ROM for art and architecture, Oslo

In collaboration with KHiO and kind support from Italian Culture Institute in Oslo ,

Inviting you to the seminar on:  

ART, PUBLIC SPACE AND URBAN AESTHETICS

Wednesday February 8 ^th 2006

18:00 to 21:00 h

Mr. Bartolomeo Pietromarchi, lecture, and presentation of the project TRANS:IT   Moving Culture through Europe .

Pietromarchi is the artistic director of the Adriano Olivetti   Foundation.

The Adriano Olivetti Foundation is an operating foundation based in Rome . The Foundation promotes research and projects in different

fields, including law, economics, art, architecture and urban planning, from a multidisciplinary perspective. At the core of its activity is the

enhancement of community action in its broadest sense, including its analysis. Visit www.transiteurope.org for more information on TRANS:IT

NORMAN KLEIN is the author of numerous books and essays on mass culture, media and urban studies, most notably, "The Vatican to Vegas: The History of Special Effects," „Bleeding through Los Angeles in Layers, 1920-1986,‰ a DVD-rom on the history of Los Angeles, "The History of Forgetting: Los Angeles and the Erasure of Memory," and "Seven Minutes: The Life and Death of the American Animated Cartoon." His Web credits include: co-author of "The Freud-Lissitzky Navigator" (with Lev Manovich); co-author of "Cinematic Imaginaries of Los Angeles" (working title, with Stephen Mamber); and director of the Research Institute for Cultural Change (through Cal Arts, at www.impsresearch.com). He is a professor at the California Institute of the Arts, and adjunct at UCLA and Art Center College of Design.
He is currently developing a new work on „Imaginary Twentieth Century,‰ a database novel in DVD-rom.

Place:

ROM for kunst og arkitektur

Maridalsveien 3 Oslo

+47 22 20 88 86

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