Models of Hand and Head: Matteo Pasquinelli in conversation with Paolo Caffoni, Umbau Journal, Issue 3 2024 + LINK
This interview was conducted on the occasion of the publication of the book The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence (Verso 2023). The research for this book was primarily conducted during Matteo Pasquinelli’s time as a professor at HfG Karslruhe, and many of the themes explored in the publication were previously debated also in his teaching seminars.
Gli strumenti del padrone e i macchinari imperfetti. Intervista a Marco Scotini a cura di Paolo Caffoni, Machina Rivista, November 2021 + LINK
In occasione dell’uscita della seconda edizione di Artecrazia. Macchine espositive e governo dei pubblici per la collana «humanities» di DeriveApprodi, Paolo Caffoni intervista l’autore e curatore Marco Scotini. La ripubblicazione del volume, la cui prima uscita è del 2016, in un’edizione 2021 rivista e arricchita di nuovi contributi, diventa una preziosa occasione per verificare i poteri dell’oggi nella loro contiguità al passato recente.
“Having to Explain Yourself.” Carol Yinghua Lu in Conversation with Paolo Caffoni, Archivebkj podcast, February 2021 + LINK
Carol Yinghua Lu in conversation with Paolo Caffoni a propos the publication China as an Issue:
Artistic and Intellectual Practices Since the Second Half of the 20th Century Archive Books 2021. In the podcast they talk about “having to explain oneself” when confronted with expectations, language and translation, the illusion of the art market in China, the process of depoliticisation after 1989, nationalism and self-criticism, looking for complicity and alliances, contemporary art and the Cultural Revolution.
“Language in History.” Boris Buden in Conversation with Paolo Caffoni, Archivebkj podcast, June 2020 + LINK
Conversation around the publication “Transition to Nowhere: Art in History after 1989”, Archive Books 2020. Buden and Caffoni discuss “art in history” and “language in history”; language as a “means of production” as well as a “commodity”; the notion of “native speaker” and “native informant”. They talk also about “childhood” and “history”; “Orientalism” and “temporalities”; the role of the art and the intellectual, on the background of the war in former Yugoslavia.
Cinema a memoria: Intervista a Yervant Gianikian e Angela Ricci Lucchi, Exibart, 11 June 2009 + PDF