Nel centenario della nascita di Lester William Polfuss (Les Paul)

08/06/2015

Cento anni fa, il 9 giugno 1915 a Waukesha nel Wisconsin, nasceva Lester William Polfuss, al secolo Les Paul, grande chitarrista e inventore delle mitiche chitarre Gibson che portano il suo nome, oltre a una serie di altre cose fondamentali nella musica contemporanea come la registrazione multitraccia e il delay. Nell’agosto 2009, in occasione della sua morte, avevo pubblicato un articolo che ne rievocava la figura e ripercorreva la storia delle chitarre che portano il suo nome, articolo che ripropongo oggi.

L’articolo è qui . Buona lettura! 🙂

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About me

Since the ‘80 Pier Luigi Capucci has been concerned with the communication’s studies and with the relationships among arts, sciences and technologies. His theoretical activity is concerned with the technologies of representation and communication, with the technoscience-based art forms and with the media archaeology studies. He has been professor at the Universities of Rome “La Sapienza”, Bologna, Florence, Urbino, Udine and at the SUPSI – University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland in Lugano. Currently he is Director and Coordinator of the Scientific-Cultural activities at LABA (Free Academy of Fine Arts) Rimini. Since 2007 he has been working as a supervisor in the T-Node PhD Research Program of the Planetary Collegium (University of Plymouth), and from 2013 to 2018 he has been appointed as Director of Studies. He is in the Scientific Committee of AICA (Association Internationale des Critiques d’Art/International Association of Art Critics, Paris), Italian section. He published the books Realtà del virtuale (Reality of the virtual, 1993; 2015), on virtual technologies and the relationships between culture and sensorial representations; Il corpo tecnologico (The technological body, 1994), on the impact of technologies on the human body; Arte e tecnologie (Art and technologies, 1996; 2013), about arts, sciences and technologies; art*science. The New and History (2018, in English), on the relationship between innovation and history; and Arte e complessità (Art and complexity, 2018); Dialogues across the seas: the ocean that keeps us apart also joins us. Charting knowledge and practice in the Anthropocene (2022, in English). He has published more than 400 texts in books, magazines and conference papers. In 1994 he founded and directed NetMagazine, later MagNet, a research project on the relationships between culture and technologies, the first online magazine in Italy. He has organized exhibitions, curated projects and participated in national and international conventions and conferences. In March 2000 he founded Noema (https://noemalab.eu), on the relationships between technologies, sciences, culture and society, of which he is president and managing director, selected in 2003 by RAI International as the best Italian website. In 2005 he founded the book series (https://www.mediaversi.it), which aims at reflecting in an interdisciplinary way on the relations among the media (not only the digitally based ones), the emergent technologies and the society in its fundamental expressions: culture, representations, communications, arts. In 2012 he founded fivewordsforthefuture (https://fivewordsforthefuture.eu), a project to understand and recognize the “new” and innovation. In 2017 he founded art*science (https://artscience.online), a series of events on critical aspects of the contemporary, which in 2018 has launched a three-year research project on the relationship between art and climate change. He has organized art exhibitions and has been working in European projects on technological communications. He has been part of the Ars Electronica International Advisory Board for the Net Communities category in many editions of the festival. Since 2018 he has been a consultant to the European Commission on the relationships between scientific disciplines and technologies (in particular Artificial Intelligence and Big Data) and humanities.