PARISI Francesco

Personal information
Name: Francesco Parisi
Date of birth: 20/05/1982
Academic Position: Associate Professor L-ART/06
Affiliation: University of Messina, Dipartimento di Civiltà Antiche e Moderne
Contacts: fparisi@unime.it
Links: www.ciscoparisi.it
unime.academia.edu/FrancescoParisi
orcid.org/0000-0002-0491-1966

Research fields
Media theory, 4E cognition, Philosophy of photography, Visual culture

Overview
Francesco Parisi (1982) is Associate Professor at University of Messina (SSD L-ART/06 Cinema, photography, and television). In July 2020 he obtained the national qualification for full professorship. His research is characterized by an interdisciplinary approach combining cognitive sciences and media theory. In particular, he deals with the effects of audiovisual media on human cognition. About this issue, he has published original papers on international books and journals.
(Since 2020) National scientific qualification for full professorship
(Since 2018) Associate professor
(2008-2018) Research fellow

Institutional responsibilities
(Since 2013) Member of the doctoral board in Cognitive Sciences (University of Messina)
Member of the executive committee of CRISCAT (Centro Internazionale di Ricerca per le Scienze Cognitive Teoriche e Applicate)
Member of the scientific board of Codisco (Coordinamento dei Dottorati Italiani di Scienze Cognitive)

Participation in journal’s scientific and editorial boards
(Since 2015) Member of the executive board of the journal Reti, Saperi, Linguaggi. The Italian Journal of Cognitive Sciences, il Mulino
(2014-2015) Managing editor of the journal Reti, Saperi, Linguaggi. The Italian Journal of Cognitive Sciences, il Mulino
Member of the editorial committee of the journal Visual Culture Studies
Member of the editorial committee of the journal Emerging Series

Conference organization
Mediating Material Engagement. Technology, Narrativity, Performance - Messina - 25-27 September 2019
CODISCO X / PRIN - Noto - 26-27 September 2017
Arts, Media, Future, Noto - 3-4 October 2012

Participation in research projects
PRIN-MIUR 2015-2018: Perception, performativity, and cognitive sciences, (Local unit member)
Research and Mobility 2017: Exploring contextualism and performativity: the environment matters (Staff member)
PRIN-MIUR 2009-11: Spazi, famiglie, lessici: tecniche di raccolta, catalogazione ed informatizzazione del materiale fotografico ed audiovisivo ALS e APIS (Local unit member)
PRA-MIUR 2008-9: Fotografia e scienze cognitive: estetica dell'atto fotografico, arte e comunicazione (Project leader)

Fellowship and scholarship
(September October 2018) Visiting scholarship at University of Memphis, Memphis (USA)
(December 2017 January 2018) Visiting scholarship at Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham (UK)

Membership in scientific societies
CUC (Consulta universitaria cinema)
Media Ecology Assiociation
NECS – European Network for Cinema and Media Studies
Centro interdipartimentale di studi sulle arti performative “Universiteatrali”

Publications (selected)
Books
Parisi, F. (2019). La tecnologia che siamo. Torino: Codice (Translated in Chinese: 原作名: 技术就是我们, Taihai Publisher, 2021).
Parisi, F. (2011). La trappola di Narciso. L’impatto mediale dell’immagine fotografica. Le Lettere, Firenze.

Articles
Sartori, S., & Parisi F. (2021), La temperatura dell’interfaccia. Embodiment, ipnosi e allucinazione. Imago. Studi di cinema e media, 23, 23-39.
Parisi, F. (2020). Mediazione e coinvolgimento materiale. Due concetti necessari, Agalma, 40, 72-80.
Parisi, F. (2020). La sintonia sensomotoria nella realtà virtuale. Reti, Saperi, Linguaggi, 9, 85-102.
Parisi, F. (2019).Temporality and metaplasticity. Facing extension and incorporation through material engagement theory. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 18(1), 205-221.
Parisi, F., & Perconti, P. (2018). La psichedelia come mediazione. Fata Morgana, 33, 35-50.
Parisi, F. (2017). The Electric Man. Material engagement theory and the case of electromagnetism. Reti, Saperi, Linguaggi, 12, 275-288.
Parisi, F., & Calì, O. (2017). Identification, memory, elaboration. the importance of time in the context of the TV series fruition. L’Atalante. Revista de estudios cinematogràficos, 24, 43-54.
Parisi, F. (2017). Immagini nella testa o immagini per la testa. Fata Morgana, 31, 69-80.
D’Aloia, A., & Parisi, F. (2016). Snapshot Culture. The Photographic Experience in the Post-Medium Age. Comunicazioni Sociali, 36(1), 3-14.
Parisi, F. (2015). Tecnologie enattive. La mediazione da una prospettiva cognitivista. Reti, Saperi, Linguaggi, 7, 125-148.
Parisi, F., & Pennisi, P. (2015). Il rapporto tra icone, indici e percezione attraverso la riflessione di Peirce sulla fotografia. Versus, 120, 79-91.
Parisi, F. (2015). Ricordi protesici. Fotografie e false memorie, Fata Morgana, 25, 257-262.
Parisi, F. (2014). Corpi e dispositivi. Una prospettiva cognitivista. Fata Morgana, 24, 45-56.
Parisi, F. (2014). Black Mirror e l’(en)azione mediale. Fata Morgana, 23,181-186.
Pennisi, A., & Parisi, F. (2013). Corpo, tecnologia, ambiente. Nuove tendenze naturalistiche dell’esperienza estetica. Aisthesis, 2, 235-256.
Parisi, F. (2013). Enazione mediale. Esternalismo e teorie dei media. Neascience, 2, 183-189.
Parisi, F. (2012). Mind the Gap. Neuroaesthetics of Photographs, Cognitive Systems, 7(3), 295-304.
Parisi, F. (2012) Orientarsi nel mare post-mediale. La post-fotografia tra individuo e ambiente, Mantichora, 2, 19-34.

Book chapters
Parisi, F. (2021). Enacting Virtual Reality, in Alfonsina Scarinzi (ed.), Meaningful Relations: The Enactivist Making of Experiential Worlds, Academia Philosophical Studies. Baden-Baden: Academia-Verlag, pp. 241-258.
Parisi, F. (2020). La centralità del corpo nella realtà virtuale. In S. Arcagni (a cura di), Immersi nel futuro (pp. 158-161). Palermo: Palermo University Press.
Parisi, F. (2020). Enaction et transparence incarnée dans la réalité virtuelle. In J. Bodini, M. Carbone, G. Lingua, & G. Serrano (eds.), L’avenir des écrans (pp. 33-46.) Paris: Èditions Mimésis.
Denicolai, L., & Parisi, F. (2020). Immagini che ci modellano. Una lettura mediantropica ed enattiva. In I. De Pascalis, & L. Marmo (a cura di), Superfici, confini, formati: le immagini contemporanee (pp. 165-180). Roma: Bulzoni.
Parisi, F. (2018). La scimmia visuale. Immagini mentali, cave art e retroazione mediale. In A. Rabbito (a cura di), La cultura visuale del ventunesimo secolo. Cinema, teatro, new media, (pp. 217-230). Milano: Meltemi.
Parisi, F. (2018). Fotografia e scienze della mente. Scenari possibili. In E. Menduni, & L. Marmo (a cura di), Fotografia e culture visuali del XXI secolo (pp. 85-92), Roma: Roma TrE-Press.
Parisi, F. (2013). Arte, mediazione, cognizione. In M. Guerri, & F. Parisi (a cura di), Filosofia della fotografia (pp. 205-220). Milano: Raffaello Cortina.
Parisi, F. (2010). Photography and Cognitive Sciences. In M. Cruciani (ed.), Practices of cognition (pp. 131-148). Trento: University of Trento Press.

Edited books
Guerri, M., & Parisi, F. (2013), Filosofia della fotografia. Milano: Raffaello Cortina.

Conferences and seminars (selected)
(2021) La tecnologia che siamo, 22 October, Meristema: Scuola di filosofia della natura e della tecnica, Ischia.
(2020) Corpi estesi ed ecomedia, Centro Studi Umberto Eco, Bologna, 19 November.
(2019) Doppi e avatar. Un’esplorazione cognitivista del fattore protesico degli schermi, Sapienza Università of Rome, 21-22 February.
(2019) Mediation and Material Engagement: Two Interdependent Concepts, University of Messina, 25-27 September.
(2019) 4E Cognition, MET, Displays, Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, Lyon (FR), 9-10 April.
(2019) Enacting Virtual Reality, University of Göttingen (Ger), 29 August.
(2018) Tu sei già un avatar, University of Milan, 27 November.
(2018) L’incanto di Tesla. Una lettura a partire da “The Prestige”, University of Catania, 22-23 February.
(2017) The Electric Man: Material Culture and the Case of Electromagnetism, Keble College, Oxford (UK), 25 January.
(2017) La scimmia visuale. Immagini mentali, cave art e retroazione mediale,, University of Enna Kore, 23 February.
(2016) Media and Bodies: reconceiving technological determinism, Roma Tre University, 24-26 November.
(2016) Identification, memory, elaboration The importance of time in the context of the TV-series fruition. University of Bologna, 25 May.
(2016) Empathy for the avatar: towards an embodied account of game playing, University of Bologna, 24 June.
(2015) Enactive Pictures. The Extensions of Visualization. Birkbeck University, London, 24 August.
(2014) Fotografia e scienze della mente. Scenari possibili., Roma Tre University, 4 December.
(2012) Observing the world through a rectangle: neuroaesthetics of the photographic picture, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (SP), 19 April.
Teaching activity
Photography and visual culture, BA and Media Theory, MA, at University of Messina (COSPECS).
New media aesthetics, MA and Visual Communication, MA at University of Messina (DICAM)

Education
(22 – 29 august 2012) International Summer School in Affective Sciences at National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) in Affective Sciences, Bossey (Switzerland).
(2009) PhD in Cognitive Sciences, University of Messina
(2005) MA in “Communication theories”

Prizes
(08/06/2009) Codisco Award for the best PhD thesis
(20/06/2006) Prize Anassilaos Giovani for the research