Structures
The Biblioteca di Arte, Musica e Spettacolo (Library of Arts, Music and Performing Arts) of the Department offers a consistent and up-to-date heritage of books and journals, both in terms of audio and video documents and in terms of document preservation. Worth mentioning are:
- The complete collections of the journals L’arte drammatica and Il Piccolo Faust, and the European Living Theatre Archives. (http://www.unito.it/unitoWAR/appmanager/biblioteche5/B037?_nfpb=true)
- An extensive collection of films on video, often rare or particularly hard to find
- Part of the library of the Danish poet Halfdan Rasmussen (http://www.unito.it/unitoWAR/page/biblioteche5/B037/B037_link_utili1), a donation that increased the broad archive of material for the study of Scandinavian literature.
The initiatives and research projects are implemented through the activities of Departmental and Interdepartmental Research Centres related to cinema, audiovisual communication and multimedia:
- CRAD (Centro ricerche sull’attore e sul divismo, Research Centre on the Actor and Stardom): it promotes in-depth studies on the subject of the actor and stardom in theatre, cinema and television.
- CIRMA www.cirma.unito.it
(Centro interdipartimentale di ricerca su multimedia e audiovisivo, Interdepartmental Centre for the Research on Multimedia and Audiovisual Products): it promotes research and diffusion activities in the field of cutting-
edge ICT technologies. Since 2003 CIRMA has implemented: a) initiatives and research projects through self-financing, b) a huge number of events, seminars and public debates which are available on video (starting from 2008) thanks to the collaboration of Laboratorio Quazza. - CIRCe www.unito.it/circe (Centro interdipartimentale di ricerca sulla comunicazione, Interdepartmental Centre for Research on Communication): it promotes, plans and implements disciplinary and interdisciplinary research on communication and its main applications.
The research activities are encouraged and supported by the widespread presence of local events, institutions and archives of international relevance:
Museo Nazionale del Cinema (National Cinema Museum): it organises cycles of screenings at Cinema Massimo (often in collaboration with the professors of the Department), and owns an immense heritage of historical sources, especially the rich Bibliomediateca “Mario Gromo”, one of Europe’s most important documentation centres on cinema and photography.
Bibliomediateca RAI – Centro di documentazione “Dino Villani” (Documentation Centre “Dino Villani”): it provides a consultation service of the RAI Archive through a Media Library, offering access to thousands of radio and television programmes, production stills, commercials, posters and historical publications of RAI. It houses a large collection of books and periodicals on the themes of Mass Communication, Advertising, Entertainment and Journalism.
- Archivio Nazionale Cinematografico della Resistenza (National Film Archive of the Italian Resistance): it houses a rich audiovisual collection dedicated to the Italian Resistance, the Fascist and Nazi regimes, Antifascism and Deportation. It also has a large collection of videotaped testimonies regarding the years between the two World Wars, the period of the war and of the partisan struggle, and the period following World War II.
- Centro Nazionale del Cortometraggio (National Short Film Centre): an audiovisual archive specialising in the preservation and promotion of Italian Short Films, closely connected to all the major national festivals.
- Archivio Nazionale del Cinema d'Impresa (National Archives of Industrial Cinema, Ivrea): it is the most important and rich national archive for the conservation, valorisation and diffusion of audiovisual heritage produced by Italian companies.
- Dipartimento di animazione della Scuola Nazionale di Cinema (Animation Department of the National School of Cinema, Chieri): it promotes an artistic and professional training course, developed through a continuous exchange with the production and training sector at an European level.
- Teatro Stabile di Torino
- Fondazione Teatro Piemonte Europa
- Casa del Teatro Ragazzi e Giovani
- Fondazione Teatro Nuovo
- Istituto per i Beni Marionettistici e il Teatro Popolare
- Teatro Regio
- Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI
- Unione Musicale
- Associazione Lingotto Musica
- De Sono - Associazione per la Musica
- Conservatorio di Musica “Giuseppe Verdi”
- Accademia Corale Stefano Tempia
- Biblioteca Civica Musicale “Andrea Della Corte”
- Istituto per i Beni Musicali in Piemonte
- CREL Centro Regionale Etnico Linguistico
- Museo del Paesaggio Sonoro di Riva presso Chieri
- Associazione culturale La Froja, Riva presso Chieri
- CEC Centro Etnologico Canavesano
- ASAC Associazione di Storia e Arte Canavesana, Ivrea
- Associazione Soulestrèlh Sampeyre
- Associazione Lu Rure Sampeyre
- Associazione culturale Cantovivo
- Museo della Maschera di Rocca Grimalda
- Museo Civico Antonio Adriano di Arti e tradizioni popolari, Magliano Alfieri
- Montebello Gamelan
- Centro Studi Piemontesi, Torino
- Associazione Culturale EthnoSuoni, Casale Monferrato
- Camerata Corale La Grangia, Givoletto
- Gruppo di ricerca Mare Tèra e Museo Etnografico “La Brunetta”, Barge
Italian sound post-production societies, with the collaboration of which projects of historical reconstruction of sound techniques and archive preservation have been activated:
- Marinelli Effetti Sonori S.r.l.
- Studio 16 Sound S.r.l.
- New Digital
- Anzellotti Sound Effects Company S.r.l.
- Technicolor S.p.a.
STUDIUMLAB LABORATORY
StudiumLab is a multidisciplinary open lab dedicated to the research and the technological experimentation in humanities, with specific focus on sound, voice, media, performance, and the processing and analysis of aural sources
The laboratory is also intended as technological infrastructure for those disciplines dedicated to the analysis and conservation of aural data corpora (experimental phonetics, ethnolinguistics and dialectology, ethnomusicology, musicology, organology, acoustics), and for the wide range of disciplines interested in technological and performative experimentation in the field of sound, audiovisual languages, performance, and to support the professional training in different sectors of voice automation, audiovisual and live entertainment (synthesis and speech recognition, storage of audio, multimedia, video games, cinema, video , live performance and show, multimedia events).
StudiumLab was created by the Department of Humanities with the contribution of the Compagnia di Sanpaolo and the Direzione Edilizia of the University of Turin.