Silvia Casini

Senior lecturer in Film and Visual Culture at the University of Aberdeen (UK). Dr Silvia Casini works between visual culture, science studies, cinema and the medical humanities.

Dr Casini's main research strand focuses on the aesthetic, epistemological and societal implications of scientific photography and visualization, particularly in the case of emerging technologies. She deploys visual culture, science and technology studies (STS) and critical theory to explore how (still and moving) images and perception work within systems of knowledge. In her scholarly and curatorial work to date, she is committed to study art-science cross-fertilization projects in their material environments (museums, laboratories, cities), to assess how they reconfigure existing forms of visibility, thinking and agency.