Who we are
CINZIA FORTE
FOunder
Cinzia Forte is an independent researcher working on gender studies in the interdisciplinary field of media studies and translation studies, studying how the representation of gender stereotypes in popular media culture influences audience reception and what is its impact on the construction of gender identities. More specifically, the study addresses the role of audiovisual translation (AVT) in the reproduction of stereotypes in mainstream TV series. Cinzia has collaborated and still collaborates with the Department of Sociology of Roma Tre and the Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies in Utrecht. Currently, Cinzia is a university lecturer at La Sapienza University and teaching coordinator at Torvergata University.
ARIANNA FORTE
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Arianna Forte is an independent art curator , creative producer and organizer of artistic projects of social innovation, based in Rome. She is moving freely between official cultural institutions, non profit organizations, squat and independent spaces. She has been part of international digital arts events teams such as in the production of transmediale-festival for art and digital culture in Berlin and as cultural manager of the research center HER Sheloves Data, founded by Oriana Persico and Salvatore Iaconesi. Currently, she curates the three-year project of 1M Sotto la Metro, a temporary exhibition of interactive media art that took place in the metro stations of Rome. Her research concerns the ways in which artistic practices deal with technologies and sciences and create new opportunities for social imagination and activism. At the moment, she is focused on how technological infrastructures are linked to gender issues, biases and taboos related to femininity and is the founder of the Erinni association.
