L’AQUILA – Double appointment this week for Summer at MAXXI L’Aquila | Books and cinema in the court, the MAXXI L’Aquila public program program with events dedicated to cinema and at editorial presentations sponsored by Municipality of L’Aquila and made in collaboration, respectively, with L’Aquila Film Festival and with theUniversity of L’Aquila.
The events, with free entry while places last, will be hosted in the exedra courtyard of Palazzo Ardinghelli.
LECTURE Thursday 20 June 2024 at 7pm, Paola Inverardi, director of the GSSI – Gran Sasso Science Institute of L’Aquila and computer scientist specialized in software engineering, will hold a lecture entitled Ethics and autonomous systems. Digital society and the centrality of man: a very timely reflection on the relationship between man and technology in light of the pervasiveness of digital technologies and the growing diffusion of systems with different degrees of autonomy made increasingly sophisticated by components of artificial intelligence which undermines the centrality of the human being in a world whose references no longer seem to be only human.
It is therefore useful to focus on some elements of strong attention and criticism for privacy, for human dignity understood as the right to respect for human beings, prejudices in decision-making and recommendation systems, the narrowing of the space of individual choices. Paola Inverardi will try to clarify how this same technology, which puts our humanity at risk, can represent a solution to the problem and how we can coexist on equal terms with these systems in digital society. Introduces the lectio Marco Di Francescoprofessor of the Department of Engineering, Information Sciences and Mathematics of the University of L’Aquila.
CINEMA Friday 21 June, at 9pmthe court of Palazzo Ardinghelli returns to host the seventh art with the first appointment of Primary Visionsa selection of debut Italian films on key contemporary themes, investigated with innovative languages and sensibilities, proposed by L’Aquila Film Festival which, for the first evening of programming, he chose Billy2023 film by Emilia Mazzacurati with Alessandro Gassmann, Carla Signoris and Giuseppe Battiston. The director – born in ’95, first still photographer, then screenwriter and now complete author – tells the story of nineteen-year-old Billy, a former child prodigy who, at just nine years old, has created a successful musical podcast and who is looking for his own path taken with his eccentric mother, his friends aged between eight and twelve, the girl he is in love with, and Zippo, a rocker who disappeared for years and his childhood idol who, with his reappearance, seems to give a turning point in the protagonist’s existence.
The film offers a dreamlike and choral story of the Italian province full of contradictions in which ordinary figures move who become extraordinary because they are placed in dynamics different from those expected. A film that depicts one of the many possible faces of our country: “Not a postcard Italy – as the director writes in her notes – but still extremely photogenic. (…) A country that always seems to be on the edge, that risks not making it, that is constantly one step away from the precipice, but that in reality will never give up. Because it’s not in his nature. And not even that of its inhabitants.”
