About me
Since the 1980s, Pier Luigi Capucci has been working on communication studies and on the relationships among arts, sciences and technologies. His theoretical research focuses on the technologies of representation and communication, on art forms based on technoscience, and on media archaeology. He has taught at the Universities of Rome “La Sapienza”, Bologna, Florence, Urbino and Udine, at SUPSI Lugano, and at the fine arts academies of Urbino, NABA Milan, LABA Rimini, Carrara, Reggio Calabria, L’Aquila and Quasar Rome. In the T-Node PhD Research Program of the Planetary Collegium (University of Plymouth) he was a supervisor from 2007 to 2012 and Director of Studies from 2012 to 2018. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Italian section of AICA (Association Internationale des Critiques d’Art / International Association of Art Critics, Paris).
His books include Realtà del virtuale (Reality of the Virtual, 1993; 2015), on virtual technologies and the relationship between culture and sensory representation; Il corpo tecnologico (The Technological Body, 1994), on the impact of technologies on the human body; Arte e tecnologie (Art and Technologies, 1996; 2013), on arts, sciences and technologies; art*science. The New and History (2018, in English), on the relationship between innovation and history; Arte e complessità (Art and Complexity, 2018); Dialogues across the seas: the ocean that keeps us apart also joins us. Charting knowledge and practice in the Anthropocene (2022, 2023, 2024, in English); and Noema. Uno sguardo lungo 25 anni / A look spanning 25 years (2025). He has published more than 400 texts in books, magazines and conference proceedings.
In 1994 he founded and directed NetMagazine, later MagNet, the first online magazine in Italy, a research project on the relationships between culture and technologies. In March 2000 he founded Noema (https://noemalab.eu), an online magazine on the relationships among technologies, sciences, culture and society, of which he is president and managing director; in 2003 RAI International named it the best Italian website. In 2012 he founded fivewordsforthefuture (https://fivewordsforthefuture.eu), a project aimed at understanding and recognizing the “new” and innovation. In 2017 he founded art*science (https://artscience.online), a series of events on critical aspects of the contemporary world, which in 2018 launched a three-year research project on art and climate change. In 2018 he founded Dialogues across the Seas (https://dialoguesacrosstheseas.org), to foster a transdisciplinary dialogue on the climate crisis emergency and on issues concerning oceanic and marine environments.
He has curated exhibitions and projects, taken part in national and international conferences, and worked on European projects on communication technologies. He has served on the Ars Electronica International Advisory Board for the Net Communities category in several editions of the festival. Since 2018 he has been a consultant to the European Commission on the relationships between scientific disciplines and technologies (in particular Artificial Intelligence and Big Data) and the humanities.
