SANDRA LISCHI

Sandra Lischi (Pisa, 1951) graduated in Art History in 1973 (with a thesis on video) from the University of Pisa, where she is a professor specialising in the audiovisual field on the graduate course "Cinema, Music, Theatre" (Faculty of Literature). She created the "Ondavideo-Sounds and Images of the future" festival in 1985, which is still running in Pisa, and co-directs "Invideo-International Exhibition of Video Art and Cinema Beyond" in Milan. She also contributes to the "Il Manifesto" newspaper. Since the 1970s, she has published various books, essays, articles and catalogues on electronic art, curated shows and collanorated with national and international institutions. Beyond video art, she is also involved in experimental cinema, non-narrative productions and independent video. Her publications include (ETS, Pisa) Metamorfosi della visione (con Rosanna Albertini), 1988, seconda edizione 2000; Il respiro del tempo. Cinema e video di Robert Cahen, 1991, seconda edizione 1998; Cine ma video, 1996; A occhio nudo-la scuola video di documentazione sociale I Cammelli (con Pucci Piazza), Lindau, Torino 1997.

In recent years, she has combined her teaching and research with video prodution and directing. She has collaborated video artist Gianni Toti at the CICV-Pierre Schaeffer Research Centre in Montbéliard-Belfort, directing the video portrait PlaneToti-Notes in 1997. She has also dedicated herself, in Pisa, to an educational-theoretical-production project in collaboration with the university, local bodies "Ondavideo", which has resulted in various video works, publications and didactic experiences. Her book Visioni elettroniche. L'oltre del cinema e l'arte del video, ed. di Bianco & Nero, Rome 2001, offers a theoretical panorama, tackling various key themes, of international video art. In 2005, she published Il linguaggio del video,Carocci, Roma.