Valerio
Sammartino

Valerio Sammartino was born in Melfi in 1992. He lived and studied in Potenza before moving to Rome, where from 2011 to 2016 he attended the Multimedia Arts course at the Academy of Fine Arts. In 2017, he undertook the Level I Master’s programme in Art Documentary, “Filmare l’arteMonkeys Video Lab s.r.l. – a multimedia communications company specialising in art documentation – and since 2022, he has been a lecturer in Audiovisual Techniques for the Web at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome.

The course in Audiovisual Techniques for the Web aims to provide students with the theoretical and technical-practical tools needed to create audiovisual content for the web, through lectures focusing on the viewing of online video works and an analysis of how audiovisual language for the web can influence the world of art. The workshop component will focus on teaching production and post-production techniques for the various outlets offered by the web: students will explore different video formats (horizontal, square and vertical) and different durations (from a few-second StoriesCorporate VideosStudents will be supported in creating audiovisual works during the course, which they will then analyse in class.They will be asked to produce audiovisual material in places of art and culture (such as museums and galleries) and to adapt this material in various forms for the web. In addition to web language, students will also receive guidance on writing, filming, post-production and online publishing techniques. These practical exercises serve as preparation for the final assessment, for which students will be required to produce several videos in different formats and publish them on a Facebook, Instagram and TikTok channel created specifically for the class. Students are therefore expected to have the technical knowledge necessary to be proficient in creating audiovisual content for the web, as well as a theoretical foundation to support them in engaging with video language in all its forms.

Core reading list

• W. Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Its Mechanical Reproduction, Einaudi, 2014
  
• L. Manovich, The Language of New Media
  
  • Jean-Luc Nancy, Listening, Raffaello Cortina Editore, 2004
    
  • Marco M. Gazzano, Kinema. Cinema on the Trail of Cinema. Dal film alle arti elettroniche, andata e ritorno, Exòrama, 2013
    
  • G. de Vincenti, Lo stile moderno, Bulzoni, Rome, 2014
    
  • S. Eisenstein, Film Editing Principles, Einaudi, 2000
    
  • S. Berardi, L’avventura del cinematografo. Storia di un’arte e di un linguaggio, Marsilio, 2007