Current Position
November 2023 | Enrolled in the National Doctoral Program ILF, Visual Culture curriculum, managed by the University of Milan in collaboration with Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna. Supervisor: Professor Federica Muzzarelli.
Education
March 2023 | Master's Degree in Semiotics, with a thesis in Visual Studies titled "Visual Culture and Artificial Intelligence: the advent of text-to-image software", supervisor: Professor Francesco Spampinato, co-supervisor: Professor Cristina Demaria. Final grade: 110/110 with honors.
July 2020 | Bachelor's Degree in European Literary Cultures, with a thesis in Comparative Literature titled "Partout, il y a un photographe" about photography in two novels by Milan Kundera; supervisor: Professor Ferdinando Amigoni, co-supervisor: Professor Bruna Conconi. Final grade: 110/110 with honors.
Educational Activity
2023-2024 | Tutor for the seminars series "Narratives of Feminism through Albums, Diaries, and Photobooks. Laboratory of Theories and Practices of Photography," an integrative activity for the course Theories and Practices of Photography in the Master’s Degree in Visual Arts (Professor Federica Muzzarelli).
2023-2024 | Subject Specialist for the courses “Photography and Visual Culture” and “History and Ideas of Photography” in the Bachelor’s Degree in Fashion Cultures and Practices, Department of the Arts, University of Bologna, Rimini Campus (Professor Federica Muzzarelli).
Research Centres
- Research fellow at FAF - Photography Art Feminism: History, Theory and Practices of Resistance in the Contemporary Visual Culture coordinated by Professor Federica Muzzarelli, Department of the Arts, University of Bologna.
- Visiting researcher at CSNI - Centre for the Study of the Networked Image, supervisor Prof. Geoff Cox, London South Bank University (January 2025 - on going)
Conference, Workshop, and Symposium Presentations
- "AI Generated Images: Postcards of Computational Meaning from Latent Space", presentation at the international conference Aesthetics of Digital Images Syntheses: Genealogies, Styles, Practices organised by Anna Schober-de Graaf, Martina Tritthart e Florian Gucher (Institute for Cultural Analysis, Visual Culture Unit), Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, November 7-8, 2024.
- "Are Those Still Our Dreams? AI (Day)Dreaming and Algorithmic Interactions," presentation at the international conference Artificial Atmospheres and Unexpected Media: Discovering Art and Machine Learning, organized by Patrícia Castello Branco and Maile Colbert (CineLAB, IFILNOVA), October 16, 2024, Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
- "Prompt: text-to-image software and the generation of algorithmic images," presentation at the fifth edition of the graduate student workshop AVEC - Is That MagicAI? Algorithmic Spells and Machine Hallucinations, December 15, 2023, Santa Cristina Complex, University of Bologna.
Editorial Roles in Journals and Academic Series
January 2024 - present | Editorial Board member of the scientific journal piano b. Arti e culture visive, published by the Department of the Arts at the University of Bologna, featuring an international scientific committee, double-blind peer review, and a code of ethics based on COPE guidelines – an A-class journal for competition sectors 10/B1 and 10/C1 (since 7/4/20) – indexed in ACNP and DOAJ. ISSN 2531-9876.
Additional Activities
Member of the organizational committee of AVEC – Arts, Visuality and Electronic Culture, coordinated by Professor Francesco Spampinato.
Reviewer for the journal AI&Society, Springer (2024).
