Curator Researcher Writer
Curator Researcher Writer
Dr Francesca Laura Cavallo
recent Publications
Who and What Connects the Dots? Emma Kunz’s Method as Infographics and the Politics of Probability
Article peer-reviewed, Taylor&Francis, 2023
What if we were to re-frame Emma Kunz's oracular drawings made with a pendulum as infographics? Drawing on media theory, posthumanism and chance procedures in Art, this article investigates the limits and agency of data visualisations for probabilistic reasoning and 'evidence-based' decision making. In Parallax Journal’s special edition on Probability and Agency edited by Prof Natasha Lushetich and Iain Campbell. Read OPEN ACCESS
Rehearsing Disaster: pre-enactment between reality and fiction
Book Chapter, Transcript 2019
The context for this chapter is the diversity of ways in which possible events are envisioned, re-constructed, and anticipated through performance or role play. These actions, which I call “pre-enactments”, blur reality with fiction to present future events as already happening. In Performance zwischen denZeiten Reenactments und Preenactments in Kunst und Wissenschaft ,edited by Adam Czirak, Sophie Nikoleit, Friederike Oberkrome, Verena Straub, Robert Walter-Jochum and Michael Wetzels. Berlin: Transcript, 2019. Img © Simon Faithfull, EZY1899: Re-enactment for a Future Scenario (2012)
Avoiding the Apocalypse: The How-to Guide as a Method
Book Chapter, Routledge 2022
Do How-to Guides work in real situations? This essay unpacks the logics and aesthetics of survival manuals from the Cold War to the Climate Apocalypse. In The Environmental Apocalypse: Interdisciplinary reflections on the Climate Crisis, edited by Jakub Kowalewsky . Image: Link
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