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• 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

status	active
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

status	active
portal	Enacting Artistic Research
admins	Matteo Cremonesi, Daniele Pozzi
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

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Conservatorio A. Casella L'Aquila

status	active
portal	Enacting Artistic Research
admins	Alessio Gabriele, Stefano Giacomelli, Massimiliano Cerioni

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Conservatorio Santa Cecilia Roma

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

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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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• Ode to Black Earth (last edited: 2025) author(s): Devrim Kadirbeyoglu connected to: Enacting Artistic Research This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
  Ode to Black Earth This project explores humanity's deep relationship with the Earth, inspired by Asik Veysel's song "Black Earth." It invites reflection on themes of existence, portraying the Earth as a loyal companion that provides, heals, and witnesses our joys and struggles. It reveals a cyclical intimacy between our hardships and the Earth's resilience. It highlights the spiritual and material connection between humans and the land, culminating in a meditation on mortality and our return to the soil. This short video captures moments from the performance by Devrim Kadirbeyoglu, presented on December 18, 2024, at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome. The artist walks on stage wearing her grandmother's coat and hat, carrying a suitcase that belonged to her grandfather. These cherished heirlooms symbolize a connection to the past while resonating in the present. She places her brown leather suitcase on a table and opens it, inviting the audience to read a text aloud from their phones, tablets, or other devices in their chosen language. As they immerse themselves in words, they are invited to glance at the artist with phrases like 'look at the performer,' creating a shared moment of reflection. With care, the artist extracts personal belongings from her suitcase, each item telling a story, before returning them to their original home. As each viewer completes their reading, the artist closes the suitcase, lifts it with purpose, and walks away, leaving a lasting impression of connection and memory. The performance is a study of the chapter "Death" from Sergio Blanco's Memento Mori. "All my autofictions were not written to show off but to search for myself. Each one was written from an "I" that sees in writing the possibility of meeting itself to reach out to others. In writing about the self, I find an opportunity to express myself, the chance to construct my story and to connect with others. I will never stop repeating this: I write about myself because I am alone and need to meet others. I write about myself in an attempt to understand both myself and others. I write about myself by projecting into imaginary situations in an effort to decipher the world."
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  Convergences. Creative Research at the Nexus of Art and Science (last edited: 2023) author(s): Veronica Di Geronimo connected to: Enacting Artistic Research This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
  "Convergences. Creative Research at the Nexus of Art and Science" presents conversations with four renowned Italian artists who combine their artistic expression with scientific disciplines. The series spotlights José Angelino, Federica Di Carlo, Fuse*, and Luca Pozzi, focusing on how scientific research influences their art, and the methodology adopted in their artistic research. This initiative is part of a wider program by CARE Lab, a transdisciplinary research laboratory based at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, in partnership with the National Institute of Nuclear Physics at Roma Tre University. Through these four engaging interviews, the series sheds light on the artists' perspectives and investigative techniques, offering insights into the complex and varied connections and research opportunities that emerge at the intersection of art and science. Ph: Enrico Bernieri, Cinzia pietribiasi, Dumbbell Nebula, 2023
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  INOUT in dialogue with Universon (last edited: 2023) author(s): INOUT connected to: Enacting Artistic Research This exposition is in revision and its share status is: visible to all.
  Inout will interview Universon, an emerging multimedia artist who has been experimenting with various technologies, including artificial intelligence in recent years. Universon will describe the latest project "[S]", a virtual world in which one can live an alternative life and will talk about that world and how you can experience an other reality inside it thanks to the use of new technologies (virtual reality, etc ...). This work has been presented at EU4ART_differences Summer School "Digital Rites and Embodied Memories".
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