Federica Bernardini Bressan

Federica Bernardini Bressan

Federica Bressan is a Fulbright scholar and Marie Curie alumna. Currently, she is a postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University, Belgium, and appointed Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia. She holds an MD in Musicology and a Ph.D. in Computer Science. The vision underlying her research concerns the co-evolution of technology and culture. Her main expertise is in the field of multimedia preservation, with special attention for audio and interactivity. She is active in science popularization, and she is the host of the podcast Technoculture.

Country:
Italy
Objective:
Research in Arts at SUNY, Stony Brook University
Research Project:
Physiological computing applied to the arts is a new genre of scholarship and practice focusing on the senses, art, design, and new technologies. At Stony Brook University in NY I will observe and participate in the realisation of new sensory works, and build the first digital archive to store information about sensory mapping strategies and the technology (sensors) used. The impact of physiological computing goes well beyond the arts, but experimentation in this field is just beginning in Europe, slowed down by a strictly discipline-based academic structure. The project brings a concrete contribution to the Conservation of Contemporary Art, and to History of Science and Technology.
Date:

March 3, 2020

Category:
The Fulbright Schuman Program, administered by the Fulbright Commission in Belgium and jointly financed by the U.S. State Department and the Directorate-General for Education and Culture of the European Commission awards grants to European citizens to conduct research in the United States and to American citizens to conduct research in the European Union.