Dr Laura Leuzzi's Outputs (73)

Visualizing time: a recent survey of time-focused art. [Magazine article, 2023/2024 edition] (2024)
Newspaper / Magazine
SBRILLI, A. and LEUZZI, L. 2024. Visualizing time: a recent survey of time-focused art. Time's news [online], 54, pages 44-51. Available from: https://studyoftime.org/publications/times-news/

This is the 2023/2024 annual survey of time-focused art, which on this occasion has been curated by Antonella Sbrilli and Laura Leuzzi. Published in the International Society for the Study of Time's "Time's News" annual magazine, this year's survey f... Read More about Visualizing time: a recent survey of time-focused art. [Magazine article, 2023/2024 edition].

She-wolves: erotism, love, body. [Exhibition] (2024)
Exhibition / Performance
She-wolves: erotism, love, body. [Exhibition]. Exhibited 30 May - 31 August 2024, [online exhibition]. Hosted on RE_EXHIBIT [online], RE_EXHIBIT 4. Available from: https://rewind.ac.uk/re_exhibit/re_exhibit-she-wolves_erotismlovebody/

The exploration into a liberated female body and sexuality is key to the work and research of several women video and film pioneers in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.  Inspired by the famous book by Clarissa Pinkola Estès, "Women who run with the wolves"... Read More about She-wolves: erotism, love, body. [Exhibition].

Incite: digital art and activism. [Book launch and panel] (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
DELAPPE, J., LEUZZI, L., SHEMILT, E., STREET, Z., ZEĆO, M., ZEILINGER, M. and LUDOVICO, A. 2024. Incite: digital art and activism. [Book launch and panel]. Held on 7 March 2024, Photographers' Gallery, London. Hosted on YouTube [online]. Available from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIDvq3W5zHw

This event was held to celebrate the publication of the book, "INCITE: Digital Art and Activism", edited by Joseph DeLappe and Laura Leuzzi. The panel discussion featured the editors alongside several of the contributors (Emile Shemilt, Zoyander Stre... Read More about Incite: digital art and activism. [Book launch and panel].

Shaping the contemporary: Macedonian video art since 1984. [Exhibition] (2024)
Exhibition / Performance
Shaping the contemporary: Macedonian video art since 1984. [Exhibition]. Exhibited 15 February - 29 March 2024, [online exhibition]. Hosted on RE_EXHIBIT [online], RE_EXHIBIT 3. Available from: https://rewind.ac.uk/re_exhibit/re_exhibit-shaping-the-contemporary/

This exhibition focuses on the development, discussion and production of moving image and video art in North Macedonia, since the late Yugoslav period. Many of these videos are being shown for the first time in many years and are little known to audi... Read More about Shaping the contemporary: Macedonian video art since 1984. [Exhibition].

In dialogue: for an approach to activist curating. (2023)
Book Chapter
LEUZZI, L. 2023. In dialogue: for an approach to activist curating. In DeLappe, J. and Leuzzi, L. (eds.) Incite: digital art and activism. Aberdeen: peacock and the worm, chapter 1110, pages 53-56.

This chapter - a short essay - forms Laura Leuzzi's chapter contribution to the collaborative artists' book, "INCITE: Digital Art and Activism", edited by Joseph DeLappe and Laura Leuzzi. The book sought to collate responses from artists, scholars an... Read More about In dialogue: for an approach to activist curating..

European values. (2023)
Book Chapter
ZEĆO, M. 2023. European values. In DeLappe, J. and Leuzzi, L. (eds.) Incite: digital art and activism. Aberdeen: peacock and the worm, chapter 1111, pages 57-60.

This chapter - a selection of quotes within variously decorated pages - forms Maja Zećo's contribution to the collaborative artists' book, "INCITE: Digital Art and Activism", edited by Joseph DeLappe and Laura Leuzzi. The book sought to collate respo... Read More about European values..

Aphorisms on art and activism. (2023)
Book Chapter
BLACKWOOD, J. 2023. Aphorisms on art and activism. In DeLappe, J. and Leuzzi, L. (eds.) Incite: digital art and activism. Aberdeen: peacock and the worm, chapter 1100, pages 45-48.

This chapter - a compilation of aphorisms - forms Jon Blackwood's contribution to the collaborative artists' book, "INCITE: Digital Art and Activism", edited by Joseph DeLappe and Laura Leuzzi. The book sought to collate responses from artists, schol... Read More about Aphorisms on art and activism..

Incite: digital art and activism. (2023)
Book
DELAPPE, J. and LEUZZI, L. (eds.) 2023. Incite: digital art and activism. Aberdeen: peacock and the worm.

INCITE: Digital Art and Activism is a collaborative artists' book, featuring creative responses from artists, scholars and activists connected through the Digital Art and Activism Network, and edited by Joseph DeLappe (Abertay University) and Laura L... Read More about Incite: digital art and activism..

I am enchanted and I see. [Exhibition] (2023)
Exhibition / Performance
I am enchanted and I see. [Exhibition]. Exhibited 10 November - 15 December 2023, [online exhibition]. Hosted on RE_EXHIBIT [online], RE_EXHIBIT 2. Available from: https://rewind.ac.uk/re_exhibit/i-am-enchanted/

"I am Enchanted and I See" (2023) is an exhibition by Cinzia Cremona, featuring a new video commission in response to Tamara Krikorian's "Vanitas" (1976), which is held in the REWIND Collection. Cremona responds to Krikorian's pioneering artwork with... Read More about I am enchanted and I see. [Exhibition].

Double acts: collaborative partnerships in early artists' video. [Exhibition] (2023)
Exhibition / Performance
Double acts: collaborative partnerships in early artists' video. [Exhibition]. Exhibited 22 September - 29 October 2023, [online exhibition]. Hosted on RE_EXHIBIT [online], RE_EXHIBIT 1. Available from: https://rewind.ac.uk/re_exhibit/double-acts/

Having been invited to identify a theme and to select some relevant examples of this approach from the Rewind collection, I have chosen to present works by artists working collaboratively. The medium of video is particularly suited to this way of wor... Read More about Double acts: collaborative partnerships in early artists' video. [Exhibition].

Of mentors, teachers and pioneers: herstories of video and media art in Europe. (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
LEUZZI, L. 2023. Of mentors, teachers and pioneers: herstories of video and media art in Europe. Presented at the 10th International conference on the histories of media art, science and technology (RE:SOURCE 2023), 13-16 September 2023, Venice, Italy.

This paper aims to question transmissions, teaching methods and approaches. It also aims to discuss and reassess the legacy of a generation of women video and new media pioneers – including Elsa Stansfield, Nan Hoover, Tamara Krikorian, Maria Vedder... Read More about Of mentors, teachers and pioneers: herstories of video and media art in Europe..

She became my teacher and mentor: uncovering the legacy of women video pioneers in art schools and academies in Europe. [Book chapter] (2023)
Book Chapter
LEUZZI, L. 2023. She became my teacher and mentor: uncovering the legacy of women video pioneers in art schools and academies in Europe. In Laks, D. and Sassu Suarez Ferri, N. (eds.) Transmission and gender: women artists as teachers in the XXth century. Passages online, 26. Heidelberg: Heidelberg University; arthistoricum.net [online], pages 39-48. Available from: https://doi.org/10.11588/arthistoricum.1148.c16188

The introduction of the portable video recorder enabled women artists of the 1970s to experiment with a medium that was considered easier and cheaper to operate than film, as well as free from the heavily male-dominated imprint of traditional artisti... Read More about She became my teacher and mentor: uncovering the legacy of women video pioneers in art schools and academies in Europe. [Book chapter].

Digital art and activism: performance, protest, polities, technologies. (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
DELAPPE, J., LEUZZI, L, BLACKWOOD, J., ZEĆO, M. and ZEILINGER, M. 2023. Digital art and activism: performance, protest, polities, technologies. Presented at the 28th International symposium on electronic art (ISEA2023): symbiosis, 16-21 May 2023, Paris, France. Hosted on YouTube [online]. Available from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyF1oQ3hIGQ

This panel, chaired by Laura Leuzzi, addresses diverse themes and approaches towards engaging emerging technologies in the context of digital art and activism encompassing notions of socially engaged art and art as social practice from practice-based... Read More about Digital art and activism: performance, protest, polities, technologies..

Facing the lens of the camera: bodies, self-portraiture, portraiture and identity in women artists' video. (2023)
Book Chapter
LEUZZI, L. 2023. Facing the lens of the camera: bodies, self-portraiture, portraiture and identity in women artists' video. In Dreckmann, K. and Vomberg, E. (eds.) More than illustrated music: aesthetics of hybrid media between pop, art and video. New York: Bloomsbury Academic [online], chapter 8, pages 93-105. Available from: https://doi.org/10.5040/9781501381263.0015

Since its commercial inception and availability in the late 60s and 70s, video has acted as a powerful tool for women artists to explore feminist issues and debunk stereotypes re-perpetrated over the centuries by patriarchal society. In resonance wit... Read More about Facing the lens of the camera: bodies, self-portraiture, portraiture and identity in women artists' video..

Representation and identity in contemporary women artists' video. (2023)
Journal Article
LEUZZI, L. 2023. Representation and identity in contemporary women artists' video. Arts [online], 12(2), article 42. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/arts12020042

This essay is an initial study that examines selected contemporary video artworks addressing identity and representation by contemporary Italian women artists. The author shows how these women artists seek to avoid the objectification and sanitisatio... Read More about Representation and identity in contemporary women artists' video..

Visualizing time: a recent survey of time-focused art. [Magazine article, 2022 edition] (2022)
Newspaper / Magazine
SBRILLI, A. and LEUZZI, L. 2022. Visualizing time: a recent survey of time-focused art. Time's news [online], 53, pages 20-30. Available from: https://studyoftime.org/publications/times-news/

This is the 2022 annual survey of time-focused art, which on this occasion has been curated by Antonella Sbrilli and Laura Leuzzi. Published in the International Society for the Study of Time's "Time's News" annual magazine, this year's survey featur... Read More about Visualizing time: a recent survey of time-focused art. [Magazine article, 2022 edition].

Demarco and Yugoslavia in the 1970s. (2022)
Book Chapter
BLACKWOOD, J. 2022. Demarco and Yugoslavia in the 1970s. In Leuzzi, L., Partridge, S. and Shemilt, E. (eds.) Richard Demarco: the Italian connection. Barnet: John Libbey, chapter 7, pages 105-113.

During the Cold War period, relations between the UK and Yugoslavia were couched entirely in the frames of politics, economics or military history; in the later years of socialist Yugoslavia, from the later seventies onwards, links were also develope... Read More about Demarco and Yugoslavia in the 1970s..

Making politics: engaged social tactics. (2022)
Book Chapter
DELAPPE, J. and LEUZZI, L. 2022. Making politics: engaged social tactics. In burrough, x. and Walgren, J. (eds.) Art as social practice: technologies for change. New York: Routledge [online], chapter 10, pages 126-136. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003169109-13

In this interview, Joseph DeLappe describes a lineage of works and circumstances that led to a series of community-based and crowdsourced projects to encourage participation and creative critical action with participants, volunteers, and collaborator... Read More about Making politics: engaged social tactics..

Italo-Scottish dialogues: archival journeys through the Demarco Archives. (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
LEUZZI, L. 2022. Italo-Scottish dialogues: archival journeys through the Demarco Archives. Presented at Scotland in Europe: cultural connections, 1939 to present, 25 February 2022, [virtual event]. Hosted on YouTube [online]. Available from: https://youtu.be/PnCXXIugIWQ

Since the 1960s, the artist, cultural entrepreneur and educator Richard Demarco has been a notable champion of European visual and performing arts in Scotland. Inspired by his own ancestry, he has cultivated a cultural dialogue between Italy and Scot... Read More about Italo-Scottish dialogues: archival journeys through the Demarco Archives..

Visualizing time: a recent survey of time-focused art. [Magazine article, 2021 edition] (2021)
Newspaper / Magazine
SBRILLI, A. and LEUZZI, L. 2021. Visualizing time: a recent survey of time-focused art. Time's news [online], 52, pages 16-27. Available from: https://studyoftime.org/publications/times-news/

This is the 2021 annual survey of time-focused art, which on this occasion has been curated by Antonella Sbrilli and Laura Leuzzi. Published in the International Society for the Study of Time's "Time's News" annual magazine, this year's survey featur... Read More about Visualizing time: a recent survey of time-focused art. [Magazine article, 2021 edition].

Elaine Shemilt: Doppelgänger in protest. (2021)
Book Chapter
LEUZZI, L. 2021. Elaine Shemilt: Doppelgänger in protest. In Schor, G. (ed.) Feministische Avantgarde: Kunst der 1970er-Jahre. Vienna: Sammlung Verbund; Munich: Prestel Germany, volume 2, pages 178-181.

In her art, Elaine Shemilt uses the image of the body to powerfully illustrate her exploration of identity, and her problematization and questioning of the representation and objectification of women. Her work challenges society as a whole and the ar... Read More about Elaine Shemilt: Doppelgänger in protest..

The many roads to Italy: Richard Demarco's Italian dialogues. (2021)
Book Chapter
LEUZZI, L. 2021. The many roads to Italy: Richard Demarco's Italian dialogues. In Watson, A. (ed.) Demarco 2020. Dundee: Laura Leuzzi, pages 40-41.

In his memoirs Richard Demarco has often stressed the importance of his Italian upbringing. His maternal grandmother being from Barga in Tuscany, his grandfather from Picinisco near Frosinone, by virtue of his origins he is the embodiment of the quin... Read More about The many roads to Italy: Richard Demarco's Italian dialogues..

Re@ct: social change art technology. (2021)
Journal Article
COOK, S., DELAPPE, J. and LEUZZI, L. (eds.) 2021. Re@ct: social change art technology. Media-N: journal of the New Media Caucus [online], 17(2). Available from: https://doi.org/10.21900/j.median.v17i2

This special issue of Media-N has been co-edited by Sarah Cook, Joseph DeLappe and Laura Leuzzi. It gathers essays, artists' statements and experimental writing projects from selected participants in Re@ct: Social Change Art Technology, a three-day s... Read More about Re@ct: social change art technology..

She became my teacher and mentor: uncovering the legacy of women video pioneers in art schools and academies in Europe. [Essay] (2021)
Preprint / Working Paper
LEUZZI, L. 2021. She became my teacher and mentor: uncovering the legacy of women video pioneers in art schools and academies in Europe. [Essay]. Hosted on OpenAIR [online]. Available from: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/2440866

In the 1970s when the portable video recorder was relatively new, several women artists experimented with a medium that was easier to operate than film and free from the heavy male-dominated imprint of traditional artist practices. In several countri... Read More about She became my teacher and mentor: uncovering the legacy of women video pioneers in art schools and academies in Europe. [Essay].

She became my teacher and mentor: uncovering the legacy of women video pioneers in art schools and academies in Europe. [Presentation] (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
LEUZZI, L. 2020. She became my teacher and mentor: uncovering the legacy of women video pioneers in art schools and academies in Europe. Presented at the 2020 Archives of Women Artists Research and Exhibitions (AWARE) symposium on transmission and gender: women artists as teachers in the 20th century, 3-4 December 2020, [virtual event]. Hosted on YouTube [online]. Available from: https://youtu.be/rnUkz4RHcWM

In the 1970s when the portable video recorder was relatively new, several women artists experimented with a medium that was easier to operate than film and free from the heavy male-dominated imprint of traditional artist practices. In several countri... Read More about She became my teacher and mentor: uncovering the legacy of women video pioneers in art schools and academies in Europe. [Presentation].

Given to chance: Indeterminacy/Share Commission exhibition. [Exhibition] (2020)
Exhibition / Performance
Given to chance: Indeterminacy/Share Commission exhibition. [Exhibition]. Exhibited 12-30 November 2020, Nomas* Projects, Dundee.

This exhibition featured five commissioned artworks that suggest connections and commonalities between sharing and indeterminacy. We casually use the word 'share' to describe distributing images, stories and info across social media networks. Sharing... Read More about Given to chance: Indeterminacy/Share Commission exhibition. [Exhibition].

EWVA European women's video art in the 70s and 80s: un caso di studio. (2020)
Book Chapter
LEUZZI, L., SHEMILT, E. and PARTRIDGE, S. 2020. EWVA European women's video art in the 70s and 80s: un caso di studio. In Catricalà, V. and Quaranta, D. (eds.) Sopravvivenza programmata: etiche e pratiche di conservazione, dall'arte cinetica alla Net Art. Rome: Edizioni Kappabit, pages 255-268.

This chapter discusses methodologies, findings and outputs that emerged during the AHRC funded research project EWVA.

Re-enacting early video art as a research tool for media art histories. (2019)
Book Chapter
LEUZZI, L. 2019. Re-enacting early video art as a research tool for media art histories. In Grau, O., Hoth, J. and Wandl-Vogt, E. (eds.) Digital art through the looking glass: new strategies for archiving, collecting and preserving in digital humanities. Krems: Edition Donau-Universität Krems [online], pages 161-177. Available from: https://www.donau-uni.ac.at/dam/jcr:a29638aa-f334-4abb-9601-10e36652d09f/Digital_Art_through_the_Looking_Glass_updated.pdf

This paper will discuss re-enactment as a relevant tool for practice-based research to investigate pioneering video performances and video artworks from the 1970s and 1980s from a theoretical, art-historical and curatorial point of view. Since the ea... Read More about Re-enacting early video art as a research tool for media art histories..

Edimburgo - Roma 1967: connessioni italo-scozzesi sulle tracce della mostra Contemporary Italian Art alla Richard Demarco Gallery. (2019)
Journal Article
LEUZZI, L. 2019. Edimburgo – Roma 1967: connessioni italo-scozzesi sulle tracce della mostra Contemporary Italian Art alla Richard Demarco Gallery. Storia dell'arte [online], 151/152, pages 205-215. Available from: https://www.storiadellarterivista.it/shop/articoli/edimburgo-roma/

Since the 60s, the Italo-Scottish artist and cultural entrepreneur Richard Demarco (Edinburgh, 1930), has played a fundamental role in the production and promotion of European - and in particular Italian - visual and performing arts in Scotland. Dema... Read More about Edimburgo - Roma 1967: connessioni italo-scozzesi sulle tracce della mostra Contemporary Italian Art alla Richard Demarco Gallery..

Opaque documents. [Exhibition] (2019)
Exhibition / Performance
BONIZZI, V. 2019. Opaque documents. [Exhibition]. Exhibited 4-11 November 2019, Nomas* Projects, Dundee.

This solo exhibition, curated by Laura Leuzzi, featured two video works by artist Valentina Bonizzi. The works show the results and failures of the artist's persistent attempts to preserve a story - whether that of a small bird, or of a family album'... Read More about Opaque documents. [Exhibition].

Self/portraits: the mirror, the self and the other: identity and representation in early women's video art in Europe. (2019)
Book Chapter
LEUZZI, L. 2019. Self/portraits: the mirror, the self and the other: identity and representation in early women's video art in Europe. In Leuzzi, L., Shemilt, E. and Partridge, S. (eds.) EWVA European women's video art in the 70s and 80s. Barnet: John Libbey Publishing, chapter 1, pages 7-24.

During the Renaissance, a new sense of agency in the role and identity of the artist stimulated the self-portrait as an independent genre. Since that period, many artists have explored this genre with different results and sensibilities, employing ne... Read More about Self/portraits: the mirror, the self and the other: identity and representation in early women's video art in Europe..

EWVA European women's video art in the 70s and 80s. (2019)
Book
LEUZZI, L., SHEMILT, E. and PARTRIDGE, S. (eds.) 2019. EWVA European women's video art in the 70s and 80s. Barnet: John Libbey Publishing.

"EWVA | European Women's Video Art in the 70s and 80s" is the main output of the eponymous research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and based at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee. The res... Read More about EWVA European women's video art in the 70s and 80s..

Il talento e la sorte: la liaison Edimburgo-Venezia dell'Italian connection di Richard Demarco. (2019)
Journal Article
LEUZZI, L. 2019. Il talento e la sorte: la liaison Edimburgo-Venezia dell’Italian Connection di Richard Demarco. Engramma [online], 162, article 3546. Available from: http://www.engramma.it/eOS/index.php?id_articolo=3546

This article aims to give an overview of the Arts and Humanities Research Council funded research project, Richard Demarco’s The Italian Connection, based at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design at the University of Dundee, and to explore... Read More about Il talento e la sorte: la liaison Edimburgo-Venezia dell'Italian connection di Richard Demarco..

I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland: Alice e Kusama, di riflesso per infiniti specchi. (2018)
Journal Article
LEUZZI, L. 2018. I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland: Alice e Kusama, di riflesso per infiniti specchi. Engramma [online], 161, article ID 3524. Avilable from: http://www.engramma.it/eOS/index.php?id_articolo=3524

"How about taking a trip with me out to Central Park [...] under the magic mushroom of the Alice in Wonderland statue. Alice was the grandmother of the Hippies. When she was low, Alice was the first to take pills to make her high. I, Kusama, am the m... Read More about I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland: Alice e Kusama, di riflesso per infiniti specchi..

Alice underground. (2018)
Journal Article
LEUZZI, L. and MAGUOLO, M. (eds.) 2018. Alice underground. Engramma [online], 161. Available from: https://www.engramma.it/eOS/core/frontend/eos_goto.php?issue=161

In homage to the tradition inaugurated by Charles L. Dodgson himself, who for Christmas 1864 made up the written version of his first story for little Liddells, Engramma presents its readers with an issue dedicated to Alice and her wonderful world, u... Read More about Alice underground..

4th Media art festival (MAF 2018): the great convergence: natural and artificial intelligence. [Festival and exhibition] (2018)
Exhibition / Performance
4th Media art festival (MAF 2018): the great convergence: natural and artificial intelligence. [Festival and exhibition]. Held 17-19 May 2018, Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo (MAXXI Museum); Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma; RUFA Space, Rome.

The fourth edition of the Media Art Festival is an initiative promoted by the Fondazione Mondo Digitale (Rome) to explore new, increasingly collaborative and increasingly interactive forms of art. What is the relation between natural creativity and a... Read More about 4th Media art festival (MAF 2018): the great convergence: natural and artificial intelligence. [Festival and exhibition].

Madelon Hooykaas: virtual walls, real walls. [Exhibition] (2018)
Exhibition / Performance
Madelon Hooykaas: virtual walls, real walls. [Exhibition]. Exhibited 14 May - 26 July 2018, Threshold Artspace (Perth Theatre and Concert Hall), Perth.

This exhibition features works that investigate the cultural perceptions of walls as barriers, and as symbols of both confinement and unification - marking a territory, taming nature, and separating and protecting people. This was the first solo exhi... Read More about Madelon Hooykaas: virtual walls, real walls. [Exhibition].

Madelon Hooykaas: virtual walls, real walls: gestures, signs and traces of change, resilience and urban acupuncture. (2018)
Journal Article
LEUZZI, L. and NEDKOVA, I. 2018. Madelon Hooykaas: virtual walls, real walls: gestures, signs and traces of change, resilience and urban acupuncture. Read more: Horsecross Arts journal for critical writing [online], 14, pages 4-14. Available from: https://www.horsecross.co.uk/media/1883/read-more-issue-madelon-hooykaas.pdf

Madelon Hooykaas (born Maartensdijk, The Netherlands, 1942) ought to be acknowledged as one of the most representative visual artists in europe for her enduring and pioneering experimentation in contemporary art. Since the 1960s, Hooykaas has develop... Read More about Madelon Hooykaas: virtual walls, real walls: gestures, signs and traces of change, resilience and urban acupuncture..

3rd 3 generations of women artists perform event (3G 2018). [Film screening and performance] (2018)
Exhibition / Performance
LEUZZI, L., NEDKOVA, I. and SPENCE, P. 2018. 3rd 3 generations of women artists perform event (3G 2018). [Film screenings and performances]. Performed on 8 March 2018, Threshold Artspace (Perth Theatre and Concert Hall), Perth.

The event was the third "3 Generations of Women Artists Perform" (3G) event, hosted as part of Perth Theatre and Concert Hall's celebration of International Women's Day 2018. The event opened with a curated screening of video artworks by European wom... Read More about 3rd 3 generations of women artists perform event (3G 2018). [Film screening and performance].

REWIND Italia: early video art in Italy = I primi anni della videoarte in Italia. (2018)
Journal Article
LEUZZI, L. 2018. REWIND Italia: early video art in Italy = I primi anni della videoarte in Italia. Engramma [online], 152, article ID 3346. Avilable from: http://www.engramma.it/eOS/index.php?id_articolo=3346

This article presents the book "REWIND Italia: early video art in Italy", edited by Laura Leuzzi and Stephen Partridge, and published in 2015 by John Libbey Publishing. The volume is the main output from the REWIND Italia project, which was funded by... Read More about REWIND Italia: early video art in Italy = I primi anni della videoarte in Italia..

2114, Future Library: a conversation with Katie Paterson. (2018)
Journal Article
LEUZZI, L. and SBRILLI, A. 2018. 2114, Future Library: a conversation with Katie Paterson. KronoScope [online], 18(1), pages 72-79. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1163/15685241-12341403

The completion of Future Library is 96 years away. Future Library is an artwork conceived by the Scottish artist Katie Paterson (born 1981), who explores time-related phenomena and paradoxes, in such a way that she has been compared to Italo Calvino... Read More about 2114, Future Library: a conversation with Katie Paterson..

Sulla re-installazione e l'esposizione di film e video d'artista degli anni Settanta e Ottanta: alcuni spunti su un dibattito critico aperto tra pratica e teoria. (2017)
Journal Article
LEUZZI, L. 2017. Sulla re-installazione e l'esposizione di film e video d'artista degli anni Settanta e Ottanta: alcuni spunti su un dibattito critico aperto tra pratica e teoria. Imago: studi di cinema e media, 14: Il paesaggio sonoro negli studi di cinema e media, 7(2), pages 217-232.

In the last decade, there have been numerous projects and studies focused on researching, recovering, cataloging and restoring the film and artist videos of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, both in Europe and the USA. These projects are symptomatic of gro... Read More about Sulla re-installazione e l'esposizione di film e video d'artista degli anni Settanta e Ottanta: alcuni spunti su un dibattito critico aperto tra pratica e teoria..

A polyphonic essay on memory. [Video performance] (2017)
Exhibition / Performance
ROSS, A., MEIKLE, G. and LEUZZI, L. 2017. A polyphonic essay on memory. [Video performance]. Performed on 9 November 2017, as part of the 9th North-East of North digital arts festival (NEoN Festival 2017): media archaeology, 7-12 November 2017, Dundee, United Kingdom.

Drawing from the REWIND Artists Video Archive and research project European Women's Video Art in the 70s and 80s (EWVA), a Polyphonic Essay on Memory is a performance, presentation, screening and discussion on the theme of memory. Each curator will u... Read More about A polyphonic essay on memory. [Video performance].

Mappe, liste e classificazioni: l’opera di Luca Vitone tra immagine e parola sulle tracce di Joseph Cornell e Georges Perec. (2017)
Journal Article
LEUZZI, L. 2017. Mappe, liste e classificazioni: l'opera di Luca Vitone tra immagine e parola sulle tracce di Joseph Cornell e Georges Perec. Engramma [online], 150, article ID 3311. Available from: http://www.engramma.it/eOS/index.php?id_articolo=3311

This article examines the fundamental relationship between word and image in Luca Vitone's artistic research and practice. In particular, it analyses and tries to assess the relationship between images (including photographs and maps) with specific v... Read More about Mappe, liste e classificazioni: l’opera di Luca Vitone tra immagine e parola sulle tracce di Joseph Cornell e Georges Perec..

The time is right for ... [Film screening] (2017)
Exhibition / Performance
LEUZZI, L. and LOCKHART, A. 2017. The time is right for ... [Film screening]. Performed on 20 September 2017, Summerhall, Edinburgh.

This film screening, curated by Laura Leuzzi and Adam Lockhart, was performed as part of the exhibition of the same name, which was held in August and September 2017 at Summerhall, Edinburgh. The exhibition aimed to highlight a selection of early wom... Read More about The time is right for ... [Film screening].

The time is right for ... [Exhibition] (2017)
Exhibition / Performance
The time is right for ... [Exhibition]. Exhibited 2 August - 24 September 2017, Summerhall, Edinburgh.

Artists began to work with video from the late 1960s as a more accessible alternative to film. Although many of these artists are well known today, there are several women artists who experimented with video in the early years who have since been for... Read More about The time is right for ... [Exhibition].

3rd Media art festival (MAF 2017): l'arte che cambia il mondo. [Festival and exhibition] (2017)
Exhibition / Performance
3rd Media art festival (MAF 2017): l'arte che cambia il mondo. [Festival and exhibition]. Held 27-29 April 2017, Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo (MAXXI Museum), Rome.

The third edition of the Media Art Festival was an initiative promoted by the Fondazione Mondo Digitale (Rome) to explore the new frontiers of art, media and culture. The festival was composed of an exhibition at MAXXI National Museum of the Art of t... Read More about 3rd Media art festival (MAF 2017): l'arte che cambia il mondo. [Festival and exhibition].

2114, la biblioteca del futuro: una conversazione con Katie Paterson. (2017)
Journal Article
LEUZZI, L. and SBRILLI, A. 2017. 2114, la biblioteca del futuro: una conversazione con Katie Paterson. Alfabeta2 [online], April 2017. Available from: https://www.alfabeta2.it/2017/04/23/2114-libri-sulla-fiducia-conversazione-katie-paterson/

This article reports on an interview between the authors and the artist Katie Paterson, regarding the artist's project entitled "Future Library". This project began in 2014 with the planting of 1,000 Norwegian fir trees near Oslo. The intention is fo... Read More about 2114, la biblioteca del futuro: una conversazione con Katie Paterson..

Storia dei media digitali: rivoluzioni e continuità. (2017)
Journal Article
LEUZZI, L. 2017. Storia dei media digitali: rivoluzioni e continuità. Journal of Italian cinema and media studies [online], 5(1), pages 126-128. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1386/jicms.5.1.111_5

This is a review of the work by Gabriele Balbi and Paolo Magaudda, titled "Storia dei media digitali: rivoluzioni e continuità" ("History of the digital media: revolutions and continuity"). This book traces the socio-cultural history of three digital... Read More about Storia dei media digitali: rivoluzioni e continuità..

Self/portraits: relating narratives. [Film screening] (2016)
Exhibition / Performance
LEUZZI, L., CASALINI, G. and GEORGIOU, D. 2016. Self/portraits: relating narratives. [Film screening]. Performed on 9 December 2016, Visual Research Centre, Dundee.

This event was the sequal to the performative screening titled "Autoritratti" (2015). Self/Portraits: Relating Narratives weaves together the visual narratives of twelve international women artists or collectives, who have worked around questions of... Read More about Self/portraits: relating narratives. [Film screening].

Doppelgänger redux. [Video performance] (2016)
Exhibition / Performance
SHEMILT, E., LEUZZI, L. and LOCKHART, A. 2016. Doppelgänger redux. [Video performance]. Performed on 21 October 2016, as part of the 10th Visions in the Nunnery exhibition, 5 October - 18 December 2016, Nunnery Gallery, London.

This was a re-enactment of the emblematic video work "Doppelgänger" from Professor Elaine Shemilt, part of a series started in 1974 that was originally shown as part of the "Video Show", at the Serpentine Gallery in May 1975. In "Doppelgänger", Shemi... Read More about Doppelgänger redux. [Video performance].

Overnight: 24 hours into contemporary art. [Exhibition review] (2016)
Digital Artefact
LEUZZI, L. 2016. Overnight: 24 hours into contemporary art. [Exhibition review]. Posted on Arshake [online], 3 August 2016. Available from: https://www.arshake.com/en/overnight-24-hours-into-contemporary-art/

Dall'oggi a domani. Overnight. According to Tullio De Mauro's dictionary of the Italian language, "without warning, from one moment to the next". This expression, "stolen" from a small tapestry by Alighiero Boetti, provides the title for a fascinatin... Read More about Overnight: 24 hours into contemporary art. [Exhibition review].

Early women artists' video art in Italy: an overview. (2016)
Journal Article
LEUZZI, L. 2016. Early women artists' video art in Italy: an overview. n.paradoxa [online], 38: polemics / contestations, pages 66-73. Available from: https://www.ktpress.co.uk/nparadoxa-volume-details.asp?volumeid=38

This article examines the role of Italian women artists in the setting up of video art initiatives in Italy. It begins by comparing it to the situation in the UK and the experience of Elaine Shemilt (see Felicity Sparrow's interview in n.paradoxa, vo... Read More about Early women artists' video art in Italy: an overview..

Embracing the ephemeral: lost and recovered video artworks by Elaine Shemilt from the 70s and 80s. (2016)
Journal Article
LEUZZI, L. 2016. Embracing the ephemeral: lost and recovered video artworks by Elaine Shemilt from the 70s and 80s. Arabeschi: rivista internazionale di studi su letteratura e visualità [online], 7, pages 86-98. Available from: http://www.arabeschi.it/embracing-the-ephemeral-lost-and-recovered-video-artworks-by-elaine-shemilt-from-70s-80s/

This article explores Elaine Shemilt's video artworks from the 1970s and early 1980s. Generally known as a printmaker, Shemilt started to use video in 1974 as part of her installation and performance work. Shemilt aimed to use video - a relatively ne... Read More about Embracing the ephemeral: lost and recovered video artworks by Elaine Shemilt from the 70s and 80s..

The leading thread: video, media, installation: a conversation with Federica Marangoni. (2016)
Journal Article
LEUZZI, L. and SHEMILT, E. 2016. The leading thread: video, media, installation: a conversation with Federica Marangoni. Media-N: journal of the New Media Caucus [online], 12(1): Mestizo technology: art, design and technoscience in Latin America, pages 128-131. Available from: http://median.newmediacaucus.org/mestizo-technology-art-design-and-technoscience-in-latin-america/the-leading-thread-video-media-installation-a-conversation-with-federica-marangoni/

Federica Marangoni is an important Italian media artist and designer based in Venice. She is a pioneer of video, performance and installation in Italy. Marangoni's exhibition "Il filo conduttore = The leading thread" (2015, held at Ca'Pesaro Internat... Read More about The leading thread: video, media, installation: a conversation with Federica Marangoni..

EWVA: European women's video art. [Film screening] (2016)
Exhibition / Performance
LEUZZI, L. 2016. EWVA: European women's video art. [Film screening]. Performed as part of the 2016 BNL Media art festival: l'arte in un mondo che cambia (MAF2016), 13-17 April 2016, Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo (MAXXI), Rome.

This was an installed screening programme displayed at the 2016 BNL Media Art Festival. The video compilation included artworks by some of the most influential European women artists who were video pioneers in the 1970s and 1980s. A broad range of to... Read More about EWVA: European women's video art. [Film screening].

L'immediatezza del presente: Luca Maria Patella, Rosa Foschi, Marcello Di Donato. [Exhibition] (2016)
Exhibition / Performance
L'immediatezza del presente: Luca Maria Patella, Rosa Foschi, Marcello Di Donato. [Exhibition]. Exhibited 28 February - 1 May 2016, Church of San Lorenzo, San Vito al Tagliamento.

"L'immediatezza del presente" ("The Immediacy of the Present") was an exhibition that brought together the donated works by Luca Maria Patella, Rosa Foschi and Marcello Di Donato from the Centro di Ricerca ed Archiviazione per la Fotografia (CRAF) ar... Read More about L'immediatezza del presente: Luca Maria Patella, Rosa Foschi, Marcello Di Donato. [Exhibition].

Italian video art centers and archives: a treasure yet to discover. (2015)
Book Chapter
LEUZZI, L. 2015. Italian video art centers and archives: a treasure yet to discover. In Smite, R., Smits, R. and Manovich, L. (eds.) Data drift: archiving media and data art in the 21st century. Acoustic space, 14. Rīga: RIXC, pages 121-127 (108-114).

Italy was a vibrant centre of video art production and exhibition, throughout the 1970s and 1980s. This period was all the more remarkable because of the early date and the international reach of the work produced. Artists connected to the Italian vi... Read More about Italian video art centers and archives: a treasure yet to discover..

Autoritratti. [Film screening] (2015)
Exhibition / Performance
LEUZZI, L. and CASALINI, G. 2015. Autoritratti. [Film screening]. Performed on 11 December 2015, as part of the Now You Can Go programme, 10-13 December 2015, The Showroom, London.

Autoritratti was a performative screening. It employed different methodological tools, including dialogue, autobiography, cross-genre and fragmented narratives. The approach was inspired by Italian feminist thinker Carla Lonzi and her book Autoritrat... Read More about Autoritratti. [Film screening].

Some notes on Luca Maria Patella's videotapes. (2015)
Book Chapter
LEUZZI, L. 2015. Some notes on Luca Maria Patella's videotapes = Alcune note sui videotape di Luca Maria Patella. In Leuzzi, L. and Partridge, S. (eds.) REWIND Italia: early video art in Italy = I primi anni della videoarte in Italia. Barnet: John Libbey Publishing, pages 165-182.

In this chapter Leuzzi retraces Luca Maria Patella's seminal video experimentation in the 1970s, including three videotapes recovered during REWINDItalia in 2011.

REWIND Italia: early video art in Italy. (2015)
Book
LEUZZI, L. and PARTRIDGE, S. (eds.) 2015. REWIND Italia: early video art in Italy = I primi anni della videoarte in Italia. Barnet: John Libbey Publishing.

The early international history of video art remains contested and most narratives focus upon a fragment. The narrative in Italy was by its nature international and holds up a mirror to the development of video across the world. Italy was a vibrant c... Read More about REWIND Italia: early video art in Italy..

Interventions, productions and collaborations: the relationship between RAI and visual artists. (2015)
Journal Article
LEUZZI, L. 2015. Interventions, productions and collaborations: the relationship between RAI and visual artists. Journal of Italian cinema and media studies [online], 3(1-2), pages 155-170. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1386/jicms.3.1-2.155_1

On 17 May 1952, before RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana Studios began their regular broadcast from Milan, the Spatialist painter and sculptor Lucio Fontana broadcast his own experimental 'artwork' on Italian television, beginning a fruitful relationship... Read More about Interventions, productions and collaborations: the relationship between RAI and visual artists..

Body, sign and double: a parallel analysis of Elain Shemilt's "Doppelganger", Federica Marangoni's "The box of life", and Sanja Ivekovic's "Instructions no.1" and "Make up - make down". (2015)
Book Chapter
LEUZZI, L., SHEMILT, E. and PARTRIDGE, S. 2015. Body, sign and double: a parallel analysis of Elain Shemilt's "Doppelganger", Federica Marangoni's "The box of life", and Sanja Ivekovic's "Instructions no.1" and "Make up - make down". In Catricalà, V. (ed.) Media art: towards a new definition of arts in the age of technology. Pistoia: Gli Ori, pages 97-103.

Body; identity; self-representation; sexuality; stereotypical images of women as portrayed by the society and the media; the condition of female professional artists: these themes were expressed and developed in several early video works in the 1970s... Read More about Body, sign and double: a parallel analysis of Elain Shemilt's "Doppelganger", Federica Marangoni's "The box of life", and Sanja Ivekovic's "Instructions no.1" and "Make up - make down"..

REWIND Italia: artists' video in Italy in the 70s and 80s. [Film screenings and presentation] (2014)
Exhibition / Performance
PARTRIDGE, S., LEUZZI, L. and LOCKHART, A. 2014. REWIND Italia: artists' video in Italy in the 70s and 80s. [Film screenings and presentation]. Performed on 31 May 2014, as part of the 2014 VIDEOEX international experimental film and video festival (VIDEOEX Festival 2014), 24 May - 1 June 2014, Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zürich.

This output consisted of two 90-minute film screenings, accompanied by a presentation. The presentation provided an introduction to the REWINDItalia project, offering an overview of its aims, objectives and outcomes. The first screening programme inc... Read More about REWIND Italia: artists' video in Italy in the 70s and 80s. [Film screenings and presentation].

Expansive creativity is beyond the visual.
Presentation / Conference Contribution
BURGOYNE, G. and LEUZZI, L. 2023. Expansive creativity is beyond the visual. In Hurcomb, G., Herring, E., Jackson, J. and Duvallon, V.P. (eds.) Proceedings of the 2023 Teaching beyond the curriculum conference: a focus on pedagogy, 15-17 November 2023, Glasgow, UK; Baton Rouge, USA; Wenzhou, China. Architecture Media Politics Society (AMPS) proceedings series, 36.2. Glasgow: AMPS [online], chapter 27, pages 256-263. Available from: https://amps-research.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Amps-Proceedings-Series-36.2.pdf

Expansive creativity starts with how we navigate language, in its plethora of manifestations and contexts. Increasing hegemonic and unwieldy systems of imposed synchronicities and rationality abound leading to our submergence as opposed to emergence... Read More about Expansive creativity is beyond the visual..

Allo specchio: le pioniere del video in Europa tra identità e rappresentazione.
Presentation / Conference Contribution
LEUZZI, L. 2020. Allo specchio: le pioniere del video in Europa tra identità e rappresentazione. Arabeschi [online], 16(Galleria - Smarginature): proceeindgs of the 2020 Forum annuale delle studiose di cinema e audiovisivi (FAScinA 2020), 8-10 October 2020, [virtual event], paper number 2.3. Available from: http://www.arabeschi.it/23-allo-specchio-le-pioniere-del-video-in-europa-tra-identit--e-rappresentazione/

Identity and representation are dominant themes in the works of women pioneers in video art in the 1970s and early 1980s. Video was agile both from a conceptual point of view (free from the heavy patriarchal legacy of traditional artistic techniques)... Read More about Allo specchio: le pioniere del video in Europa tra identità e rappresentazione..

Proceedings of REWIND Italia: videoart in Italy, 1968-1982.
Presentation / Conference Contribution
REWIND ITALIA RESEARCH PROJECT (ed.) 2012. Proceedings of REWIND Italia: videoart in Italy, 1968-1982, 19-20 April 2012, Rome, Italy. Hosted on REWIND.ac.uk [online]. Available from: https://rewind.ac.uk/resource-type/presentations/

This was the first symposium organised by the REWIND Italia research group, which was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). The event was jointly supported by the Università Roma Tre (Department of Communication and Entertainment... Read More about Proceedings of REWIND Italia: videoart in Italy, 1968-1982..

Approaches, strategies and theoretical and practice-based research methods to investigate and archive video art: some reflections from the REWIND projects.
Presentation / Conference Contribution
LEUZZI, L., PARTRIDGE, S. and LOCKHART, A. 2019. Approaches, strategies and theoretical and practice-based research methods to investigate and archive video art: some reflections from the REWIND projects. In RE:SOUND 2019: proceedings of 8th Histories of media arts international conference 2019 (MAH 2019): sound, media and art; theories, histories, practices, 20-23 August 2019, Aalborg, Denmark. London: BCS, pages 274-282. Hosted on ScienceOpen [online]. Available from: https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.14236/ewic/RESOUND19.41

This paper will discuss methodologies, approaches and issues, emerging out of three major research projects that have investigated early histories of video art in Europe: REWIND (2004 ongoing), REWINDItalia (2011-2014) and EWVA (2015-2018). The paper... Read More about Approaches, strategies and theoretical and practice-based research methods to investigate and archive video art: some reflections from the REWIND projects..

RE_EXHIBIT. [Online gallery]
Digital Artefact
LEUZZI, L. and LOCKHART, A. 2023. RE_EXHIBIT. [Online gallery]. Hosted by REWIND: Artists' Video [online]. Available from: https://rewind.ac.uk/re_exhibit/

RE_EXHIBIT is a digital platform that invites, commissions and hosts online curatorial projects developed from the REWIND collections. It aims to facilitate dialogue with other early video art collections, and with contemporary film and video artists... Read More about RE_EXHIBIT. [Online gallery].

How do you teach something no one can see? And if you can't see it, how do you know if it's any good?
Presentation / Conference Contribution
LEUZZI, L. and BURGOYNE, G. 2023. How do you teach something no one can see? And if you can't see it, how do you know if it's any good? Presented at On not knowing: how artists teach, 9-10 June 2023, Glasgow, UK.

This presentation addresses the concept of art as being not just about visible and sensed, but also about the invisible and unsensed - absences, withdrawals, concealments. During the presentation, the authors explore how this paradoxical aspect of ar... Read More about How do you teach something no one can see? And if you can't see it, how do you know if it's any good?.

REWIND Italia. [Website]
Digital Artefact
PARTRIDGE, S., NOTARO, A., CUBITT, S., LEUZZI, L. and LOCKHART, A. 2012. REWIND Italia. [Website]. Hosted on REWIND: artists' video [online]. Available from: https://rewind.ac.uk/rewind-italia/

This webpage provides a summary of the REWIND Italia project, which ran from 2011-2014. This was an AHRC funded research project, based at the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee. The research project aimed to retrac... Read More about REWIND Italia. [Website].

EWVA: European women's video art. [Website]
Digital Artefact
SHEMILT, E., PARTRIDGE, S., LEUZZI, L. and LOCKHART, A. 2015. EWVA: European women's video art. [Website]. Available from: http://www.ewva.ac.uk

This is the project website for "European Women's Video Art in the 70s and 80s (EWVA)". This project aims to recover and reassess the seminal contribution of women artists to early video art in Europe, and more generally to the development and evolut... Read More about EWVA: European women's video art. [Website].

The Fourth Encounter in Motovun, 1976: a platform for experimentation for early video art.
Presentation / Conference Contribution
LEUZZI, L. 2019. The Fourth Encounter in Motovun, 1976: a platform for experimentation for early video art. In Kuźmicz, M. (ed.) Revisiting heritage: material from the conference Revisiting heritage, 7-8 June 2018, Warsaw, Poland. Warsaw: Fundacja Arton [online], pages 165-171. Available from: https://issuu.com/fundacjaarton1/docs/arton_book_revisiting_heritage_-_pd

In Summer 1976 the Fourth Susret u Motovun (Encounter in Motovun) took place. As part of the festival, it was organised a video encounter - dedicated to the theme of ‘Identity’ (Identitet=identità) - that turned out to be a key event for the experime... Read More about The Fourth Encounter in Motovun, 1976: a platform for experimentation for early video art..