Massimo Canevacci

	Massimo Canevacci is a professor of cultural anthropology, and of art and digital cultures at the Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Italy. Currently as a visiting professor at the IEA, Canevacci develops studies in the intersection of four major conceptual frameworks: self-representation, linked to decentered ethnographic methods; ubiquity, grounded on the idea of a flexible polycentrism replacing the notion of a single, politically-defined historic center; visual fetishism, related to disruption of classical dualism; and critical and experimental theory based on current new readings of the work of Theodor Adorno. His research focuses on the areas of ethnography, visual communication, art, and digital culture. He has previously been in Brazil as a visiting professor at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (Uerj) and at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC). His most recent book is 'SincrétiKa: Explorações Etnográficas sobre Arte Contemporânea' [SincrétiKa: Ethnographic Explorations on Contemporary Artes] (2014).

Massimo Canevacci is a professor of cultural anthropology, and of art and digital cultures at the Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Italy. Currently as a visiting professor at the IEA, Canevacci develops studies in the intersection of four major conceptual frameworks: self-representation, linked to decentered ethnographic methods; ubiquity, grounded on the idea of a flexible polycentrism replacing the notion of a single, politically-defined historic center; visual fetishism, related to disruption of classical dualism; and critical and experimental theory based on current new readings of the work of Theodor Adorno. His research focuses on the areas of ethnography, visual communication, art, and digital culture. He has previously been in Brazil as a visiting professor at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (Uerj) and at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC). His most recent book is 'SincrétiKa: Explorações Etnográficas sobre Arte Contemporânea' [SincrétiKa: Ethnographic Explorations on Contemporary Artes] (2014).