Gianni Barchiesi
Adjunct
Gianni Barchiesi is an adjunct lecturer in the Brooklyn College Film department. He teaches about the history and the aesthetics of US film comedy. He has taught courses on film theory, film history, film noir, adult animation, and the cinema of David Cronenberg. As a researcher, Gianni Barchiesi uses works from perception studies (ranging from philosophy to neuroscience) to develop a new approach to the notion of medium, as well as to medium specificity arguments. He has written/been writing about the works of Woody and Steina Vasulka, and those of Hideo Kojima, as well as about the challenges posed to authorship by Lars von Trier's The Boss of It All, and about the technology of Ambient Occlusion in CGI, and its impact on assessing verisimilitude in digital imagery.
