Dr Laura Leuzzi's Outputs (75)

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..

EWVA: European women's video art. [Website] (2015)
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].

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].

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..

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.

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].

REWIND Italia. [Website] (2012)
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].

Proceedings of REWIND Italia: videoart in Italy, 1968-1982. (2012)
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..