About me
I am a scholar in the media studies and the relationships among arts, sciences, technology and culture. I have been professor at the Universities of Rome “La Sapienza”, Bologna, Florence, SUPSI – University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland, Urbino, and at the Fine Arts Academies of Carrara, NABA Milan, LABA Rimini and Quasar Rome. Currently I am a teacher at the Fine Arts Academy of Urbino and at the University of Udine (Dept. of Mathematics, Computer and Physics Sciences). From 2008 to 2013 I have been a supervisor, and from 2013 to 2018 I have been the Director of Studies of the T-Node Ph.D. Research Program of the Planetary Collegium, University of Plymouth.
I have internationally published more than 350 texts, essays and papers in books, magazines and conference proceedings. I have organized exhibitions, symposia, managed projects and participated to conferences worldwide.
I published the books "Realtà del virtuale. Rappresentazioni tecnologiche, comunicazione, arte" (Reality of the virtual. Techno-representations, communication, art), 1993 (also as an eBook), on virtual technologies and the relationships between culture and sensorial representations;" Il corpo tecnologico. L’influenza delle tecnologie sul corpo e sulle sue facoltà" (The technological body. Technologies’ influence on the body and its faculties), 1994, on the impact of technologies on the human body; "Arte e tecnologie. Comunicazione estetica e tecnoscienze" (Art and technologies. Aesthetic communication and technosciences), 1996 (also as an eBook), about art, sciences and technologies. I co-curated the books "The New and History", 2018, about the relationships among the “new”, innovation, history and cultural heritage, as well as the proceedings of art*science/Leonardo 50, an International conference he co-organized; and "Arte e complessità" (Art and Complexity), 2018, about the art forms dealing with complexity.
In 1994 I founded and directed the first Italian online journal, "NetMagazine/MagNet", on the relationships between arts and technologies. In 2000 I started "Noema" (https://noemalab.eu), an online magazine and a series of projects about the interrelations and influences among culture, arts, sciences and technologies. Currently I am curating the three-year research project (2018-20) art*science - Art & Climate Change (https://artscience.online).
