Chris Van Goethem Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema and Sound (RITCS) Erasmushogeschool Brussel, Belgium Chris Van Goethem started his career as a stage manager and travelled around Europe with a multitude of Belgian companies. Later on he started to work as consultant and educator in technical theatre. He teaches History of Technical Theatre and Practice based…

Francesca Fantappiè (University of Milan – Italy) Francesca Fantappiè is a historian of Theatre and the Performing Arts, currently a researcher at the University of Milan. Taking an interdisciplinary approach to theatre and music, her scholarship includes work on performers, theatre architecture, stage machinery and designs, as well as the editing of theatrical texts. She curated…

PhD, Maurizio Rossi is Full Professor of Lighting Design at Politecnico di Milano, Director of the Master in Lighting Design & LED Technology, Director of the Master in Colour Design & Technology, member of the PhD in Design. He is currently scientific head of the Laboratorio Luce: a laboratory for photometry, colorimetry, lighting engineering, training…

Paola Ranzini is senior member of IUF (Institut Universitaire de France), is full professor at Avignon University. Her research focuses on aesthetic issues, theory and practice of the theatre. Several collective programs funded in recent years : Creative Europe: TraNet (Trans)National European Theatre: audiovisual tools and simultaneous interpreting for the internationalisation of theatre production and…

Esther Merino Peral, awarded a PhD in Art History at the Universidad Autónoma of Madrid UAM in 1995, taught in the Department of Fine Arts at Salamanca University USAL until 2003. From this date until 2007 she lectured in the Department of Architecture in the Faculty of Architecture and Geodesy ETSAG, at the University of…

Anna Maria Ambrosini Massari is a full professor of Modern Art History at the University of Urbino, Carlo Bo, as well as the director of the university’s research center, InArtS (International Art Sources: Digital Humanities for Urbino Renaissance). She is also a member of the doctorate colleges for comparative studies at the University of Roma…

Carmelo Occhipinti trained under the direction of Paola Barocchi at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. He is a Full Professor at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, where he teaches History of Art Criticism, Museology and History of Collecting, Philology and History of Artistic Enjoyment. At the same University, he is the Coordinator of…

Donatella Gavrilovich is Associate Professor of History of Theatre and Digital Technologies at University of Rome “Tor Vergata”. Her research focused on the Performing Arts digital archives nd theatrical exhibitions and on Russian theatre, dance, set designer and visual art. From 2024 she is the Director of the IDOS_ARTS Research Centre (International Digital Open Space…

Sarah Whatley is Professor and Director of the Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE) at Coventry University, UK. Her research interests extend to dance and disability, dance and new technologies, intangible cultural heritage, dance archives, and somatic dance practice and pedagogy; she has published widely on these themes. Whilst her expertise is primarily in dance, her…

Andrea Siniscalco is an assistant professor at the Politecnico di Milano (Italy) Department of Design. He obtained his Ph.D. in 2007 with a thesis on optimizing production processes for the lighting sector. Since 2003 he has researched and taught at the Laboratorio Luce of Politecnico di Milano. The research areas are the design of lighting…