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Francesco Maria Spampinato

Full Professor

Department of the Arts

Academic discipline: ARTE-01/C History of Contemporary Art

Director of Second Cycle Degree in Visual Arts

Teaching

Recent dissertations supervised by the teacher.

First cycle degree programmes dissertations

  • Artpop: le relazioni tra musica pop e arti visive nella produzione di Lady Gaga
  • Autotune e Readymade. La trap come arte concettuale
  • Estetica del fallimento. Nuovi canoni di bruttezza nell’arte post-Internet
  • Il gabinetto nell’arte contemporanea tra critica istituzionale e ironia.
  • Il ruolo dell'arte contemporanea nei processi di riabilitazione penitenziaria
  • Militanza visiva ed anonima: la pratica artistica e democratica dell’Atelier Populaire
  • Museologia del presente: il caso del Broad Museum di Los Angeles
  • Musica pop, avatar e arte virtuale. I casi di Travis Scott, Thasup ed Etern!ty
  • Mutoid Waste Company. Arte e tecnologie di sopravvivenza post-umane
  • My Garden’s Boundaries Are The Horizon. Arte e memoria al de Appel di Amsterdam
  • Nuova carne: estetica del postumano nell'arte e nel cinema degli anni Novanta
  • Pittura e identità di genere: la prospettiva lesbica di Nicole Eisenman
  • Post-Plantation: il collettivo congolese CATPC per una giustizia ecologica e sociale
  • Psicogeografia: pratiche artistiche di riscrittura dello spazio urbano
  • Sex and Solitude. La mostra di Tracey Emin a Palazzo Strozzi tra autobiografia e femminismo
  • Sinestesia e Surrealismo. La comunicazione visiva di Storm Thorgerson
  • Spettri sonori. Cultura visuale nella musica pop
  • Tentatrice, generatrice, predatrice: rappresentazioni della donna nell'arte e nella cultura pop
  • Verso un'arte sintetica: prove di intelligenza artificiale attraverso due casi studio

Second cycle degree programmes dissertations

  • Analogue Resistance: Three Perspectives on the Former Kodak Factory in Chalon-sur-Saône
  • Andrea Fraser's Institutional Critique at the Intersection of Museum Architecture
  • Art and Technology in Flux: Korean Futurism in the Present and Beyond
  • Art in the Age of Systemic Crisis: Josh Kline’s Identity Politics and Dystopian Futures
  • Artist Squats' Deadening Legalisation: The Example of 59 Rivoli in Paris
  • Attenzione e inquinamento visivo: verso un'ecologia visuale
  • Between Arts and Fashion: Bottega Veneta’s Collaborations with Artists and Designers
  • Between Bodies and Objects: Rethinking Carol Rama Beyond the Psychobiographical Narrative
  • Beyond the Aquarium: Eco-Aesthetics and Water Bodies Between the Sea and the Screen
  • Cao Fei’s Speculative Cities: Sinofuturism and the Challenge to Techno-Orientalist Narratives
  • Contemporary Art in Nairobi: Sustainability between Tradition and Future Visions
  • Cosmic Anime: Orbital Ecologies, Posthuman Space and the Visual Arts in Japan
  • Curating Technological Futures: Perspectives from Seoul's Robot & AI Museum
  • Cyberfeminism, Punk and Corporeality: Linda Dement’s Artistic Production Since the 1980s
  • Disrupting Surveillance Capitalism: Art, Social Justice and the Disruption Network Lab
  • Exhibiting Inequalities: Curatorial Perspectives in Three Recent Exhibitions in Italy
  • Ghost and Spirit: Mike Kelley's Body and Memory Retrospective
  • Islamic Art in Europe: Shifting Narratives in The Museum Space
  • L’intervallo trasparente. Ryoji Ikeda tra sound art, datascape e intermedia
  • Magical Realism at WIELS: Artistic and Curatorial Experiments in Times of Ecological Fractures
  • Museum for Preventive Imagination: Luca Lo Pinto’s Direction of MACRO in Rome (2020–2025)
  • New World Summit: Jonas Staal’s Artistic Practice and Alternative Geopolitics
  • Painterly Lyricism and Political Metaphor: The Polish School of Posters Then and Now
  • Post-Internet Empathy: Structures of Emotion in the Oeuvre of Antoine Catala
  • Pratiques artistiques et durabilité : quatre expériences indépendantes à Paris
  • Reclaiming Histories: Postcolonial and Decolonial Narratives in Umar Rashid's Painting
  • Reconnecting With Nature: Proto-Ecological Artistic Approaches in Italy 1919-1939
  • Sensation: The Outrageous Exhibition at the Origins of the Young British Artists' Success
  • Social Media Images Offline: Shaping New Narratives in the Exhibition Space
  • Stefanos Tsivopoulos: Archives, Crisis, and the Politics of Memory in Contemporary Greece
  • Sustainable Legacy: Thijs Biersteker's Artistic Engagement with Environmental Challenges
  • The Aesthetics of Surveillance: A Study of Drone Art Through Three Case Studies
  • The Landscape of Climate Change: Ways of Seeing in Contemporary Photography
  • The Museum as a Target: The Climate Activism of XR, Just Stop Oil, and Ultima Generazione
  • The Projected Image in Florence’s Urban Space From Radical Architecture to Video Mapping
  • Tracing the Origins Of Media Art in Italy: A Contemporary Perspective
  • Transcending the Body: Three Perspectives on Mind Uploading in Visual Culture
  • Transforming Museum Experience with Extended Reality: Two Museums Case Studies
  • Ukrainian Art Under Siege: A Century of Identity, Trauma, and Resistance
  • Uncanny Algorithms: A Study of Jon Rafman's AI Projects
  • Who am I? Ai Weiwei’s Art and Politics Through the Prism of an Exhibition in Bologna

Specialisation Schools dissertations

  • Alle origini della lecture-performance. Pratiche discorsive nell’Italia degli anni Settanta
  • Arte e identità in Sardegna. Un'analisi della generazione emersa all'inizio del XXI secolo
  • Artiste che smuovono l'Acheronte. L’opera d’arte come spazio d’incontro
  • Ballroom Culture: genealogie, pratiche curatoriali e performative della scena italiana
  • Black Power in Italia. Cultura visuale e rimediazioni artistiche da Malcolm X ad Angela Davis (1961-1975)
  • Dal telaio al codice binario. La computer art di Charlotte Johannesson
  • Inconscio Cibernetico. Happening intermediale e interattivo tra Bologna e Parigi 1973-1975
  • Maurizio Cattelan: sperimentazioni e prime linee di ricerca 1983-1989
  • Monfalcone contemporanea. La Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea di Monfalcone dal 2002 al 2012
  • Nuovi spazi a Cosenza tra sperimentazione artista e pratiche sociali 1976-1999
  • Operazione Arte come Procedimento: Donnaarte a Frascati nel 1977
  • Palazzo Fortuny “postmoderno”: sperimentazioni fotografiche e audiovisive (1979-1992)