Avatar

In 2000, Massimo Canevacci and his research group at University of Rome founded avatar. Before all, avatar was a magazine about art, communication and anthropology. It focuses on new trends of digital ethnography, anthropology of consume, urban sociology.
Throughout the years, avatar organized a series of art exhibitions and experimental performances in Naples and Rome to discuss the themes behind the magazine (featuring artists like Orlan).

The idea behind avatar is that we have to use a wide range of media (from video, to interactivity, to performance) and not just the writing to conduct a more precise anthropological research. Avatar emphasizes the power of syncretism and individual communication, among radically different cultures and media.

avatar was published by Meltemi and distributed across Europe.

avatar’s First International Board:

Jesús Martin Barbero (Universidad del Valle, Cali), Waldenyr Caldas (Universidade de S.Paulo USP), Vincent Carelli (Centro Trabalho Indigenista), James Clifford (University of Santa Cruz), Joost van Loon (The Nottingham Trent University), George E. Marcus (Rice University), Olgaria Matos (Universidade de S.Paulo USP), Domingos Mohoro’e'o (Cacique Xavante), Sylvia Caiuby Novaes (Universidade de S.Paulo USP), Renato Ortiz (Universidade de S.Paulo USP), Ina-Maria Greverus (University of Frankfurt)

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