Video on Screen The Early Years in Europe Day Two

This two-day programme has been co-curated with Stéphanie Serra and François Bovier and expands on a research project initiated with support from the Swiss National Science Foundation via the ECAL/École cantonale d'art de Lausanne and the French National Agency with Université Paris 8. It will lead to the publication Early Video Art in Europe. Multiple Emergences to be released in 2025.

François Bovier

François Bovier is a senior lecturer in the Film Studies department at the University of Lausanne and a research fellow at Lausanne University of Art and Design (Ecal). Cofounding editor of the film magazine Décadrages (Lausanne, 2003), he has written numerous articles on experimental cinema, militant and artists’ films in scholarly journals and books, recently publishing Lettrisme et cinéma: de la lettre au photogramme (Paris Expérimental, 2023). He co-directs the research programme Emergence of Video Art in Europe together with Grégoire Quenault.

Stéphanie Serra

Stéphanie Serra is a researcher and lecturer at the Ecole cantonale d'art de Lausanne. She studies artistic practices at the crossroad between literature, the moving image and contemporary art. After over ten years as curator for works on paper, she is currently preparing a Ph.D. on Jean-Luc Godard's commissioned projects (films, exhibitions, etc.) and taking part in the transnational program on the Multiple Emergences of Video Art in Europe.

Laura Leuzzi

Laura Leuzzi is a contemporary art historian and curator. She is the author of articles and essays in books and exhibition catalogues, with her research focused on early video art, European video art histories, art and feminism, and new media. She is also co-editor of several publications, including REWINDItalia. Early Video Art in Italy (2015) and EWVA European Women’s Video Art in the 70s and 80s (2019), Richard Demarco: The Italian connection (2022) and most recently Incite. Digital Art and Activism (2023). She has curated exhibitions, screenings and events in several venues in the UK, Switzerland and Italy. Currently, she is a Chancellor’s Fellow at Gray’s School of Art (Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen).

This event will be BSL interpreted.

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