I’m very happy to have this quite abstract theoretical paper on sign production modelling out on the Signata journal. If you’re brave you can read it here.
Category: Semiotics
A computational reflection on sign production, 15/10/19
I’ve been invited by Maria Giulia Dondero and the équipe from the Centre de Sémiotique et rhétorique to participate in an workshop dedicated to “Enunciation and programming languages”. I will try to discuss a computational model for sing production.
Umberto Eco as a Philosopher, 14/06/18
Back to Bologna. Very happy to be invited to participate in the presentation of the volume dedicated to Eco by the Library of Living Philosophers.
An essay on Umberto Eco
I’m very proud that my essay on “Modes of sign production” has been included into the volume dedicated to Umberto Eco in the Library of living philosophers.
Sapir-Whorf vs Boas-Jakobson. Note sull’aspettualità nei linguaggi di programmazione. A seminar
On May 4th,2017 I’m presenting a seminar on semiotic aspects of programming languages in the context of the seminar cycle by CIRCe of University of Torino, Semiotica dell’aspettualità.
TheGifer in Turin, 04/11/2016
On Nov 4th I will discuss about animated GIF in the context of the Gifer festival. I am also one of the judges that had the difficult task to assign the prize.
Signata 6: Sémiotique de la musique/Music and Meaning
I’m very happy to have my article Towards a semiotics of the audible in the issue 6 of Signata, as the editors gave me the opportunity to finally review and translate into English a work I started with my PhD thesis. Here it is.
On Nanni Balestrini’s Tape Mark I, 10/06/13
In the occasion of seminars at CIRMA, with Alessandro Mazzei, my partner in crime for this kind of stuff, we analysed Nanni Balestrini’s Tape Mark I, probably the first poem created using a computer. We reconstructed the original implementation and proposed a new formalisation. And of course generated a lot of new versions.
Semiotics of programming at AISS meeting 2012
On 29/09/12 I have presented with Alessandro Mazzei a paper at the XL Meeting of the Italian Semiotics Association, this year in Turin. We’ve sketched some preliminary notes on semiotic issues of programming languages. While studying it, we got hooked, so now we have a new research topic..
La maison des anciens remèdes
The new, interactive, multimedia space of “The House of Ancient Remedies” will open on saturday Febr 5th. The hall of plants will include sound design for six different plants made by me an Paolo Armao. More soon.
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