Worlds of AudioVision grew out of the need to define the principles and procedures of a hermeneutics of audiovisual texts. There is nothing new about the overlapping of artistic genres, but in recent decades their interaction has become of increasing importance on account of various factors: progress in electronic technologies, the incidence of audiovisual communication on daily life, experimentation in the performing arts (theatre, dance, music, cinema), the dissemination of new forms of artistic expression (videoart, installations), the proliferation of multimedia projects in popular culture, and last but not least, a comprehensive critical reflection on the status of the work of art. Initially audiovision was studied in the context of cinema, the prime electronic art which, in its evolution to date, has represented a standard point of reference. Nonetheless the progress of artistic languages, bringing about a genuine paradigm shift, suggests that an enquiry into the phenomenon can only start out from an integrated approach.

This site takes into account various subgenres of film production and creations in other performing arts based on the interaction of different media, while never losing sight of the conceptual specification of the terminology involved. In its capacity as a specific modality of perception, emerging in response to creations which combine image, word and sound, audiovision raises highly complex theoretical questions in which aesthetic, semiotic, sociological, anthropological and technological aspects all coexist.