I am a critic, curator, and independent researcher, as well as a professor at art academies and universities specializing in art, architecture, and design. With a scientific background in Chemistry from the University of Milan and a PhD in Digital Cultures from the Iuav University of Venice, I have been involved in New Media Art since 2005 as the founder and director of the editorial project and online platform Digicult.
For twenty years, I have studied the relationship between art, technologies, and scientific research, analyzing how changes brought about by innovation in these fields have a growing impact on society, artistic expression, and its languages. My work engages with the interdisciplinary dialogue between the domains of design, architecture, sound, and performance. More specifically, I am interested in how the interdisciplinary interaction between art, philosophy, and technoscience allows us to observe ongoing transformations in the relationships between human beings, the body, the mind, sensory perception, and environments. I focus on the potential implications for identity, ethics, and politics in designing and conceptualizing new forms of interaction between the human and the non-human within collective, natural, and artificial environments.
Lastly, I am intrigued by how the design, production, and cultural milieu at the intersection of these fields draws from the experiments and languages of DIY countercultures, the activities and research of international media labs, the sharing practices of citizen labs, and the exhibition practices of galleries and institutions. In this context, I study and observe the evolution of its productive and market dynamics.
