Andrea Amati graduated with honors from the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Rome “La Sapienza.” At the same time, he studied Visual Arts Aesthetics (Academy of Fine Arts in Rome) and Film History and Criticism (La Sapienza). He conducts scientific research in the field of Geotechnical Engineering (Applied Seismology and Multiphase Continuum Mechanics) for La Sapienza and for the Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI) - Research Center on Landslides (RCL) at the laboratories of Kyoto University. He is currently working on Aesthetics and Computational Semiotics for the Visual and Performing Arts - from a comparative perspective - and collaborates with the journals: Antinomie - Scritture e Immagini; and Syzetesis - Rivista di Filosofia. In November 2025, he began his doctoral studies in Cognitive Sciences at the University of Messina - Department of Cognitive, Psychological, Pedagogical, and Cultural Studies (COSPECS).
Area of research
Computational Aesthetics, Computational Semiotics, Stylometry, Neuro-Aesthetics, Visual and Performing Arts Analytics
His research will investigate the formal principles of classical musical theater in Japan—Noh—in an attempt to disprove the theories of Zeami Motokiyo, a playwright, actor, and author of a series of treatises that canonized the discipline in the early 15th century. To this end, a tripartite model of aesthetic experience will be designed: comparing the mathematical description of mimicry and choreography—of the work of art itself, therefore—with the perceptual and cognitive elaboration of the artist and the spectator.
Supervisor
Prof. Pietro Perconti
Prof. Francesco Parisi
Publications
ISBN 9780429206207