and ‘L’avventura. International Journal of Italian Film and Media Landscapes’. He is co-editor with D. Chimenti and F. Zucconi of Sguardi incrociati. Cinema, testimonianza, memoria, nel lavoro teorico di Marco Dinoi (Fondazione ente dello spettacolo 2011). He is author of Testimoni di Guerra. Cinema, memoria, archivio (Edizioni Ca’ Foscari 2015) and of entry ‘Emigrazione/Emigration’ in Lessico del cinema italiano. Forme di vita e forme di rappresentazione (2015) edited by Roberto de Gaetano.

Graduated in Philosophy at Pisa University, and holds a PhD in Philosophy of Communication and Spectacle by the Calabria University, with a thesis on thoughts on film in French contemporary philosophy. A journalist for Fata Morgana – Quadrimestrale di Cinema e Visioni magazine, he collaborated in ‘Il Manifesto’, ‘Filmcritica’, ‘Lo Straniero’, and Enciclopedia Italiana Treccani. Cultural activist and literary translator, he organized the Italian edition of two works by Jacques Rancière, and translated Pierre Donadieu, Michel Foucault, and Madame de Staël. In Palermo, he collaborated with the Piccolo Teatro Patafisico, the Institut français, the Instituto Cervantes, the Goethe-Institut and the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, and is artistic director of Sicilia Queer filmfest.

Is Director of Research at University of London, Central School of Speech and Drama, and an Emeritus Professor of Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He has published widely on the performing arts and media.

Is associated professor at the University of Siena since 2002. She holds a degree in Italian Literature at the University of Florence. She’s been Fellow at the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in 1978. Marzia collaborates with the Multimedia Content Design master at the Dep. of Informatics and Systems at the University of Florence. She is also involved in the master for theatrical directors at the Opera Academy of Verona, as well as with the publisher Marsilio (Venice). She is member of several journals, and has authored a number of scientific publications.

Producer, writer, archive researcher who devoted her work entirely to documentaries and little life pleasures. Petra was born in Ljubljana Slovenia. In 2003 she production company in Slovenia and in Macedonia. Her creative strength can be seen in their documentary The grandmothers of revolution, that was selected for the IDFA (International Documentary Festival Amsterdam) Joris Evens competition and has travelled all over the world receiving many awards. Their In 2010 they established the unique festival of creative documentary film MakeDox in Macedonia. EDN representative for Slovenia,funder od BDDN network ( balkan documentay network). Filmography: My World Is Upside Down – Petra Pan Film (2016), Perfect circle (co-producer) documentary – Movimеnta (2015), Mama Europa (director-producer) documentary – Petra Pan Film (2013), 18 Comidas (co director) feature film -Tic Tac Production (2010), If no one plays ( co-producer) documentary film, Mostar united ( co-producer) documentary film – Stefilm (2008), The Grandmothers of revolution (director & Producer) documentary – Petra Pan film (2006), Turkish Tea (director  & Producer) documentary series-Petra Pan film (2005).

Laureato in Filosofia e Sociologia, è Presidente dell’associazione Basilicata 1799, con cui ha curato molti progetti tra cui Arte inTransito, Estetica del Virtuale e il Festival Città delle cento Scale. Attualmente insegna presso il Liceo delle Scienze Umane di Potenza e ha collaborato a varie attività di ricerca nell’ambito della formazione a livello regionale e nazionale. Ha curato i seguenti volumi e cataloghi:L’Europa oltre l’Europa, Opera verticale. La scalinata del pensiero. Workshop, Potenza, luogo dell’innovazione. La cultura come energia primaria della città nell’età della globalizzazione, Arte in Transito. Viaggio nell’arte in Basilicata. Ha inoltre elaborato e realizzato prodotti multimediali riguardanti il rapporto arte e filosofia, verso cui si concentra la sua attenzione. Scrive su vari giornali e siti internet prevalentemente su questioni culturali. È membro della Direzione e del Comitato Scientifico della Summer School “Mediterraneo, identità e alterità dell’Europa” che si tiene a Maratea.

Is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Centre d’Histoire et de Théorie des Arts, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Member of the scientific board of the Centro Studi “Omar Calabrese” (University of Siena), he received his PhD in History of Art and Visual Studies from the Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane (SUM-SNS) in Florence. His publications include: La sopravvivenza delle immagini nel cinema. Archivio, montaggio, intermedialità (Milano 2013); Sguardi incrociati. Cinema, testimonianza, memoria nel lavoro teorico di Marco Dinoi (co-ed., Roma 2011); Lo spazio del reale nel cinema italiano contemporaneo (co-ed., Genoa 2009). He has also published several articles in scientific journals such as ‘Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Film and Media Studies’, ‘Cinergie’, ‘Comunicazioni Sociali’, ‘E|C’, ‘Eu-topías’, ‘Fata Morgana’, ‘Lares’, ‘Lexia’, and ‘Visual Studies’.