My work often explores the intersections between art, digital technology and society — particularly how technology and the ideas of ‘progress’ and ‘betterment’ tied to it, shape behaviours, relationships between people and with the environment, and the ways knowledge. I am interested not only in how digital tools and platforms shape us, but also in how we shape them.
Since my PhD with CRUMB (University of Sunderland, 2015), I
have researched curating on the web and digital curation, focusing on their histories and impact on cultural production, access to culture and audience engagement. I published the archive
curating.online (online, 2021-) with the support of the Italian Council - 9th Edition, and
The Broken Timeline (Valiz, 2022) conceived with Annet Dekker and Gaia Tedone.
I like to think of
exhibitions as ways of telling stories that unfold across spaces and between people. I have curated them online, in gallery spaces, on a river canal, on mobile phones, on the radio and in print — collaborating with artists, writers, designers, musicians and anthropologists. My interest in creating spaces for dialogue and exchange has shaped projects such as the curatorial platform
or-bits.com (2009-2015),
#exstrange (2017, with artist Rebekah Modrak), and the publishing series Silicon Plateau (2015-, with artist Tara Kelton).
I support practice-based research and research-based work — an approach I also bring into teaching on curating, art & technology, and publishing & archiving, or
when I give talks and organise workshops.
I work as an independent curator, also under the moniker
://ftp with Gaia Tedone.
EXPERIENCE:
2009-present > Curator and researcher
2024-2025 > Scientific Advisor for the Capacity-building Project “Spazi Culturali Virtuali” for Socialis, Brescia, Italy
2023-present > Associate Lecturer of New Media History and Theory at Accademia Santa Giulia; Brescia, Italy
2021-2023 > Consultant for the research, development and coordination of Arts & Culture Projects for the City of Brescia and of the art centre MO.CA - centro per le nuove culture for Fondazione ASM; Brescia, Italy
2021-2022 > Curatorial Research Fellow at Exhibition Research Lab (ERL) at Liverpool John Moores University; Liverpool, UK
2015–2021 > Professor in the School of Media, Arts and Sciences [Course Leader of BA in Experimental Media Arts (2015 –2018) and MA in Curatorial Practices - Film, Media and Visual Arts (2018 – 2021)] and coordinator of CEMA - Centre for Experimental Media Arts at Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology; Bangalore, India
2015–2016 > Director of Programmes at T-A-J Residency; Bangalore, India
2009–2015 > Founder Director of or-bits.com; online and UK
2010–2012 > Associate Curator at Grand Union; Birmingham, UK
2009–2010 > Research and Curatorial Assistant at Sound Threshold; London, UK
2008–2009 > Film/Video Archivist at LUX and British Artist’ Films & Video Study Collection at Central Saint Martins; London, UK
2007–2008 > Project Assistant at Cape Farewell; London, United Kingdom
2006–2007 > Gallery Assistant at Seventeen; London, United Kingdom
1999-2005 > Production manager for an industrial manufacturing company; Concesio, Italy
RESEARCH AND CURATORIAL GRANTS:
2022 > Arts Engine - University of Michigan, with Rebekah Modrak; USA
2021 > Mobility First! Collaboration Grants by Asia-Europe Cultural Mobility; Singapore
2020 > Italian Council (9th Edition) by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture; Italy
2017 > Center for South Asian Studies and Ross School of Business at University of Michigan; USA/India
2017 > Project Anywhere (Centre of Visual Arts, University of Melbourne, and Parsons Fine Art, The New School); USA/AUS
2017 > Are.na Grants — finalist; USA
2016 > Curatorial residency at Art Lab Gnesta; Sweden
2015 > Researchers at Work (RAW) - The Centre for Internet and Society; Bangalore, India
2013 > Arts and Humanities Research Council - Disseminating Research; UK/AUS
2012 > Grants for the Arts, Arts Council England; UK
2012 > Arts and Humanities Research Council - International Placement Scheme; UK/India
2011 > Arts and Humanities Research Council - Doctoral Scholarship, University of Sunderland; UK
2011 > The Independents, Cultural Leadership Programme at Battersea Art Centre; London, UK
2010 > Grants for the Arts, Arts Council England; UK
EDUCATION:
2011-2015 > PhD in Curatorial Studies and New Media; with CRUMB at University of Sunderland; UK
2008-2009 > MA in Critical Writing and Curatorial Practice (Distinction) at Chelsea College of Art and Design; London, UK
2000-2005 > BA (Hons) DAMS (Discipline delle Arti, della Musica e dello Spettacolo), Faculty of Literature and Philosophy, with a thesis in Museology (Distinction); at University Cattolica; Brescia, Italy
SELECTION PANELIST:
2021 > Peers 2021, Khoj Studios; New Delhi, India
2017 > Experimenta India Festival; Bangalore, India
2013 > Tomorrow and Tomorrow /// The Big Trip: Permacultures Residency at SPACE Studios; London, UK
2012 and 2013 > Grand Union Annual Open Submission for Curators at Grand Union; Birmingham, UK
