Research Catalogue

an international database for artistic research

• Integration of art and science: combining advanced technologies and cultural heritage to promote a new vision of art and culture in a global context.
• International dialogue and collaboration: connecting AFAM and scientific institutions to ease knowledge and methodologies exchange.
• Inclusion and accessibility: using technology to make cultural heritage accessible to a wider audience, removing physical and digital barriers.

• WP1: Project Management and Quality Assessment. Oversees project coordination and overall supervision, ensuring effective planning, results monitoring, and financial activity control.
• WP2: Art | Cultural Heritage and Science: Cross-Fertilization. Creates a transdisciplinary research environment where artistic research interacts with scientific and technological research to open new knowledge perspectives.
• WP3: Artificial and Collective Intelligence. Develops and expands the °’°Kobi digital platform, initially created as a proof of concept by the Academy of Fine Arts of Rome and the Marche Polytechnic University, making research accessible on an international scale.
• WP4: Artistic Research Hub. Promotes doctoral study paths, connecting PhD candidates with various research topics and curricula to strengthen the consortium’s research ecosystem.
• WP5: Dissemination, Cultural Mediation, and Open Data. Manages project communications, enhances the international visibility of AFAM institutions and ensures the broad dissemination of results to the target audience.

Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma

Ongoing projects: 1) MEMENTO MORI: a randomized CAT evalutaion of creative outputs in a didactic environment, assisted by semantic metrics provided by the °'°Kobi system

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portal	Enacting Artistic Research
admins	Daniele Pozzi, Veronica Di Geronimo, FRANCO RIPA DI MEANA, Andrea Guidi, kobiAdmin
members	Valentina Saggio, Giulia Tucciarelli, Gauri Abbattista, Teodora Ricci, Eleonora Scarponi, Gianluca Di Francesco, Devrim Kadirbeyoglu, ZeHao Li, Jona Norici, Lorenzo Spacagna, Claudia Digrandi, Ahzi Gaytan Monzani, Anna Fomina, shuyuan liu, Jiang Han, MengYao Zhu, Livia Viola, Jiayi Guo, YuYang Xie, Francesca Paganelli, Xueying Wang, Caiyi Li, XiaoQi Wei, Fan Liu, Ge Ge, Xaioxi Wang, Alessia Tessitore, Veronica Lilli, Ming Lu, Barbierato Leonardo, Matteo Cremonesi

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Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera

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portal	Enacting Artistic Research
admins	Matteo Cremonesi, Daniele Pozzi, kobiAdmin
members	Antonia Baresani Varini, Francesca Vulpiani, Luca Carlevarino, Crislaine Mettica, Alex Magni, shanshan cao, zhijie zhang, YUMEI ZHANG, JIANING JIANG, Chen Luanliu, Shuaiqi Wang, wu jiale, Zhu Jiayu, jing zhao, qihang zhou, wanglin he, Xiaoxiao Gong, wang xiao wen, keyao huang, Lilin Qiu, Yiliang Lou, Tao Li, TIANYI QIAN, Domenico Quaranta, Riccardo Arena, Guido Mannucci, Francesca Greco, Erica Garavaglia, Claudia Maria D'Alonzo, jiaxuan miao, yangtian xia, Chiara Bertasini, Adriana Ribalcenco, kobiAdmin, Davide Fontana

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Conservatorio Santa Cecilia Roma

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portal	Enacting Artistic Research
admins	Barbierato Leonardo, lorenzo ballerini, Carla Conti

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Enacting Artistic Research: Work Package 2

WP2: Art | Cultural Heritage and Science: Cross-Fertilization. Creates a transdisciplinary research environment where artistic research interacts with scientific and technological research to open new knowledge perspectives.

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Enacting Artistic Research: Work Package 3

WP3: Artificial and Collective Intelligence. Develops and expands the °’°Kobi digital platform, initially created as a proof of concept by the Academy of Fine Arts of Rome and the Marche Polytechnic University, making research accessible on an international scale.

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Enacting Artistic Research: Work Package 4

WP4: Artistic Research Hub. Promotes doctoral study paths, connecting PhD candidates with various research topics and curricula to strengthen the consortium’s research ecosystem.

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• Il peso morto (2025) author(s): Gauri Abbattista connected to: Enacting Artistic Research published in: Research Catalogue
  Il progetto si sviluppa intorno alla fascinazione delle spoglie e alla loro natura in quanto materiale organico non più vivo. L’ispirazione iniziale parte da un testo di Sergio Blanco, Memento Mori. Da li inizia una ricerca sul significato personale e intimo della morte, argomento ad oggi banalizzato dalle continue interpretazioni piatte e falsificate di un evento fin troppo naturale. La mia ricerca si basa sull’analisi del cambiamento di significato determinato dal contesto.
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  escalating inter-activity: brieftopic glimpse in site-specific post-human improvised music (2025) author(s): Barbierato Leonardo connected to: Enacting Artistic Research published in: VIS - Nordic Journal for Artistic Research
  There are moments within a performance where destruction and deviation from reality allow an alternative scenario to reveal itself. I argue that these moments can be called ‘brieftopic’, fleeting glimpses into a possible future (Behzad Khosravi Noori, 2024). But what are the connections between reality, deviation and alternative scenario? How can this brieftopia, which materializes for brief moments within a performative event, reverberate outside of it, propagating at a social and political level? During the site-specific improvisation series [in situ], it became evident to me that this brieftopia is tied to an artist’s relinquishment of control, leading to a decentralization of the performance. By introducing the case study, specifically the [in situ] performance held in September 2023 at the Maremma National Park, we will see how unforeseen, unpredictable, and non-linear interactions between myself, the audience, and the non-human components of the ecosystem in which we were immersed, shaped the performance itself, steering it in an unexpected direction and removing it from the continuum of artistic intention, audience perception, and everyday life reflection. In this brieftopia, in a sense, it is existence itself that is reduced to rubble, not for the love of rubble, but for the way out that passes through it, paraphrasing Walter Benjamin.
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  [in situ] : re-thinking the role of musical improvisation performance in the context of the ecological and cultural crisis (2024) author(s): Barbierato Leonardo connected to: Enacting Artistic Research published in: RUUKKU - Studies in Artistic Research
  If there is one thing that complexity theory has taught us, it is to consider phenomena not as isolated events with properties of their own, but to observe them from a different perspective: as relations in a vast network of interdependent systems. In this light, the role of contemporary music performance has changed, and will continue to change, precisely because the context in which it is created and takes place is constantly evolving. Artistic research can provide the tools to be aware of these changes and to actively re-act in this changing context, not by simply transposing the context or its elements into a representational or aesthetic framework, as happened with the avant-gardes of the 20th century, but by breaking cultural boundaries through transpositions into distant fields with isomorphic functional principles. It is precisely because of this characteristic, which reveals the intrinsic interdisciplinarity in artistic research, that it is possible to revolutionize the traditional conception of music performance and not confine it to an aesthetic regime, but rather expand it to include the context. However, since relationships are not unambiguous, it is not just a matter of revising the concept of performance, but also of reviewing the way we experience and live in the context, as artists, as human beings, and as elements of a circuit of which we are only a small part. In this paper, I will first examine how environmental and social changes have been reflected in performative changes and the ways in which the context of the ecological crisis and contemporary performance are interrelated. Then, I will focus on my research project, “[in situ]”, highlighting its site/situation-specificity, flexibility, immersivity, and interactivity, and explaining how it aligns with and differs from other contemporary music performance practices.
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  Artistic Research and Collective Intelligence (last edited: 2025) author(s): kobiAdmin, Andrea Guidi, Veronica Di Geronimo, Matteo Cremonesi, FRANCO RIPA DI MEANA, Daniele Pozzi, Davide Fratoni, Erica Garavaglia, Martina Borgese, Chiara Bassi, Francesca Greco, Guido Mannucci, wu jiale, Riccardo Arena, Bentini Leonardo, Claudia Maria D'Alonzo connected to: Enacting Artistic Research This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
  Exposition supporting the Artistic Research and Collective Intelligence workshop, 28-29 April 2025, Brera Academy of Fine Arts. Theme: In recent years, latent space has become a recurring notion in the field of AI and generative art, but the term has a much broader origin and resonance, finding relevance in various fields of knowledge such as psychology, biology and computer science. Translated into the field of artistic research, latent space can refer to indefinable and potential configurations, to a fluid and interstitial zone in which knowledge and imagination take shape through non-linear processes and intuitions. The workshop will offer a space for discussion and experimentation, welcoming proposals and reflections on the processes of artistic research, to investigate unforeseen configurations, lateral paths, and methodological deviations. The activity is promoted by the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome as part of the Enacting Artistic Research project. Workshop Tutors: Veronica Di Geronimo, Andrea Guidi, Daniele Pozzi Co-organisers: Matteo Cremonesi, Claudia Maria D'Alonzo Participants: Riccardo Arena, Chiara Bassi, Leonardo Bentini, Martina Borgese, Davide Frantoni, Erica Garavaglia, Francesca Greco, Guido Mannucci, Jiale Wu
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  non smettono di morire questi morti (last edited: 2025) author(s): Eleonora Scarponi connected to: Enacting Artistic Research This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
  This work explores the themes of death and memory, inviting the user to become an active participant. Each click offers an opportunity to reflect on the permanence of what seems concluded, revealing new layers of meaning and questioning the linearity of time. The interactive experience is a digital reworking of a previous performative act, inspired by the text Memento mori or the celebration of Sergio Blanco. The performance took place in a stage space defined by a few objects: a table, a text, a laptop, a digital countdown, a conference microphone and a drawer containing some clothes. In this context, the author read her own text in an intimate and dimly lit atmosphere, with the written content projected on the background. The voice of the reading, without punctuation or spaces, constituted the only thread of the action, until the three-minute countdown expired. ----------------- Questo lavoro esplora i temi della morte e della memoria, invitando l'utente a diventare un partecipante attivo. Ogni clic offre l'opportunità di riflettere sulla permanenza di ciò che sembra concluso, rivelando nuovi strati di significato e mettendo in discussione la linearità del tempo. L’esperienza interattiva è una rielaborazione digitale di un atto performativo precedente, ispirato al testo Memento mori o della celebrazione di Sergio Blanco. La performance si è svolta in uno spazio scenico definito da pochi oggetti: un tavolo, un testo, un portatile, un countdown digitale, un microfono da conferenza e un cassetto contenente alcuni indumenti. In questo contesto, l’autrice leggeva il proprio testo in un’atmosfera intima e semibuia, con il contenuto scritto proiettato sullo sfondo. La voce della lettura, priva di punteggiatura e spazi, costituiva l’unico filo conduttore dell’azione, fino allo scadere del countdown di tre minuti.
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  DIALOGHI INVISIBILI (last edited: 2025) author(s): Giulia Tucciarelli connected to: Enacting Artistic Research This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
  Dialoghi Invisibili è un progetto che nasce da una profonda riflessione sul tema della morte, stimolata dalla lettura del brano Memento Mori del drammaturgo Sergio Blanco. Il progetto si sviluppa attorno ad un testo autofinzionale che esplora con profondità il rapporto tra morte, memoria e assenza. Attraverso un monologo intimo e universale, il testo invita il pubblico a confrontarsi con temi esistenziali e a riappropriarsi della presenza che si cela nell'assenza. Al centro c'è un'esperienza personale, resa condivisibile attraverso una performance evocativa in cui ogni elemento visivo e sonoro amplifica il potere della narrazione. - Dialoghi Invisibili is a project born from a deep reflection on the theme of death, stimulated by the reading of the text Memento Mori by playwright Sergio Blanco. The project is developing around a self-fictional text that explores in depth the relationship between death, memory and absence. Through an intimate and universal monologue, the text invites the audience to confront existential themes and to reclaim the presence that lies in absence. At the center is a personal experience, made shareable through an evocative performance in which every visual and sound element amplifies the power of the narration.
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