Italiano [English below]

 

Il 22 Ottobre sono stato onorato di partecipare a “Digital Transformation Extended Future Outlook: Challenges, Adversaries, Divides & Opportunities”, tavola rotonda suddivisa in due giorni che si teneva a Sofia ma i cui interventi, causa COVID-19, si svolgevano online. Organizzatore e chair dell’evento è stato Zlatogor Minchev, figura importante in campo internazionale nell’ambito delle tecnologie, in particolare quelle della sicurezza, fondatore nonché presidente di Secure Digital Future 21.

Nella presentazione gli obiettivi dell’evento:

The activity has been organized in celebration of the 3rd jubilee of “Secure Digital Future 21” international expert forum initiative, founded by Joint Training Simulation & Analysis Center, Institute of ICT, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and aims to gather expert thoughts, innovations and concerns for the societal agility & resilience multiple necessities, achievements and perspectives towards a more secure and bright future.

Il mio intervento si intitolava “Technologies of Distance and Simulation: a Perspective from the Humanities and the Arts”, e si proponeva di inquadrare, nell’ambito di una prospettiva che cercava di coniugare la dimensione umanistica e quella scientifica, due aspetti che – nonostante esistano dalle origini dell’umanità e del linguaggio simbolico – il COVID-19 ha reso oggi imprescindibili e fondamentali, profondamente connessi: la distanza (dagli altri, dal lavoro, dalle cose, ecc.) e la simulazione (la costruzione, tramite le tecnologie, di modelli del reale).

Tutti gli interventi saranno pubblicati in un volume in inglese.

 

 

English

 

On 22 October I was honored to participate in “Digital Transformation Extended Future Outlook: Challenges, Adversaries, Divides & Opportunities”, a two-day round table that was held in Sofia but whose interventions, due to COVID-19, took place online. Organizer and chair of the event was Zlatogor Minchev, an important figure in the international field in the realm of technologies, in particular of security, founder and president of Secure Digital Future 21.

In the presentation the objectives of the event:

The activity has been organized in celebration of the 3rd jubilee of “Secure Digital Future 21” international expert forum initiative, founded by Joint Training Simulation & Analysis Center, Institute of ICT, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and aims to gather expert thoughts, innovations and concerns for the societal agility & resilience multiple necessities, achievements and perspectives towards a more secure and bright future.

My presentation was entitled “Technologies of Distance and Simulation: a Perspective from the Humanities and the Arts”, and had the purpose to frame, within a perspective trying to combine the humanistic and scientific dimensions, two aspects that – despite the fact that they exist from the origins of humanity and symbolic language – COVID-19 has made essential and fundamental today, and that are deeply connected: distance (from other people, from work, from things, etc.) and simulation (the construction, through technologies, of models of reality).

All the presentations will be published in a book in English.