I am a critic and curator, professor at art academies and design universities and independent researcher. With a scientific background in Organic Chemistry at the State University of Milan, a PhD in Design Sciences / Digital Cultures at the Iuav University of Venice, I have been dealing with New Media Art since 2005 as founder and director of the Digicult editorial and curatorial platform.
For about twenty years I have therefore been studying the relationship between art, technologies and scientific research, analyzing how the changes brought about by innovation in these fields have a growing impact on society and on the forms of artistic expression and its languages, in the interdisciplinary dialogue with the fields of design, architecture, sound and performance.
I am interested in how the aesthetic, design, productive and cultural melieu on the border between these areas is nourished by the experiments and languages of DIY countercultures, the activities and research of international media labs, the sharing practices of citizen labs, moments of meeting and sharing of the main festivals, gallery and institutional exhibition practices.
I study and analyze, between critics and philosophy, the ever closer and deeper relationship between technoscience and the human body and how contemporary art and design are intercepting the most radical demands in terms of identity, culture, social and politics. for the design and creation of new posthuman and entangled ways of relating between the body and the surrounding context, be it environmental, technological or relational.
I research how the contemporary art market is changing in relation to the relationship to technological and scientific research and to the production ecosystem between art and design which is inspired by the experiences of cultural and creative industries, lifeblood from the paths of international media labs, but at the same time it is endowed with a series of peculiarities that led me to define the term Art Industries (2018).
