Mario Costa

Interview

• "Sublime Technology" (Florence, 02-06-1996)

Biography

Born in Torre del Greco in 1936, Mario Costa is a lecturer in aesthetics at the Philosophy faculty of the University of Salerno, and of critical methodology at the University of Naples.

In 1983 he founded the international research movement on "the aesthetics of communication"; he is also the creator and director of "Artmedia", a permanent seminar on aesthetics, the media and communication held at the University of Salerno since 1985 (http://www.oltrearte.net/artmedia/ ).

He is also founder and scientific director of the international multilingual review "Epiphaneia" (http://www.spidernet.it/sisin/epiph.html ), dedicated to aesthetic and technological research. Since the late 1960s he has published around 15 books.

In 1990 he was awarded the "D. Fabbri" prize with "L'estetica dei media" (Lecce, 1990).

Bibliography

Among his publications:

• Sentimento del sublime e strategie del simbolico: il Vesuvio nella letteratura francese, 1996, Edisud, Salerno.
• Schematismo: avanguardia e psicologia, 1995, Morra, Napoli.
• La televisione e le passioni, 1992, A. Guida, Napoli.
• Il sublime tecnologico, 1990, Edisud, Salerno.
• L'estetica dei media,1990, Capone, Lecce.
• Lettrismo, 1987, Morra, Napoli.
• Incontrarsi tardi, 1983, Pentarco, Torino.
• Immagini, la follia e il resto. Il dominio dell'immagine nella società contemporanea, 1982, Edizioni scientifiche italiane, Napoli.