The Future Contemporary Inquiries into Visual, Performing, and Media Arts
open access | peer reviewed
Aims & Scope
This peer-reviewed series will foreground original scientific contributions addressing visual, performing, and media arts in the form of authored or edited volumes. The series aims to publish new insights into a wide-range of topics so as to build an understanding of our historical present and create future legacy. The series will include studies in artistic, curatorial and institutional practices, as well as texts addressing current and future challenges in the cultural sector and in society at large through novel frameworks, theory and practices. The series will be open-access, as well as print on demand, and published in English.
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Copyright This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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- Interview with Michal Grover-Friedlander
- Laura Cesaro
- Oct. 22, 2025 | Remediating Opera
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- Opera at the Time of COVID-19: Intermediality and Scenic Rewriting in Mario Martone’s Film-Theatre Triptych
- Lorenzo Rossi
- Oct. 22, 2025 | Remediating Opera
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- Opera in (Italian) Film: From Intermediality to Remediation
- Matteo Giuggioli
- Oct. 22, 2025 | Remediating Opera
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- Voyage at the Ends of Remediation in Il Marchese del Grillo
- Chiara Casarin
- Oct. 22, 2025 | Remediating Opera
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- Film Music in the Levi Family Salon
- Roberto Calabretto
- Oct. 22, 2025 | Remediating Opera
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- Symphonies of Labour: Opera Traces Inside and Outside the Walls of the Factory
- Laura Cesaro
- Oct. 22, 2025 | Remediating Opera
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- Opera, Off Stage
- Giorgio Biancorosso
- Oct. 22, 2025 | Remediating Opera
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- Interview with Roberto Chiesi
- Laura Cesaro
- Oct. 22, 2025 | Remediating Opera
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- Vissi d’arte. Opera Singers in Italian Biopics of the Forties and Fifties
- Elena Mosconi
- Oct. 22, 2025 | Remediating Opera
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- Introduction
- Oct. 22, 2025 | Remediating Opera
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- Coda
- Miriam De Rosa, Vincenzina C. Ottomano
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- A ‘Service Provider’ for Noi credevamo by Mario Martone
- Chiara Casarin
- Oct. 22, 2025 | Remediating Opera
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- Reintegrating Nuclear Knowledge Through Contemporary Art
- Giulia Melchionda
- Dec. 14, 2023 | Building Common Ground
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- Metaspore: Cosmopolitical Biopolitics and Multispecies Potentialities in Anicka Yi’s Ecoart
- Ludovica Montecchio
- Dec. 14, 2023 | Building Common Ground
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- Exploring the Plantationocene Through Works by Otobong Nkanga
- Rebecka Öhrström Kann
- Dec. 14, 2023 | Building Common Ground
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- Just Who I Am
- Zoë Fitzpatrick Rogers
- Dec. 14, 2023 | Building Common Ground
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- Preface
- Cristina Baldacci
- Dec. 14, 2023 | Building Common Ground
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- Introduction
- Emiliano Guaraldo
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- Blackbird Songs: More-than-Human Aural Histories in the Anthropocene
- Concepción Cortés Zulueta
- Dec. 14, 2023 | Building Common Ground
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- Exploring the Role of Non-Human Animals in Contemporary Art: As Objects, Matter, and Collaborators
- Davide Tolfo
- Dec. 14, 2023 | Building Common Ground
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- With the Wild
- Pietro Consolandi
- Dec. 14, 2023 | Building Common Ground
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- Uprooting Silicon Prairie
- Matthew Darmour-Paul
- Dec. 14, 2023 | Building Common Ground
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- Wasting Trajectories and Generative Ecologies: Leone Contini’s Foreign Farmers
- Tommaso Gonzo, Giovanni Lorenzi
- Dec. 14, 2023 | Building Common Ground
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- Geological Pasts, Speculative Futures: A conversation with Beate Geissler and Oliver Sann
- Emiliano Guaraldo
- Dec. 14, 2023 | Building Common Ground
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- Enchanted Cutaway: Nurturing Imaginations through Regrowth and Remembrance in the Altered Landscape of the Weald (UK)
- Sam Risley
- Dec. 14, 2023 | Building Common Ground
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- Task by Ingrid Bergen Myhre
- Sept. 16, 2021 | Moving Spaces
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- Task by Ana Pi
- Sept. 16, 2021 | Moving Spaces
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- Addressing the Situation. Xavier le Roy’s Retrospective and Aesthetic Subjectivity
- Gerald Siegmund
- Sept. 16, 2021 | Moving Spaces
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- Creolised Dance, Museumised Space: Jeannette Ehlers and Decolonial Re-Edification
- Ananya Jahanara Kabir
- Sept. 16, 2021 | Moving Spaces
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- Task by Quim Bigas
- Sept. 16, 2021 | Moving Spaces
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- Task by Masako Matsushita
- Sept. 16, 2021 | Moving Spaces
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- Dancing the Museum Black: Activist Animations of the Social
- Thomas F. DeFrantz
- Sept. 16, 2021 | Moving Spaces
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- Dance Well and Diary of a Move: From Artistic Projects to Social Processes
- Susanne Franco
- Sept. 16, 2021 | Moving Spaces
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- “Animated Words, Will Accompany My Gestures”
- Jonas Tinius
- Sept. 16, 2021 | Moving Spaces
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- Task by Ariadne Mikou
- Sept. 16, 2021 | Moving Spaces
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- Task by Eleanor Sikorski
- Sept. 16, 2021 | Moving Spaces
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- Task by Monica Gillette
- Sept. 16, 2021 | Moving Spaces
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- Into the Space of the Digital Museum
- Gabriella Giannachi
- Sept. 16, 2021 | Moving Spaces
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- Introduction
- Susanne Franco, Gabriella Giannachi
- Sept. 16, 2021 | Moving Spaces
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- New Approaches to Documenting Performance in the Museum: Value, History, and Strategy
- Acatia Finbow
- Sept. 16, 2021 | Moving Spaces
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- Remediating Opera
- Chiara Casarin, Laura Cesaro
- Oct. 22, 2025
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- Building Common Ground
- Emiliano Guaraldo
- Dec. 14, 2023
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- Moving Spaces
- Susanne Franco, Gabriella Giannachi
- Sept. 16, 2021
Cristina Baldacci, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Miriam De Rosa, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Susanne Franco, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Advisory Board
Bertha Bermudez, CPDC Creative Paths Documentation Center, Biarritz
Maaike Bleeker, Universiteit Utrecht, Nederland
Lukas Brasiskis, New York University, USA
Katja Centonze, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Timmy de Laet, Universiteit Antwerpen, Koninkrijk België
Thomas F. DeFrantz, Northwestern University, USA
Annet Dekker, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Nederland
Peter Eckersall, The Graduate Center, CUNY, USA
Kate Elswit, Central School for Speech and Drama, London
Clare Foster, University of Cambridge, UK
Francesca Franco, Curator
Gabriella Giannachi, University of Exeter, UK
Jacob Lund, Aarhus Universitet, Danmark
Julie Perrin, Université Paris 8 Saint-Denis, France
Devon Schiller, Universität Wien, Österreich
Gerald Siegmund, Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, Deutschland
Francesca Tarocco, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Ming Tiampo, Carleton University, Canada
Jonas Tinius, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin; Saarland University, Deutschland
Frank Vigneron, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
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Ethical Code of The Future Contemporary. Inquiries into Visual, Performing, and Media Arts
The Future Contemporary. Inquiries into Visual, Performing, and Media Arts is a peer-reviewed scientific book series whose policy is inspired by the COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) Ethical Code.
Publisher’s responsibilities
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Submitted works, after having been checked for plagiarism by means of the anti-plagiarism software Compilatio that is used by the University and is made available to us, will be sent to at least two reviewers. Final acceptance presumes the implementation of possible amendments, as required by the reviewers and under the supervision of The Future Contemporary Editor-in-Chief.
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Ethical Committee
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Emendations
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Plagiarism
Reviewers should report any similarity or overlapping of the work under analysis with other works known to them.