Daniele Barbieri

Interview

• "The birth of a CD-Rom" (Milano - SMAU 21/09/95)

Biography

Lecturer, multimedia designer and researcher into semiotics and communication theory, Daniele Barbieri was born 3 January 1957 in Finale Emilia (Modena) and graduated in philosophy from the University of Bologna with a thesis on semiotics entitled "Logica dell'interpretazione testuale" (The logic of text interpretation).

He was awarded a doctorate in semiotic research, presenting a thesis entitled "Tempo, immagine, ritmo e racconto. Per una semiotica della temporalità nel testo a fumetti" (Time, image, rhythm and narrative. Towards a semiotics of the temporality of comic strips).

He is interested in the philosophy of language, although his principal area of research has remained visual communication, in particular comic strips.

He is Vice-President of Horizons Unlimited s.r.l., which works in the field of multimedia informatics systems, where he is responsible for research and development and multimedia projects.
Since 1993 he has been developing the Encyclomedia system, a multimedia guide to the history of European civilisation, directed by Umberto Eco, for Opera Multimedia.

He teaches in the science of communication in the field of semiotics at the University of Rome "La Sapienza", and the "Informatica 2" and interactive multimedia communication courses at the I.S.I.A. in Urbino.

A scheduling consultant for RAISAT1, he regularly publishes articles in Il Sole 24 Ore (cultural supplement), and Liber.
He is also secretary of the Bologna Semiotics Centre (CBS).
Author of several translations, he has written numerous articles and essays, both journalistic and of a theoretical nature on semiotics, philosophy, planning theory, literary theory, mass communications and comic strips.

Bibliography

Among his publications:

• Questioni di Ritmo. L'analisi tensiva dei testi televisivi, Roma, ERI-RAI, 1996.
• Dal segno agli eroi. Percorsi semiotici sul testo a fumetti, Bologna, Phoenix (in publication).
• I linguaggi del fumetto, Milano, Bompiani, 1991 (translated into Spanish as Los lenguajes del cómic, Barcelona-Buenos Aires-México, Paidós, 1993).
• Valvoforme e Valvocolori, 1990, Milano, Idea Books (translated into French as Valvoformes et Valvocouleurs, Bruxelles, Imschoot, 1991).