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machines and flesh

event of contamination technological
Frank Cellier, Stefano and Gianluca Nicoletti Moriggi
in collaboration with Eurotech, Background and Contemporary Art Gallery Andrea

From 15 to 29 May 2010

Two weeks devoted to the relationship between humanity and technology in a context that preserves the sacred treasures and valuable relics. The Museum of the Florentines, in the Basilica of San Giovanni dei Fiorentini near Via Giulia, the festival hosts machines and flesh, "an event of contamination between art, debates, film and dance performance, which finds its conceptual matrix in the volume of Gianluca Nicoletti and Stefano Moriggi "Because the technology makes us human, the flesh in his rewriting synthetic and digital," published in 2009 by Sironi. The comparison
staged by the authors, it appears that technology as a vantage point for understanding the evolution of the concept of human being. Understanding the technology also means understanding the categories and terms that have gone through the history of philosophy and science that constitute the grammar of our lives.
The setting of the museum in the heart of Baroque Rome, provides a fascinating comparison between the relics of saints kept within the area and works inspired by surrealist author Sicilian Unless hulls, which transfigure human nature grafting hybrid technology. The exhibition, sponsored by the Contemporary Art Gallery Andrea di Vicenza in collaboration with the Museum, consists of 30 works, made technical and advanced materials that also reflected the transformation of painting and its media, which tell us how, through metamorphosis and grafts of mechanical elements with anthropomorphic figures, the amazing scientific discoveries are essential elements for the evolution of nature and human.
to explore the themes underlying the initiative, to complement the exhibition, some talk show with readings and performances by the journalist Gianluca Nicoletti visionary and philosopher of science Stephen Moriggi with many characters and famous guests such as Richard Moon, Director of Wired magazine, Mark Pizzo, director of the Museo Centrale del Risorgimento Piazza Venezia in Rome Roberto Siagri, founder and president of Eurotech, Emmanuele Jannini, Professor of Medical Sexology at the University of L'Aquila.

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For fans of the genre, a film festival is scheduled ad hoc in order to discover the most representative stocks, in some cases destined to oblivion. The films will be presented to the public by the critic Gianluca Nicoletti Giuseppe Sansonna and to offer original ideas to the public, along with critics, artists and directors from film clips and screenings of cult movies such as "Tetsuo" of the Japanese director Shinya Tsukamoto tells of ' hybridization between human flesh and metal machinery.
event will complement the installation "Research and inhabited image," an experiment in visual, tactile, and immersive sound, the Crypt Falconieri, last work of the architect Francesco Borromini, designed by architect Fabio Fornasari for the National Research Council-Institute of Population Research and Social Policy.

The seductive space turns into a subterranean architectural "glass of water" that will reflect the same area in an image that can be inhabited by those reflected in it, making suggestions through lights and sounds.
The museum will be exhibited also preside zoomorphic designer collection of Precious Giampietro Metamorphosis. Chairs shaped like a ladybug, bird, ant and cobra are inspired by nature, literature and personal memory of the architect of Bari, who moved to Paris, where memories are mixed with suggestions of authors such as Kafka, Calvino, Pascali and produce original creations , suggesting the user sensory experience, emotional and real.
The opening of "flesh and machines" will be organized during the Night of the Museums of Rome, while the final event in conjunction with the long weekend Roman contemporary art that sees the opening of the Maxxi, the new wing of Macro and the exhibition "Rome. The road of contemporary art. "

The initiative is sponsored by the City of Rome and the National Research Council-Institute of Population Research and Social Policy.

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Summary sheet of machines and flesh

From May 15 to 29 the program of events includes:

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  May 15 hours 19 Exhibition Opening Salvo hull with the Sicilian author, talk show with a reading by Gianluca Nicoletti and Stefano Moriggi with surprise guests, projecting "Metropolis" Fritz Lang on the vault of the Basilica of San Giovanni dei Fiorentini; installation "image search and inhabited" by Francesco Borromini Falconieri Crypt in the Basilica, guided tours by appointment with wearable computer by Eurotech and ITER.
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  talk show May 19 at 21 with a reading by Gianluca Nicoletti with prof. Emmanule Jannini and other guests.
  

• May 20 at 21 Film Series "The Divine Silicon" by Joseph Sansonna: discussion and screening of "Terminator" by James Cameron and "Artificial Intelligence: AI" by Steven Spielberg.
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  May 21 at 21 Film Series "Bodies impossible" by Giuseppe Sansonna: discussion and screening, "The Stepford Wives" by Frank Oz and "Io e Caterina Alberto Sordi.
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  May 26 at 21 Film Series "The place of the soul" by Joseph Sansonna: debate and projection "Blade Runner" by Ridley Scott, "Strange Days" by Kathryn Bigelow and "Ghost in the shell" Mamoru Oshii.
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  talk show May 27 at 21 with a reading by Stephen Moriggi with guests to be defined.
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  May 28 at 21 Film Series "Relics Digital" by Joseph Sansonna: debate and projection "Total Recall" by Paul Verhoeven, "Nirvana" by Gabriele Salvatores and "Westworld" by Michael Crichton.
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  May 29 Final event with 19 hours talk show curated by Gianluca Nicoletti and Stefano Moriggi with surprise guests, projections on the ceiling of the Basilica of San Giovanni dei Fiorentini and artistic performances

The exhibition Salvo Scafati installation "Research and inhabited image" can be visited daily from 16 to 20 free entrance except on Mondays.

MUSEUM FIORENTINI via Acciaioli, 2 (Via Giulia) Information: macchine.carne @ gmail.com http://www.macchineecarne.blogspot.com/

Admission: free, movie nights € 5

Closed: Monday For press information

Francesca Cella 347 3313926 - fcellamare@hotmail.com

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a real forest, with lawns, trees, cottages to accommodate nature lovers born under the Fair Xylexpo, the biennial International woodworking technology and supplies for the furniture industry in program from 4 to 8 May 2010, and in conjunction with the Technology Exhibition Week.

In an area of \u200b\u200b3,200 m square (in Hall 14) will set up a woodland with more than 500 trees including large, open free to the public on Saturday 8 and Sunday, May 9.

will be an opportunity to see unusual Fiera Milano in a light and pleasant and discover the secrets of the woodwork and crafts, as told by carpenters and lumberjacks.

Bosco at the Fair will also host the Biathlon Woodman's, organized by the Friends of the Lumberjacks Valtellina, where you can watch the fast limbing with a hatchet and then, the creation of sculptures with strokes of the saw.

But beyond the event, what is left for visitors will be surely a warning to our forest resources, a wealth of opportunities for environmentally friendly construction.

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TWO WEEKS IN ROME

an Event of technological contamination

Everything comes from a book by Gianluca Nicoletti and Stefano Moriggi: "Why technology makes us human, the flesh in his rewriting and synthetic digital , Sironi, 2009. The comparison staged by the authors, it appears that technology as a privileged perspective for comprenderel'evoluzione of the concept of human being.

technology makes us human?

machines, in their evolution, have constantly reshaped styles and rhythms of life, social customs and practices. Reflecting also perspectives and ideas to think with the civil society.

The machine in modern times has become increasingly aware tool for understanding the world. This because of its ability to play "artificially" (and experimentally) natural phenomena.

Today more than ever, it seems appropriate not to lose sight of the pedagogical and cognitive function of the machine, as well as the 'importance of changes in individual and anthropological work among the masses.

Living and thinking machines

Understand the technology also means understanding the categories and terms that have gone through the history of philosophy and science and who also constitute the grammar of our lives.

What is nature? What is human? What sense has yet to distinguish between natural and artificial? Between real and virtual?

blasé approach to technology, and therefore objects and tools with which from age to age we have "interfaced to the world," means taking seriously the subject-object relationship and environment.

This is not to forget the old lesson of Leonardo and Galileo in the machines (and machines) have been able to read the man and its place in a universe "refurbished".

Three weeks in Rome ...

The project focuses on the need to bring discussion to focus on the relationship between "human" and "technology".

A series of events distributed in three weeks, as carriers of languages, experiences and contexts.

An exhibition dedicated to the "relics of the future"

Salvatore Scafati exhibit with works made specially on

to be held at the Museum of the relics of the Basilica S. Giovanni dei Fiorentini

A series of debates

Characters representative will discuss issues raised by the book

A review on cinema cyber

the theme of the body and technology in film

... From Living in the flesh

The initiative would have no intent "popular", but arises the ambitious goal of "to live in the flesh" to anyone who decides to take part in a practical approach to technology. We would like to trigger a reflection

alternativaagli now worn anathemas of the "humanist" the last hour, rather than the unconditional enthusiasm of unlikely technophiles.

approach these issues require serious consideration of the "system of objects" that embodies much of that evolution says that much cultural significance of what has over centuries and millennia humans.

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School: back schools 'special'

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"Ed School is not for everyone, so it would seem from this article. An Act of '94 has established that students with disabilities of various kinds have the right to attend mainstream schools "so that students can integrate with difficulty and not be ghettoized. As this law is at the forefront in Italy and around the world, is not supported by facts. The support teachers if there are missing or are replaced or moved frequently. Many parents of children with learning difficulties, are seriously considering abandoning the public school "normal" and return to enroll their children in 'special' schools.
This article discusses the reasons for this educational jungle "


Monica in Varese:" I tried for three years but this school is not for us. My daughter was aware of not being "normal" and lost self-esteem. For this reason, next year I will send a special school. I found a very nice with all kinds of support and qualified personnel, but mostly I saw children smiling, happy to be there. We believe in ' integration and are very ready to retrace my steps if things will change. " Adds Laura Vicenza, mother of an autistic child: "During playtime Simone is always alone, while his companions play on their own without involving him: is this integration? Last year my son has changed two assistant teachers. And to think he was making progress. Every teacher who leaves is a step backwards. If it finds one, it would send a special school with specialist teachers who understand why the boy punches him or banging his head. "

PARENTS disappointed - Laura and Monica are two entries from the pack, but the expression of a more widespread unease among parents, disappointed by a school that fails to welcome their children as 'special' because they lack the tools to do so. Overcrowded classrooms, teachers who work to support precarious position moving from one school to another, poor teacher training curriculum integration, barriers still not removed despite the pre-registration takes place 6-7 months before the start of the school year. And then, in recent months in battles of stamped paper and recommended shots, with appeals to regional courts to get the administrative support hours cut. So parents are convinced that their children could get better in specialized structures, and perhaps it is time to abandon the "school of all." Yet inclusive school is one of our country the most advanced in the world. For over 30 years has paved the way towards integration, exceeding by more ad hoc model of special schools, although the text only in '94 did not abolished.

Night Shift - A decade ago, about 5 000 students attended. Today there are still, even if you do not know how many. Lacks a census date because - they say the Ministry of Education - are now endangered. Some have changed their name, such as schools for the deaf. The main, for example, is called Institute of specialized education for the deaf (Isiss) and meets several state education institutions: childhood, primary, secondary and second degree. It is in Rome, Padua, Turin and receives about 500 pupils in 55 classes. Explains the head teacher Francesco Di Tullio, "In every class there are a maximum of 8 students, all deaf. It is specialized because the teaching is done with specific methodologies. All locations have computer and multimedia equipment, such as interactive whiteboards. There are also 'special' level playing field, such as the school Fortunata Gresner in Verona, the company run by the Sisters of Mary. Free until a few years ago, now pays an annual fee of 200 € for non-renewal of contracts with local authorities. It is organized and integrated into mainstream classes class groups of students with disabilities, with a program tailor- and opportunities for integration with non-disabled students. The property also provides other services such as speech therapy, physiotherapy and rehabilitation in water, meals, transportation centers, summer fun with an extension of the school year to 31 July. Other schools 'special' are diffuse patchy throughout Italy.

ENVIRONMENT 'NORMAL' or 'protected'? - "If the first were a tiny minority, are the rise again today because the parents do not find adequate answers in the school for their children - says Salvatore Nocera, vice president of the Italian Federation to overcome handicaps (Fish) -. They think, in fact, that may be less discrimination and better followed in special schools. " In short, more secure. Yet he chose because it was decided to include the integration of disabled children in a normal environment rather than protected. A choice of leading and winning, to say the experts. Explains Renzo Vianello, professor of developmental psychology and cognitive disabilities at the University of Padua and president of CNIS (National Coordination of specialist teachers): "It is true that in our country there are many problems, but the parents would make a serious mistake to send their children to "special". Decades of studies show that the variable "living in normality compensates for these defects than the alternative 'safe environment' special schools. We found, in fact, that children with Down syndrome included in regular classes have an IQ higher than their peers from other countries who attend special schools, but continues the expert -. The presence in the class of able-bodied children helps develop intelligence, but also has an effect "surplus" mental age, that is, than predicting the IQ tests, both are better academic performance and adaptive capacity in life ".

cost issues? - Add Raffaele Iosa, a school inspector in Emilia Romagna: "In Germany, where the boys down, placed in special schools, have a quotient intellectual 30% less than their Italian, he still spends twice as much to our country. " Already, the cost: they are really affecting the Italian education, jeopardizing even the school integration? "Surely the school system is experiencing a period of suffering and families are affected - the CGIL Lami says Benjamin School -. Decreased teacher presence, school time, while increasing the students in the classroom is able bodied and those with disabilities. But the return to special schools would be a remedy worse than the disease. "

CLASSROOMS CLASS overcrowded and 'H' - Current law provides that in a class with 20 to 25 students can be inserted only a disabled student, but if there are two disabled students, the class must be composed of fewer than 20 students. "No class that welcomes students with disabilities will be made up of more than 20 pupils and will not be cutting the number of support teachers," reiterated a statement issued last year by the Ministry of Education. "In fact, however, was not the case - argues Nocera -. The classes are a bit overcrowded 'everywhere. According to the same data of the Ministry, last updated in January, 5500 are well in classes where there are more than two pupils with special needs. " "In Campania, according to a monitoring Councillor education, there are over 950 classes of three or more students with disabilities and able-bodied students over 30 - adds Nocchetti Antonio, president of Tuttiascuola, an association of parents of disabled children -. The situation foreshadows a return to special classes. " Already at the beginning of the school year, the Fish had reported the presence of 5-6 in various Italian schools for disabled children concentrated in one class. It means that "teachers can hardly take care of students with disabilities whose parents want more support hours - Nocera notes -. But on the other hand, even an excess of hours would be contrary to integration. "

TRAINING WANTED - The disabled child, in fact, it should be borne by all the school team, as also provide for the ministerial guidelines. But training on disability issues is often lacking: only about 30% of school managers and teachers curriculum, according to 2006 data Invalsi (National Institute for the Evaluation of the Education and Training). "There is no obligation, so it happens that teachers unprepared integration problems downloading on colleagues for support. And if these do not exist or continue to change, parents are desperate rightly - says Paul Bands, support teacher and representative of the school committee precarious Liguria -. The lack of educational continuity, however, weighs more its most vulnerable children. "

HALVED SUPPORT - Another sore point: the hours of support halved. Parents have used the Tar throughout Italy, almost always resulting in the restoration of hours of support. Marisa Melis says the national forum "Parents tough in all places": "My daughter had 9 hours of support instead of 18 last year. I resorted to the TAR and won. Unfortunately, sometimes you have to meet up with school administrators who do not know the rules or do not want to apply it. For example, the assistant to personal hygiene is lacking almost everywhere. Who accompanies the child to the bathroom? For school employees were provided training courses, not being mandatory, they have made a few. "

JUDGEMENT OF THE COURT IN THE JOURNAL - To reaffirm the right to education of students with disabilities is also the Constitutional Court intervened. In a recent ruling, the No 80, February 26, declared illegal and the maximum limit for the posts of teacher support and the prohibition to hire fixed-term, notwithstanding the relationship between teachers and students established by the legislation, where there are severely disabled students in the classroom. The ruling was published in the Official Gazette on March 3 "The Court reiterates that there are budgets that take in the presence of a constitutional right, namely that the study - said Nocera -. Something must change, if not now, at least with the new school year. "

source: corriere.it
article by Maria Giovanna Faiella