Highlights from the project

© Academy of Fine Arts of Rome / Veronica Parrinello

The goal of the collaboration is to support the cataloguing functions of JAR by enhancing its accessibility through the integration of artificial intelligence into the journal’s editorial processes. Among the planned activities: involvement of post-doctoral researchers, development of use cases for the °'°Kobi platform in editorial contexts, and comparative studies with other knowledge management systems.

The agreement is part of the activities of Work Package 3 of the EAR project and will remain in effect until March 31, 2026.

The paper “La Galeria by Giovan Battista Marino: from ekphrasis to imagined space between AI and VR”, authored by Dalma Frascarelli (Work Package 4 Coordinator) and Floriana Boni from the Academy of Fine Arts of Rome, together with Paolo Pieruccini and Ramona Quattrini from the Marche Polytechnic University, has been accepted for the 46th International Conference of Representation Disciplines Teachers (Congress of Unione Italiana per il Disegno, UID 2025). The contribution will be presented at the conference, which will take place at La Sapienza University in Rome on September 11–13, 2025, and will be published in the conference proceedings.

Zagreb cityscape. Image by strgars from Pixabay

Coming up soon

28-29 April 2025 | Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Milan (Italy)

The workshop will focus on the theme of the “latent space” in artistic research. Over the course of two days, participants will create a shared exposition on the Research Catalogue. They will also be introduced to the use of °’°Kobi and, starting from the workshop theme and an initial focus group, each participant will develop a page related to their own research. The result will be both a collective and personal document that itself represents a “latent space” and a medium containing the documentation of the activity.

The workshop is organized by the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera and is open to Brera doctoral students and a selected group of invited second-cycle (MA) students.

EAR at the 16th SAR International Conference on Artistic Research

7-9 May 2025 | Porto (Portugal)

The research poster “Giving AI Ears”, developed by Work Package 3 (WP3) of the project and focused on the analysis of Large Language Models (LLMs), has been selected and will be officially presented at the conference. Under the supervision of Andrea Guidi (Academy of Fine Arts of Rome), the poster was created by Massimiliano Cerioni and Stefano Giacomelli (Alfredo Casella Conservatoir of Music in L'Aquila), and by Alberto Gatti and Lorenzo Ballerini (Conservatory of Music Santa Cecilia in Rome). The working group will have the opportunity to connect with researchers engaged in related topics concerning AI “with the ability to listen.”

The goal of this participation is to foster active dialogue and stimulate exchanges that will support the ongoing development of the method, advancing research from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Aerial View of the INFN National Laboratories in Frascati, Italy (© INFN)

21 May 2025, 09:30-17:00 | Frascati (Italy)

On May 21, 2025, the project “Art and Science in the Cosmogony of Data” will kick off at the facilities of the Italian National institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN). This research initiative, which bridges art and science, stems from the collaboration between the Academy of Fine Arts of Rome and INFN – Roma Tre as part of the EAR project.

The project will unfold throughout 2025, featuring several moments of interaction and exchange between artists, scientists, students, researchers, and professors, all engaged in fostering dialogue between the two disciplines through data provided by the INFN – Roma Tre, related to the ATLAS project at CERN in Geneva, specifically concerning the Higgs boson.

This particle, discovered in 2012, whose associated field gives mass to all particles, played a key role in the birth of the universe and its current expansion. The data, generated by the ATLAS particle detector at CERN, are organized in a database from which they can be extracted.

This moment of exchange marks the beginning of a long-term process during which the data will be transformed into a series of visualizations, involving scientists, artists, and young researchers, creating a balance between creativity and scientific precision.

For registrations and information: e.rossi@abaroma.it

Recent events and initiatives

Some shots from the event "Revelant se artes ad invicem", organized by the Florence Academy of Fine Arts

Revelant se artes ad invicem

11 April 2025 | Florence (Italy)

The Revealing Artistic Research work unit, part of the Work Package 2 of the EAR project, explores the phases of artistic creation with the aid of modern diagnostic analysis and 3D scanning/modelling technologies for VR (virtual reality) and AR (augmented reality).

On April 11 in the Ghiberti hall of the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, a day of in-depth exploration took place, divided into two sessions. The morning session, coordinated and moderated by Gerardo de Simone (Academy of Fine Arts in Florence), was streamed live from the Sala Ghiberti. Marcella Marongiu and Dedde E. Nozzoli (Casa Buonarroti) led the discussion on the transition from Michelangelo’s cartone to the Epiphany by Ascanio Condivi. This was followed by Giulia Coco (Galleria dell’Accademia di Firenze) on the process from idea to artistic creation in some of Lorenzo Bartolini’s plaster casts. To close, Juri Ciani and the XR-Lab presented the Multimedia Archive of the Accademia, with the participation of PhD students Giovanni Grimaudo, Giulia Vaccari, Federico Niccolai and Sara Onofrietti, starting with the scans made on the plaster casts of Michelangelo’s Lia and Rachele. The Multimedia Archive is part of project's action WP4.2 - prototyping of doctoral research projects.

In the afternoon, the day continued with a closed session at the laboratories of the Opificio delle Pietre Dure, dedicated to presenting ongoing restoration interventions and diagnostic investigations.

°’°Kobi: focus on recent developments

As work on °’°Kobi continues, here’s an overview of key milestones that marked its evolution in 2024:

• Training workshops in Rome and L’Aquila, with over 20 participants. (July–October 2024)
• Release of °’°Kobi 4: new interface, PDF parser, partner community, thematic filters, and advanced access management. (October 2024)
• KobiDes (design) and KobiTec (technical-scientific fields): two new research lines aimed at testing °’°Kobi’s architecture in different contexts, in addition to the ongoing KobiArt research line on the arts.
• New agreement with the Centro di Sonologia Computazionale of the University of Padua (CSC) for the use of °’°Kobi in support of the live electronics courses run by CSC at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena (an associate member of the project), and for the development of a research line on embodied knowledge, aimed at integrating in °’°Kobi data acquired during artistic performances from different types of sensors.
• °’°Kobi featured at the DARE conference (Rome), CELDA 2024 in Zagreb (Best Paper Award for the paper developed by WP3!), ElettroAQustica, INOUT (available in Italian on YouTube), and in the Springer volume dedicated to AI and creativity (read the abstract).

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Enacting Artistic Research (EAR) is a project funded by the European Union - Next Generation EU, Mission 4, Component 1. Coordinated by the Academy of Fine Arts of Rome, the project brings together a distinguished group of partners, including the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, the Florence Academy of Fine Arts, the Conservatory of Music Santa Cecilia, the ‘Alfredo Casella’ Conservatoire of Music, the National Institute of Nuclear Physics, and the Marche Polytechnic University.