Pistone, Massimo: - Massimo Pistone is an Italian philosopher, born in Pescara. He is currently director of the department "Communication and Didactics of Art" at the Accademia dei Romani in Rome, Montecelio. For six years, he was director of the Centre for Studies and Research on "Communication, Audiovisual and Networks" at the Link Campus University of Rome. Wikipedia France has indicated him, in a special publication, among the Italian philosophers of the twentieth century. He is the founder and honorary president of the international festival dedicated to abstract cinema, Abstracta. In May 2010, he was invited by the University of Vienna to hold a seminar on "The Different Paths of Abstraction" at the Hofburg site. He is the administrator of the philosophy blog "Einstein & Parmenides".