Ph.D candidate at Goldsmiths, University of London (supervisors: Irit Rogoff & Stefan Nowotny)
M.A in History of Art and Archaeology, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland. M.A thesis on photography theory with Olivier Lugon and Gianni Haver "Typologies de représentation de la violence dans la photographie de guerre."
Art curator & Writer
Berlin | London | Warsaw
About Me
Conferences
2019
Interplanetary Sexualities
Lumper Universität, Espace Libre, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland
September 28th
"ERROR 403: FORBIDDEN. Decapitazioni e p0rn0: moderazione di immagini, iconoclasmo online e l'emergere del tecno-proletariato"
Immagine e Memoria nell'Era Digitale. Prospettive filosofiche, storiche e antropologiche. Convegno internazionale, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy
Feb 21st
2018
"A Brave New Virtual World"
51st AICA International Congress | Taiwan
National University for Education (Sage Hall), Taipei, Taiwan
Nov 17th
"Lubricant for Pinocchio. Human – machine interactions and the myth of human nature"
International Festival for Philosophy: Human Nature, 9/27-30/2018, Ischia, Italy
Sept 28th
"Futurability in the shitstorm. Viruses of the New"
Lumpen Universität at Espace Libre, Bienne/Biel, Switzerland
June 17th
2017
"Narratives and encounters. Notes for a curatorial praxis"
Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, Czech Republic
Nov 30th
"Don't forget to feed the troll: re-imagining post-Internet values"
International Festival for Philosophy Values: Continuity and Change, 09/23-10.01/2017, Ischia, Italy
Sept 30th
2016
"Living the consensual-hallucination: a short history of cyber art"
Keynote speaker, AICA National Congress, ETOPIA Centro de Arte y Tecnologia, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
Sept 22nd
"Cccritic! Nel piatto in cui si mangia"
Sonnenstube Art Space, Lugano, Switzerland
Feb 12th
"The place where the vision creeks"
Invited lecturer for Nina Haab Salon Identity of a Resident Stranger
KW Institute for contemporary art, Berlin, Germany
Jan 12th
2015
"Curatorial Toolkit for Cultural Apprentices"
MASC, Museo de Arte de Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, Brazil
Dec 08th
"Tumbling down the rabbit hole"
Art Criticism 2.0 international conference at Research Center of the Academy of Visual Arts in Prague and Vera Jirousová Award, Prague, Czech Republic
Nov 05th
2014
"What's Next? Considerations about Art Criticism, Social Media and Internet Freedom"
AICA International Congress: Art Criticism in the Labyrinth, 8th-16th October 2014, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art,
Seoul, South Korea
Oct 10th
Current academic research
- Art criticism on online platforms, online art hacktivism, interactions within offline spaces and online spaces, socially engaged cultural production and curation in the post-digital age
- Memory, disappearance and traces, concept of time, notions of narratives and search for alternative narratives in order to re-imagine the possibility of a future
- Power structures and relations through visual infrastructures (in advertising and press)
Panels moderation
2019
near at B11: traces and non-places, discussion with near members Salvatore Vitale, Aline D'Auria, Igor Ponti, Gianpaolo Minelli, during the 11th Biennale dell'Immagine Chiasso
Cons Arc Gallery, Chiasso, Switzerland
Sept 29th
2017
Focus with Margherita Pevere and Ivan Penov about their work Impromptus, presented during the festival-off of the 70th Locarno Film Festival
Spazio ELLE, Locarno, Switzerland
August 5th
2013
"La police s'en va au musée: une étude sur la réappropriation muséale et artistique de la photographie judiciaire"
International conference Police: between fiction and non-fiction, 03/28-29/2013, CNRS, Paris, France
March 29th
2012
"Target: Iraq. Typologies de représentation de la violence en photographie de guerre"
in frame of the exhibition Histoires de violence, LAC Vevey – Local d'art contemporain, Vevey, Switzerland (www.l-a-c.ch)
Feb 03rd