Education
2023– PhD in Arts, History, and Society, University of Bologna
2019–2022 Master’s Degree in Arts, Museology and Curatorship (AMaC), University of Bologna
2016–2019 BA in Economics and Management of Arts and Cultural Activities, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
Conferences
“Becoming Avatar: Entangled Bodies in the Posthuman Technoscape”, paper presented at SAVAH 2025 - Practices of Entanglement, Centre for Visual Arts, University of KwaZulu-Natal (Pietermaritzburg, South Africa), September 25–27, 2025.
“Comp(host) media. Material Tangles from the Avant-gardes to Bioart”, paper presented at Is the Future Made of Data or Dirt? Imagining Symbiotic Futures Between Media and Non-human Entities, graduate student workshop “Arts, Visuality and Electronic Culture (AVEC)”, December 13, 2024, DAMSLab, University of Bologna.
“Images from the Capitalocene: An Italian Visual Odyssey”, paper presented at the Summer School Climate Change: Cultural Practices and Socio-Economic Outcomes (University of Bologna in collaboration with Jagiellonian University and University of Helsinki, June 3–6, 2024), directed by Francesco Spampinato, University of Bologna, June 6, 2024.
“Virtual Afterlives: AI, Avatars, and Digital Reincarnation in Lu Yang’s Artistic Practice”, paper presented at Aesthetics of Digital Image Syntheses, University of Klagenfurt, Institute for Cultural Analysis, Visual Culture Unit, November 7–9, 2024.
“Framing Artificial Intelligence in Contemporary Art Practices: Power Relations, Non-human Identities and Consciousness”, paper presented at Performing Cultural Heritage in the Digital Present, September 10–13, 2023.
“Post-internet Street Art and Iconography of the Disaster”, paper presented at How to Survive in the Critical Zone? Navigating Crisis from Activism to Art, graduate student workshop “Arts, Visuality and Electronic Culture (AVEC)”, Santa Cristina Complex, University of Bologna, December 16, 2022.
“Public Poster Art as a Discursive Medium: the Case of CHEAP Festival of Bologna”, paper presented at Arte e Spazio Pubblico, promoted by Fondazione Scuola Beni e Attività Culturali, January 24, 2022.
Publications
Beatrice Sartori, Lorenzo Aimo, “Trip Report. Conversation with Roberto Fassone”, in Francesco Spampinato (ed.), Seamless: Art, Visuality and Electronic Culture in the Post-pandemic Era, NERO Editions, 2025.
Beatrice Sartori, “Tempo Intermedio. Conversation with Mozzarella Light”, in Francesco Spampinato (ed.), Seamless: Art, Visuality and Electronic Culture in the Post-pandemic Era, NERO Editions, 2025.
Beatrice Sartori, “Coping Mechanism. Pandemic, Street Art and Iconography of Catastrophe in the Post-Internet Era”, in Francesco Spampinato (ed.), Seamless: Art, Visuality and Electronic Culture in the Post-pandemic Era, NERO Editions, 2025.
Beatrice Sartori, Non Merlini, “Daily Desiderio: A Spiral Genealogy”, in Riccardo Benassi, Daily Dense Dance Desiderio (DDDD), Distanz Verlag, Berlin, 2023.
Beatrice Sartori, “WAT – Intuitions About the World as We Wait for Them to Become a Complete Construction. Notes of an Urban Navigator”, Artext, 2023.
Beatrice Sartori, “Public Poster Art as a Discursive Medium: the Case of CHEAP Festival of Bologna”, in Direzione Generale Creatività Contemporanea del Ministero della Cultura, Fondazione Scuola dei beni e delle attività culturali (eds.), Arte e Spazio Pubblico, Silvana Editoriale, 2023.
Beatrice Sartori, “Visual Study of a Global Pandemic: Shared Patterns in Worldwide Street Art”, in Anna Rosellini, Clarissa Ricci (eds.), AMaC Yearbook 2019–2020, AlmaDL, 2022.
Beatrice Sartori, “The Art of Detribalize Art”, in Anna Rosellini, Clarissa Ricci (eds.), AMaC Yearbook 2019–2020, AlmaDL, 2022.
Irene Calvi, Eleonora Ianni, Beatrice Sartori, Alberta Valiante, “One. No One. One Hundred Thousand”, in AMaC Yearbook 2019–2020, AlmaDL, 2022.
Eleonora Ianni, Beatrice Sartori, “INTERVIEW: Simone Menegoi”, in AMaC Yearbook 2019–2020, AlmaDL, 2022.
Viviana Sacchi, Beatrice Sartori, Paolo Spagnoletti, “Bill Viola: The Sublime”, in AMaC Yearbook 2019–2020, AlmaDL, 2022.
Curatorial Practice
Curator, “Diffraction Fields”, group exhibition of PhD candidates from the Department of Computational Media and Arts, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), HKUST-GZ campus, Guangzhou, China.
Curator, “Pretend it’s a Toilet [Free 2 Pee Starter Pack]”, Sara Leghissa with Serafine Pala and Marzia Dalfini, 2025. Performance and public program Ira Generans, spazioSERRA, Milan, January 25–26, 2025.
Curator, “Not Future but Poems”, Gluklya, Apparatus 22, Ivana Spinelli, Galeria SKALA, Poznań, Poland, October 31 – November 30, 2024.
Curator, “Speciale performativo. Body and Technology”, Kamilia Kard, Luca Pagan, Marco Ginex and Genesia, GALLLERIAPIU, Bologna, February 1–4, 2024.
Curator, “Cassandra”, Mozzarella Light, site-specific installation produced by Layout Magazine at Spazio Volta, Bergamo, July 2 – September 10, 2023.
Curator, “Mutaforma. Ceramic Mutations of CZ Code”, group exhibition promoted by the Carlo Zauli Museum (Faenza) and Alchemilla (Bologna), Palazzo Vizzani, Bologna, May 22 – October 29, 2022.
Curator, “Armonia Mundi”, public sensory sculpture by Giulia del Monte + Isabela Benavides, Parco Bucci, Faenza, 2022.
Curator, “Trasmissione”, collective digital exhibition promoted by the University of Bologna and the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna, November 5 – December 5, 2020.
Co-founder of Collettivo NN (Beatrice Sartori, Gaia de Palma, Eloisa Magiera, Alberto Russo), 2020.
Teaching and Academic Activities
“Cosmotechnics and the Plurality of Worlds. Rethinking Technology Otherwise”, lecture delivered for the course “The Political and Cultural Imaginaries of Digital Technologies”, Prof. Maurilio Pirone, AMaC MA Program, October 22, 2025, Santa Cristina Complex, Bologna.
Organizer and moderator, "Diffraction Fields" Symposium, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Guangzhou, May 16, 19, 20, 21, 2025.
Moderator for UNAVEX – Una Europa Virtual Exchanges for Sustainability, February 24 – March 25, 2025.
Tutor, Summer School “Climate Change: Cultural Practices and Socio-Economic Outcomes”, University of Bologna in collaboration with Jagiellonian University and University of Helsinki, June 3–6, 2024.
Organizer, Graduate Student Workshop AVEC (Arts, Visuality and Electronic Culture), Department of the Arts, University of Bologna.
Workshops organized within AVEC:
– Who Spilled the Water on My Computer?! Short-circuiting Time and Hacking Reality, May 28, 2025, DAMSLab, University of Bologna
– Is the Future Made of Data or Dirt? Imagining Symbiotic Futures Between Media and Non-human Entities, December 13, 2024, DAMSLab, University of Bologna
– Why Starting from Scratch? Appropriation Aesthetics in the Internet Era, May 20, 2024, Santa Cristina Complex, University of Bologna
– Is That MagicAI? Algorithmic Spells and Machine Hallucinations, December 15, 2024, Santa Cristina Complex, University of Bologna
– And Where is the Body? Browsing Through the Integrated Circuit, May 9, 2023, Santa Cristina Complex, University of Bologna
– How to Survive in the Critical Zone? Navigating Crisis from Activism to Art, December 16, 2022, Santa Cristina Complex, University of Bologna
– Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? How to Build a Universe that Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later, June 30, 2022, Santa Cristina Complex, University of Bologna
