Silvia Casini
Associate Professor
University of Udine
silvia.casini@uniud.it
Silvia Casini is Associate Professor in Film, visual culture and media at the University of Udine; she is Honorary Reader at the University of Aberdeen (UK). Her research, conducted both through archival work and ethnographic methodologies, explores the visual culture of medicine and science, scientific cinema and its festivals, with a constant focus on emergent technologies and new media as spaces where the image, the datum, and subjectivity are being redefined.
She received competitive research funding from bodies including the Leverhulme Trust, the Carnegie Trust, and the Scottish Crucible. Silvia Casini authored the monographs Giving Bodies Back to Data (MIT Press, 2021), Il Ritratto Scansione (Mimesis, 2016), and numerous essays in international journals such as Cinéma & Cie, Configurations, Leonardo, Nuncius: Journal of the Material and Visual History of Science, Studi di Estetica, The Senses and Society, and Visual Culture Studies.
Recent Publications
(2025), Casini, S.. How to re-activate the endangered archive of a historical science film festival: a speculative approach. In Devices, Dispositifs, and Moving Images. Eds. G. Fossati, A. van den Oever. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
(2025) Casini, S. and Ksenia Fedorova, Theorizing media art in light of STS: Factura of ephemeralities. Artnodes. Journal on Art, Science, and Technology Studies, Online journal.
(2025) Casini, S. and Ilona Sagar. After Images. Technologies of the Body and the Archive. In Art and the Critical Medical Humanities. Eds. F. Johnstone, A. Morehead, I. Wiltshire. London: Bloomsbury.
(2024) Casini, S., Paolo Magaudda and Federico Neresini, Communicating Science Through Films: The Case of the International Festival of Scientific and Educational Film (1956–1975), Science as Culture 34(1): 89-113.
(2023) Casini, S. Visibilizing the Patient’s Body through Anticipation: A Matter of Care. Reti Saperi Linguaggi. Italian Journal of Cognitive Studies 2: 291-312.
(2023) Casini, S., That Obscure Object of Desire. Some Notes for a Slow Art-Science. Tecnoscienza. Italyn Journal of Science and Technology Studies, 13(2): 87-104.
(2023) Casini, S., Alice Cati and Deborah Toschi. Sick and Injured Bodies: Medical Imagery and Media Practices of Care. Cinéma & Cie 22(39): 9-20.
(2023) Casini, S., Images, Data-Visualization and the Narratives They Create: The Narrative Function of Images in Fostering MRI Innovation. In Scientific Visual Representations in History. Eds. M. Valleriani, G. Giannini, E. Gianetto. Cham: Springer Verlag. 287-314.
(2022) Casini, S., A Missed Encounter between Species: The Interplay of Scientific Realism and Aesthetics in Painlevé’s Cinematographic Experiments on the Octopus. Studi di Estetica, 24(3): 127-156.
(2022) Casini, S., The Space between Bodies: Exploring Contagion without Contact from Cohl’s Animated Cephaloscope (1910) to Feuerstein’s Borgy & Bes (2018). Visual Culture Studies, no. 3-4: 33-57.