Education
November 2024 – ongoing: PhD candidate in Arts, History, Society, Department of the Arts, Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna;
October 2021 – March 2023: Master's Degree in Visual Arts, Curriculum in Arts, Museology and Curatorship, Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna. Thesis: "Art, Sovereignty and Climate Justice: The Indigenous Responses by Sami Artists"; Supervisors: Prof. Francesco Spampinato, Prof. Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen);
October 2017 – February 2021: Bachelor's Degree in Archaeology, Art History and Cultural Heritage, University of Naples Federico II. Thesis: "L'arte nel sociale in Campania: gli anni Settanta"; Supervisor: Prof. Sandro Morachioli;
Conferences
September 2026: Speaker at the Congreso Internacional Atlas/AV "On Your Screen: Art History and the Museum in the Face of the Audiovisual Challenge", Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid.
Paper: "Temporal Glitching: Decolonial Chronopolitics in the Moving Image" (Panel I — Audiovisual and Historiography), 18-19 September 2026;
May 2026: Speaker at CIPAMUR – Congreso Internacional Patrimonio, Cuidados y Personas en un mundo resiliente, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Paper: "Counter-Mythologies and Living Archives: Reactivating Indigenous Cultural Heritage for Speculative Futures", 27-29 May 2026;
May 2026: Speaker at the Graduate Student Workshop AVEC "Who's Out There? Terraformation, Planetarity, and Speculative Dimensions of Outer Space", University of Bologna, Complesso Monumentale di Santa Cristina. Lecture: "Send Them to Outer Space: Genealogie visive dell'esplorazione spaziale", 12 May 2026;
May 2026: Speaker at JUST! Symposium on Spatial Justice, Iuav University of Venice. Paper: "Calore come da/mage. Il regime termico delle immagini" with Beatrice Sartori, 4-6 May 2026;
April 2026: Speaker at the Association for Art History (AAH) Annual Conference, University of Cambridge.
Paper: "Fire and Ashes. Artistic Pyrogeographies of Campania's Landscape", 8-10 April 2026;
Research and academic activities
January-July 2026: Visiting Researcher at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), SU+MA research group, under the supervision of Prof. Julia Ramírez Blanco, 15 January – 15 July 2026;
June 2026: Organizer of the International Seminar "Making Futures Flash // Hacer Refulgir el Futuro. Artes, medios y tecnologías de las digitopías a las contranarrativas" with Julia Ramírez Blanco, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Geografía e Historia, 17 June 2026;
June 2026: Faculty member at the Summer School "Climate Change: Indigenous Perspectives and Artistic Utopias", directed by Prof. Francesco Spampinato, University of Bologna, 8-12 June 2026
Lecture: "Indigenous Eco-Futurisms: Worlds Already Under Construction" (9 June);
March 2026: Moderator of UNAVEX – Una Europa Virtual Exchanges for Sustainability, March 2026;
February 2026: Tutor at "The New Many Classroom. Nucleo di ricerca sul multiplo d'artista", Multipli section of Arte Fiera, Bologna, 6-8 February 2026;
November 2025: Moderator of UNAVEX – Una Europa Virtual Exchanges for Sustainability, November 2025;
June 2025: Tutor and faculty member at the Summer School "Climate Change: Artistic Interventions and Alternative Futures", directed by Prof. Francesco Spampinato, DAMSLab, Bologna, 9-13 June 2025 Lecture: "It's Giving Future: Solarpunk Across Screens and Soil" (10 June);
February-April 2025: Moderator of UNAVEX – Una Europa Virtual Exchanges for Sustainability;
June 2024: Faculty member at the Summer School "Climate Change: Cultural Practices and Socio-Economic Outcomes", directed by Prof. Francesco Spampinato, DAMSLab, Bologna, 3-7 June 2024
Lecture: "Artistic Tactics for Climate Justice in Southern Italy" (6 June);
September-October 2023: Research fellowship for thesis writing at the Faculty of Arts – Indigenous Studies, University of Helsinki;
2022 – ongoing: Member of AVEC (Art, Visuality and Electronic Culture), Department of the Arts, University of Bologna, directed by Prof. Francesco Spampinato;
Co-organizer of the editions:
- May 2026: AVEC #9 – "Who's Out There?", Bologna, 12 May 2026 (co-organizer and speaker with "Send Them to Outer Space: Genealogie visive dell'esplorazione spaziale")
- December 2025: AVEC #8 – "Whose Technology? Whose Future? Cosmotechnics Beyond Techno-Orientalism", DAMSLab Theatre, Bologna, 16 December 2025
- May 2025: AVEC #7 – "Who Spilled Water on My PC?! Short-circuiting Time and Hacking Reality", Aula Magna di Santa Cristina, Bologna, 28 May 2025
- December 2024: AVEC #6 – "Is the Future Made of Data or Dirt? Imagining Symbiotic Futures Between Media and Non-human Entities", DAMSLab, Bologna, 13 December 2024
- May 2024: AVEC #5 – "Why Starting from Scratch? Appropriation Aesthetics in the Internet Era", Complesso di Santa Cristina, Bologna, 20 May 2024
- December 2023: AVEC #4 – "Is That MagicAI? Algorithmic Spells and Machine Hallucinations", Complesso di Santa Cristina, Bologna, 15 December 2023
- May 2023: AVEC #3 – "And Where is the Body? Browsing through the Integrated Circuit", Complesso di Santa Cristina, Bologna, 9 May 2023
- December 2022: AVEC #2 – "How to Survive in the Critical Zone? Navigating Crisis from Activism to Art", Complesso di Santa Cristina, Bologna, 16 December 2022 (co-organizer and speaker)
Publications
- Published:
"Estetica ecologica: dall'attivismo all'ecofuturismo", in Francesco Spampinato (ed.), Seamless. Arte, visualità e cultura elettronica in epoca post-pandemica, NERO Editions, 2025;
"Decolonizing Environmentalism in Contemporary Art: Sámi Perspectives at the Venice Biennale", L'Uomo Nero. Materiali per una storia delle arti della modernità, 2026;
- Forthcoming:
"To Speculate is to Survive: Contemporary Art during the Polycrisis", in Proceedings of FantaElx – Congreso Internacional de Literatura, Arte y Cultura Fantástica de Elche, Peter Lang, November 2026;
"Territories of the Future: Indigenous Eco-Futurisms Between Rural and Digital", REGAC – Revista de Estudios Globales y Arte Contemporáneo, Universitat de Barcelona, December 2026 / January 2027;
"Rethinking Sustainability Through Collaborative Cultural Practices: Relational Ecology and Thinking in Artistic and Cultural Spaces", in Una Europa Cultural Heritage Series, Alma Diamond Books (Una Europa workshop proceedings);
"Counter-Mythologies and Living Archives: Reactivating Indigenous Cultural Heritage for Speculative Futures", Proceedings of the Congreso Internacional Patrimonio, Cuidados y Personas en un mundo resiliente (CIPAMUR), Universidad Complutense de Madrid;
"Calore come da/mage. Il regime termico delle immagini" (with Beatrice Sartori), Proceedings of the JUST! Symposium on Spatial Justice, Iuav University of Venice;
Reviews / Magazine contributions
"Il cavallo gravido di Patricia Domínguez", Antinomie, 15 December 2025 (review of the exhibition "Il cavallo bianco, gravido", Fondazione Made in Cloister, Naples);
Work and curatorial experience
June 2025: Curator of "Iperorto", a multidisciplinary and sociocultural art project by Collettivo CABBA at the Bolognina community gardens (Zona Ortiva Erbosa), within Open Tour, Bologna, June 2025;
April 2025: Curatorial collaboration (with Francesco Spampinato) for "Facciamo Presente. Istruzioni d'artista per cambiare il futuro", exhibition of illustrations by Irene Rinaldi, DAMSLab, Bologna, within Boom! Crescere nei libri, 2-18 April 2025
November-December 2024: Production Assistant at Fondazione Donnaregina per le Arti Contemporanee – Museo Madre, Naples;
June 2024: Curator at Sof:Art – OpenTour 2024, Bologna, with Accademia di Belle Arti;
May-July 2023: Internship at Fondazione Donnaregina per le Arti Contemporanee – Museo Madre, Naples;
January-March 2020: Internship at Casa Morra – Archivio d'Arte Contemporanea, Naples
