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Ada Ackerman Editor

Ada Ackerman works as a Permanent Researcher at THALIM/CNRS. She focuses on the relations between art (mainly cinema and painting) as well as on cultural exchanges between Soviet Union, Europe and the United States. Among her most recent publications: A biblioteca infinita de Sergei Eisenstein/The infinite Library of Sergei Eisenstein (2019) and Eisenstein et Daumier, des affinités électives (2013). She has curated the show "The Ecstatic Eye", for the Centre Pompidou-Metz. Andrea Pinotti is professor in Aesthetics at the department of Philosophy, State University of Milan, and fellow of IEA, Paris and ZfL, Berlin. His research focuses on image theories and visual culture studies; among his publications: Empathie (2016) and Cultura visuale (with Antonio Somaini, 2016). Awarded with the Wissenschaftspreis der Aby-Warburg-Stiftung, he is currently directing an ERC project (An-Iconology. History, Theory, and Practices of Environmental Images.