Italiano [English]
Simona Caraceni si occupa di nuove tecnologie e multimedialità dal 1994, fondando con Pier Luigi Capucci NetMagazine poi MagNet, la prima pubblicazione elettronica in Italia. Ha insegnato all'Università di Macerata e Bologna, e fa parte del Planetarium Collegium, il network internazionale di studiosi, artisti e docenti che approfondiscono il rapporto fra arte e tecnologie.
E' Ph.D. Student in Aesthetics and Technology per l'M-Node dell'Università di Plymouth, ed ha collaborato con enti come il Comune di Bologna, la Regione Emilia Romagna, il Cineca, L'Università di Bologna e varie case editrici su multimedialità, multimodalità, interfacce complesse ed e-Learning.
English [Italiano]
Simona Caraceni is concerned with new media communication and multimediality, and since '94 has been involved in new media and new technology applications in communications and art. She taught at the Universities of Macerata and Bologna. Currently she teaches Multimedia Technology and other courses on new media, videogames and multimediality at the University of Bologna. She is also Assistant Professor with Pier Luigi Capucci for the courses Mass Communications and Multimedia Languages, and with Valerio Eletti for Multimedia Production.
In 1994 she was one of the founders of the first italian online magazine,
NetMagazine, later MagNet, a project on the relationships between arts
and technologies
which lasted until December 1997. Now she writes in Noema, curating the Bytes
section.
Her theoretical activity is concerned with man-machine interfaces, multimediality
and multimodality, and new media languages of communication. In the field
of applied research she works on the opportunities of online communication,
multimedia
and multimodal interfaces and e-learning with University of Bologna, City
Council of Bologna, Regional Council of Emilia Romagna and Cineca.