Università Ca' Foscari Venezia

Post-Doc, Dipartimento di Filosofia e Beni Culturali

About

Silvia Casini is a research fellow (FSE) at Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage. Currently she is working on a project on museum visitors at the Natural History Museum in Venice.

After her first degree in Philosophy, she was awarded a PhD in Visual Studies and Film at Queen’s University, Belfast, UK (Russell Group). Her doctoral dissertation dealt with the study of biomedical images in contemporary art practices. As part of her PhD, she curated the exhibition “Marc Didou” at the Naughton Gallery at Queen’s and directed the short video “265 Looping Snapshots” published in a DVD enclosed with ScreenWork.

Besides curating a number of art exhibitions as free-lance, Silvia has worked for the research centre Observa – Science in Society.


Among her research interests there are: public understanding of science through the arts; new methodological approaches to visitors studies; cross-fertilisation between cinema and the visual/plastic arts (in particular, notions of interactivity, identity, embodiment).