Author: Jessica Ragazzini Castello
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Jouer avec l’histoire de l’art : Clair Obscur : Expedition 33 ou la réactivation ludique des imaginaires artistiques (23 March 2026)
Over the past fifteen years, video games have established themselves as a major cultural medium, capable of generating complex narratives and elaborated aesthetic worlds.
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Book: Arts et Cyborgs. Pensées et imaginaires des corps-machines
Situated at the intersection of organism and cybernetics, cyborg figures evoke an artificial, hybrid identity that is perpetually oriented toward the future. While their representations sometimes participate in imaginaries of domination, they more often function as tools of emancipation, proposing new forms of political subjectivity.
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“Le handicap fictionnel dans la science-fiction artistique” (March 2026)
In March 2026, my article « Le handicap fictionnel dans la science-fiction artistique » was published by BoD in a volume edited by Clément Pélissier and Jérôme Goffette for the academic association Stella Incognita.
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Article :Prothèses en tension : sémiotique du corps altéré chez Sophie de Oliveira Barata et Viktoria Modesta (Sémiolitté-2025)
This article explores the prosthesis not as a mere medical or functional device, but as an aesthetic, political, and semiotic sign of the altered body. Through the practices of Sophie de Oliveira Barata and Viktoria Modesta, it analyzes how the prosthesis becomes a vector of subjectivation, a tool for identity affirmation, and a disruption of ableist…
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Publication: “Kenny” (Fiche cinéma) – Retour d’image
In Kenny (The Kid Brother), Claude Gagnon depicts the true story of Kenny Easterday, a 13-year-old boy born without the lower half of his body and playing his own role. Through a cinematographic approach that blurs the boundaries between fiction and reality, the film reveals the daily life of a child whose greatest challenge is…
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Mentorship for the Bleu foncé Project by the Non-Profit Organization PenserDanser (November–December 2025)
In November and December 2025, PenserDanser entrusted me with designing and leading a mentorship program for Bleu foncé: a project aimed at thinking democracy through the body, questioning politics through gesture, and turning dance into a tool for deliberation, dissensus, and co-creation.
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Mentorship for the “Artémis” Project with the Nonprofit Organization PenserDanser (Summer 2025)
As part of Artémis, a creation developed by PenserDanser, I was invited to design and lead a mentorship program that places philosophy, the body, and myth at the heart of the artistic process. My involvement in this project aligned with a trajectory I have been pursuing for several years: creating spaces where thought becomes movement, where…
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Review: FRED RITCHIN. THE SYNTHETIC EYE: PHOTOGRAPHY TRANSFORMED IN THE AGE OF AI | THAMES & HUDSON (November 2025)
In The Synthetic Eye: Photography Transformed in the Age of AI, Fred Ritchin offers a profound reflection on the transformation of photography in the era of artificial intelligence. He examines the new forms of generated images as well as the epistemological, social, and ethical issues raised by this “synthetic vision.”
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REVIEW: BATHERS BY RUTH KAPLAN | DAMIANI (November 2025)
In Bathers, Canadian photographer Ruth Kaplan explores public baths as a primordial stage where the human body appears in all its vulnerable splendor. By photographing spaces of shared nudity, she seeks to capture bodies freed from social artifices, suspended between modesty and revelation.
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Review: Japan Art Revolution, From Angura To Provoke | Amélie Ravalec (November 2025)
Amélie Ravalec’s Japan Art Revolution. From Angura to Provoke revisits one of the most incendiary moments in Japanese visual history, born from the ruins of a nation scarred by war and occupation. The author shows how, in the 1960s and 1970s, photography, theatre and politics intertwined to become the vectors of a shared revolt.