The debate around moving images, the devices, and the infrastructures ensuring their circulation has been the subject of many studies in the area of film and media. Closely linked with a range of neighbouring disciplines such as aesthetics and media pragmatics, cultural and visual studies, this debate explores a number of phenomena that unfold in art and entertainment spaces, and which impact on everyday life, for example by influencing the design and use of diverse domestic technologies. 

In this scenario, interfaces – be they screens or else – take on a major role in the contemporary “iconosphere”. They represent a liminal zone whereby the relationship between body and technology transits. Interfaces can then be seen as the area of connection between physical world and media space, becoming itself a place of encounter.

The fabric of the experience activated by interfaces seamlessly blends media contents and practices, they circulate them not only in light of a delivery, but also of an interaction, alongside a process of framing, adaptation, reformatting and re-mediation. Based on these processes, the contemporary scenario can be interpreted and analysed, not only in a postcinema and postmedia perspective, but also in the light of the postdigital and of the “discorrelated images” this favours.

This issue of “Imago. Studi di cinema e media” collects contributions that intercept these phenomena and study the mediation elicited by interfaces